By Jim Rossignol on March 1st, 2013 at 3:00 pm.
Kalypso and Realmforge’s stealth action game Dark has revealed its sneakings and dude-throttlings in a new trailer, which you can see below. The sci-fi vampire game, which is still scheduled for Q2 of this year, looks intriguing, with references to Splinter Cell and Deus Ex chiming in with its more Masqueradey vampiric associations. The trailer shows a lot of the sneaking action, as well as a range of powers that players can use to splat or avoid antagonists.
Eric Bane is still a terrible name, though.
01/03/2013 at 15:11 dicenslice says:
Haven’t we already seen this?
01/03/2013 at 15:49 McBeak says:
Could’ve sworn it was the exact trailer we saw in the last article
01/03/2013 at 16:05 televizor says:
Yep, they posted this before.
But I just realized he sneaked up behind that guard and then blinked in front of him to take him out?
That’s the dumbest stealth takedown I’ve ever seen.
02/03/2013 at 23:59 Douglas_Taylor says:
as Ryan implied I am startled that some people able to profit $8506 in four weeks on the computer. did you see this link… http://tiny.cc/get-cash
01/03/2013 at 15:19 Emeraude says:
The good thing, I guess, is that I want this game to be good but, given its pedigree, I cannot find it in me to expect it will be good.
If it actually turns out decent, well all the better.
01/03/2013 at 15:44 MuscleHorse says:
Eric Bane. lol.
01/03/2013 at 17:06 SuperNashwanPower says:
You’re trying to start a new lol train, aren’t you. OK fine, I’ll bite
lol.
01/03/2013 at 15:45 Jake says:
Eric McBain would have been better.
02/03/2013 at 01:02 scatterlogical says:
Max Payne?
01/03/2013 at 15:52 Keyrock says:
Even worse than the name “Eric Bane” is that awful song playing during the trailer. Holy smokes, that song is bad. :o
03/03/2013 at 02:58 StarkeRealm says:
It sounds like someone’s trying to rip off Chasim from VTM: Bloodlines, badly.
01/03/2013 at 16:06 DickSocrates says:
Hoodie, I like it. Very contemporary; urban. Very now. Edgy. I like it. Yah, let’s go with the hoodie. Youth.
ETC.
01/03/2013 at 17:05 SuperNashwanPower says:
YAH
01/03/2013 at 16:08 Mr.Bats says:
Dat animations… clunky at best
01/03/2013 at 16:15 Stevostin says:
There’s a clear lack of talents in their artists. Everything is far below the average. Let’s hope they have good game designers and writers.
“Eric Bane. This is MY name”.
Woops.
01/03/2013 at 16:13 Stevostin says:
Helllloo 2007.
Nah, I am kidding. 2007 looked better than that.
01/03/2013 at 16:27 Jason Moyer says:
If you’re going to copy anything from VTM Bloodlines, the soundtrack is probably the very last thing I’d go for. It’s good to know that goth music hasn’t evolved at all in 20 years though.
01/03/2013 at 17:06 Stevostin says:
Please! Bloodlines soundtrack is great, the above one is awful. It’s not goth or not. It’s just taste and talent (or lack of).
01/03/2013 at 17:54 Jason Moyer says:
I don’t see how the song in this trailer is worse than everything on the Bloodlines soundtrack (not counting the score, of course). It’s certainly not any worse than that horrible Isolation song you had to hear over and over in the Asylum.
01/03/2013 at 18:59 Iskariot says:
Tastes obviously differ.
I personally liked the Bloodlines soundtrack.
The music in this trailer is of inferior quality. It sounds very thin. It is a bloodlines wannabee.
02/03/2013 at 07:16 Tridae says:
I came here just to say how I loved the soundtrack in Bloodlines and I was happy to see something similar being used in this. That isolation song was great, often times I’d just hang around in the Asylum just to listen to that. Nothing says vampire culture more than some goth music, no need for orchestral, rock or electronic score, this style of music fits perfectly to the subject matter. This game wasn’t really on my radar until now with that trailer song, takes me back to bloodlines days. The game even has that same kind of awkward-ish animation and slightly buggy feel to it. Can’t wait.
