Oh man, Darkness II. Flawed, but one of my favourite shooters. It still bugs me we're not getting a third game. Especially after that cliffhanger ending. May as well replace Jackie's NOOOOOOOO! with FFFFFUUUUUU! Anyways, good review man :)
uuuu hello my master rabbit's :) And yoooooo I see u are feeling like me duuude this is my favourite game of all time I am loving it ! I was playing this when I was 14 years of age and yooooooooo ... This beats my heart to even cry and it will never be darkness 3 even it will be a trilogy ahhhh wont be :(
easily one of the best games i played of that year sadly it was too short & hopefully some day a 3rd will be made & jackie comes back as the darkness,but it would be awesome if they remastered the 1st game & redid the shooting mechanics like how they are in the 2nd game it would literally give the 1st game new life
Sigh, it is a shame since framerate issues become null with current hardware... Still, with PC games, a 10 year old port is still a good thing since you can still play it 20 years later at better quality.
The Darkness II didn't sell very well unfortunately. I believe there were actually plans for DLC but 2K scrapped them because the game just didn't sell enough. This alone makes a sequel pretty unlikely. But hey, nobody thought a sequel to The Darkness 1 was going to happen but it did!
Its sad..... I bought this game on launch day I was stoked for a sequel to the darkness I really was hoping for a sequel that brought back the open world.
Yeh I did. I also watched "the man with the golden arm" I think it was called. Where Frank Sinatra plays a junky, on another tv later in the game. That was a much better film. Edit: just did a search for it on you tube and its there in its entirety for anyone who wants to watch it.
Man I love the Darkness 2. One really cool thing about it was the ability to manually pump your shotgun, something I've never seen in any other FPS game
I'll never really understand the whole complaint regarding Kirk Acevedo not voicing Jackie in this. He's an okay actor and all, but he's far removed from what I ever imagined Jackie sounding like when I bought and read my first Darkness comic in the 90s.
The last time I played the game if you rebound those keys to work that way it would rebind it so when you only have one gun it uses right mouse button.
I prefer pretty much everything about the 1st minus some combat improvements. But alot of abilitys from the 1st are missing entirely. I really liked using the ability that aloud u to control a tentacle across walls that shit was dope asf.
I could have sworn you covered this but that's only because everytime I think you have uploaded a review of every FPS game ever made another review appears. :)
This game is pretty undderated. Sure the first game had a better story but the story here isn't too bad and the gameplay curb stomps the original. I wished they made a third one.
I didn't particuarly like the first one, but I think that's due to playing it on PS3. I picked this up for PC a little while ago after watching your review and enjoyed it a lot , for what it is.
I have the games but I haven't started playing them. I'll hopefully get around to them sometime this year. Great review GggMan and thanks for the heads up. I skipped the first couple of minutes of the review to avoid spoilers.
The worst part about the lack of a sequel is how they teased the Angelus at the end. Would have been amazing to have it and the Witchblade show up in the third game.
Original never came to PC, and I honestly had never heard of it until I saw a bit of gameplay for this one. Was intrigued and managed to get it pretty cheap soon after it came out. What a cool and original game. Loved it.
Thanks for reviewing this game Gggman. I think I requested it a couple months back. Just wondering are you going to review the Hitman series any time soon? I mean it's a pretty decent stealth series in my opinion.
Long Tran Not my channels cup of tea, bro. To be honest though the only Hitman game I liked was Blood Money and even then I found it very trial and error.
Thanks for this review. I played Darkness II after watching your review. The game was very much enjoyable. What I found the most annoying was that both Q and E could grab weapons and switch them with what I was using. As a result, during a fight, instead of grabbing enemies for execution, or eating some hearts, I would often ended up dualing two different weapons, those that I had no intention to use.
Terribly underrated sequel. I played this before the first (picked up at launch) and immediately fell in love. I had to seek out the original as soon as I reached the credits.
my favorite comic book growing up and the game definitely captures the feel of it. Very good premise and story for an fps and the gameplay is tight.Underrated to say the least.
