Darksiders

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7.8

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  1. HyperHelios
    Aug 12, 2018
    4
    Game was really decent. Graphics were good, combat was kind of fun. But. The game was dull.
    You travel through large locations with speed of snail. What ruined my experience, was puzzles and riddles. They weren't too difficult or too easy. They take too much time and waiting. Wait for portals to align, wait for your platform, run long corridors to press all buttons or find all moving    Game was really decent. Graphics were good, combat was kind of fun. But. The game was dull.
    You travel through large locations with speed of snail. What ruined my experience, was puzzles and riddles. They weren't too difficult or too easy. They take too much time and waiting. Wait for portals to align, wait for your platform, run long corridors to press all buttons or find all moving blocks.
    At the end of the game it was unbearable: fight room of enemies, proceed, align portals, proceed to another room with couple of enemies.
    It was kinda fun at the beginning, but too boring at the end    … Expand
  2. JaydenPickens
    Feb 20, 2019
    4
    What a disgrace to the gaming world. This game is the second biggest disappointment in my life (the first one being my son Harry... ungrateful little s**t). It's a damn shame too, because the game has some good ideas from time to time, but it all falls down on its knees, ready to get r**** by some catholic priest. When, I bought this game, I expected some fun slasher game, filled withWhat a disgrace to the gaming world. This game is the second biggest disappointment in my life (the first one being my son Harry... ungrateful little s**t). It's a damn shame too, because the game has some good ideas from time to time, but it all falls down on its knees, ready to get r**** by some catholic priest. When, I bought this game, I expected some fun slasher game, filled with amazing gameplay mechanics, some cool combos, some good puzzles along the way, upgrades, nice soundtrack etc. Well, I got nothing like this. NOTHING! The first 20 minutes of the game are really good, they encourage us, give us some good fun. The city is falling, people are dying... yep, just a typical sunday for a little shy fellow named WAR. But the excitement will leave you sooner, than your meth-abusing-girlfriend and the s**tshow soon commences. It's hard for me to say this, but have you ever worked? If you're as old as me, I'm sure you had some s**ty jobs in your life, that were tedious, boring and you just wanted to go home, because you knew that the stuff you were doing at work was pointless and not worth your time? Well, these are the exact, same feelings, I had while playing this game. Before, I delve into the details, let me bring up the biggest flaw of this game... something that for me is the most important thing in the game... and it's the speed of the person we're playing as. War is slow. It's very slow. Why is there no sprint button? There's like a fast dash under the left alt but it's short and after you make it, the character stops for a second. What the hell is this supposed to be? War is slow like snail... if the snail was slowed down by another snail that was in front of him and was also slowing down, because there was a sign for the snail people that said "slow down". Is this a joke? Why the main character is so slow, IN A FU***NG VIDEOGAME that 80% of gameplay is just going somewhere... this game is wasting our time on purpose! This pisses me off... I need to talk to the stone giant and he's on the north side of the town very far away and it takes me 10 minutes to get there and in game nothing happens at that point. There are these little demon people going about, but who cares? I just avoid them, so I don't waste more of my time and I'm just walking. Darksiders: Apocalypse Walking Simulator, buy now! I guess in Darksiders 2, Death cures people like Gregory House... that's just how ridiculous walking is in this game. So when we're not walking in Darksiders, we're solving stupid puzzles... like finding swords for mother of Jesus. I guess she's mother of Jesus, because the statues look like her... who cares? Moving on, if we're not searching for swords, then we're doing other boring things like searching for switches that activate another switches that activate some gates and behind those gates there's a chest and inside that chest is a key that will open another door and so on and so on... it's always the same. Each chapter is like this and it makes me want to die. This game is work and nobody is even paying me for playing this! You know what this reminds me of? Doom from 1993... on each level you had to find three keys... but Doom had amazing gameplay and cool secrets and it was released in FU***NG 1993! Darksiders came out in 2010! So when we're not looking for switches or walking, we're fighting and the fighting is not bad. It actually reminds me of the X-Blades game which wasn't exactly a masterpiece... or even great lol. So, we're be mostly doing the same finisher on lots of enemies and fighting with bosses will be the most retarded thing, you're ever gonna see in a videogame. Why is the each later boss easier? What the hell is going on? And not it's even like the game is hard... played it on apocalypse difficulty and I died like only several times... mostly because of jumping into the lava like an idiot, that I am. The rest of my deaths were because of the first boss, that giant booby demon lady. The next bosses were a "walk"( heh walk... see what I did there, because the game is a walking simulator) in the park... linkin park. So what that even leaves us with so far? Soundtrack was forgettable.. graphics were fine... story was the only thing that kept me going and going. This game is a joke and I don't understand how people can enjoy it. You're a bunch of masochists... you're sick... seek help. I'm giving this a 4, because I liked the beginning and the story.. fighting was cool too, but that's all. This game is a chore and I hate chores. Pickens condemns!… Expand
