Cod Vanguard cursed guns have nothing on this. The game is Darkest of Days and I am not responsible if you get a virus trying to download it. Come watch me play such "amazing" games at twitch.tv/oboeshoesgames
Imagine the Henry rifle, except instead of "loading on Sunday and shooting all week" you load it in the morning and wipe out the entire Confederate Army by sundown.
"Sir. It seems as if the corpses all have munition injuries." "Nonsense. It was metal fragments from the volcano." "But sir: the rounds were found in and around the body with empty metal casings." "Volcanic metal tends to do that, Jennings. It's never in one place." "Sir. It's LITERALLY stamped 45 ACP. You can still see the markings -" "Jennings if you want to make a paper about time-travel and bullets you can do so on your own time."
I made a video about this game a few months ago, and I actually interviewed the director. It turns out, he had a huge hollywood deal lined up for a movie, and they were getting offers from publishers like Activision and THQ. Then the financial crash hit and everyone pulled out, so they just kinda went "ahh shit, release what we have", and that's how we got Darkest of Days. It's more or less a demo that they put together in order to get publisher's attention, not the product they ever intended to release. As for why it got taken down, he kind of implied he forgot the game was even available in the first place, so it probably has something to do with the old company not really existing anymore.
That would make sense, I figured this was a shoestring budget game someone made in a dingy basement, but it being something of an Alpha-stage game makes sense.
Darkest of Days is one of the last games from an era of video games where developers didn’t give a fuck and were bold enough to try weird ass concepts and roll with it.
2:14 I feel like the people who made these games never actually owned or wore a gas mask in real life. Yes, your vision can be impaired but how the game represents this is beyond absurd.
God I wish people would make more good WW1 FPS story campaigns lol, seems like everything is some weird alt-history nonsense from the early 2000s, or painfully mediocre.
The funniest thing about this game was the blue-glow enemies indicating historical generational importance, implying everyone without a blue glow is just a useless sack of meat throughout their entire lineage.
Here is the difference between Darkest of Days and Call of duty Vanguard: One of these games shouldn’t have customization that isn’t historically accurate, the other has time travel so it makes sense using a gun that looks like it’s in 2089 while being part of the revolutionary war
@@JonatasAdoM yeah lol, it is like the designers had knowledge about firearms, unlike the designers who made the Sten with a closed bolt that doesn't even reach the chamber
Imagine you're sitting in a WW1 trench, when suddenly you hear the unmistakable sound of a Honeywell AGT1500C multi-fuel turbine engine driving closer towards your current location.
Stalaglufts were POW camps, not concentration camps. The game visually screws this up of course but if you had to choose which to be in the Stalagluft would be your choice each time. Think Hogan's Heroes, not Dachau.
@@lukeeszeha5381 I was trying to bring up something relatable the OP might know about. I would rather be in an air force prison than in a concentration camp. People still confuse the two to this day.
Still have my physical copy of this with the shiny case and everything. Still enjoy playing it from time to time and it sucks that it never got a sequel. I may not be a -good- game but it was definitely enjoyable. There is also a secret level if you interact with the door (the one with the light shining beneath it) during the final "cutscene" before the credits roll.
Harry Turtledove wrote a novel about racist time travelers going back in time to give the Confederate army AK-47s. I liked it and it's not a long novel.
I remember buying this game on steam way back when it came out and thinking it was awesome (especially the Rome level) but looking back on it now that I'm older it's hilarious.
The reason why it's so weird is Because the studio lost all their data in an office flood and had to basically remake the game in 2 months to finish the deadline
This game still holds a special place in my heart. You probably already know this, but you can access a secret level by going over to the wooden door in your base after that Russian guy shoots Dr Koell and hold the action button to unlock it and you go there after Dexter asks what to do. In addition, by jumping on the heads of the prisoners at the German Prison camp, you can jump onto the train car and escape the boundaries where you can fall off the world and reveal the skybox is actually the picture of a suburu by a field.
Awwwwww you left out the part where the sergeant guy gets upset that the enemy is killing random civilians in Pompeii literal minutes after telling you you can just go ham and murder random civilians for fun because they're gonna die anyway
Modern History Channel in a nut shell 1990s: General Grant outplayed Lee in the war 2020s: Grant had super soldiers with a atomic missed Launcher with time travel capabilities because the Aliens brought the pyramids
I remember first watching this as a let's play in 2009, buying and playing it in 2014. Now I am watching a retrospective review on RU-vid in 2021. The world is dope sometimes.
Is this game a fever dream? Is this video a content that slipped through an alternate universe? Am I seeing all of this correctly? Because this game looks and feels like a fever dream to me
Imagine being a Confederate soldier in a firing line and some Union guy is standing two feet away with a repeater going “headshot, headshot, headshot” then he pulls out a map asking where the irrigation ditch is.
If I remember right the Studio lost most of their data when a flood destroyed their office. This is what they were able to salvage and cobble together in like 2-3 months to meet their deadline. Despite the rough around the edges I loved the concept and liked the game at the time.
I remember going to PAX and they had a booth where you could pose with prop guns from all different eras while gameplay played in the background and they had a person there to talk about the "historical accuracy" of the game. This game's marketing was something else.
Even if the ball doesn't go through the armor the kinetic energy may still kill you. It's also likely since 1850s and 1860s US Army rifles were 58 caliber.
