YMMV / Darkest of Days

• Awesome Moments: Mowing down the Confederate Army at Antietam using a 22nd Century assault rifle. Very awesome.
• Complete Monster: "Mother" is the leader of KronoTek from the future, who gathers talented and unique people across different time periods to serve as her agents to prevent any "deviations" in history. Using Alexander Morris and Dexter to keep two important historic figures, Welsh and Petrovich, safe and alive, "Mother" sends the duo to different battlefields in different periods of time to fight and kill soldiers of both sides in several historical conflicts. As the heroes succeded in their missions, it is revealed that "Mother" was invested in Welsh and Petrovich's safety, because they are the ancestors of scientists who invented a DNA sequencer that can target the genomes defining racial identity, which would be stolen by Middle Eastern Terrorists, who used it to wipe out 2 billion people of European descent, and "Mother" wanted this future to came to pass.
• Fan Nickname: The FMG is never named in dialogue, so it's called the "Zohf Gun".
• Game-Breaker: Extended mags and fast reload upgrade works this way, especially for pistols. You can behave like you are wielding full-auto weapons, while everyone else is with muskets or bolt-action rifles.
• Good Bad Translation:
  • If you can speak either fluent Russian or German, listening to the soldiers in battle can be quite fun.
  • It doesn't require any knowledge of Russian to almost die laughing when Tzar-era soldiers shouts "Za Stalina!" during attacks, which means "For Stalin!"
• Narm: The AI for the game - while bad AI in video games is nothing new, the AI is so bad here that enemies won't look at you EVEN WHEN YOU'RE STABBING THEIR TEAMMATES. Nothing quite like a tense battle that gets ended in seconds by you simply walking over and meleeing the enemy to death.
• Nightmare Fuel: Wounded soldiers screaming for medics and trying to drag themselves away from the battle, citizens of Pompeii screaming as the volcano erupts or you burn them to death with the FMG.
  • The concentration camp.
• Shocking Moments: Any mission that features the player as one man in a 100-man army, going against another army. Which is most of them.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Wow, you can go to any conflict in history? Too bad for the majority of the game they only explore a single battle from either The American Civil War and World War I, with only brief, single-mission detours late in the game to just before World War II and then the destruction of Pompeii.