  3. Jay_Pickens
    Aug 20, 2018
    4
    What a disgrace to the gaming world. This game is the second biggest disappointment in my life (the first one being my son Harry... ungrateful little s**t). It's a damn shame too, because the game has some good ideas from time to time, but it all falls down on its knees, ready to get r**** by some catholic priest. When, I bought this game, I expected some fun slasher game, filled withWhat a disgrace to the gaming world. This game is the second biggest disappointment in my life (the first one being my son Harry... ungrateful little s**t). It's a damn shame too, because the game has some good ideas from time to time, but it all falls down on its knees, ready to get r**** by some catholic priest. When, I bought this game, I expected some fun slasher game, filled with amazing gameplay mechanics, some cool combos, some good puzzles along the way, upgrades, nice soundtrack etc. Well, I got nothing like this. NOTHING! The first 20 minutes of the game are really good, they encourage us, give us some good fun. The city is falling, people are dying... yep, just a typical sunday for a little shy fellow named WAR. But the excitement will leave you sooner, than your meth-abusing-girlfriend and the s**tshow soon commences. It's hard for me to say this, but have you ever worked? If you're as old as me, I'm sure you had some s**ty jobs in your life, that were tedious, boring and you just wanted to go home, because you knew that the stuff you were doing at work was pointless and not worth your time? Well, these are the exact, same feelings, I had while playing this game. Before, I delve into the details, let me bring up the biggest flaw of this game... something that for me is the most important thing in the game... and it's the speed of the person we're playing as. War is slow. It's very slow. Why is there no sprint button? There's like a fast dash under the left alt but it's short and after you make it, the character stops for a second. What the hell is this supposed to be? War is slow like snail... if the snail was slowed down by another snail that was in front of him and was also slowing down, because there was a sign for the snail people that said "slow down". Is this a joke? Why the main character is so slow, IN A FU***NG VIDEOGAME that 80% of gameplay is just going somewhere... this game is wasting our time on purpose! This pisses me off... I need to talk to the stone giant and he's on the north side of the town very far away and it takes me 10 minutes to get there and in game nothing happens at that point. There are these little demon people going about, but who cares? I just avoid them, so I don't waste more of my time and I'm just walking. Darksiders: Apocalypse Walking Simulator, buy now! I guess in Darksiders 2, Death cures people like Gregory House... that's just how ridiculous walking is in this game. So when we're not walking in Darksiders, we're solving stupid puzzles... like finding swords for mother of Jesus. I guess she's mother of Jesus, because the statues look like her... who cares? Moving on, if we're not searching for swords, then we're doing other boring things like searching for switches that activate another switches that activate some gates and behind those gates there's a chest and inside that chest is a key that will open another door and so on and so on... it's always the same. Each chapter is like this and it makes me want to die. This game is work and nobody is even paying me for playing this! You know what this reminds me of? Doom from 1993... on each level you had to find three keys... but Doom had amazing gameplay and cool secrets and it was released in FU***NG 1993! Darksiders came out in 2010! So when we're not looking for switches or walking, we're fighting and the fighting is not bad. It actually reminds me of the X-Blades game which wasn't exactly a masterpiece... or even great lol. So, we're be mostly doing the same finisher on lots of enemies and fighting with bosses will be the most retarded thing, you're ever gonna see in a videogame. Why is the each later boss easier? What the hell is going on? And not it's even like the game is hard... played it on apocalypse difficulty and I died like only several times... mostly because of jumping into the lava like an idiot, that I am. The rest of my deaths were because of the first boss, that giant booby demon lady. The next bosses were a "walk"( heh walk... see what I did there, because the game is a walking simulator) in the park... linkin park. So what that even leaves us with so far? Soundtrack was forgettable.. graphics were fine... story was the only thing that kept me going and going. This game is a joke and I don't understand how people can enjoy it. You're a bunch of masochists... you're sick... seek help. I'm giving this a 4, because I liked the beginning and the story.. fighting was cool too, but that's all. This game is a chore and I hate chores. Pickens condemns!… Expand
  4. JohnWaine
    Sep 12, 2012
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is like a shiny apple you see in a store, which you buy and start to eat. The first few bites are very delicious - the graphic, the hack-and-slash feeling, the sounds, all feel very nice. But, when you bite deeper you find out a squashed part - in order to master the game, you need to master its controls, and the controls are so numerous, and so poorly ported from console, that they incur a heavy strain on the average player.
