Mon, Jul 26, 2010 | 12:48 BST
Rumour: Digital Extremes developing The Darkness 2
Superannuation has apparently outed Digital Extremes as the developer of The Darkness 2, with the CV of Emmanuel Pappas mentioning the dev.
A sequel to the game was announced last year at Comic-Con, with Swedish developer Starbreeze telling VG247 that it wasn’t involved with the game, as it was with the original.
Digital Extremes was behind the multiplayer aspect of BioShock 2, and lent Epic a hand with the Unreal games.
We’ll drop DI a line.
The original Darkness launched in mid-2007 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
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Posted in: 2K, Hot, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: Digital Extremes, The Darkness 2
12 comments
#1
evilashchris
26/07/10, 1:00 pm
The original was great, I fear for this with no Starbreeze involvement.
#2
Erthazus
26/07/10, 1:06 pm
YES! Awesome. Do it!
#3
Len
26/07/10, 1:19 pm
Can’t excited about this, found the original a real let down after the sterling work they’d (Starbreeze) done with Riddick previously.
Is there really enough interest to warrant it…?
#4
freedoms_stain
26/07/10, 1:52 pm
I liked the original.
I think with a few tweaks it could’ve been awesome, but for what it was it was a good game.
Decently challenging on Hard, although if you wanted you could pretty much hide in a corner and send the creeper out to massacre anyone and anything. I think they need to set a boundary on how long you can use it and how far it could go above just darkness power draining, as long as you kept eating hearts you could go for miles.
#5
Dr.Ghettoblaster
26/07/10, 2:32 pm
The original was fantastic back in ’07 (minus the WW1 levels). Been waiting for a sequel announcement for some time.
#6
The Hindle
26/07/10, 3:13 pm
Meh Digital extremes track record is hardly that good so im pretty sceptical about this.
#7
koourosh
26/07/10, 4:39 pm
seriously why on earth would DE work on this project ??
first one was great but i can’t really hope the same for
this one…
#8
Alakratt
26/07/10, 4:44 pm
DE should do a Dark Sector sequel, AND add trophies for the first one…lol…couldn’t resist.
#9
YoungZer0
26/07/10, 6:19 pm
I’m very interested. Hope it’s going to be Third Person.
#10
revolting
26/07/10, 7:03 pm
The first one was a flawed beauty. Some parts of it were really inspired and nifty, while other parts were more generic than an out of date bag of plain crisps.
I’m indifferent to the change of developers for the sequel, but if it means Starbreeze get more time freed up for the Syndicate remake, I’m all for it.
#11
AHA-Lambda
26/07/10, 10:30 pm
sweet, DO IT, DO IT NAO!!
#12
DaMan
27/07/10, 2:43 pm
meh, not interested. the game was allright but it didn’t do much for me.