A sudden, unprovoked attack on Jackie’s life heralds the start of a full-scale mob war, which has clearly been orchestrated by some outside force. He’s been unable to shake the memory of Jenny’s death since bottling up his supernatural power, and now The Darkness wants out. A sudden, unprovoked attack on Jackie's life heralds the start of a full-scale mob war. He's been unable to shake the memory of Jenny's death since bottling up his supernatural power and now The Darkness wants out. It’s been two years since Jackie Estacado, now the Don of the Franchetti crime family, used The Darkness to kill the men responsible for his girlfriend’s murder. It's been two years since Jackie Estacado used The Darkness to kill the men responsible for his girlfriend's murder. The game is layered with the use of dark versus light, steeped in deep and twisted storytelling, and engulfed in stylistic violence that is visualized through a hand-painted graphic noir technique that stays true to its comic book origins.
#The darkness ii playstation 3 series#
Based on the supernatural horror comic book series created by Top Cow Productions, Inc., The Darkness II breaks out of the sea of conventional first-person shooters with its fervid Quad-Wielding gameplay, which will allow players to slash, grab, and throw objects and enemies with their Demon Arms while simultaneously firing two weapons. It makes for an interesting strategic twist and stops the game being a mindless slaughter-fest.The Darkness II takes players down a brutal and personal path as Jackie Estacado, wielder of The Darkness - an ancient and ruthless force of chaos and destruction. Add in the fact that you can't see a thing while a light's being shone in your face and it's a pretty good idea to shoot them out. You can't use your powers while you're being illuminated and your health won't regenerate.
The Darkness's aversion to light makes a welcome return. Depending on the unpleasant murder method you choose, you'll receive benefits such as increased health or ammo. They involve hoisting an opponent into the air and killing them in various unpleasant ways.
A key move, for example, is the execution. Their main uses are slashing at opponents and using them to lift and fling things around the environment. The primary manifestations of your Darkness powers are the tentacles that accompany you everywhere. This makes for a shift in gameplay – where the first game was about thinking your way through situations and managing resources (providing a note of survival horror), the sequel is faster and tends to encourage wholesale slaughter (as the 18+ BBFC rating indicates, this isn't a title for younger gamers). Here, it's something you're encouraged to use as much as possible, with Digital Extremes even going so far as to offer points for more elaborate kills, a la Bulletstorm. In the first game, you might remember, the Darkness was something you had to charge up and use judiciously. While in the first game demonic powers complemented first-person shooter mechanics as auxiliary gameplay mechanics, in The Darkness II your supernatural abilities are pushed right into the foreground from the word go. There are areas of the world that are lit up, and to traverse them easily you need to break any light sources. This sequel, at first glance, is a slightly odd beast. The Darkness II makes more use of the Darkness’ weakness, which is any form of light. It's all based on the comic of the same name (created by Marc Silvestri and Garth Ennis), though developer Digital Extremes (like Starbreeze before it) has taken a grittier, less fantasy-oriented direction than the source materiel. This demonic force has suitably demonic plans for Jackie but, having risen to the top of the mob, he's been keeping it in check for the last couple of years. See also PlayStation Soo, Douglas, 123 Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon. The Darkness is back, and it's darker (of course!) and bloodier than ever! It's about Jackie Estacado, a mobster who, on his 21st birthday, wound up hosting the Darkness, a sentient demonic force from the dawn of time.
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