Ready for a bit of the ‘ol ultra-violence? Featured here are the grossest, gnarliest and most stomach-churning moments contained in the demo for upcoming video game The Darkness II.
If you’re an Xbox Live Gold member, The Darkness II‘s demo is available to you right now. PC, PS3 and non-gold Xbox players can grab the demo on January 24. If you can stomach the above gore-reel, then give it a whirl.
Excelsior
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 9:48 AMHow in gods name is this getting released in Australia.
fgsghs
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 11:33 AMAlongside the stupid amount of gore there is also ALOT of sex in the game. Why isn’t this banned and other titles are?..
Acy
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 11:35 AMBecause the people who decide which games are allowed or not are retarded.
Mic
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 1:29 PMI can’t speak for the sex it apparently has, but the gore’s pretty easy to see how it’d slip in: It’s super fast.
The guy getting ripped in half? You see him with a tentacle thing on either leg, then blink and he’s gone. The guy who gets impaled by one? You don’t see where it comes out of the body, looking almost as if it just popped up on the other side of him.
It’s fast and doesn’t linger would be my guess on the reasoning.
brettk
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 12:48 PMIt is getting released here? I just assumed it hadn’t been confirmed yet.
Matthew K
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 11:20 PMIt was originally confirmed, then they submitted a SECOND version which had more sex added, and that was also approved. It’s been confirmed as being releeased uncut.
Sam
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 10:01 AMJust do not see the appeal in gore.
Neo-Kaiser
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 10:04 AMWhy do I get the feeling that I should buy it on release as they’ll try to get it banned afterwards?
Ry34
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 10:07 AMmeh.. whats the point of having something so gory when the characters in this game look like cartoons?
crotchdot
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 11:22 AMBecause it’s a game based on an ultra-violent comic?
mikezombie777
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 10:14 AMAnd yet MK9, Syndicate, Left4Dead2 uncut and hordes of less violent games are currently banned? What a joke. I’m glad it got through but this makes a complete mockery out of the Classification Board once again. This game should be R rated but I’m glad I’ll get to play it. Even if it’s banned later we’ll all till have it.
Telextial
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 10:56 AMIt doesn’t make me squeamish, but it’s certainly excessive. I suspect that the game itself will have very little substance under the blood.
PiratePete1911
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 12:23 AMThe first game had a ton of substance but as far as i’m aware this sequel isn’t being made by Star Breeze studios who made the first.
lambogirl99
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 11:37 AMAt the EB Expo, the Batman AC booth was right beside the Darkness II ‘booth’ and they had the demo there for people to play. Waiting in line to play Batman for an hour, I saw that demo heaps and heaps of times. I didn’t particularly like it.
john
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 11:38 AMThe darkness I had plenty of violence but had a great story as well, a very good game.
Too early to say on this one, but seems stupid to assume it’s simply a gimmick to cover a bad game.
Grandmaster B-Funk
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 11:38 AMeh, i saw all of this at supanova when they had a preview of the game. it’s certainly gory, but i think the worst part that the censors wont like that is that you are rewarded for doing more gorier kills with experience…
TvZ
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 12:22 PMI like the idea and the border lands style characters. I would get it if it is not banned. something different than the usual ‘ex/army character than fights to save the world from terrorists’
Liasonns
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 12:43 PMIt’s not even that bad..
Movies have worse shit than this and they actually make that stuff realistic.
This is pretty low key, they could draw out the actual gore, but they don’t.
It’s just that if you sit and seriously think about this stuff happening then of course it might be a little much, but of course it’s a game.. with cartoon-ish models..
Just from this video, doesn’t seem that it has that much gore in it.. it’s just violence.
Chamboosy
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 3:39 PMSo this is basically Bulletstorm but with demons instead?
Matthew K
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 11:30 PMI’m ok with this.
Jones
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 5:29 PMI don’t remember the first darkness game having a huge amount of unnecessary gore. I it remember being a good game with beautiful moments (That to kill a mocking bird part was brilliant). Hopefully there’s a great story hiding behind all the much publicized violence too!
Steve
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 5:54 PMLooks pretty cartoony to me. Doesn’t even look like a good game.
chrobaciky
Friday, January 20, 2012 at 5:01 PMPlayed the demo, it was great.
British demon following you around urinating on the corpses.
Gameplay was good, Impaling goons with parking meters was a highlight.