Filed under: Action A cargo pilot named Will crash lands in the Bermuda Triangle and finds himself caught in an alternate world along where aliens called The Watchers are in control. Using weapons cobbled together using stolen Watcher technology he joins with other humans lost inside this world to take on the alien menace. Using a jet pack, Will can jump long distances, hover in mid-air and eventually fly in true Rocketeer-like fashion. Most of all, the player's sense of direction will be thrown for a complete loop. As Will uses his jet pack to scale up cliff sides, vertical becomes horizontal and outcropping can be used for cover. The first part of Dark Void plays out they way anyone would expect an action shooter would. There isn't much to help the game stand out without the benefit of an upgraded jet pack. Until then, the player moves through like most other shooters, picking up new and inventive weapons along with ammo while picking off waves of incoming soldiers along the way. There isn't much to help the straight, ground-based, shooting sequences stand out from other shooters this early in development. The graphics look nice and there's an interesting story, but the extra flash like destructible environments and exploding barrels aren't in yet. However, the developers promise that all those factors will be in place when the game releases. Watcher soldiers are mainly comprised of robots that will occasionally come up to Will ...
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Filed under: Action A cargo pilot named Will crash lands in the Bermuda Triangle and finds himself caught in an alternate world along where aliens called The Watchers are in control. Using weapons cobbled together using stolen Watcher technology he joins with other humans lost inside this world to take on the alien menace. Using a jet pack, Will can jump long distances, hover in mid-air and eventually fly in true Rocketeer-like fashion. Most of all, the player's sense of direction will be thrown for a complete loop. As Will uses his jet pack to scale up cliff sides, vertical becomes horizontal and outcropping can be used for cover. The first part of Dark Void plays out they way anyone would expect an action shooter would. There isn't much to help the game stand out without the benefit of an upgraded jet pack. Until then, the player moves through like most other shooters, picking up new and inventive weapons along with ammo while picking off waves of incoming soldiers along the way. There isn't much to help the straight, ground-based, shooting sequences stand out from other shooters this early in development. The graphics look nice and there's an interesting story, but the extra flash like destructible environments and exploding barrels aren't in yet. However, the developers promise that all those factors will be in place when the game releases. Watcher soldiers are mainly comprised of robots that will occasionally come up to Will ...