Siliconera: "I missed out on the first Darksiders, a game that has been recommended to me before, so I thought I’d give Darksiders II a look. Since I wasn’t familiar with the storyline, a representative from THQ explained that it takes place in parallel with the first game except you control Death, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, who believes his brother War was wrongly convicted of, well, ending the world."