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Roman's Meat Rocket: Darkest Of Days
The completely brilliant/insane idea behind Darkest Of Days is getting to time travel through various famous conflicts from the past, and mow everyone down with a machine gun. You see, the problem with guns in the Olden Days is they were rubbish. Only capable of firing one shot at a time, or very poor at [...]

Author: John Walker
Category: RockPaperShotgun 8monkey labs darkest of days trailer
Publish Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:29:34 +0000



The completely brilliant/insane idea behind Darkest Of Days is getting to time travel through various famous conflicts from the past, and mow everyone down with a machine gun. You see, the problem with guns in the Olden Days is they were rubbish. Only capable of firing one shot at a time, or very poor at targeting at a long range, they were such a faff and fiddle that by the time you'd managed to poke the pokey thing down the barrel there was a reasonable chance you'd be entirely dead. What they should have done, and what Darkest Of Days finally puts right, is arrange for time travellers from the future to bring them semi-automatic instruments of enormous death. It's both tasteful, and delicious.

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I had a dream like this. I ran around ancient times winning battles with huge guns and kevlar body armour, it was mint. I expect this game to be much the same.

Sounds like a spiritual successor to Serious Sam, with potential to be great.

Also, I read that as Roman, meet rockets. Although Roman's Meat Rockets would have been better.

Pffft, Roman's meat rockets.

The game looks rather fun also, if they decide to sell it for an appropriate price, that is.

I spy an edit

and I smell a new felcher

I read it as Roman's Meat Pockets. Does that make me a bad person?

FatherJack wrote:I read it as Roman's Meat Pockets. Does that make me a bad person?

No, just faaabulous.

Aaaah, now I understand