Pier 19 (Dark Assualt)
Use a phone to call Butch, once he pages you.
Get yourself onto a train and over to Lower East Side. Use the street map if you need to, locate the Pier 19 exit there.
Listen to the interesting conversation, this is the third time we hear of this bungling guy. Go ahead and Creeping Dark all three mooks to death and round the corner carefully, as there is a guy up top that’s kind of hard to spot, who will sort of snipe at you. On Hard, he’s deadly, as he hits the head often and easy. Zoom in with a rifle and let fly.
Follow the path straight up to the ship. If you bring a healthy Darkling up too, and be aggressive here, you can kill off the three or so guys guarding the front area of the ship with ease. If not, they will pin you down and you need to use Creeping Dark, or a very well placed Black Hole. Now, board and get ready for a battle.
Go in the very first door you see here, and send a Black Hole up to the ceiling to off a couple of the guards here. Now go back outside on the boat and around the left corner if you’re facing the boat from where you first came in. Go around here and locate the steps. It’ll save here too.
Kill one or two of the guards and head on up, quickly now or you might have some company from behind, depending on how well you’ve killed so far. If you do, take cover and spam Black Holes until there’s nothing left of them. Upstairs, you can kill off three or four more men as you cover a couple more flights up. Hit the lights as you go and keep the Demon Arm ready for up close and personal shooters. When you reach a man crying and saying he’s unarmed, note that he does have a knife. When you turn your back to him, he tries to kill you off. Do what you need to do. Keep following this path.
Turn around past the knife guy’s door and you’ll find an opening with a matress blocking it. Use the demon arm to move it if you want, but I strongly advise killing all the lights and looking backwards to find a Darkling spawn. Get a Berserker and send him in first, THEN take the matress down with the Arm and shoot whatever’s left. Head down when you can, and after the stairs is the bridge. The Captain you have to kill is here. Plug him, eat him, black hole him, whatever you want. Go get his autoshotgun too. By now, you must be nearing 300 hearts eaten if you want that achievement.
Leave the boat. If you jump down it rather than taking the same route back, you’ll avoid some trouble. If not, just fight it out. Get a page from Sarah. Bummer. As you leave, The Darkness gives you an order you just cannot refuse.
Take up a good cover spot in the dark and do whatever you want to these five or so guys. Keep in mind there is one on the far left, in a sniping type position up high on a railing. I like to use Creeping Dark or Black Holes to be quick and safe, but it’s your call. Remember, the Demon Arm can throw cars.
Now, carry the car down the street with you for a moving shield. Good ole fashioned sharp shooting works, but I prefer to get a lil closer. Move in and eliminate these enforcer goons, you’ve gotta get over to Sarah’s!!
You’re going to want to pick up all the guns they drop, these are high quality.
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Lower East Side (The opprotunity to impress)
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Take to the matresses with the old Family (it means prepare for war, sort of, read a book ya mooks!)
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Make for Aunt Sarah’s place QUICK. As you’re coming near an alley, note the car. Listen to the ironic and funny conversation if you want, then Creep or Darkling these two to death. Rounding the corner, get ready for two more mafia goons. Now then, as you get near the back of the apartment, you see one of your old pals bite the dust, through a window no less! Don’t get distracted…look right and kill the goon over there first. Blast your way to the front door and speak to everyone. In the back bedroom (bluish tint to it) there is an old, old man that will supply you with basic ammo. Use whatever you need to, but go to each window and kill every last one of these bad guys. You will very likely witness a few of your allies die here, there isn’t much you can do. And you don’t get to use any powers, so try not to get shot!!
Basic survival tips here:
When using auto hand guns, lead in with one first, before using the other. That way, when you reload, you can stream bullets with the second gun still, and keep them guessing.
Go to the back bedroom for ammo.
If you’re hurt, duck into a corner for several seconds.
Remember, Jackie sort of leans his guns around obstacles, so feel free to duck low and stay to the sides of the windows when taking aim. Don’t give them a target.
Move about the rooms to confuse the bad guys, but don’t expect all your allies to survie this ordeal.
Don’t forget the zoom function, but get out of it if you need to take cover! (click in the right stick for zoom)
Try not to use the best machine gun or shotgun, you may need it for the end game.
Despite the last bit of advice up there, if you keep dying, you’re going to have to use the best weapons you’ve got!
You can see how much ammo you’ve got total for all the guns at one time by going to the select button screen.
Thankfully, Butcher Joyce arrives. He’ll chat about Paulie, the traitors to the family, Chicago, and lastly, he’ll let you in on where you can find Uncle Paulie. There will be blood, oh yes.
Then, speak to Jimmy. Do whatever you want here, speak to whoever else you want, and get ready to go. Outside, pick up all the guns the guys dropped.
