Our latest look at The Darkness II during E3 had main character and wielder of the Darkness powers, Jackie Estacado, hunting down Victor Valente, the crippled man we were introduced to before and leader of the Brotherhood. The Brotherhood is an ancient organization created to harness the powers of the Darkness for good, but was corrupted by the powers instead.
The Brotherhood aren't simple thugs as they know the ins and outs of the Darkness. They'll attack you with lights strung to their guns and even throw flash bombs in order to weaken your powers. You'll have access to an upgrade system to help you against these tougher enemies and can upgrade your mystical, demon and weapons.
One of the upgrades shown off was the gun channeling ability, which channels the darkness into your guns for a rapid blaze of fire power for a duration of time. Upgrading this ability once again will allow you to see and penetrate your bullets through walls.
Gameplay was pretty smooth and the visuals are just great. I love the graphic novel-like visuals of it all. The demo ends with Jackie waking up in an insane asylum and with Victor Valente as your doctor. Does this mean that the Darkness and everything around it was all in your head this whole time? Naw, it's probably just Victor trying to play mind games on Jackie as he tries to steal the Darkness powers from him.
Either way, we'll find out come October 4 when The Darkness II is released for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
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I just started watching Fringe and EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I see (and hear!) Kirk Acevedo on-screen, I instantly RAGE at the fact that he's not the voice of Jackie Estacado in the sequel. RAGE!
Kirk Acevedo _IS_ The Darkness(the game, not the actual Darkness voiced by the overrated washed-up girly-voiced singer) in my humble opinion.
@KdWthTheGldnArm: "It's not like Nolan North needs even more work than he's getting already. Enjoy Fringe by the way."
That's EXACTLY what I said when I read that he would be replacing Acevedo! I don't want to see the same actor when I watch every movie(with the slight exception of Christian Bale) and I don't want all of my games to have the same voice-actor! What the hell, 2K Games?! Also, Fringe is good, gave up half-way through when it was first out but I sat through it and it's gotten better!
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