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[[File:Darkwatch_9247.jpg|frame|[[Dark Is Not Evil|He's on your side, we swear]].]]

 

 

 

[[The Western|It's 1876]], and an age of darkness has come upon [[The Wild West]]. You are Jericho Cross: [[The Gunslinger|Gunslinger]]. [[Outlaw|Renegade. Outlaw]]. [[Villain Protagonist|Behind you lies a]] [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|bloody trail of robbery and revenge]]. [[One Last Job|Ahead of you lies one last train to rob]].

[[Vampire Refugee|In the process, Jericho is bitten and begins to turn]]. Now he must find the Darkwatch and help them [[Find the Cure|hunt down and destroy Lazarus or be forever damned]].

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* [[All There in the Manual]]: The Darkwatch has been fighting vampires and zombies since the days of the Roman Empire. Promotional material includes images of Darkwatch Regulators from all across history, including both World Wars and the present day.

* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|How far down the slippery slope he]] [[Karma Meter|goes is your choice]], but the fact remains that Jericho was a notorious outlaw and remains unafraid to let bullets do the talking.

* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: How the Ghost Gates work.

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Jericho, who trades in his tan duster for a Darkwatch-issue black [[Hell-Bent for Leather|leather]] one.

* [[Badass Normal]]: Jericho, very briefly before he gets bitten.

** Cassidy, {{spoiler|until she's killed by Lazarus early on in the game and comes back as a [[Spirit Advisor|ghost to guide Jericho]]}}.

* [[Boring but Practical]]: The Blackfish carbine, a powerful repeating rifle with a generous ammunition capacity. It's found at the beginning of the second mission, and is common from then on. It can easily become a [[Sniper Rifle]] when combined with [[Vein-O-Vision]], though it doesn't hit as hard as the actual [[Sniper Rifle]].

* [[Big Bad]]: Lazarus, possibly of the entire setting.

* [[Fan Service]]: A nude spread of Tala was printed in ''Playboy''. [[Blatant Lies|For advertising purposes, of course]].

* [[Final Battle]]: In a [[Pocket Dimension]] that may or may not be [[Hell]].

** Jericho has this, as well; his scarred missing eye glows red, the source of his [[Vein-O-Vision]]. {{spoiler|In the good ending, [[Eye Lights Out|his eye glow dies]], [[Undeath Always Ends|indicating he is human again]]. In the bad one, [[Glowing Eyes of Doom|both eyes glow]], [[He Who Fights Monsters|indicating he has embraced vampirism]]}}.

* [[Guns Akimbo]]: The Warmonger pistols, a pair of small revolvers.

* [[Heal Thyself]]: Jericho can pick up [[The Power of Blood|canteens of blood]] to heal himself.

* [[Hellish Horse]]: Jericho's first (and only, if you're a nice guy) bloodsuck victim is a horse, which then rises anew as his undead steed. It can be summoned and dismissed at will, and appears to feel no pain, as Jericho uses him to take cover from incoming fire during the horseback segments.

** Hangtown, earlier in the game, lacks the lava flows, but is still chock-full of the undead.

* [[Heroic Mime]]: Jericho

** [[Drill Sergeant Nasty|Brigadier General]] Clay Cartwright is voiced by [[Legacy of Kain|Raziel]] or [[Metal Gear Solid|The Fear]].

* [[I Can Rule Alone]]: In the bad ending.

* [[The Immodest Orgasm]]: Tala in the "Prom Night" cutscene. [[Right Through His Pants|Jericho is still fully dressed]]. [[Kiss of the Vampire]] comes into play, which turns out to be a ''really'' [[Face Heel Turn|bad idea.]]

* [[Injun Country]]: One or two levels. The zombified braves come at you with throwing axes and the like.

* [[Large Ham]]: Lazarus just loves to [[Chewing the Scenery|chew up the scenery]]. [[Lampshaded]] in the first chapter after the first fight against Lazarus by the subtitles reading "Triumphant laughter that swells to over-the-top laughter."

* [[Mad Scientist]]: You speak to one between missions; he issues you your secondary [[Weapon of Choice]]. You always start with the [[Revolvers Are Just Better|Redeemer]].

* [[Nice Hat]]: Jericho wears a black-with-white-trim hat with a low crown and a very wide brim, resembling a priest's hat or quake hat. The Regulators all wear your standard ten-gallon hat -- in black, of course.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Chapter 2's opening text, "Nice going, outlaw. Your soul is slipping away, and Hell's own horsemen nip at your heels."

* [[Sniper Rifle]]

* [[Soul Jar]]: Occasionally Jericho comes across a damned soul that Lazarus has left nearly totally drained. You have the option to free them and send them to [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven]], or [[Moral Event Horizon|consume what remains]].

* [[Spirit Advisor]]: {{spoiler|Cassidy}}

* [[Standard FPS Guns]]: [[Creepy Cool Crosses]], blades/studs and nifty [[Steampunk]] modifications aside, the line-up is as follows: [[Revolvers Are Just Better|Revolver, Dual smaller revolvers]], [[Boring but Practical|Repeating Rifle]], [[Shotguns Are Just Better|Shotgun]], [[Sniper Rifle]], [[Stuff Blowing Up|Rocket Launcher]] and [[Stuff Blowing Up|dynamite]] [[Automatic Crossbows|double-shot crossbow]].

* [[Suck Out the Poison]]: What Jericho does to Lazarus' still-living victims if you choose to be good. [[Vampire Bites Suck|Otherwise]]...

* [[Suicide Attack]]: The TNT Zombies.

* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: How many shots can you fit in a revolver? Six? Eight? Maybe ten if you're using a small cartridge? How about ''24'' via an under-slung helical magazine? Ladies and gents, [[Revolvers Are Just Better|The Redeemer, pictured above]].

* [[Traintop Battle]]: But of course.

* [[Vein-O-Vision]]: Jericho can use his vampire sight to easily spot the undead.

* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: In Hangtown, the other agents are shooting everyone as a precation to the undead uprising. You can come across a lone uninfected survivor in an alley, you begs for you not to tell the other agents. Just as you get out of the alleyway, an agent comes up to you and asks if you found anybody. You can either tell him no and let the guy live, or tell them you saw someone and they go in and kill them. For added cruelty, you can say no (which Cassedy will praise you for), then go back into the alley and kill him yourself (and get chewed out by Cassedy).

 

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