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Pier 19 (End of the line)
Go to the pier, and look over to the left of where the giant boat was you just scared off. Meet up with Mario, and hitch a ride. Careful about going too far to the right with your powers out or the guns showing, as there’s several good guy cops over there on the right side of the pier.
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Paulie’s Lighthouse Mansion (The End of Days)
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Take on the legions of mafia hitmen that turned against your real Family, with unbrilded power
Let The Darkness have control
End Paulie Franchetti, or die trying
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This is the time of reckoning.
When you’re moving again, don’t fret. Yes, it’s morning and you can’t summon The Darkness yet. But remember what Jackie talked about a bit back? You will. And you can constantly try to summon the Darkness anyhow, you might find a shadow or two. But soon, it won’t matter. Watch the sun as you walk.
Get out the tactical assualt rifle for this one. Edge up to the side of the big hill and be ready for the guys. Since you can’t have your shield and they’re using this gun too, make your shots count, or you’ll die screaming.
Follow the linear path and witness the beginnings of the eclipse. This is your chance. This is your time. End this miserable pile now, and make him feel every bullet for what he did.
As you traverse this final path, you’ll be able to drag out the Darkness from you by devouring hearts. Also, from here on out in the stage, some Darklings will just appear randomly without your summons. Feel free to summon some too, if you can spare the shield energy for it. Keep going until you reach the large central step area.
Well, you just mowed down more mob guys than you normally see in one place ever. Good job! It should be fully dark now, at the front steps. Shoot out every light you see, and prepare any powers or favorite guns of yours. As you approach the mansion, get ready to fall back and cover, as there are flood lights all over the place. Shoot them out, keep calling for Darklings, and waste every bad guy you can see. This is the spot in the game where they are infinte, by the way, so if you want achievements dealing with lots of kills or Black Hole or what not, here’s a fine place for it. Kill em all.
And do be careful of any Kamakazie Darklings, they’re wild.
When you tire of all this bloodshed (yeah, right), head up to the front doors. If you have a hard time getting there on Hard, simply cut left or right first and then make your way to the front doors, it’s a bit safer and you get more auto- darkling spawns from here.
Enjoy the awesome scenes here as it takes control and slaughers tons of bad guys. When you do briefly get control, just do whatever you want until it takes over again, pretty hard to die or lose out here. In the hallway, when you have control, use lots of black holes or darklings and this will be over quick. You can also score the Black Hole achievements here easily.
When you regain control yet again (after the awesome scene!), enjoy your fruits, and kill any survivors laying around. Make your way outside, around, and back into the house. Go through the main front area, up stairs, and into a doorway, cleaning up any lingering survivors if you so desire.
Wind around until you reach the renovated light house. Climb the spiral, listen to Paulie sweat, and chase him to his final resting place. When you get there, lean in and shoot him once or twice for a cinema. He still has a gun though, and keep in mind no powers work on him here. When prompted, you’re going to know what you have to do. What you want to do. It’s all for you, Jenny.
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CONGRATULATIONS, you just beat The Darkness!!!
Now try Hard mode, multiplayer, and go for all the achievements!
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And yes, Jackie Estacado WILL be back!
In the comics, he goes to Hell to find Jenny, comes back alone (rebuilt from a TOOTH the Darkness hid in), and meets more Family to kill off. He finally becomes a bit more of a “good guy” type after meeting Batman and a few other famous types that beleive in human spirit. He masters his Darkness and learns to create all sorts of creatures and weapons. He also has full body armor (from the start actually) and learns how to summon up Darkness from shadows some never even think to see. He eventually takes over his branch of the family, and continues to fight all sorts of crazed evil. Be it man, demon, or even angel (yes, not ALL angels are good guys!). He continues to uphold good moral fiber though, and likes to help those in need after having come around to what his powers can do. That does not mean he quits living his mafia life though. Jenny will always be with him, in his heart.
And yes, Dimension Films purchased the rights to make a film, so let them know you wanna see it! I have no idea if they will make a movie, or what it will be like, but they do own rights to it.
As far as I know, the comics are out of production, but may come back any time. It has already returned once after a hiatus, it can easily do it again. The characters in this game vary greatly for the most part, or just plain don’t exist. Check out the comics for more depth if you liked this story and characters. Several well known, great writers and artists worked on the book and it’s various cross overs.
The Darkness is part of The Triarchy. That is The Witchblade, The Darkness, and The Angelus. The Witchblade is another popular, ongoing comic about a female cop with powers close to Jackie’s, but different. They have met on several occasions and live in the same city.
If you want to learn any more basic stuff about The Darkness, look it up at www.wikipedia.org !
