Blow baddies out of their chaps or shoot their mounts out from underneath them, and you might just live to join the Darkwatch, an ancient organization which protects humanity from supernatural horrors. After hopping into the saddle, you thunder across an open plain, controlling your steed's movement with the left thumbstick while popping shots at the cadaverous cowboys using the right thumbstick to aim. Following her lead, you first stave off Lazarus' immediate attacks (he teleports around the roof of the train, sending sickle-wielding zombies your way) then make a break for it on horseback.

Luckily, life as a plasma addict is not so bad you are rescued from eternal enslavement by Cassidy, a sexy female gunslinger. And, just for fun, he alters the shape of the land all around, uproots trees, annihilates frontier outposts, and summons the dead from their graves. After unintentionally being released from the vault where he's held captive, Lazarus proceeds to bite the bandit. Or rather, a royal pain in the neck, in the form of a blood-sucking psychopath named Lazarus. What he finds instead, after fighting his way through jittering cars filled with meat lockers and savaged corpses, is destiny. A wanted outlaw with a string of robberies and assaults to his credit, Cross has come seeking treasure. The tale opens atmospherically enough, as Jericho leaps onto a train roaring through the moonlit night. Just one hitch-the blood of the beasts runs in the veins of anti-hero Jericho Cross, whose humanity wanes with every second spent wandering the Wild West.Īlmost as unique as the title's storyline and neo-Gothic aesthetic - note how every weapon, including shotgun and redeemer pistol, could double as a sadomasochistic centerpiece - is, of course, its setting.

In Darkwatch™, a new first-person shooter from publisher Capcom and developer High Moon Studios, it is your job to finally lay the dark creatures to rest. They have been around for centuries - watching, waiting, preying on humanity (no, not telemarketers - vampires, goof).

Darkwatch 2 player