@@milanvondrich9749 I mean, that's great and I can see the appeal of it (much more historical varity for one), but it's hard to deny that Singularity was a more polished and focused game.
Also, the point of the organization that you work for in this game is to CORRECT history along it's true path, not go back and change it, hence the aura enemies you aren't supposed to kill.
Darkest of Days is amazing! I love it :) it's the right amount of silly "what the fuck" camp and self-serious that just...meshes really well I love it so much
I remember playing this demo, wondering when it would come out. Then, there was no word on it anywhere. No store ever held it that I could find, and eventually, I just forgot that it existed.
The Zepplin mission, where you're stuck in a postage stamp throwing ordanance of the side and getting shredded by machine guns in the process. I really need to find my copy of this.
I remember playing this, and I specifically remember the last level.. and slaughtering the innocent civilians of Pompeii. On another note I’d love to see this game get a sequel or a reboot.
SAME! I remember watching a literal 1-2 mins of it when I was younger and falling in love with it because of possibility to travel and visit different battles (I didn't see the future-weapons-in-a-historical-battle part so I thought this was a cool historically accurate game) and only now I see that this game is trashy lol. The dissapointment.
This game feels like an idea you would have in the shower. "What if there was a time travel fps game where you can go to Ancient Rome and use a machine gun". Love this game anyway, despite everything, nice video.
I bought this game when it came out. I went to my local Best Buy and the guy working the video game department had no idea what I was talking about, but he went in the back and brought it out. He had no clue they even had it in stock. The game was truly awful, but it had lot some really interesting elements and some fun levels.
All these whacky combat scenarios and they don't include the greatest sharpshooter of all time? Yeah that's right, I'm talking about Cyber Quincy because nothing gets past his bow.
Holy shit. I used to have this game on Xbox 360 back in the day. I totally forgot about it until I came across your video. Totally bitched slapped by that nostalgia, dude. Thanks.
So they travel to Pompeii as the volcano is erupting since everyone died it would cause any butterfly effect. Exactly a plot point in Loki. So Loki actually stole from this History channel game. Incredible
I remember in MGSV when you could glitch crazy weapon combos, that was so fun. I made a silent sniper grenade launcher that was just a hitscan explosion maker, good times
Oh my god I remember this game! A friend and I played the demo back in the day. I'm pretty sure he downloaded it initially because all the screenshots showed the civil war levels and he had always wanted to play a civil war shooter. We were very surprised when the time travel stuff started happening.
3:30 Both you and Tanya Degurechaff from Saga of Tanya of Evil made this comment. When in actuality there was 1 protest and a attempt to ban shotguns from World War 1, the attempt failed, and shotguns of any and all types were still allowed on the battlefields of World War 1
There's a novel called 'Guns of South' that's about time-travelers who equip the Confederacy with AKs. 2:55 Only a greenhorn would hold a levergun cockeyed (or take the stock off their shoulder) while working the lever. 3:29 The Germans, who were the first to use poison gas in warfare (edit/note: They weren't the first, but they did use it extensively.), complained to the Geneva Convention to get shotguns banned for military use since they saw them as barbaric weapons that only maniacs would use in warfare. American G.I.s were like, "Yeah, that's why we use them." *};-P* 6:50 Suspenders form either an "X" shape or a "Y" shape on the back. Video games have been getting that wrong since 'Soldier of Fortune' (possibly before that).
The first use of chemical weapons was by the French, it was tear gas. The Germans were the first to refine and then deploy deadly chemical weapons, but for the most part it was a 50/50 of it blowing back right on their trenches and forcing them to retreat. Best case scenario, the wind blew towards the enemies and they retreated off their trenches but the germans couldn't quite take it either. Then we have the Eastern Front, where the Russians charged out of a fort while pieces of their flesh fell off them, the infamous attack of the undead. That is why even Hitler was opposed to using chemical weapons in battle. Obviously, he had no moral qualms about killing innocents with it, but he was well aware how volatile those weapons are.
Well... The result of that debate was that the germans declared that any enemy caught using a shotgun would be executed and the americans then issued a counter-declaration about flamethrowers. Dunno if anything ever really became of it, but if yes, then that was probably a decent enough trade for the germans, since trench guns were a lot more common than flamethrowers. And the germans did sorta have a point: Bullet wounds are usually a pretty clear-cut case: You got a single big wound and either you die pretty much instantly, or you have good odds of recovering with medical aid. Shot on the other hand... it has pretty high odds of not killing you outright but leaving you in a state that cannot really be treated (not by 1918 field surgeons, anyways) so you just end up dying slowly from sepsis or blood loss.
4:54 I haven't played the game, but my understanding is that there's bad guys trying to change history and good guys making sure things happen the way they're supposed to,
I love this game, it's a shame my Xbox account had gotten updated, forcing it to not run old games like it anymore (Microsoft disappoints me greatly with it's unlimited amounts of bullshit.) But nonetheless, at least somebody has a little respect for older games.
I remember being awake at like 3am browsing the Xbox live arcade back in like 2010 and downloading this game or the demo I think. And about an hour later I played it. I remember looking up seeing sunlight then passing out of exhaustion. I had been up for 23 hours straight
I got this game last year on steam and I still love it. Like I’ve had it for years before I got the steam version. It holds a special place in my heart despite the historical inaccuracies. Like so many. But hey I play when I have a bad day. I still want a sequal