MMGN.com writes: When 'The Darkness II' launches in early 2012, it will have been five years since Jackie Estacado's first interaction with a primal force of creation and chaos, aptly named 'the darkness'. The evil force, passed down through the Esracado family for generations, transformed Jackie into a merciless beast, hell-bent on sacrifice and hardship. The game has since changed developers, with Starbreeze passing the duties onto Digital Extremes, a company intent on offering a re-imagination of the comic-to-game adaptation.
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 wil not be suprised if this game wil be crap.
I actually enjoyed the first one. IT wasnt the best game but it was intriguing and I liked the story. For a sequel the developers would have to change some stuff but I'm hoping this new one will be awesome.
It should probably be a small thing but the glowing orbs that fly out of dead enemies might be a deal breaker for me. The first game was brilliant because of the incredible immersion factor, you really felt like you were living the story. The addition of glowing health orbs flying at you every second and (if I remember correctly) pop score indicators after special kills might have been good for a crazy arcade adventure like Borderlands but they're so out of place in The darkness I don't think I can get around it. It'd be like David Cage popping up in the corner of Heavy Rain 2 and shouting 'Toasty' every time you pull off a difficult sequence.