01/03/2013 at 16:42 Revolving Ocelot says:
I’m Eric Bane, yes, that’s my name.
I’m stronger, smarter, clinically insaaaaaaane.
01/03/2013 at 17:27 akstro says:
For those confused: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLFAXvFYhsE
01/03/2013 at 16:58 lofaszjoska says:
Geralt’s voice actor should be banned from using his Geralt-y voice in anything other than Witcher.
Whoever came up with the line “XY looks to make the stealth genre cool again” should be banned from the face of the fucking Earth.
01/03/2013 at 17:28 Aiken Drum says:
Nothing really stood out for me. Except the Wilhelm Scream at 1:40.
02/03/2013 at 02:51 Ghil says:
Seriously, the Wilhelm completely broke the trailer for me.
01/03/2013 at 17:36 elliott says:
I always thought Dishonored (prononced Dish – onored) was missing something from The Matrix…
01/03/2013 at 17:36 D-e-f- says:
Wait, Geralt’s a vampire?
01/03/2013 at 20:12 HadToLogin says:
Seeing that he died in books but is mobile enough to act in three more games, that could be a good explanation why rigor mortis doesn’t affect him :P
01/03/2013 at 18:24 kud13 says:
Whatever happened to that Demonicon game Kalypso was gonna publish?
03/03/2013 at 03:01 StarkeRealm says:
It shot through their head like a bullet?
01/03/2013 at 18:57 Iskariot says:
It does not look very good, certainly not AAA, but I still want it because there are no other vampire games.
Even the music is a bit meh… obviously vampire bloodlines wannabee, but of lesser quality.
01/03/2013 at 19:14 Exostenza says:
I had no idea they were still making PS2 games…
01/03/2013 at 19:18 luukdeman111 says:
seriously… who came up with the name dark….. how are you supposed to google that?
03/03/2013 at 03:02 StarkeRealm says:
Well, Darkly, of course.
01/03/2013 at 19:40 Coriform says:
Wilhelm scream ruins everything.
01/03/2013 at 20:45 dftaylor says:
I loved Bloodlines. Sure, it ran so badly that I thought my computer had broken, but the slowly escalating madness and the wonderful stories and characters were just ahead of their time.
I remember it went on sale two weeks after it came out. From £30 down to £10 (which is what I got it for) and is a crying shame. Imagine a sequel.
02/03/2013 at 01:09 scatterlogical says:
The second I saw the Kalypso logo my heart sank. They are complete shovelware pushers.
“Squatting” and “Darkness” reminds me of a hobo in an alley. Appropriate article title.
This tries to borrow everything “cool” from everything successful in the past several years, yet misses the point completely. With writing and music selection by a bunch of 15-year-old goths, and an engine from 2004, I’m sure this will be a roaring success. That said, I do find amusement in reading about Metacritic’s 10 worst games. I guess that’s something they can easily aim for.
03/03/2013 at 03:03 StarkeRealm says:
Oh good, for a second, I was genuinely concerned I was the only one that picked up on that.
02/03/2013 at 01:32 gruia says:
Graphics look bad, Naming is terribull
hope the writing n gameplay r good at least
02/03/2013 at 01:53 shagen454 says:
Reminds me of some idiot my band played with recently. Had tons of lasers on him, hardly sang but put up a big front with smiling like some generic Marilyn Manson creep, with video that should have had Terence Mckenna talking about DMT and hallucinogenic pharmacology over it instead of some Ministry type bullshit distortion and generic 80s industrial beats.
Vampires can be cool look at Angus Maclises Invasion Thunderbolt Pagoda. I bet if Frictional Games did a Vampire oriented game the ambient sound and music would be more like what is in that film. Or maybe some old Throbbing Gristle of which was genuinely dark and existential yet original and creative. The whole vampire cheese goth thing is overdone and almost mildly interesting.
02/03/2013 at 05:20 gritz says:
Not going to lie- this looks like an excellent guilty pleasure game.
02/03/2013 at 08:06 Megakoresh says:
LOL @ Animation quality :D
We’ll see, I suppose. A game doesn’t need good animation to be cool.