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It's very easy to roundly dismiss a game that most people don't think is very good -- heck, we do it all the time. But we think before you make with the lambasting, you should have to read a postmortem article, like this one on Gamasutra from 8monkey, the developer of Darkest of Days. Where many terrible games just appear to be rush jobs, the folks working on Darkest of Days (which hovers between a 45 and 52 on Metacritic, depending on platform) seem to be a nice enough group just doing the best with what they had (which, of course, was not enough money, time nor manpower). A compelling postmortem isn't going to make Darkest of Days a better game (it's a long ways off from that), but maybe it'll make us all slightly nicer people.

Update on the way for historical shooter.

FMG vs. Anyone.

Maxim vs. Russian WWI Soldiers.

Barracuda Sniper Rifle vs. Prison Guards.

Shoulder Artillery vs. Huns.

Physics brought to you by nVidia's PhysX engine.

Is it possible to make jumping through time a drag?

With some incredibly brutal reviews to its name, Darkest of Days has to work extra hard to sway consumers with a new Xbox Live demo. It appears the game's time-traveling protagonist, tasked with saving certain people for the sake of history, has little to work with outside of a fun premise.Is using modern weaponry during the American Civil War as fun as you'd expect it to be? Don't let us stop you from finding out! (Spoiler: it isn't)Queue up the Darkest of Days demo

Do what it takes to preserve history.

Feel like altering the course of history by using a rocket launcher in the Civil War? Darkest of Days has your remedy.

There are some casualties we are not prepared to accept.