Darksiders 2 will star new character, take place alongside events of first game

@sammo21


Thanks for sharing.

@sammo21 The plan had always been from the very beginning to give each one of the Horsemen their own game in the series, to tell the story from their perspective.

The original title for the game was, "Darksiders: Wrath of War", not just merely Darksiders. The emphasis of the original title, being that you would know this game was War's story, and each of the Horsemen in turn, Famine, Pestilence and Death, would get their own stories to be told.

Think of it like Shining Force 3 from the SEGA Saturn. For those of you did not own a Saturn and did not know, Shining Force 3 was an RPG told in three parts; scenarios 1, 2, and 3. Each scenario being a full 30 to 50 hour RPG, each released months apart. Each scenario literally features a different hero from either side of the conflict, and tells the story of the same war from three differing perspectives. Ultimately in the end, the three heroes unite to reveal to the world, and defeat, the true villain who orchestrated the war that would have led to total destruction, and save the day. As role-playing games go, Shining Force 3 is one of the all-time best, and definitely one of the most ambitious games ever developed.

According to early interviews concerning the Darksiders series, Darksiders was originally supposed to follow a similar path - four games, one dedicated to each of the four horsemen as the central protagonist, telling the same tale from differing perspectives, with a fifth game uniting the horsemen to resolve the whole story.

Admittedly, for a small publisher like THQ, that is a rather ambitious project to undertake, but then that is one of the things I love the most about the new THQ - they are not afraid to take chances that other, larger publishers would immediately tuck their tails and run and hide from.

For the final year of development, and even for months after Darksiders was released, it appeared as if THQ had dropped the ambitious nature of their original plans, to follow a more mundane and generic approach to completing the Darksiders story. But after today's announcements, that the original plan is back on, that is probably the best gaming news that I have heard in months. Darksiders was an awesome game, that left the story wide open for more to come after, and now knowing that THQ has every intent on completing that story based on their original plans of a five game story arc that would allow each horseman to have his day, I could not be more excited.

@sammo21

So the sequal is a sidestory that still isn't going to sort out the cliffhanger style ending from the first game :/

This is a new one from the game industry tbh!

@sammo21

"although it did have its issues"

yea like a game ending glitch within sprinting distance of the end of the game. i'm still bitter about that and banished the game to the shelf because of it since i'm not playing it all the way through again for a couple hours i didn't see.

@Protome Why's that? Because War was such a unique and engaging character?

@Electrium
No, because the story towards the end of Darksiders was pretty interesting and I would like to see it continued, not elaborated upon.
I never expected to be playing as War again, but I did expect the story to be continued.

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze - I'm hoping Pestilence, Death or Famine so we can see what the hell they were doing; yes, I'm aware they explain it, but I want to play as Death, dammit!

@Van Redd

I'd love to see what they could do with Famine as a female character.

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Wait, did they ever depict the other horsemen?

I never finished the game, sadly. Loved it, but too many damned monster arenas.

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze you never actually got to see the other horsemen :(. That would've been cool, even they were only shown in a cutscene or something.

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

They did on the official site but i dont think they ever did in game. Im too lazy to search for the image from the site

@XperimntNterror

Low and behold im not too lazy. A quick google search came up with these


Strife: http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/160250-/horsemen_strife-noscale.jpg

Fury: http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/160250-/horsemen_fury-noscale.jpg

Death: http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/160250-/horsemen_death-noscale.jpg


In my opinion Death looks the coolest so i hope you control him.

@Billlop

Ooh, thanks for that.

Fury looks like she'd be awesome to control.

@Billlop
Death looks like Rick Taylor (see: Splatterhouse)

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

They never depicted them in the game. But as part of the lead up to the launch, or it might have been with collectors editions or such, they released a few comic books which provide some 'back story' on the horseman.

@Van Redd

I have a theory that the sequel has you playing as all 3 of the horseman at different parts. That would be cool. Death could be like a god of war gameplay, Fury could be puzzle solving with that whip and Strife could be DmC type shooting

@Shadowbender i would say the good outweighs the bad and is absolutely worth picking up, 10000%, if you can find it for a bargain price (though even the full price was worth it to me). if you like the zelda-style gameplay, you'll have a good time with this game for sure.

@XperimntNterror

You can get it for $13 at Glyde.

@ChooChooCharlie

I want to fight god!

But seriously the end set up war to: (SPOILERZZZZZZZZ)

fight the council/the white city/others who would hunt him, and he was going to need the help of the other horsemen to do it.

@mylittlepwny

Right, I got that part. But the fact that they mention #2 will happen simultaneously with #1 concerns me.

SPOILERS

If it's not War, and the other horsemen didn't arrive until the end of #1, who else could it be?

@Billlop

Darkstalkers = Darksiders. Bah, Joystiq needs an edit button. Even if it was only active for like... 5 mins after the post was posted itd still help a lot

@Nier

Just because they weren't summoned to earth doesn't mean they were sitting in some interdimensional deep freeze not doing anything.

@Nier

Someone wasnt paying attention ;)

@Faenix

Tell me! Tell meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! What did I miss?

@This Little Man Says His Name Is

That may be, but the apocalypse happened on Earth, certainly not in the dimension were the other Riders were resting. If it takes place alongside the events of the first game Nier is right, you shouldn't be controlling another Rider. It would be a cop-out if they explained it by saying that a Rider somehow escaped without being summoned.