Darker

'Darker' is a 1995 arcade-style flight simulator by Psygnosis. The storyline turns around an alien race obscuring the sky causing a permantent night above the cities of Earth. Gameplay consists of accomplishing missions protecting a city from the invading airborne enemy forces. Air combat involves mainly futuristic energy weapondry with a balistic-feel. The game's graphics are advanced for it's time, featuring a detailed and fully three-dimensional city environment over which combats are held. In contrast to the generally realistic cityscape and 3d vehicle models were the characteristic explosion and smoke effects, consiting of bubble-like 2d sprites which, in spite of their realistic particle-like behaviour, were simply to big too be in any way convincing as actual explosions, giving the game a strong arcade feel.