I completed around 600 videogames to this day, and it's one of the very few that gave me a cathartic experience at the end. I couldn't stop crying for about 15 minutes. SPOILER START___________It's happened when I hugged Jenny at the end, and I wouldn't want to let her go... for about 15 minutes. It was a very touching moment, especially because what happend in the first game. ______________SPOILER END I also fuckin' loved the first game too. The gameplay is better in the first one (half open-world, side quest, etc.), but the story is better in the second one, and there's more gore, there are executions, and some cool ideas as well.
While the game was short, I've put a solid ~40hrs into it. It kind of has a spectacle fightery vibe to its design where you're meant to replay on harder difficulties while unlocking more abilities, and most of the cutscene stuff can be skipped (and if you know where to go, the mental asylum scenes are fairly short as well) so replaying is a must, in my opinion. There's nothing like dual wielding auto-aiming guns that can shoot through walls.
This is of those games where I'd like to play it someday but unless they release the first one as a HD Remake on Steam, I'm not especially fussed. I'm the same way about the Saint's Row franchise...
I wonder if they'll ever be a Darkness 3 considering the ending was clearly setting up for a sequel. It will most likely be a reboot if this series comes back in terms of the games.
You'd be hard pressed to find an awesome hidden gem like this one. Highly exceeded my expectations when my brother got it from a local pawn shop. He just left it there to collect dust.. Good thing I brushed that dust off and enjoyed it as much as possible!
PC version has two big ass issues, first is this weird fov/vsync bug where sometimes screen blur becomes permanent. The next is that the splash screen is so fucking loud when you boot it(audio settings are not loaded til you get to the title screen which is a shitty oversight) you NEED 100% NEED to mute audio til it hits the title screen.
Weirdly enough I remember when I played the first one all because back in day when it was called ‘game station’ I bought darksector only to find out that they placed wrong disc which was darkness
gggmanlives I was wondering if you can review a few other fps games like medal of Honor airborne, area 51, swat 4, and older fps games that were somewhat well received
I noticed this was made by the same team behind Warframe, even though graphically, this game looks significantly better I think. (And it's using the same engine.) I just needed someone to tell me if i should buy this game and you did it. Thank you.
Great review, I only got to play this game as it came with my original second hand 360. It's one of those games where it pays to play for a few hours before making your mind up. At first I thought it was a bit shitty but after a few hours I really got into it. I can't remember if I finished it though
Most FPS games fall really flat for me and I never finish them. I remember picking this up on PS3 for $7 and i marathoned right through it. When I finished it I sat all the way though the credits and just let it sink right in. This game is fantastic and I love it
I noticed you didn't mention the voice actor for the Darkness itself and how damn good he was at the role, one of the things that stuck to me about this game was that it's story and characters kept me sucked in.
great review gggmanlives I played the hell out of this game and loved it better than the original. I would still like you to review the king Kong game for the original Xbox please
The first Darkness game had such a well made story , even with the framerate problems i loved it. The second was still alright, but didn´t blow me away.
The issue i had with the sequel was they went and cell shaded it rather than keep its dark grim look like the first one and the killing felt more arcade like bullet storm.
I really like the graphics they're timeless the characters look very comic book like very animated and surprisingly colorful for the dark color palette the game uses
It would be interesting if you review Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Deleted Scenes in the future. It's the single player campaign that many people I know don't know about.
I honestly agree it you GGGman. Really most of the things fans of the first game complain about I think are silly. Like the fact that the game is linear as opposed to open world because the open world structure of the first game did more to hinder the experience. The best part of that game was the action so I preferred that they designed the game to focus more on that aspect.
Now, please review Syndicate (2012). It is like Hard Reset meet with FEAR except is not fun. Like a chip pulling out from the production factory before become the next generation graphic card. It is just not that really replay-able.
Hey guys, check out my updated review here:
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Easily one of the more overlooked games of 2012.
