#The darkness ii multiplayer plus#

I could reveal the plot here, but that would be like the Darkness ripping away your legs to reveal the entrails dangling behind. This is a game that doesn't talk down to the player, and the experience is all the better for it. Later fights equip your opponents with light weapons so you'll have to prioritize targets to regain control of your Darkness powers. Instead, you'll be thrust into arenas with enemies taking up multiple points of cover. There aren't any branching pathways and more often than not there's only one direction to go, but enemy encounters don't suffer from the same tunnel vision we've become accustomed to. Unlike Call of Duty, which insists you ' Follow', or Battlefield 3's campaign which isn't even worth discussing, The Darkness II trusts players to blaze the path at their own speed. Even the guns are tightly responsive and pleasing to wield, but there was something more. The Darkness is fun to control and wield against enemies -snapping up objects to throw, slashing baddies into the air only to bring them back down in a violent spray and burst of blood and dark energy, and ripping off the bottom half of full-grown men. Somewhere in the fourth hour of the game's single-player campaign, I realized exactly why I was having such a good time.

#The darkness ii multiplayer plus#

The developers were counting on introducing a lot of new players to the pulp storyline and quad-wielding mechanics (two guns plus two tentacles). If you didn't play the first Darkness game, don't worry about it.

Players take on the role of Estacado, a mobster imbued with The Darkness at a young age and a penchant for blood to go along with it. Digital Extremes has taken a more literary approach to the first-person shooter campaign, opening up a portal between two worlds: the criminal underworld and the inside of Jackie Estacado's madness. The Darkness II, based on the Top Cow comics, represents an alternative to every other first-person shooter out there. Tearing hundreds of paranormally gifted enemies in half, eating their hearts, and opening demonic black holes would fit the bill, right? More often than not, video games provide us with opportunities to see and do things that we wouldn't normally have the ability to do.