History VideoGame / OperationDarkness

''Operation Darkness'' is a [[TurnBasedStrategy turn-based tactical RPG]] developed for the UsefulNotes/Xbox360 by Japanese studio Creator/{{Success}} and released in late 2007 in Japan and most of Southeast/East Asia. It was licensed to Creator/{{Atlus}} for its North American release in mid-2008. The game was released once again in 2010 in Xbox Live, which also included a Europe-wide release in the same year.

* NintendoHard: Both critics and fans of the game will agree that it is ''brutal'', especially early on. Many of the battlefields are littered with mines that can't be easily viewed from the camera perspectives provided, and complications such as reinforcements often show up at what appear to be the end of long and grueling battles.

* CameraScrew: One major reoccurring criticism of the game is that the camera rarely if ever gives you a good view of the action and frequently gets obscured by objects in the environment.

A fairly standard take on the tried-and-true mashup of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and the occult, the game follows a squad of SAS soldiers - the Wolf Pack (Officially known to the Allied Military forces as K Company, 1st Platoon) - fighting the Nazis across the European Theater and eventually attempting to assassinate UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler himself to win the war for the Allied cause. The so-called Wolf Pack's membership includes Edward and Jude, a pair of infantry soldiers reassigned after their last mission resulted in the death of their platoon; Cordelia, a firestarter; James Gallant, the leader (and a [[WolfMan werewolf]]); Keith, the point man; Frank, a close-combat specialist; Cynthia, a top-heavy Irish sniper; Herbert [[PunnyName East]], a medic and the only character who can revive dead soldiers; and, um...UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. A descendant of Van Helsing joins in the fight as well as a reanimated dead German soldier in a Jin-Roh-like battle armor suit. Together, they take on the German military and its allies, the Blood Clan led by a vampire officer named Alexander Vlado and his right hand woman Carmilla in order to prevent the entire world from being placed into total chaos.

* BigBad: Despite the Nazis being the enemies of the Allies and Hitler and his party being major antagonists, Alexander Vlado is ultimately the main threat, [[spoiler:being that he plans to use the war as part of a ceremony to resurrect Count Dracula.]]

* FrankensteinsMonster: [[spoiler: Frank Gaunt is the monster from the story, which is part of the reason for all the sitches on his body]].

* AlternateHistory: The premise is "What if vampires and werewolves got involved in World War II?"

* KnifeNut: Jack the Ripper uses his favored tools of murder (knives) in combat.

%% * OurMonstersAreDifferent: Nearly every sub-category you might care to think of.

%% * AlternateHistory

%% * JigglePhysics: Attempted and failed with Carmilla and Cynthia.

%% * OfficerAndAGentleman: James Gallant, all the way.

%% * RefugeInAudacity

%% * StupidJetpackHitler

%% * VisualInitiativeQueue: Vertically on the right side of the screen.

* FinalDeath: If Herbert East doesn't revive a dead ally by the end of the mission, they're gone for good. Any story centric character (Edward, Jude, Cordelia, or Gallant) dying is an automatic GameOver.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: German tank ace [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Wittmann Michael Wittmann]] voluntarily leaves a battle with the Wolf Pack in disgust over the SS's use of reanimated German soldiers which in his opinion is defiling the corpses of brave men.

** The SAS is stated to normally be based out of Hereford. In reality, the SAS wasn't based out of Hereford until 1960 (And were disbanded after the war before that happened)