In a ghoulish turn of events, Jericho absorbs dead enemies’ blood and is recharged by it. Fire precise shots at foes with names such as Riflemen, Braves and Vipers, and you’re “rewarded” by seeing their skulls blown clean off. Jericho begins with his trusty Redeemer revolver, then graduates to firearms with more bang for the buck. Two Darkwatch regulators, Cassidy and Tala, play crucial roles in guiding Jericho in his crusade against the undead (and add disturbing sexualized elements to the game as well).Īs you’d expect in any first-person shooter, there’s no shortage of opportunities to unload buckshot.
For generations, an organization known as the Darkwatch has kept the threat of vampires in check. Only by killing Lazarus can Jericho undo the vampire curse and save the West from Lazarus’ plans to unleash hell on earth. One freed vampire lord and an unfortunate set of fang marks later, and his destiny is forever altered. Jericho had been minding his own business-that being robbing trains in Arizona-until one fateful night in 1876 when he picked the wrong one. Call it a vampire-cowboy duel at high noon, err … high moon. The twist in this preternatural showdown involves its setting: The Wild West.
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Either way-in print, on the big screen, on TV … and in video games-bloodsuckers have become far more than a niche interest.Įnter Darkwatch, a first-person shooter game that pits recently bitten outlaw Jericho Cross against the might and minions of the vampire Lazarus Malkoth. It’s hard to say if her violent, sensual novels single-handedly renewed interest in the genre or if she was merely one of many dedicated to keeping the mythology alive. In recent decades, Anne Rice took up the “plight” of the vampire in her popular Vampire Chronicles series. Since Bram Stoker published Dracula in 1897, a certain segment of readers (and later, moviegoers) have exhibited an escalating macabre fascination with these stories of men and women doomed to undead immortality-technically alive, but inexorably driven by their thirst for blood, a drive often written about and depicted in decidedly sexual ways.
Players will experience an action-packed "living West" in "Darkwatch: Curse of the West" with massive environments, non-linear missions, dynamic enemy and non-player-character artificial intelligence (A.I.) affected by a player reputation system, and precision gunplay with location-specific damage.When it comes to most vampire stories, you can count on three things: blood, death and a sexual link between the two. At his disposal is the advanced, deadly technology of the Darkwatch, including an arsenal of powerful assault vehicles and enhanced versions of Western weapons, along with supernatural vampire abilities and a trusty undead horse. To save the West, and his own soul from damnation, Jericho must hunt the vampire that bit him through an American frontier suddenly overrun by his undead minions. Their newest and deadliest agent is Jericho Cross, an outlaw gunslinger pulled into their ranks by an unfortunate close encounter with a vampire lord. Their newest and deadliest agent is Jericho Cross, an outlaw gunslinger pulled into their ranks by an unfortunate close encounter with a vampire The game introduces the Darkwatch, a secret strike-force that has vigilantly protected man from evil incarnate since the dawn of civilization.
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