Matthew Cool was both my most anticipated and greatest of the year. great game
Easily one of the more overlooked games, PERIOD
Oh man, Darkness II. Flawed, but one of my favourite shooters.
It still bugs me we're not getting a third game. Especially after that cliffhanger ending. May as well replace Jackie's NOOOOOOOO! with FFFFFUUUUUU!
Anyways, good review man :)
uuuu hello my master rabbit's :) And yoooooo I see u are feeling like me duuude this is my favourite game of all time I am loving it ! I was playing this when I was 14 years of age and yooooooooo ... This beats my heart to even cry and it will never be darkness 3 even it will be a trilogy ahhhh wont be :(
easily one of the best games i played of that year sadly it was too short & hopefully some day a 3rd will be made & jackie comes back as the darkness,but it would be awesome if they remastered the 1st game & redid the shooting mechanics like how they are in the 2nd game it would literally give the 1st game new life
Please come back
It is a shame that The Darkness 1 is NOT on PC.
First one was better
Sure was
Sigh, it is a shame since framerate issues become null with current hardware...
Still, with PC games, a 10 year old port is still a good thing since you can still play it 20 years later at better quality.
wait for rpcs3 or xenia emulator
dathip there's a petition on steam with like 1000 +1's
I can't believe you forgot to mention Mike Patton's awesome VO work as the Darkness!
"YES! FEED ME THEIR HEARTS!"
"THE SIPHON!!!! FOR JENNY!
not everybody listens to Faith No More these days, Sonny Jim. I know I did and have their 1989 casette tape, hehe
A very flawed but charming series, damn shame we'll probably never see a third game.
Blu Hat pretty sure the company that made it is gone
Flawed and charming is how I'd also describe the Metro games tbh
The Darkness II didn't sell very well unfortunately. I believe there were actually plans for DLC but 2K scrapped them because the game just didn't sell enough. This alone makes a sequel pretty unlikely. But hey, nobody thought a sequel to The Darkness 1 was going to happen but it did!
Its sad..... I bought this game on launch day I was stoked for a sequel to the darkness I really was hoping for a sequel that brought back the open world.
Haha had to throw in venus for the thumbnail
It was necessary.
The power of Boner compelled him!
"That's... why I'm here"
I Love Venus 😍
you've convinced me to play thru this long forgotten title I have in my library that I picked up cheap ages ago on humble bundle.
It's so goddamn good, I've played Darkness II at least three times now. The cel-shaded art style means it looks gorgeous even in 2016.
has anyone actually watched the entirety of To Kill A Mocking Bird at the beginning of The Darkness?
God I wanna say I did but I cant recall all of it.
Yeh I did. I also watched "the man with the golden arm" I think it was called. Where Frank Sinatra plays a junky, on another tv later in the game. That was a much better film. Edit: just did a search for it on you tube and its there in its entirety for anyone who wants to watch it.
Yes me and my little brother at the time watched it all are first time watching it and it was on the darkness game.... not a bad movie lol
i watched it with my gf, she just loved it, so i have to cosplay Jacky and watch it with her.
Yep
"Assecution."
'Nuff said. I'm playing this.
You just gave me my new band name. Thanks
Literally got his arse handed to him
It is a damn shame that this game had no sequel. I loved playing this.
Ah yes the Darkness. the ww1 segment was by my opinion a masterpiece in terms Lovecraftian horror. Fucking classic
I thought the same, I loved the WW1 segment to death. I wish more games went for clever WTF moments like that.
Edward Abaring I played the first but completely forgot what happened in the WW1 section in terms of story, mind filling me
In, bro?
One the best depictions of hell I have ever seen
I loved that crazy guy associated with Jackie that knows all the ancient history about the Darkness!
Man I love the Darkness 2.
One really cool thing about it was the ability to manually pump your shotgun, something I've never seen in any other FPS game
I'll never really understand the whole complaint regarding Kirk Acevedo not voicing Jackie in this. He's an okay actor and all, but he's far removed from what I ever imagined Jackie sounding like when I bought and read my first Darkness comic in the 90s.
