IGN:
Darksiders II represents the latest offering from developer Vigil Games, a direct follow-up to the 2010 original. Much like its predecessor, Darksiders II provides some solid action, albeit nestled amid a somewhat flawed experience. It’s also possibly the most derivative game ever made - borrowing adventure and puzzle elements from The Legend of Zelda, action from God of War, platforming from Prince of Persia, and tone from some hellfire version of Lord of the Rings. That’s not necessarily a bad thing - an amalgamation of such incredible franchises could have resulted in the game to end all games. The thing is, if you’re going to so blatantly derive material from such well-known properties, you better nail it. While Darksiders II provides a lengthy and entertaining experience for action adventure fans to sink their teeth into, in the end it never comes close to reaching the heights of the various franchises it so freely borrows from.
7.5/10
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IGN/CVG are the only ones that gave it a score below 8.5, stupid sites will turn around and give the generic CoD a perfect score in november
Gamespot values originality over anything else, and it shows i their review scores. They're a very underrated site that doesn't get the word of mouth and credit they deserve.
A 7.5 isn't a bad review, it got rated a good game. People should be happy less and less 9's and 10's are being doled out now. A score that high should count for something.
But I have a review copy myself, and I personally believe it's up in the high 8's low 9's, not this score.
Then again, i've only played the first 3 or so chapters.
i think most reviewers need to get one thing straight yes this is zelda,god of war and POP games get over it. If you gonna borrow or copy someone atleast copy the best.
a score in no way should change anyone's mind, this is a epic game and she used the word epic few times so let's play an epic adventure.
http://www.gamespot.com/dar...
gamespot gave it a 8.5 which i think this game deserves
metacritic is at 90 which is quite good
This is what an adult calls double standards and why IGN has no means of being reliable or consistant with their review score process.
Audrey the reviewer proved that she had zero understandings of the workings of the title and she proved that she is horrible and gaming.
Reviews are a personal taste, if the game is getting good reviews in general, try it out for yourself and see if you like it.
7.5
Depending on who reviews it, throw in an $1.00 it's an 8.5
No, people act like IGN is a terrible website with terrible writers who write terrible articles and reviews and make mediocre podcasts.
Point being if they like a title they will over look game changing flaws and if they dont those samr flaws will be used to damn a game.
Its called being consistant and credible which IGN stopped being since the late 90's.
I wonder what Edge will give it.
Another 7.5 - CVG
http://www.computerandvideo...
ill get this after GW2 for now
i bet the metascore would be drastically better than ign's score
http://www.computerandvideo...
Sheesh
Once you get to 7s or lower you need a couple beer in you to like them.
That's good stuff. Haha
its 2012 for gods sake.
wait so you haven't played it?
Audery just doesnt know what shes talking about and its just that simple it has nothing to do with her sex shes just weak at being connected to what she does for a living...
No from experience with her reviews I usually like the games she hates and hate the games she likes, so by that measure and the quality of the original darksiders I can estimate a value on the game even without playing it for myself.
@HiddenMission I don't read her reviews anyway (not the biggest Nintendo fan) so I wouldn't know what she does.
The art style of Darksiders is better than those games...Joe Mad for the win.
This review was from a little girl who obviously hates these type of agressive evil games and likes hello kitty and zelda better. She should have never been allowed to review this game.
End of Line.
I've read some decent reviews that score it fairly for what it is, not what it borrows from. Sure it has glitches, but most third-party games do. Most Nintendo and Sony games have little to no glitches as they are designed strictly for one console, so please give this game a break! I, for one, will not take this review seriously as a 7.5 and refuse to believe that it scored the sames score as a game like Heroes of Ruin! People really need to sit back and take these facts into consideration before posting a review. I honestly can't wait to dig into this game and continue my quest from part one.
IGN has truly spiraled downhill and should reevaluate how they review games! I used to love waiting for their reviews but have noticed that the $ is were their review stands and that's totally immoral in my book. Shame on you...
buy the game anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lets not let this one underwhelm in the sales department. its a damn shame cod can post crazy numbers but the first darksiders did mediocre at best. let not let that happen again!
GOW1 was the shit, 2 was unbelievable. then 3, they had so few changes i though i was playing gow2 but worse. they added nothing to 3 other than sexier graphics and bigger boss fights ( admittedly it did have some of the best boss fights ever but that was its only real highlight for me. gameplay>graphics anyday ). it had no actual changes, oh wait it did add a couple new weapons but they were virtually useless
God of War 2 was even more epic. Yes GoW has a great story to go with insane fights.
Then 3 came out and it was boss fight after boss fight. Another great title.
They got better with each release. I have both PSP versions on bluray, have yet to play much of either but I need to complete every one of them.
What's funny though is how a horrible, possibly the worst 1st party shooter ever made in Socom 4 only received half a point lower than this game. I know they're different games, but the quality of this game blows Socom 4 out the water.
Everywhere else is giving it much higher scores. If you want a really honest review by someone who has been around longer when it comes to experience with games, go check out Gamspot.com. As they gave it the score it deserves, 8.5.
I have had the game since Friday and have been pouring in alot of hours into it. Its much better than the first game and quite a bit different. Awesome game nonetheless!!! You cannot take what some of these blowholes up at Ign say to heart!
I played it for a bit now and lemme summarise
Pros:
Good art style
Fast combat
Horse (thank god, cant imagine walking again like in amalur)
Nice music
Few nice bosses
Cons:
Repetitive puzzles, every area is basically a puzzle fest still you meet some mobs and then again same puzzles till you meet same mobs and then a unique boss at the end. Trust me this is exactly what it is.
Death is supposed to be killing in insane speed and chaos but nope he likes to solve the same puzzles and go back and forth same areas. Well he does have all the time in the world so yea he does do all the crappy stuff.
Death is weak. I mean really no badassery.
Death is not Death. I know he sort of looks like and they gave him a voice and he has scythes and stuff. But look past all that surface stuff and you wont feel DEATH as DEATH. No fear, danger, nothing sinister no indepth background story or anything really. Death is just another hack and slash char who moves like a mix between dante,kratos and prince and does not have an identity of his own. I wished they would give him his own speed, mannerisms and much more to define him but no its mostly graphical.
Very predictable fights, once you get a hang of the moves you wanna use you prolly wont bother to master any other combos.
Too much platforming. I mean death should literally look bone thin with the amount of jumping and climbing and kinda pointless swimming (just added into the mix for no reason) that he does.
Whatever happened to earth? what is this alternate fantasy place that the story is taking place in lmao
Cheesy plot, cheesy dialogue, easily readable characters.
Villains are villains and good are good blah
Feels like im fighting less. There are 20 min moments when you have like few mobs and majority just doing the exact same kind of puzzles.
Huuge empty world. You can count the npc's.
If youve played GodOfWar, Zelda, Prince of Persia, Assasins Creed, Shadow of the Colossus etc you will know that each feel very very different from the other even though all of them atleast have a thing or two in common. This game takes many things from all of them and did not master anything nor did it bring anything new to the table.
It feels like as if I've played this game before, thats the problem with the game.
So yea like Drainage says, it actually is overrated.
Oh well, when only 4 reviews out of 35 are sub-80 scores on Metacritic you know you've found a solid game.