During PAX 09 I got a chance to play through a few levels of Darkest of Days, 8monkey Labs time travelling first person shooter that marries futuristic technology with great moments in history.Three levels were available in the demo that handbag gift 8monkey had up and running at their PAX booth, which was festooned with period weapons and employees dressed up in historical garb,
right up to publisher Phantom EFX's CEO and game designer Aaron Schurman wearing Roman hardened leather armor, complete with plumed helmet Schurman gave me a basic overview of the game as I played through the opening level as a member of General Custer's doom band during the Battle of Little Big Horn Your character is an MIA fashion seiko missing in action a person who was unaccounted for at the end of a major battle or disaster The concept behind the game is that a futuristic time agency warps in and recruits these MIA's to put them to work fixing errors in the time stream
He explained that one of your character's contacts is an MIA from 9/11, a policeman who was off duty on the day of the tragedy, running to help but managing to (nearly) get killed in the process.The concept made me a little sad, but Andrew made seiko watches me look at things another way "It is sad that they are gone, but it's good to imagine that these MIAs are actually still out there somewhere, a difference for the rest of us.
