Those of you who enjoy gory dismemberment and light-based obstacles (i.e. It’s a difficult game and, while I like a good story, I don’t really have much interest in shooting out lightbulbs. I got bored after the fourth attempt at this room. There was more to this demo but I’ll be honest. The game turns into a nightmare of trying to kill dozens of enemies while smashing generators and avoiding flash grenades that will blind you and cause your tentacle-demon-snakes to retract into wherever it is they go. For some reason that I can’t really remember, you’re beset from all sides by dudes who want to kill you.
The brothel is conveniently low on power – something to do with part of it being under construction so there’s a big room filled with throwable metal poles and lights running on generators. Eventually you’ll run around a brothel ripping people apart and that’s where it gets interesting. At some point you’ll run around a subway platform ripping people apart.
Then you’ll run around a carnival after-hours ripping people apart. You’ll run around some dark city streets ripping people apart. A game and certainly nothing else *shifty eyes*. Oh yeah, I’m talking about a game, right. Plunge your gleaming fangs through their puny rib cages and devour their dripping hearts, still warm and pulsing, fresh red blood arcing through the air to leave glistening trails of… Grab the weak men by their squashy arms and tear them limb from feeble limb. But it’s far more fun to grab the shiny metal poles and fling them across the room, impaling distant enemies through the chest. Sure, you can grab car doors and riot shields with your demon-snakes, to protect you while you shoot the bad men with your puny human weapons. As Jackie Estacado, your job is to kill and/or violently dismember basically everyone you meet. Okay, let’s presume they come out of your back and curl around so they’re floating on the periphery of your vision whilst not impairing your ability to pick up guns with your human hands. Possibly your neck, though given their thickness you would think that would impair your ability look up and down. Somewhere out of your back presumably, or maybe your shoulders. For those who haven’t played the first game, said demon powers consist of giant snake-like tentacles with pointy, pointy teeth that erupt from… actually I don’t know where they come from. You have some horrific demon powers that only work in the dark. I’ll skip the story bits of these builds to save you all from spoilers. Cue vent-crawling exploration puzzles and other knee-high sneakery. The biggest change between this and the original Darkness game is the introduction of the Darkling, a scuttling creature who tells you what to do, helps you in battles and occasionally lets you take control of him. The other was a trip through the aforementioned brothel, showcasing the combat and environmental tactics that you’ll need to employ. One was a specially constructed demo rooted in the game but designed to tell a coherent story and showcase various different features. I played through two different builds of the game. And, of course, you can rip a man’s head from his body, both with and without his spine.
You’ll spend an awful lot of your time looking for beating hearts to refresh your health.
A big feature of this game is the executions – you can grab a man by the legs and bisect him through the groin for a lovely move called “The Wishbone”. As anyone who’s seen the trailers, previews or the previous game can attest, The Darkness II was always going to be an adult title. Having played through a demo that featured monstrous tentacles ripping a man’s spine clear out of his body while a hooker gave a blow-job to a john in the next room, I have to admit… I’m surprised. You may have heard that The Darkness II was recently given a BBFC rating of 18, making it a title for adults only.
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