Darkest of Days PC Demo Arrives: Historical Battles, Futuristic Weapons

good lord, I'm getting this at 1.7mbs per second!!!!! man I wish everything was that fast.

hope it gets the Batman demo taste out of my mouth!!

Oh why do I try 3rd person super hero games. oh why........................

boredom makes a man do awefull things

I wasn't expecting much, and I was not disappointed.

Think I'll pass on this one.

Is anyone else getting extremely jerky mouse movement? The game is running fluid, but when I turn it's skipping and jerking really, really bad.

MORE IMPORTANTLY, is it better than the Batman demo?!

this demo is pretty junky, performance is terrible on my gtx 295.

Really looking forward to this! Try the demo, really original idea.

No trouble with performance or mouse controls on my system (Intel E8400 - Radeon 4850 - XP 2gig OCZ Ram)

I think it uses the OpenGL API as my iz3D Stereo setup dont work with it.

I will definetely support the pc version of this game, depending on price point (£20-25 GBP?)

fun demo.....I wouldn't pay AA or AAA price for it, however

Also, this game managed to power down my PC 2 times already....It could be a overclock problem (it is quite hot and humid today) But for my PC to shut off at exactly the same time in each of the 2 incidents (after loading, but before the "hit space to start" message), I can't seem to look at this as a freak accident

Loads into the menu in 3 secs, into the game in about 5. Too bad about the gameplay part.

Downloaded, haven't tried yet though. The feedback has me excited.

Well that was pretty fun. Definitely worth a try.

+ Runs great at 1900x1200 using very high details setting, on a E6600 and 8800GTS
+ Impressively fast loading times
+ I think the idea is pretty great, revisiting old battles with weapons from the future

- The game takes control away from the player at certain times. This just seemed pointless and random to me (the advancing in the field bit, now why couldn't I just move on my own?)
- Some of textures seem quite low-res at times, although it could just be the demo
- The AI is pretty stupid. On the civil war map the enemy ran away in the end, only to stop a while later. I then proceeded to mow them down without them even firing back. My own team mates also seemed to get stuck at times.

I'm not sure if the enemies are endlessly respawning, I'm suspecting they're not although it seems like it sometimes.

Hmmm, if I'm the only soldier on the battlefield with high-tech guns, this game would fulfill one of my 'What If' scenarios: Lying on a hill with a sniper and a machine gun, to mow down some Carthagians during the second Punic War.

The demo is pretty darn fun. Using a futuristic machine gun on Civil War soldiers is pretty awesome - I think providing a Roman battle would have been a better showcase of the game's premise, though (more fun, too!).

Honestly, the graphics didn't really impress me that much. They're not bad by any means - they're well above average, they're just kind of lack luster (not very colorful, effects like explosions aren't done very well, the models leave something to be desired). The scale of the battles makes up for these shortcomings a little bit, but it's strange because I would expect something like 60+ FPS butter from a game that looks like this on my system, and I was seeing some sluggishness.

The most important part: it's fun.

Intriguing. Might have give this a shot. I'm usually a sucker for alternate history games/stories, but only if they're done well.

so I double click the desktop icon and the menu shows up in a second
then I click new game and it loads the first map in 4 seconds
this is awesome d:

Someone get the Demoman on this, stat!

This looks like comedy gold material right here. Futuristic weapons on civil war soldiers :D

Anyone who's played it wanna do a mini-review?

Hah sweet, I am going to try this when I get home.

Can't wait to try this one out. Their Marmoset engine is pretty sweet. Any 3D artists should check out their free viewer tool: http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=61346