    Then you bite even deeper - you encounter the first true boss, Tiamat- and you find a rotten part. There is nothing that prepares you for this boss, and the tactics, while very easy conceptually, are just very hard to implement properly. Moreover, if you fail to do proper tactics immediately, it becomes exponentially harder to finish this boss.
    Nevertheless, you decide to take one more bite, but you find worms crawling in the deep core of the game. The number of controls one needs to master to advance through the game increases by every "level", and the inability to see the "health" of a boss, or in that sense any indicator that you are doing any damage to the boss, is extremely frustrating ! This is particularly frustrating on the worm boss, where you run in circles, shooting at the boss, for a random amount of time, until the boss falls dead ? This is an insult to any mature player in my opinion.
    Overall, this game had a lot of potential, maybe this potential is fulfilled in the console game, but the PC version is just frustrating to play...    … Expand
  5. Tuz0
    Jul 14, 2017
    2
    Nordic Games (the developers of this game) basically said: Hey, God of War sold extremely good on Playstation. There is no game like that for other platforms, lets make one to grab some money.
    And that's probably it, a very God of War inspired game which feels very unpolished and rushed. The combat system is vastly unsatisfying, as much as is the weapons in this game and upgrades. Boss    Nordic Games (the developers of this game) basically said: Hey, God of War sold extremely good on Playstation. There is no game like that for other platforms, lets make one to grab some money.
    And that's probably it, a very God of War inspired game which feels very unpolished and rushed. The combat system is vastly unsatisfying, as much as is the weapons in this game and upgrades. Boss Fights are extremely boring if someone is hoping for interesting Boss Battles. Not much creativity in this game, most ideas came from God of War. Furthermore they tried to add some Adventure elements like semi-open world and puzzles which are also unsatisfying and dull. Literally they tried to mix God of War and Zelda.
    Lastly the plot, it was merely angels vs demons fight on the third realm called Earth which is populated by humans. And you play as one of the 4 horsemen called War (wow they didn't even tried to mask it as their own game). The cut scenes, voice acting and story telling is one of the worst I have ever seen in a triple A game of the 2010's. Well hopefully the plot gets more interesting by the end of the game, but ruined by the subhumanly bad voice acting & cutscenes. Don't buy this game even if it's on sale, use your money for charity or buy an Indie game instead.
    The only ones who can love this game are people who never owned a Playstation or played God of War and other Hack & Slay games exclusive on Playstation.    … Expand
  6. syrik
    Sep 5, 2011
    0
    The term "console port" gets thrown around all too much these days, but in this games case it is completely accurate. This is a console port in all its faded glory, straight from controller to keyboard with little adjustment to gameplay, menu's, maps, inventory screens or even graphics selections and options. If you want to play this game, play it on a console.
  7. SirTarque
    Aug 7, 2012
    3
    Mindless monster bashing, strictly linear. No way of avoiding fights, you can only win brute force. The story doesn't really touch the player, it's too far fetched. No free saving possible, only at save points.