The most annoying part about this game is how in dual wield mode your mouse buttons fire the opposite weapons.
HairyHog Change your keybinds.
The last time I played the game if you rebound those keys to work that way it would rebind it so when you only have one gun it uses right mouse button.
Barely used akimbo because i would´ve been out of ammo the whole damn time. So i used single weapons and props to stay in combat
I always prefer left button fires right and right mouse button fires left/offhand weapon anyhow.
That's why you play on Console.
Unpopular opinion: Darkness II is better than the first one.
Arguable but both is honestly good
I agree
I prefer pretty much everything about the 1st minus some combat improvements. But alot of abilitys from the 1st are missing entirely. I really liked using the ability that aloud u to control a tentacle across walls that shit was dope asf.
I agree. The story line of the first was excellent but TD2 shooting mechanics, graphics and overall presentation beats the first by a mile.
I'll take a shorter game with better gameplay anyday. The first one is also great though.
*Missing the Ruben sandwich references*
The 1st one was a huge game for me back in the day , pretty much one of my fav ones. And this is not left behind! I loved both games. Cool review man!
I could have sworn you covered this but that's only because everytime I think you have uploaded a review of every FPS game ever made another review appears. :)
2:15 HOLY SHIT back when Western Developers made good looking female characters!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dyammmmnnnn her personallity is good man
To be fair, a bad looking hooker would be kind of an insult.
She's a Spicy Meat Ball!!!
One thing I absolutely fell in love with the darkness was the amazing story weaved flawlessly with Space Marine level gameplay
You are the only channel i come to for video game reviews, always blunt and give your true feelings...keep up the good work!
Cool review, could you review NecroVision?
Endeavour yeah i bought all 2 games on steam
Endeavour a
great game, probably the worse english voice acting I've ever heard though.
Necrovision is one of the most underground games and yet very unknown and underrated.
last challenge map (Serious Uncle Sam) is epitomy of EPIC.
If you survive it that's it
also - Deathwatch (2002) inspired
This game is pretty undderated. Sure the first game had a better story but the story here isn't too bad and the gameplay curb stomps the original.
I wished they made a third one.
I WAS JUST FUCKING WATCHING MIKE PATTON.
I didn't particuarly like the first one, but I think that's due to playing it on PS3.
I picked this up for PC a little while ago after watching your review and enjoyed it a lot , for what it is.
I loved playing this game. nothing feels like ripping enemy limb from limb.
No mention of how awesome Mike Patton is in this one?
Is there any new news on The Darkness 3? Does anyone knows if 2K will work on it? Thanks
Still waiting..
You forgot to mention that the darkness is voiced by mike fkn patton!
Cliffhanger ending with no sequel is putting pain to everyone who loved this game
you didn't warn me...that you would make a fantastic review of this game, nice one.
I have the games but I haven't started playing them. I'll hopefully get around to them sometime this year. Great review GggMan and thanks for the heads up. I skipped the first couple of minutes of the review to avoid spoilers.
The worst part about the lack of a sequel is how they teased the Angelus at the end. Would have been amazing to have it and the Witchblade show up in the third game.
Just Bought the 1st one from EB Games gonna have a blast tonight!
I'm glad you finally reviewed this one. I played the first years and years ago when it first came out but never picked up the 2nd.
Original never came to PC, and I honestly had never heard of it until I saw a bit of gameplay for this one. Was intrigued and managed to get it pretty cheap soon after it came out.
What a cool and original game. Loved it.
will you review spec ops: the line?
No.
@@Gggmanlives damn
You have a really good content schedule man, you definitely deserve some more subscribers.
Thanks!
Thanks for reviewing this game Gggman. I think I requested it a couple months back. Just wondering are you going to review the Hitman series any time soon? I mean it's a pretty decent stealth series in my opinion.
No chance.
Gggmanlives Not your cup of tea I'm guessing? Ah well.
Long Tran
Not my channels cup of tea, bro. To be honest though the only Hitman game I liked was Blood Money and even then I found it very trial and error.
