Darksiders II

Darksiders II is an action role-playing hack and slash video game developed by Vigil Games and published by THQ. It is the sequel to Darksiders and and is the second game in the Darksiders series overall. It was released in August 2012 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and as a launch title for Wii U upon the console's Australian, European, and North American release in November 2012. An enhanced version, titled Darksiders II The Deathinitive Edition, was published by Nordic Games for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows.

Plot
The story takes place during the 100 year imprisonment of War following the first prologue, except this time around, players take control of Death, the eldest and deadliest of the Horsemen.

Death begins his journey in the Veil, an icy realm lorded over by the eldest of the Old Ones; the Crowfather, the Keeper of Secrets. After making his way through the realm, Death confronts the maddened Crowfather asking for his help in clearing War's name. The Crowfather states that it is a pointless wasted effort since War is the victim of conspiracy. To this, Death reveals that he doesn't intend to clear War's name but undo the crime he's accused of.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) It plays the same as its predecessor but it adds an option to use another weapon called "heavy weapon". The heavy weapons allow to charge and slightly damage enemies and bosses.
 * 2) Interesting story line.
 * 3) Enemies and bosses finally have a health bar.
 * 4) Solid controls.
 * 5) The first game focused on hack 'n slash mechanics, but in this game, while it is still a hack 'n slash game, it focuses more on puzzles and parkour.
 * 6) Much more balance difficulty compare to the previous game.
 * 7) Death's ability can summon his horse and crow fellows "Despair & Dust", can use time travel or teleportation and create a copy of himself.
 * 8) Good voice acting.
 * 9) Michael Wincott did a great job with his performance of Death.
 * 10) Awesome and cool bosses.
 * 11) Nice looking comic-book style cut scenes as in the first game.
 * 12) Amazing graphics, especially when playing the Remaster version on the PlayStation 4.
 * 13) After defeating enemies and bosses, Death can gain new power ups or upgrade power ups already in his possession.
 * 14) Incredible atmosphere.
 * 15) The inventory mechanic allows you to change the weapon or armor into something more powerful.
 * 16) * You can sell or buy items from the shop depending on what item you want and if it's more powerful or not.
 * 17) Death can learn some new combat moves with his Scythe and his heavy weapon.
 * 18) There are many cool and incredible details though out the game, for example, on Drench Fort, whenever you restore the water in the level and have it flow, the water reflect from the sun onto the walls given them color as well as light up Drench Fort.
 * 19) Lots of collectible that can be found in several locations, like the The Book of the Dead, GnomeMAD's Gnome and many others.
 * 20) Great soundtrack.
 * 21) Unlike the first game, Darksiders II is an Action RPG game, meaning that you level up.
 * 22) The Collector's Edition contains an art book and a sweet looking Death mask.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The open world feels rather contrived due to having the lack of interesting places to see aside from ruins/dungeons to travel to.
 * 2) Speaking of which, the later half of the game is rather rushed, as the last parts of the game (Earth, Lostlight and Shadow's Edge) ditched the open world in favor of being a large, linear dungeon area. This is likely done to hastily finish the game before THQ's eventual bankruptcy.
 * 3) Somewhat underwhelming final boss.

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