While this bit of comic/gaming news didn't actually come out of Comic-Con, it's still incredibly well-timed. A recent resume posted by Emmanual Pappas of Digital Extremes shows that the company has been working on Darkness 2, the already confirmed, but little-known-about sequel, to the Starbreeze developed first-person shooter.
If you're not in the know about Digital Extremes, it's the fine developer behind Unreal and the multiplayer aspect of BioShock 2 among other things. It knows its shooters, that's for sure. As far as other details go, all we know is that there will be textures and a mansion of some sort.
The original game was definitely an interesting take on the genre, even if it didn't always work, so I'm looking forward to what Digital Extremes can do.
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12:00 PM on 07.25.2010
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HYPED.
And yes. Mike Patton. Moar.
That said, I still have my copy and think it was an excellent game held back from greatness by either design/hardware limitations
The Darkness 2 = Day One Buy.
Shit story, fun everything else.
And yeah, I want a sequel to The Darkness. However, I'll miss Starbreeze. Are they still working hard on the Syndicate reboot for EA?
MIKE PATTON MIKE PATTON MIKE PATTON
SO EXCITE.
I chuckled.
It's great that the games may bring more people to read the comic's/graphic novel's, though!
DE has been bombing gamers with dud games since they finished working on Unreal Tourney 2k4.
"DE has been bombing gamers with dud games since they finished working on Unreal Tourney 2k4."
First of all, all DE did was make maps and maybe a couple playable characters in UT 2k4. That's about it.
Secondly, they haven't been "bombing gamers with dud games". Something about video games turns their fans into mouth-foaming rejects who believe that a game doesn't get Universal 99/100's on every review then it's a bomb. Or what's really hilarious is that if they just don't like a game, then it's an automatic bomb. Not true.
Dark Sector received good reviews. The Bioshock 2 Multiplayer received good reviews. Everything before that isn't even this gen. So I honestly have no idea why of all random companies you'd choose to pick on this one. How strange.
Haven't played The Darkness, but this post has inspired me to ring it up on my goozex queue. It's been sitting on hold for months, just waiting for something to push it over the edge...and this works.
Needless to say, I'm excited.
still, without Mike Patton it would totally suck.
also: i like penguins.