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Darkest of Days saves history at retail on Sept. 8

by Alexander Sliwinski on Jul 15th 2009 2:05PM

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Trying to move beyond PC casino games, publisher Phantom EFX is ready to release the Darkest of Days on September 8 for PC and Xbox 360. The FPS follows a time traveler who must save certain soldiers in wars because "history needs them." You know, it's the anti-Terminator.

The game is being developed by 8monkey Labs out of Cedar Falls, Iowa. That's not really important, but we so rarely get to write about devs from Iowa that it felt like it needed to be said. Some videos of the game can be found on the Darkest of Days website. Sadly, nobody says, "Come with me, if you want to live," in any of them.

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Tags: 8monkey-labs, darkest-of-days, Microsoft, phantom-efx, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (109)

Why restrict yourself to one bunch of well-known villains from history when you can have them all?

Sequels?

This game looks like it'll be fun.

Mercilessly slaughtering confederate soldiers as they take 30 seconds to reload their muskets.

100-round magazine FTW!!!!

who said you were not fighting the north? that would be an interesting spin on the game.

See attached picture.

@JXCgunrunna
No it wouldn't, because eventually your side would lose.

melloncollie, the game is alternate reality. so the south CAN win.

And it sounds like you go on missions to save a person that will do something good for the world or their decedents would do something good for the world so it is possible that you could fight for the nazi's to save a German scientist who was in the war so that his great great grandson can make a cure for cancer in 2023

or you could fight the americans to protect a nazi? Now that would be interesting

Beat me to it...well done. +1

THE SOUTHS GONNA RISE AGAIN BOY!!!!

=P

My Brother works for this company...We REALLY wanted him to throw in a cool Achievement, but alas he had no part of that :(

I have played a little of the demo...very cool engine!

Plus I am holding out for a free copy of the game :)

GET IN THA CHOPPAAH!! DO IT NOW!

You will have to team up with Bryan Boitano for that one, obviously.

Bryan Boitano: The Game

Brian doesn't need help from the likes of you.

damn those chicken wings were hot.

Woah, that's an interesting concept.

I'm sorry, but every time you post, i end up looking at your avatar and skipping over your post.

its not a game... its a training simulator.

for further info:

http://LLBTI.ytmnd.com/

You should always listen to haruhi. She is god you know?

Interesting idea

Sadly, nobody says in them, "Come with me, if you want to live"...yet.

Give them time, they'll come up with a clever, witty time-travel one-liner. Casual game devs are known for their witty dialogue and deep, rich storylines. Now, if this game lets you kill Hitler in his face? SOLD!

ah..... there's a pc tag. i love you joystiq

A bunch of enemies who have to reload between shots for 30 seconds, and me with an automatic assault rifle.

Can you say fish in a barrel?

Look up.

Yeah! You can't say that 'cus Storm Eagle already did. Repetition will not be tolerated!

A good soldier could reload in less than ten seconds. ;)

...this coming from a guy who works at an 1812 site...sure it's earlier, but it's the same tech.

I can I go back in time and kill Hitler before he rose to power

But he was your great-grandfather...it creates a time paradox. So for you, no.

lol grover!

I absolutely love this concept, and it's so funny because I've actually thought to myself before what it would be like if someone with an M4A1 with a ridiculous amount of ammo and a kevlar vest went back in time. Color me interested.

They do have cannons back then and what happens if you get shot in the face?

@cimino15

I used to think the exact same thing. What if we COULD go back in time and pwn the soldiers of old with our helicopters, bulletproof vests, and assault rifles? WWII could have been over even faster with that kind of technology.

Unless we're talking about Wolfenstein and it's Mecha-Hitler, of course.

"History needs them"

Well, if history needed them, wouldn't they have already been saved? Isn't the protagonist therefore altering history by saving them? Or was he the original savior of these soldiers, but now is fulfilling what happened in the past by going back in time and saving the soldiers?

Is this a Back to the Future time travel? Or is it Bill & Ted?

You are part of an elite group, code-named "Wild Stallions"

It's the Quantum Leap episode set in the Civil War crossed with the Terry Turtledove novel, Guns of the South.

Dude, spell it right, Wyld Stallyons

I admit my total screw up. But I am not accustomed to misspelling things...even when they're spelled "correctly".

Wyld Stallyons.

I apologize to my childhood.

Haha. I was thinking the same thing. The plot makes no sense whatsoever, like most time travel plots.

What happens if this time traveler kills his great grandfather/relative in one of these battles? Does the game end?

Because that would be awesome.

See http://www.joystiq.com/2009/07/15/darkest-of-days-saves-history-at-retail-on-sept-8/comments/20149223/

Cold blooded.

Futurama teaches us that when you do that, you end up finding your own grandma and having sex with her.

Hopefully there's a paradox-free timecode.

Will there be any difficulty to it? Whats to stop me from going back in time and just giving everyone the Rhino Virus?

You're giving everyone the common cold? Oh No!

testing testing. I apologize in advance if there three million comments from me.

Don't know what is going on here. Anyway this totally reminds me of this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Rebel-Time-Tor-Science-Fiction/dp/0812539672

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