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The Darkness II Developer's Diary

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DavieMarshall
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Posted on 09 September 11 at 19:23
Introducing The Brotherhood

2K Games have revealed another Developer's Diary for upcoming sequel, The Darkness II. This video focuses on The Darkness and it's new and exceptionally more powerful presence in the game, along with a mysterious group known as The Brotherhood.

In this video we see liquid-smooth dual-wield gun play, and something I think most players of the first title wished for, more malleable Darkness tentacles. Here we see enemies ensnared and constricted by your vicious inner demon.

Check it out in the embedded video below. This is shaping up to be a great title.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvfLSvfWPRw

Don't forget that sadly The Darkness II is set for a 2012 release after the announcement of a recent delay. You can get your hands on it this February 7th (US) and February 10th internationally.
Timbalin
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Posted on 09 September 11 at 19:37
First game was very fun, looking forward to play this one
FishyOutOfWater - I hate Cloud Storage so much...
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Posted on 09 September 11 at 19:42
Will have to be a lot better than the first for me to buy it.
Zacry072
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Posted on 09 September 11 at 19:43
I'm just ready to complete this first game! But this seems to be good.
TopherXPwns
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Posted on 09 September 11 at 19:49
Can someone just put me in a coma till the week this comes out? I've been waiting too long already for it!
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Posted on 09 September 11 at 20:20
I've just started the first game in preperation for this
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Last post: 16 May at 21:23
Posted on 09 September 11 at 20:23
I started the first one, got side-tracked and never went back to it. I should really finish it before this one comes out.
Mtld
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Posted on 09 September 11 at 21:47
The Darkness was a great game, but I'm a bit sad to see the subway coming back in the 2nd. I hope the game is not shaped in the same way, where you always have to get through the same 2 subway stations over and over...
blkalleykat
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Posted on 09 September 11 at 22:14
I enjoyed the first game, hopefully the story gets an improvement as well since the combat has been improved a lot from what they have shown at E3
DivinexFallout
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Posted on 10 September 11 at 01:13, Edited on 10 September 11 at 01:14 by DivinexFallout
the first was so fun to play will get this for sure :)
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Mickyz666
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Posted on 10 September 11 at 01:57
Looking pretty awesome and very polished, shame we've been waiting forever for it though :P
Sure hope they sorted the lag with the left gun tho ^_^
Gamer0fDarkness - accidentally paint a rim on my new car black.....well now i gotta paint em all....oops
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Posted on 10 September 11 at 03:00
interesting,never played the first gametho:/
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Posted on 10 September 11 at 03:17
ALready heard too much about the 1st game so i guess ill just pass idk
Open Casket
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Posted on 10 September 11 at 03:58
YES! This is it! YES! dance
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Herr Karamell
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Posted on 10 September 11 at 08:32
as long as there isn't a crappy multiplayer component attach to this game, it's all good
TopherXPwns
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Posted on 10 September 11 at 10:21
Herr Karamell said:as long as there isn't a crappy multiplayer component attach to this game, it's all goodI'm really eager to find out if there will be or not. I talked to one of the guys from 2K at Pax East and he couldn't say one way or the other if there will be but he kinda had a smirk when I asked him. I actually really hope they have it and it's just greatly improved over the first game.
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Posted on 10 September 11 at 10:56, Edited on 10 September 11 at 10:56 by Astro Chompski
Is SOOO hope they kept the amazingly brutal soundtrack.. Best soundtrack EVER
Skinstakovic
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Posted on 10 September 11 at 13:07
First game single player was awesome. Voice acting and soundtrack very strong. Lets just avoid "The Don 2.0" shall we ..... (or if we can't, please put a fire-hydrant back in)
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Bashford
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Posted on 10 September 11 at 13:37
I know the first game wasn't a massive hit but i think it got a small dedicated group of followers. Not only is it a brilliant story its really dark (obviously facepalm) with some quite comical moments (who can forget the encyclopedia story, fucking hilairious!) but Mike Patton (who's this you ask, SHAME ON YOU!) handled the soundtrack and the voice of The Darkness which is fucking awesome cuz he's a fucking genious so i'm glad he's back on board!

At first I was a little worried about the fact that Starbreeze wasn't developing it but from what I've seen there's no need to worry.

One thing that I hope has been improved is the Darkness power system so that you can really mix things up making the powers system really fluid like in the awesome cutscenes from the first game.

fuck it, all this talking about it has made wanna go play the first one.

later you DULL, POINTLESS MAGGOTS! angry
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Darken81
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Posted on 10 September 11 at 17:31, Edited on 10 September 11 at 17:34 by Darken81
Bashford said:later you DULL, POINTLESS MAGGOTS! angrySurely you can come up with something better then that? Infact I'm quite sure the entire way your personality is structured would seem more pointless if we were to put it under the loop than some of the other members of this site. How'bout you go bothered some other sites members with such rude uncalled for irrelevant comments?

Anyways.. I've been rather sceptical about the outcome of this game so far, especially considering the new visual style of it compared to the previous title, but this video is starting to make me come around.. Hopefully there'll be a demo out for it so it can be tested before making a final decision.
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