War Cometh Darksiders Review

Game DONE. I beat it last night after about 23 hours of gameplay. I liked this game so much I waited till after ai beat it to review it. Verdict, AWESOME.

What do I like about this game? EVERYTHING. LIST TIME!!!!

1.- This is a mature game.

2.- You fight as War, one of the 4 Horseman of the Apocalypse plus at one point you ride on “RUIN” your horse (think Link’s Epona)

3.- You fight both Demons from Hell and Angelic Beings from Heaven.

4.- This games puzzles and dungeons are fun and intuitive, not hard and impossible.

5.- This games looks great, seamless cut scenes, great story.

6.- THIS GAME IS BLOODY AND GORE AS ALL HELL, rip people apart, cut of demons heads, slice hell dogs in half, rip off the wings of angels, and some of the most gruesome boss finish move can be executed in Darksides. The game doesn’t make you press all these crazy button combos to custom finish enemies like in God of War, to activate a finishing move you press 1 button, not a 5 button combo. This is better for me, because in a melee battle situations the last thing you want to be doing is in-putting finishing combo moves and you still have to shred 7 other enemies on screen.

7.-camera is excellent.

8.-Weapons and secondary weapons like the chain, chaos blade(boomerang weapon), horn, Scythe, power glove, and even a mask all play a role and can be used in multiple ways to defeat enemies/dungeons.

9.- Level design was on point.

10.- BOSS BATTLES WERE THE SHIT!!!

11.-Controls were tight.

12.- The onscreen menues and settings are boss.

13.- Joe Madureira left comics books for this project. Thnaks Joe, you the man!

There was very little I didn’t like about this game. The main thing I didn’t like was the map and certain tasks. I hate puzzles in an action/adventure type games, but Darksiders did this aspect very well. At certain points the task you had to do was unclear and sometimes I would get lost. In the beginning of the story War has a demonic sprite (voiced is played by Mark the motherfuckingjediofthisshit Hamill) cursed to his arm, this sprite functions as a guide in the game, this sprite also happens to be the worst guide ever. You hit select and he materializes and gives you “advise” on your current task. This advise is rarely of any use, which is a shame because Darksiders put so much time into every other aspect of this game. These moments were few and far between plus we live in an age with youtube, and BAZZARGAMER walkthrough was something I would use for an assist. Here is his link: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_playlists&search_query=darksiders+walkthrough&uni=1 Thanks BAZZARGAMER

Overall rating? —–SPOILER ALERT——- There will be a part 2.

War chops of a fat 4 ½ slices of demonic meat. Buy Darksiders!

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