As part of our Late to the Party series Drew tackles The Darkness 2. A game with potential, and faults.
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.
Darkness 2 was good. It was Way too short and the story wasn't as interesting. The controls greatly improved. But in the end, I did feel disappointed. Mostly that I bought it at full price because it stopped so freaking fast.
I enjoyed it.
Thought it improved on the combat, but, I don't know, it wasn't as gritty as the original and certainly didn't have the same feel.
Still feel, everything said and done, that the original was better.
Best part of D2 was how when you got a good grasp of the controls, you felt like a bladed storm of death whenever you went into combat.
Been a while since I felt that powerful in a FPS, walk into a room and everything explodes into limbs and pain and screams.
It was too short and story wasn't as good as the first one though. Also, I didn't think the new art style worked that well. I know it was suppose to be comicbook esque, but the first one succeeded just fine without it.