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2 months ago
Feature: Fifty shades darker
A Panel Shaped Screen: which run of The Darkness should you read?
The Darkness II is a game about being a mafia hitman, shooting everyone, and feeding the hearts of your enemies to the black abomination coiled inside your chest. But it’s also a game about fighting your darkest self, doubting your own mind, and finding salvation in love. When John reviewed it, he said: “I was genuinely expecting a brash, stupid shooter, noise and bluster and…
12 months ago
"Give the guy a gun and he's Superman," Hard Boiled said. "Give him two and he's God." But give the guy two guns and two hungry tentacles and he can only be the mafioso host of a demonic power. Discover that in The Darkness II, which you can grab for free for keepsies right now. The Humble Store is giving the game away for a…
3 years ago
Feature: 21 Of The Best 7/10 Games
We don’t do scores on RPS, but sometimes we mourn for the inability to deploy a 7/10. The ur-score, the most double-edged of critical swords, the good but not great, the better than it deserves to be, the guilty pleasure, the bungled aspiration, the knows exactly what it is, the straight down the line. One score that can mean so much. There is one particular…
The latest offering from Humble Bundle is a stack of 2K games, including third-person horrors-of-war shooter, Spec Ops: The Line [official site] in the lowest tier. That's yours for a dollar or more but (the horror, the HORROR) you'll have to take a copy of Duke Nukem Forever as well. The Darkness 2 is the much more palatable final third of that one dollar selection.…
4 years ago
Feature: The Worthiest Reticules Of All Time
Gathering together the best shooters is no easy task, but if you're looking for a new PC FPS to play, look no further. Your favourite game is at number 51.
7 years ago
Feature: Gore blimey
First-person shooter The Darkness II is out in the US, and tomorrow in the UK, and I've played it through to the gruesome end. Past the gruesome beginning, via the gruesome middle. How does all that grue hold up? Well, wipe away the lung and take a seat, and I'll tell you Wot I Think.
The Darkness II is violent. How violent? It has executions, but it has different categories of them. CataGOREies, if you will. This pair of trailers is part of series showing what you can pull off. Mostly limbs, it seems.
The Darkness 2, due out on PC on the 10th February, finally has its demo out on PC. Impatient for noisy, noisy violence, Alec has already taken a look at what's on offer within on his 360. But now you can find out what it looks like in glorious technicolour, with edges that don't look like a broken escalator. This also means we have min…
Feature: Jackie Estacado Said
Our Adam was supposed to be taking a look at the Darkness II right about now for a last preview before release, but he's caught the bubonic plague or something and is currently desperately trying to stop his remaining organs from falling out of his body. So, in lieu of that, I've had a go at the demo that appeared on Xbox BOO Live HISS…
What are you doing on Jan the 24th? Apart from celebrating the ten day anniversary of my 33rd birthday, I mean? I will be playing The Darkness II demo on Steam, weeping at how it's only 11 and a bit months until I'm 34.
It's all sleigh bells ring-a-ding-jingling and jolly little scamps scurrying about the place in search of the true meaning of Christmas in these latest trailers for The Darkness II. Except for all the evisceration, shooting-in-the-face and limb-lopping, which is what you'll see for every single second that isn't a series of logos angrier than Mr Angrylad Furyface from Hateville, Nebraskinforabeating. That actually leaves precisely no…
Not only will it be four-player co-op, but The Darkness II's co-op will be "interwoven" with the main story (although that story itself is NOT playable co-op). The co-operative missions apparently branch off from the single player plot and allow the players to explore other environments that are connected to the story of the core game. And there was me think it'd be a mode…
What mad form of ultraviolence will I be introduced to next, I often wonder. This time it's quad wielding in The Darkness 2, making me realise it wasn't long ago that dual wielding was an exciting prospect thought to be possible only in John Woo films, but then Rise of the Triad came along with its guns akimbo and ludicrous gibs. Judging by this new…
If you're one of those oxygen-wasting oiks who feels compelled to snarkily observe upon the relative advanced age of things you see on the internet, a) do be quiet b) team RPS has been busy attending the EG Expo and then The Wedding of Walker so we're still catching up with all the gameosity that bobbed to the surface of this endless electronic ocean over…
8 years ago
If in doubt, alliteration. Don't worry about the terrible harm it might wreak upon the English language - your reward will come in pun-heaven. Or hell. So hard to tell the difference these days. Anyway, just a quickie for you, missus: spooky-tentacle 'em up the Darkness II has been delayed. It's slipping from this October to February 2012.
Feature: Better Than Watching TV
Hello, Darkness, My Old Friend. The Darkness, Starbreeze's 2008 shooter, was unusual in many ways. Though it was violent, it wasn't defined by this violence. It had a strong sense of place, a grimly entertaining story and a variety of gameplay. Anyone who sat with the protagonist's girlfriend for the last time and watched To Kill A Mockingbird until she fell asleep on his/your shoulder…
It has started. The flood of E3 trailers has begun. Below you can watch the first in-game trailer for The Darkness 2, which features people being brutally evisecarated by black tentacles. There's also a lovely scene where the protagonist is being nailed to a door or something. It's not pleasant. Fortunately I've also embedded a video of a cat cuddling a sleeping kitten, just in…
A teaser trailer for Digital Extremes' sequel to Starbreeze's 2007 comicbook man-murdering game The Darkness has been released. Although the brief trailer shows nothing of the game whatsoever, we do know that this iteration will be a little more comicbook in its presentation, apparently using techniques similar to those of Borderlands to create a lovely "graphic noir" world. That said, you can only just about…
The Darkness, aka "that game from the Riddick guys where you could spend half an hour watching TV with your in-game girlfriend." An action game with a heart of - ahahahah - darkness and a bunch of great ideas and atmosphere, even if it perhaps didn't attain Modern Classic status. Happening at perhaps the apex of the big publishers' "nah, fuggedaboutit" dismissal of our sacred…