Gggmanlives Yeah that's true you basically replay a level until you have every nook and cranny memorised like the back of your hand. XD
Racist profile pic bitch
Thanks for this review. I played Darkness II after watching your review. The game was very much enjoyable. What I found the most annoying was that both Q and E could grab weapons and switch them with what I was using. As a result, during a fight, instead of grabbing enemies for execution, or eating some hearts, I would often ended up dualing two different weapons, those that I had no intention to use.
Terribly underrated sequel. I played this before the first (picked up at launch) and immediately fell in love. I had to seek out the original as soon as I reached the credits.
Your editing keeps improving mate, good job.
I love both the Darkness 1 and 2 I really feel like its slept on
alot of your reviews are fun but this is an excellently CRAFTED one. seriously, well done.
Thanks
my favorite comic book growing up and the game definitely captures the feel of it. Very good premise and story for an fps and the gameplay is tight.Underrated to say the least.
I completed around 600 videogames to this day, and it's one of the very few that gave me a cathartic experience at the end. I couldn't stop crying for about 15 minutes.
SPOILER START___________It's happened when I hugged Jenny at the end, and I wouldn't want to let her go... for about 15 minutes. It was a very touching moment, especially because what happend in the first game. ______________SPOILER END
I also fuckin' loved the first game too. The gameplay is better in the first one (half open-world, side quest, etc.), but the story is better in the second one, and there's more gore, there are executions, and some cool ideas as well.
I agree, the scene in the diner pretty much had me crying full on man tears. The ending is really cool too.
I'm talking about the true ending by the way, but the other ending is awesome too. :D
Koncz Dávid
The true ending? With the Angelus?
Yes. But that Angelus stuff only happens, when you let go Jenny. You can hold her in your arms as long as you want in the "underworld".
Koncz Dávid
Yes, I think most people know that, dude.
While the game was short, I've put a solid ~40hrs into it. It kind of has a spectacle fightery vibe to its design where you're meant to replay on harder difficulties while unlocking more abilities, and most of the cutscene stuff can be skipped (and if you know where to go, the mental asylum scenes are fairly short as well) so replaying is a must, in my opinion. There's nothing like dual wielding auto-aiming guns that can shoot through walls.
Not so long ago i aced the game with my friend in coop to get them achievements and i must say we need Darkness III to wrap-up the story finally.
There seriously need to be more games with coop campaigns.
This is of those games where I'd like to play it someday but unless they release the first one as a HD Remake on Steam, I'm not especially fussed. I'm the same way about the Saint's Row franchise...
"Don't say I didn't warn you"
...I mean... It's not like I have a choice. The first game never got a PC release.
hey man you probably don't remember me but i just wanted to say thank you for reviewing this game the feels man :)
I remember you, lol. From this video, right?
ruclips.net/video/XldnDCQPueM/видео.html
yeah it's been while anyway man keep up the good work i love the video and i really enjoy the channel.
I played it recently for the first time. The shooting is good but I had some troubles with controlling the 'Darkness' movements.
I wonder if they'll ever be a Darkness 3 considering the ending was clearly setting up for a sequel. It will most likely be a reboot if this series comes back in terms of the games.
You'd be hard pressed to find an awesome hidden gem like this one. Highly exceeded my expectations when my brother got it from a local pawn shop. He just left it there to collect dust.. Good thing I brushed that dust off and enjoyed it as much as possible!
PC version has two big ass issues, first is this weird fov/vsync bug where sometimes screen blur becomes permanent. The next is that the splash screen is so fucking loud when you boot it(audio settings are not loaded til you get to the title screen which is a shitty oversight) you NEED 100% NEED to mute audio til it hits the title screen.
Mr. gggmanlives do you think you could do a syndicate review?
