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1. #DARKSIDERS 3 CHOSEN LOCATIONS UPGRADE#
2. #DARKSIDERS 3 CHOSEN LOCATIONS PS4#
3. #DARKSIDERS 3 CHOSEN LOCATIONS SERIES#

While there is no map, most of the time it's easy enough to navigate the world, until you defeat a boss and have to find a new way via an old area. You backtrack the small environment often, typically after receiving a new hollow and thus a new jump which allows you to reach new places. It all plays towards a claustrophobia that pervades Darksiders 3. Thank heavens for the great sound design, then, as it alerts you to enemies and when to dodge their attacks. Countering their attacks at the right moment is key, as is wrestling the camera, the fast, straightforward combat given an unnecessary edge thanks to how awkwardly it plays out. In practice, though, this means you get boxed in by enemies who themselves have only a few moves.

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In the lead-up to Darksiders 3, Gunfire Games has said time and time again that this was a deliberate decision from a narrative and character development standpoint: out of the three series protagonists, Fury is the fairer sex, more of a magician and someone who needs to fight at range.

#DARKSIDERS 3 CHOSEN LOCATIONS UPGRADE#

You can collect weapon enhancements and upgrade weapon damage, but since regular attacks and the familiar wrath and havoc forms are the only things in your arsenal, every fight soon begins to feel the same. The force hollow gives some extra crunch to your punch, the fire hollow lets you set things on fire and so forth. Each hollow gives you a weapon and charged attack imbued with a certain element while also changing the way your jump behaves. Initially Fury has just her whip, joined slowly throughout the game by hollows. This view is sooooo 2010.Ĭombat has also been slimmed to just short of the bare minimum. Add to that the game's penchant for cracking jokes about itself, like remarking on how boring the environs are and how obvious the solution to a puzzle is, and the whole thing can be so awkward that the silence becomes preferable. It is not exactly interesting character development. She will gradually tone that urge down to admit that maybe not everyone should die. Sure, most of dialogue in Darksiders has always been quippy one-liners, but Fury's often-teased redemption arc takes her from an absolute caricature to just about bearable.Īt the beginning she's angry, she's surly, she wants to kill. As you walk around, only solving a puzzle or beating a boss will result in small exchanges.

You're introduced to Fury's horse and her obligatory sidekick, only to never hear from them again, or much else for that matter. Fury is left with the task of capturing the seven deadly sins down on earth. The story, what little there is, runs parallel to its predecessor: War is charged by the Council for unleashing the apocalypse, Death is out to prove his brother's innocence and Strife is, uh, busy dealing with other things.

The intricate character design is as enjoyable as always. Unfortunately Gunfire Games goes about the trim like an overzealous hairstyling trainee who didn't know when to stop, leaving us with a game that just barely skirts the edges of boredom at times. The Darksiders sequel we have now is the result of this precarious second lease of life.ĭarksiders 2 introduced drastic changes, like the massive inventory, the large number of weapons and the skill tree, to little applause, so part three does away with all of that. Six years after the last instalment - and some five years since the liquidation of the series' original publisher - Darksiders now has a new-ish publisher and a new-ish developer: THQ Nordic rose out of the ashes of THQ and many of the original Darksiders devs now work at Gunfire Games.

#DARKSIDERS 3 CHOSEN LOCATIONS PS4#

Availability: Out now on Xbox One, PS4 and PC.In Darksiders 3, you get to do that once again - and little else besides. When elsewhere the worlds are getting bigger, the narratives more urgent and the collectables more numerous, games such as Darksiders generally have only one goal: hitting monsters on the noggin. There's something of the palate cleanser to the faithful hack and slash game. Darksiders' schlocky action makes a welcome return, though it's not enough to shake the feeling you've played this before - and better.