Celebrating 15 Years of Hardcore Gamer with Darkwatch
Darkwatch came about at an interesting time in gaming history. A lot of early-aughts franchises were getting turned into movies, albeit largely bad ones, but movies nonetheless. You had ideas like Bloodrayne that were B-tier games but wound up crossing over to horror movie audiences thanks to the films so a game in the franchise now had two potential fanbases to draw from. High Moon Studios, befitting their name, had high hopes for Darkwatch to become something big but dame fortune wasn’t smiling upon them. Hardcore Gamer’s first cover story was on this game in 2005, and while the franchise may have fallen shy of its lofty expectations, the core experience remains a lot of fun. In the fifteen years since the game graced our debut magazine cover we’ve seen a lot of FPS games on the market, but nothing has quite managed to come close to Darkwatch. And with so much time having passed since Hardcore Gamer originally debuted