I loved the comics of the darkness it was so cool
does the game have the badass armor
Weirdly enough I remember when I played the first one all because back in day when it was called ‘game station’ I bought darksector only to find out that they placed wrong disc which was darkness
gggmanlives I was wondering if you can review a few other fps games like medal of Honor airborne, area 51, swat 4, and older fps games that were somewhat well received
The fact that this series will never get a third entry is one of the many injustices of the gaming industry.
STILL wanting for a threequel.
Whats your thoughts on the resident evil 7 dlc's that are coming out?
I noticed this was made by the same team behind Warframe, even though graphically, this game looks significantly better I think. (And it's using the same engine.)
I just needed someone to tell me if i should buy this game and you did it. Thank you.
Excellent thumbnail choice!
Do one review about the Myth franchise developed by Bungie.The franchise will turn 20 in this year.
We need the darkness 3.
What was going on with his arms I don't remember that being in this game
Great review, I only got to play this game as it came with my original second hand 360. It's one of those games where it pays to play for a few hours before making your mind up. At first I thought it was a bit shitty but after a few hours I really got into it. I can't remember if I finished it though
Most FPS games fall really flat for me and I never finish them. I remember picking this up on PS3 for $7 and i marathoned right through it. When I finished it I sat all the way though the credits and just let it sink right in. This game is fantastic and I love it
Definitely one of the more memorable shooters I've played in the last few years. Fun ride. Pick it up cheap and enjoy. Game on!
the reason you ran out of ammo a lot is you weren't going for headshots
they give more score , they take way less bullets to kill plus its satisfying
what do you think about Hotline Miami coupd we get a review on that?
I noticed you didn't mention the voice actor for the Darkness itself and how damn good he was at the role, one of the things that stuck to me about this game was that it's story and characters kept me sucked in.
loved the first one on Xbox 360, bought the 2nd one on PC didn't care for the Cel Shading of it. Wish they kept it darker, gritty.
Theory: the guy from hatred is secretly just jacky from the darkness but the dark entity is gone and now he’s just crazy and killing a bunch of people
I'm really hoping that we end up with a sequel for this.
great review gggmanlives I played the hell out of this game and loved it better than the original. I would still like you to review the king Kong game for the original Xbox please
can you review natural fawn killers please?
Hey gggman.... YOU DIDNT WARN ME!
The first Darkness game had such a well made story , even with the framerate problems i loved it. The second was still alright, but didn´t blow me away.
The issue i had with the sequel was they went and cell shaded it rather than keep its dark grim look like the first one and the killing felt more arcade like bullet storm.
why are his hands also darkness
Loved this comic series. Would love to see a darkness movie
1:39 is that warning was because of me ? =)
It's because of multiple people crying spoilers.
Haha okay then =)
I really like the graphics they're timeless the characters look very comic book like very animated and surprisingly colorful for the dark color palette the game uses
It's crazy that I hated the cel-shaded graphics back when they came out but like you said today they look great and timeless.
Will you ever get around to review the Silent Hill series? Great video btw
I'm working on it atm!
It would be interesting if you review Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Deleted Scenes in the future.
It's the single player campaign that many people I know don't know about.
YOU DIDN'T WARN ME! .. that it wasn't a fart I was trying to push out...
Imagining the coroner's report on all those corpses that were "Assecuted".
That skill tree looks like the one from Fallen Order. I wonder if someone from this studio went on to work on fallen order.
One of the coolest protagonist homes of any video game ever.
I honestly agree it you GGGman. Really most of the things fans of the first game complain about I think are silly. Like the fact that the game is linear as opposed to open world because the open world structure of the first game did more to hinder the experience. The best part of that game was the action so I preferred that they designed the game to focus more on that aspect.
Love this game. PC port has an awful bug with the blurring of vision though
I played this game when I was 9 and I’m pretty sure I wasn’t supposed to but I’m so glad I did
Great review matey ! One of my favourite games ever.
Good review. I wish I could find this game near where I live.
Now, please review Syndicate (2012). It is like Hard Reset meet with FEAR except is not fun.
Like a chip pulling out from the production factory before become the next generation graphic card. It is just not that really replay-able.
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