I wasn’t the biggest fan of the first Darksiders game, but even I’ll admit, that’s a pretty snappy tagline for its sequel.
This trailer was released over the weekend. It’s short on gameplay, but long on soft focus and dripping blood.
Darksiders 2 is out on PC, PS3 and 360 sometime this year.
Steve0
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 4:52 PMSometime this year? Only a few weeks left…
Simon
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 4:56 PMI wish sometime this year. Looks sweet. Finally finished DS1 a couple of months ago and while it did drag a bit towards the end, it was a solid Zelda style RPG.
Michael
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 5:21 PMDarksiders isn’t an RPG. Neither is Zelda for that matter.
A lot of people draw comparisons between Darksiders and Zelda, and rightly so. Personally though I draw more parallels between Darksiders and Soul Reaver – although you could argue Soul Reaver was Zelda inspired as well.
Simon
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 5:38 PMIt has RPG elements. Overworld/map, leveling system, consumable items, upgradable abilities etc.
And Soul Reaver is close to the number one franchise I wish they’d bring back. It was excellent. I can only imagine how it’d look on PC nowadays with a nice art style that has a very wide colour palette… no grey/brown domination!
NegativeZero
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 5:01 PM… it’s scheduled for Fiscal Year 2012, not Calendar Year 2012.
toejam
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 5:02 PMLoved the original Darksiders from start to finish!! Cant wait for this!!
Neo-Kaiser
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 5:03 PMPlaying as Death? Gonna be too easy.
Ghazarios
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 5:10 PMJust poke your enemies and they die
Neo-Kaiser
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 5:14 PMMeh, still more challenging then Zelda.
OH SNAP!
Sam
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 5:30 PMI thought Darksiders was much easier than pretty much every zelda : /
Neo-Kaiser
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 8:28 PMDarksiders at least has the courtesy to give mutliple difficulty settings, Zelda gives you free health in every room.
James Mac
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 5:14 PM“Darling… there’s a Mr Death here from the villiage, he’s here about some reaping”.
unlustig
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 5:33 PM“Hey – I didn’t even eat the mousse…”
Arkayn - Adrian Milano
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 5:24 PMLooking forward to this. Darksiders was great even if they took Ocarina of Time and just added God of War combat and a dark/mature comic book theme to it. Was different (not brown and a FPS) and great fun.
Morkai
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 5:29 PMby “short on gameplay” did you mean that gameplay was non-existant?
Sam
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 5:33 PMCan’t wait for this, one of my favourites from this gen.
Effluvium Boy
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 5:44 PMWOOOP!
MrThePops
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 6:27 PMDarksiders was one of my favourite games this gen. I love Zelda, so this was a great alternative to that. Lots of action and RPG elements with had me from start to finish. Can’t wait for the sequel.
Arky
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 7:46 PMI had Darksiders as PS3 Game of the Year for 2010 (lousy year, admittedly, it would have only scraped top 5 this year and I was one of the few who thought Mass Effect 2 was well below the original, but anyway). Hugely psyched for this.
OzHuski
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 9:39 PMNo I agree, ME2 is far and away a fantastic game, but with so many core RPG elements taken out it really left a bad taste..
Thankfully the story made up for it.
Shane
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 8:22 AMUm…. ME2 had almost no story.
Arche
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 7:47 PMI feel like this trailer needed to have the voice from either the Fallout cinematics or Bastion to really be able to pull off a trailer where its more talking than gameplay.
OzHuski
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 9:38 PMLooking foward too it, Darksiders could improve a lot but as a core game, it was hell fun and enjoyable. Bring on Darksiders 2 I say!
Badger
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 9:26 AMI was really enjoying Darksiders on PC until my save game got corrupted. Turns out that I exited the game at exactly the wrong time. There was a known bug that corrupted save games just after you fought in some arena and got your horse.
Who leaves the autosave enabled in an area that is known to corrupt save games? Either fix the bug or disable the save for a few minutes.
Plus your save game is somehow tied to your Steam account, so I couldn’t even get somone else’s file. Developer fail.