Today THQ announced that Volition’s shooter Red Faction: Guerrilla and Vigil’s brawler Darksiders: Wrath of War have been delayed until the next financial year. This means neither of these titles may see the light of day until 2010.
Darksiders certainly has an interesting premise. The game will put players in the role of War, one of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Instead of delivering the human soul to the underworld, the game will allow players to fight wicked huge monsters with overgrown swords and high-powered ballistics. The video that we snagged at E3 should give you a better indication of what Vigil is shooting for.
As for Red Faction, we’ve always seen it as a nearly complete and promising title. My guess is that the holdup has something to do with money. I know -- that’s a radical statement. But I’m a maverick and I say mavericky things.
Update: GameCyte is reporting that Red Faction will only be delayed by 8-10 weeks, which means it will land somewhere around March and June 2009.
[Via Shacknews]
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I want to rebuild what others destroy!
Hah, I knew that's what that Volition Inc. shit meant. Glad it scores in the positive.
OH SHIT
I just got the best idea ever. They should scrap the shooter bullshit and use that engine to make BLAST CORPS 2.
Darksiders is one of my most anticipated titles of next year. Anything that tries to make a God of War style game but with open world elements and a style as slick as Darksiders has clearly deserves some attention from me (as well as the community as a whole).