Darker
Darker is a single-player futuristic flight simulator video game published by Psygnosis in 1995 for MS-DOS. The player assumes the role of Tolly, a civilian shuttle pilot in the city of Delphi, the only city situated on the dark side of a planet in synchronous rotation around the local star. The player must defend Delphi from the Halons, inhabitants of the planet's light side, who are invading Delphi. The game takes place over a number of missions on the planet's surface and in tunnels.
Darker
- Date
- 1995
- Publisher
- SCE Studio Liverpool
- Genre
- flight simulation video game
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Darker is a single-player futuristic flight simulator video game published by Psygnosis in 1995 for MS-DOS. The player assumes the role of Tolly, a civilian shuttle pilot in the city of Delphi, the only city situated on the dark side of a planet in synchronous rotation around the local star. The player must defend Delphi from the Halons, inhabitants of the planet's light side, who are invading Delphi. The game takes place over a number of missions on the planet's surface and in tunnels.
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• Title — Darker • Publisher — Psygnosis • Designer — Jas.C.Brooke Lyndon Brooke • Released — 1995 • Genre — Flight simulator • Modes — Single-player • Platforms — MS-DOS
Plot
Plot
Darker's story is revealed over the course of the game as information gathered by reconnaissance. The people of Delphi are not militarised, having never had reason for military action, and so technology for combating the Halon menace is developed over the course of the game. The Halon people are revealed to be invading in order to expand their cities away from the light side, which they have polluted beyond the point where it can sustain life. Eventually Tolly pilots a Halon craft to the light side of the planet, where he destroys the Halon aircraft factories.
Gameplay
Gameplay
The bulk of the game is played piloting a Caero shuttle. Because of the scarcity of energy on the dark side of the planet, power to the shuttle is transmitted wirelessly through a network of pylons situated on a regular grid across the city.
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- 1.Test Express. Génération 4. 83. 172. December 1995.
- 2.Maueröder, Petra. Spätzünder. PC Games. December 1995.
- 3.Stangl, Florian. Darker. PC Player. 90. November 1995.
- 4.Darker. Power Play. 102. November 1995.
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