Sink Your Teeth Into Sega's Darkwatch
First details and oodless of screens for the vampire-themed Wild West horror-shooter.
The mere mention of the Wild West raises visions in most people of scorching deserts and dusty saloons patronised by stubbly gunslingers - hardly the sort of place you'd expect Sega to set its first-person vampire shooter Darkwatch.
Jericho Cross is a half-breed vampire, an outlaw turned inhuman by the evil vampire lord Lazarus. As part of the vampire-hunting group Darkwatch, Jericho is tasked with finding and destroying the creature that gave him eternal life, to prevent him from wreaking his menace on the world.
Darkwatch plays like a vampire-powered first-person shooter with role-playing elements thrown in for good measure. Like several recent titles, Darkwatch uses a morality system that affects how you experience the game. This balance is shifted by your choices during gameplay but also how you interact with Cassidy and Tala (fresh from her appearance in Playboy magazine), the good and bad women in Jericho's life.
If using vampire powers to bring down enemies doesn't sound like enough fun, then perhaps the extensive arsenal of Wild West-flavoured bullet and projectile weapons and limb-specific damage will do. There are also plans for several online multiplayer modes.
Darkwatch will be released on PlayStation 2 and Xbox later this year.
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo Games
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