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There's also your darkling, a miniature gremlin that calls you 'monkey' and skitters around, leaping on bad guys and urinating on helpless corpses. Or you might summon a mini black hole, which sucks in any nearby enemies into its swirling vortex.

THE DARKNESS II LAUNCH TRAILER UPGRADE

Depending on how you upgrade as you progress, you might unleash a swarm of insects at your enemies, which makes them vulnerable to a nauseating fatality. The Darkness II does its best to provide variety. As long as you shoot out any errant light sources, you won't feel much pressure on anything but the hardest difficulty. But generally speaking, you can charge forward, shooting, flinging, and grabbing without worrying often about dying.

All that light causes your demon arms to regress while filling your screen with so much blinding whiteness that you can barely see what's going on.

In time, The Darkness II tries to amp up the challenge, throwing enemies at you with tough shields and introducing combatants that shine spotlights on you. You're invulnerable during these kills, which is just as well because it would be pretty frustrating to get shot to death while waiting for your demon arms to finish some horrific dismemberment. This is in part because you can string together the same basic moves in succession, over and over, without feeling challenged, particularly on the PC. The game's upgrade system might have you unlocking new animations, but even then, the gross-out factor can wear thin. To replenish health, you hold a button and your arms feed on nearby human hearts, snatching them up with a thwack and noisily chomping on them.Īdmit it: you've always wanted to do this to dudes wearing sunglasses at night. The sound effects are fantastically squishy you can practically hear the cartilage tear and the vital organs rupture. As you move toward The Darkness II's conclusion, you see this move and other similarly disgusting ones rather often, and they remain shocking for a little while. The demon then growls in satisfaction before unrolling and allowing the limp body to drop to the ground. With this particular left-arm maneuver, you roll your foe up like a pig in a blanket and thrust the demonic head through his chest. If that sounds gross, well, it is, in a wonderful way. You can also reel in a staggered enemy, grab each leg, and tear him in half like a wishbone. You can throw metal poles at your foes and impale them as if preparing a human-sized shish kebob. The left arm is for grabbing you can grab car doors to use as shields and fling them at mobsters like murderous Frisbees. The right arm is for smashing you can whip it around with abandon, using the right stick to slash vertically or horizontally, bashing enemies, street lamps, and electrical wires. So The Darkness II isn't special, but it has one particular element that keeps it exciting: the two creepy demonic arms that sprout from your body, each with its own gnashing mouth, and each with an insatiable appetite for human hearts.

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