In Darksiders you play as War, one of the four biblical horsemen, come to earth to pass judgment on the demons attacking it. The angels see you and begin to freak out because the horsemen are only supposed to come when the seven seals are broken (key: they haven’t been broken yet). You are found and sent down to the Council of Angels where your sentence is given to you, one chance at redemption. On returning to earth, you are stripped of your power and tethered to a Watcher, which makes sure you obey the Council, and things get a little weird. A demon pops up and you have to pay him souls to give you information, human souls. Eventually you free another demon form an underground prison and he tells you that to kill the Destroyer, the bad mother demon that started all of this, you must take out his four chosen ones and bring him their hearts. After that you kill the Destroyer, game over.
Don’t let that fool you though. That’s just the plot, there is so much more baked inside this game. The game play is very familiar, like Kingdom Hearts or God of War familiar. You find yourself mashing the same buttons over and over and over and over, I think you get the picture. But once and enemy has low enough health, you can press one button and do a quick kill, where you get to see a pretty little cinematic of War killing the demon, angel, creepy creature thingy, or boss in a very cool, but violent way. Gore, that just about sums up the violence. Every time you hit an enemy, a large amount of blood comes out and yet the enemy hasn’t died.
Many times in the game you have to solve puzzles, actually that’s the whole game. How ever many times you find yourself in one room, solving a puzzle, going to a completely different room, finding another puzzle then going to three different rooms to solve that puzzle then fighting a giant creature only to find yet another puzzle; I lost count. Eventually you get the power to control the chronospheres (which actually aren’t spheres but rectangles, confusing). The chronospheres/rectangles allow War to stop, slow or rewind time, yet agin to solve more puzzles.
When you get back to earth all you have is your sword, Chaoseater, and that’s just about it. You can purchase new weapons, items and combat upgrades that allow you to mash even more buttons just in a particular order. You buy the Scythe, with souls of course, but a giant gauntlet, a machine pistol, and a boomerang blade type thingy you unlock as the story progresses. Oh and don’t forget demon wings, although you can only glide with them they still come in handy.
Darksiders is a third person action and adventure game. You spend most of your time running around what seems like Manhattan or Los Angeles but only a century after the entire place has been destroyed. The game is actually really fun if you can get around the boring parts when you have to go from room to room to solve one puzzle, or like me, being totally lost.
My recommendation: Rent it. The story line is very long, hours long, but if that’s all you play you could beat it in the allotted time period of your rental. The only reason I say rent is the fact that there isn’t any replay, you beat the story and then its pretty much done, no online anything no replay the story to get something new out of it. I haven’t beaten the game yet because I got lost and couldn’t figure out what to do next so that is based off fact not experience.
