Is this 12 Monkeys rules where you can't change shit? Or Back to the Future rules where you can change shit, but the timeline is kind of easy-going about it? Or Terminator rules where you can change shit, but maybe you can't change shit and then you make a god-awful TV series and Christian Bale yells at someone? When history gets changed in Darkest of Days there's apparently enough leeway for you to pick it up on your future periscope and dispatch some armed agents to sort everything out with their magic time-fixing bullets. When you're dealing with time travel it's important to establish who's rules are in play. And your character's strangely okay with this for someone who's been freshly ripped from the 19th century, although he is a silent protagonist, so his new future bosses could just be mistaking compliance for absolute dumbfounded terror. Like Timecop, but without the gratuitous naked bum scene. You're informed that your new job is to clean up after time-altering miscreants by infiltrating the armies of various historical battles and ensuring that things happen the way they were supposed to happen. Time travel is common in the future and as with virtually everything else in the world the tourists are spoiling it for every one else. Apparently, you are now free to act as a time-travelling secret agent because the authorities of your time put you down as an M.I.A., and considering how every member of a given army in this game is totally identical, that's probably an easy mistake to make. But seconds before whoopy, arrow-filled death you are teleported to an agency in the far future which appears to consist of one room and about three guys.
You begin the game as arrow fodder in General Custer's army at the Battle of Little Bighorn where you go through what is known as in RPG circles as a "supposed to lose" fight. As for why I'm reviewing Darkest of Days, well would you believe it's because it's the first shooter I've encountered in years whose premise alone made me intrigued enough to buy it rather than give me another reason to curse the existence of Halo and the ever-growing train of soporific bastard children that scamper about its legs, pistol whipping and fucking each other? I just thought it would be nice to play a current-gen FPS and actually be trying to like it for a change.
Some of you are now asking yourself "What the hell is Darkest of Days?", or "Has Yahtzee been fucked over by release dates again?", or "Will alternative energy sources ever be sustainable?", or "What is the capital of Botswana?", or "Why do nice girls hate me?" To answer those questions in no particular order: No, self-esteem issues, a little bit, an independent first-person shooter available on Steam and Xbox 360, and Gabarone.
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