eGamer reviews The Darkness II and don't like what they see.
The Darkness was received with mixed reviews but a few liked it, warts and all, for being a little bit different, showing players a good time and having some great graphics for it's time. So with a new developer and entirely different creative direction, does the Darkness II shape up to be a worthy sequel?
Hunble Bundle is currently offering free copies of The Darkness 2 for the next 48 hours. The Darkness 2 is an intense first person shooter that – according to its description – delivers a twisted and gripping narrative of tragedy, modern crime drama, and supernatural horror.
This is why I don't buy video games anymore. I have a huge Steam backlog and developers are gracious enough to offer their products for free. Fortnite is free, Darkness is free, lots of good free games. Thanks Humble
The Darkness II has received some huge price cuts, the game is currently available at just $5.99 on Steam, 85% lower than its original price $39.99.
I had a blast with the 1st one. It was perfect. The 2nd not that much, was pretty forgettable tbh and the cell shading, although beautiful, was not my kind of tea
That said, if they make a 3rd one they should make it a bit closer to the original's...vibe and looks.
I still enjoyed 2, it still kept some of the neat things from the first one. Having said that, the first is considerably better, I'd rather the 3rd (somehow) end up being made by machine games which seems to be where a fair amount of the darkness/butchers bay devs ended up.
are we talking switch ports again or why is another lastGen game in the headlines?
I personally enjoyed this one more than first game (even though I think first one is good too)
Matt Ferguson from G4@Syfygames writes "When I think of tragic love stories and star-crossed lovers, I can't recall a more heart-wrenching example than Jackie Estacado and Jenny Romano from The Darkness. What begins as a romantic story between two people from very different worlds ends abruptly in a horrific tragedy, drawing many parallels from the works of Classical Greek tragedians and epic poets."
Still own a copy of both of them. The Darkness III on PS4/PC/XONE would be awesome.
I couldn't disagree more. I wasn't expecting to like this game at all with all the changes made but I loved it. I found the combat ridiculously fun from beginning to end, toward the end once I had mastered all the different functions of the demon arms and I was being attacked by hordes of regular enemies peppered with a few spotlight carrying guys and guys with whips that could disarm me, I was surprised by just how creative the combat became.
The extremely short campaign was a downer and it's a bit weird that the game feels like it exists in a completely different Universe to the first one, a more comic book world (and not just due to the cel shading) but then the comics did the same thing, starting all zany and colourful, then being rebooted as the excellent dark noir the first game was based on, then working it's way back towards comic book silliness while keeping some of the smarter writing the reboot had given it.
Even with the faster combat of this game, I still found it much more tactical than the first game. The only thing I'm sad they didn't keep from the first game are the links between the Darkness and the Nazis, there was something really interesting there that just never got fully explored, in the comics or the games.