  8. Rime
    Sep 3, 2011
    0
    This is the worst console port I have ever played. I have not even SEEN the first mob in game because my camera is stuck facing down. I have unplugged one, the other, and BOTH of my USB-360 controllers and still, the camera is stuck. A Google reveals that this is a common bug for certain users of the game, there has been very little support for it obviously as I have not seen any officialThis is the worst console port I have ever played. I have not even SEEN the first mob in game because my camera is stuck facing down. I have unplugged one, the other, and BOTH of my USB-360 controllers and still, the camera is stuck. A Google reveals that this is a common bug for certain users of the game, there has been very little support for it obviously as I have not seen any official forums, just all Yahoo-Ask. I saw one review that said, "I wish Steam gave refunds." To that, I agree.… Expand
  9. Rigel
    Jul 9, 2011
    3
    If you are a young teen this might be a blast, but the game is full of bugs and horrible mapping of the controls. Especially if you use steam because of the steam friends shortcut. Secondly, the save game system is so stupid that I've wanted to ram a fist through my screen several times. What is also the point in being able to save at a location, if you still have to start from a waypoint?If you are a young teen this might be a blast, but the game is full of bugs and horrible mapping of the controls. Especially if you use steam because of the steam friends shortcut. Secondly, the save game system is so stupid that I've wanted to ram a fist through my screen several times. What is also the point in being able to save at a location, if you still have to start from a waypoint? It just blows my mind how stupid and utter retarded console games are and I wish Steam gave refunds. Even quitting the game has to be a hazzle, where you press start, wait for a mandatory animation and then you can select quit. This is my last console port ever..darkriders 2? How about you fix the first load of crap.… Expand
  10. thequillguy
    Apr 21, 2011
    4
    PC gamers often complain about the issues of porting console (action) games. To be truth, I find many of the arguments elitist and a little empty (take the issue of Portal 2 showing a â
  11. ChuckFarley
    Dec 13, 2010
    4
    Some of the finishing moves are pretty brutal, and some of the models are pretty, otherwise it's pretty mindless. Best played with your thumbs and a button.
  12. jsph_crowley
    Dec 15, 2012
    3
    It looks pretty and starts out fun, but you quickly realize that the controls will be badly explained and you're health will be penalized for any misstep. Boss fights will be after pointless walking from the save point that makes you go back again and again.
  13. JSNB
    Sep 24, 2011
    0
    Played this expecting something worth my time but I was wrong. Boring linear game play, and almost no character progression, not exactly a recipe for a winner. I wasn't able to play much of it which that in itself says it all. I know some people will say, "how do you know if you didn't even play all the way through." and to that I say, you don't have yourself locked into torturous humanPlayed this expecting something worth my time but I was wrong. Boring linear game play, and almost no character progression, not exactly a recipe for a winner. I wasn't able to play much of it which that in itself says it all. I know some people will say, "how do you know if you didn't even play all the way through." and to that I say, you don't have yourself locked into torturous human experimentation lab on the off chance that you might get a lollipop when you leave.… Expand
  14. KalSeth
    Feb 19, 2012
    3
    Interesting story, great graphics, and extreme fun....for about 30 minutes. Untill you are met with impossible controls (if you play on PC), which will leave you climbing and leaping over lava pits, just to be knocked down over and over and over and over, until you are pissed off enough to slam your keyboard and walk away.

    Piss poo adaptation of a console twitch game, which could have    Interesting story, great graphics, and extreme fun....for about 30 minutes. Untill you are met with impossible controls (if you play on PC), which will leave you climbing and leaping over lava pits, just to be knocked down over and over and over and over, until you are pissed off enough to slam your keyboard and walk away.

    Piss poo adaptation of a console twitch game, which could have been a great RPG. Biggest disappointment this year.    … Expand
  15. TomT7
    Dec 27, 2011
    2
    A very poorly done port. Horrible controls, no graphics options and crashes constantly. I write this as a warning; do not buy this game.
  16. STMary
    Jun 4, 2012
    4
    People that relate this game to Zelda have no idea what they are talking about. If I was to make a comparison, the closest game Darksiders resembles is Force Unleashed II. There is not one puzzle in this whole game as far as I could tell in my play through. The game always told you exactly what to do, and if there was something that could be a puzzle in a room, the auto-camera makes surePeople that relate this game to Zelda have no idea what they are talking about. If I was to make a comparison, the closest game Darksiders resembles is Force Unleashed II. There is not one puzzle in this whole game as far as I could tell in my play through. The game always told you exactly what to do, and if there was something that could be a puzzle in a room, the auto-camera makes sure to zoom onto objects and paths that need to be explored, eliminating any thought process that might otherwise be needed.
