Darksiders Warmastered Edition
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
The player's finishing moves tear enemies apart, decapitating and dismembering demons as on-screen executions.
The player fights demon and angel enemies in constant melee and ranged combat, with blood spraying from blows against a heavily stylized comic-book art style.
The plot turns on a premature apocalypse that has nearly exterminated humanity, and the ruined world and mass death of mankind are shown as the setting.
Demonic enemies and dark, ruined or hellish environments are unsettling, but nothing hunts the player and there are no jump scares.
Demonic figures, apocalyptic seals and infernal symbols appear throughout the world and its lore.
Characters use mild profanity such as 'hell' and 'damn' in scripted dialogue.
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What it is
Darksiders Warmastered Edition is a remaster of a third-person action-adventure hack-and-slash game. You play as War, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, who is falsely blamed for triggering the end of the world and sent back to a ruined, demon-overrun Earth to clear his name. Play mixes weighty melee combat against demons and angels with Zelda-style dungeons, exploration and environmental puzzles. Combat is bloody and features brutal player-executed finishing moves that dismember or tear apart enemies. The setting is heavily apocalyptic, with the near-extinction of humanity and a war between Heaven and Hell running through the story, alongside demonic and infernal imagery. There is mild profanity, no sexual content or nudity, and no drugs, gambling or online interaction — it is a single-player game with no purchases.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence as a cosmic quest for justice and balance: War is a wronged figure hunting the true architect of the apocalypse, and slaying demonic and angelic foes is the core, rewarded activity. Brutal finishers are presented as empowering, stylised spectacle in a comic-book art style rather than as realistic cruelty, and the apocalyptic devastation is treated as grave backdrop driving the hero's mission.
Details
- Developer
- KAIKO
- Publisher
- THQ Nordic
- Released
- Nov 29, 2016
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