Darkest of Days. A rather fitting title, that. Not only is this game set in several violent, gritty periods of history, but it’s truly a grueling journey, a tough row to hoe for any gamer looking for a historical shooter. There's few bright spots along the way, but even exactingly recreated firearms can't salvage this game.
Darkest of Days takes a very simple, Bill and Ted premise and turns it into a game. In the future, time travel is possible, as is the murder of people in the past to change the future/present. Of course, as anyone who has seen any movie in the past 30 years knows (really, all you have to watch is Timecop) humanity does not use this power well.
You play a Civil War soldier who might as well not have a name. You’re rescued from certain death by a time-warrior, who pulls you out of the last seconds of Custer’s Last Stand. Once you’ve reached a Portal-esque future lab, the people who saved you lay out a simple scenario: the “Father of Time” (the man who discovered/perfected time travel) has been captured and hidden somewhere in time. Nefarious Other Time Agents are behind this kidnapping. Simultaneously, various unimportant historic personages are being shifted, moved to different places in their own times, and murdered.
While no one is sure why this is happening, your gruff sergeant teacher and his boss, the hilariously named and acted “Mother,” are dead-set on stopping the murder of these historical nobodies. To do this, they enlist you, a historical “MIA” (you were on the historical nobody hit list) to intervene in various parts of history. It quickly becomes apparent that a strong, malevolent force wishes to stop you, and you must (eventually) defeat this force.
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