    Its a straight up hack-n-slash. If that's what you are into, get this title. If you were looking for a puzzle game, save yourself some frustration and keep looking.    … Expand
  17. magee
    Apr 6, 2013
    2
    i dont really like hack and slay games but dark souls was my game of the year.. so i thought i will try this game out it just feels bad to me combat is very boring you just spam your X key xbox controller till the enemy dies you can jump around so you wont get hit but overall it just feels repetetive to me. dark souls for example is known to be hard... but its actually not hard becausei dont really like hack and slay games but dark souls was my game of the year.. so i thought i will try this game out it just feels bad to me combat is very boring you just spam your X key xbox controller till the enemy dies you can jump around so you wont get hit but overall it just feels repetetive to me. dark souls for example is known to be hard... but its actually not hard because every time you die its your fault while in darksiders its just a grindfest of 100 mobs attacking you and you spamming your x and rb key well story: i heard the story would be great and epic but i didnt got hooked by it. maybe some teens will enjoy this more than me. I dont recommend it but if you enjoy grindfest games where you spam 1 key till the end try it out… Expand
  18. No1livesforever
    Apr 11, 2013
    2
    It was fun at early stages of the game; the hack and slash combat system was great and intense. Then fun quickly diminished with countless platform puzzle solving. Granted, the puzzles weren't hard, but they paused the monster killing spree excitment. There are just too much boring puzzles for a hack and slash action game that I was hopping the game will end soon, so I can say I beat itIt was fun at early stages of the game; the hack and slash combat system was great and intense. Then fun quickly diminished with countless platform puzzle solving. Granted, the puzzles weren't hard, but they paused the monster killing spree excitment. There are just too much boring puzzles for a hack and slash action game that I was hopping the game will end soon, so I can say I beat it and uninstall. And then the story send you back to places you already visited to collect seven shards for story to continue. I collected few shards until I got fed up with this boring-visit-again trick just to add more gameplay hour. My patience ran out and alt+F4 and uninstalled this crap game.… Expand
  19. leash
    Sep 22, 2013
    3
    You know, it could have been a very fun game. And if it didn't crash all the time I might have been able to tolerate it. Its extremely linear. There are very few system and graphics options if any at all. It gets boring fast. Also, don't expect and real quest log or clues pointing you where to go and when. You may try and alt tab out of the game to check a walk through but if you do thatYou know, it could have been a very fun game. And if it didn't crash all the time I might have been able to tolerate it. Its extremely linear. There are very few system and graphics options if any at all. It gets boring fast. Also, don't expect and real quest log or clues pointing you where to go and when. You may try and alt tab out of the game to check a walk through but if you do that when you re-enter the game, it will most likely crash to desktop. If you like to collect screenshots go ahead and try, but then you'll crash to desktop. If you like to open up the steam dashboard in game you can give that a go too! Just be ready to crash to desktop. Over all it was a game I could have at least tried to like but the bugs and crashes just tried my patience to much. I don't have much gaming time anymore and I'd much rather use it playing a game that can actually perform on a pc.… Expand
  20. ruvinisimus
    Dec 26, 2017
    3
    не понравилось. какой то непойми кто с нереально большим мечом размахивает.

Awards & Rankings

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#23 Best PC Game of 2010
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#22 Most Discussed PC Game of 2010
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#22 Most Shared PC Game of 2010

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Metascore
83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 13, 2011
    80
    PC answer to God of War is not without flaws but the lack of competition on the PC platform makes Darksiders an unconditional winner. Be warned - No fun without a joypad! Forget about playing Darksiders with a keyboard and mouse only. [Issue#197]
  2. PC Format
    Dec 25, 2010
    80
    Not the most innovative of games, but give Darksiders a go and you'll most likely be pleasantly surprised. [Issue#246, p.106]
  3. Gaming Nexus
    Oct 25, 2010
    83
    Sure, you've seen it all somewhere before, but Darksiders manages to tie together just about every adventure-game idiom and make it all work.
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