![]() ![]() Sometimes you’ll have to decide when it’d be a good idea to use a car door as a bullet shield or if you should try chucking some metal pipes at your foes instead. Plus, there’s a little bit of tactical thinking in how you use your arms to pick up objects in the game environment. You won’t exactly feel like a one-man army when using it, but being able to throw enemies up into the air or stun them does foster the feeling that you’ll always have an edge over your opponents. The Darkness takes the form of two snake-like creatures hanging off your shoulders, which you can use to grab, slash, and do all sorts of nasty things to your enemies. Not only can you shoot and blast your way through various mobsters and Brotherhood cannon fodder with a full assortment of automatic weaponry, but your primary weapon will be the Darkness itself. The combat of The Darkness II is incredibly fun. Jackie’s also having a hard time controlling the Darkness, and is starting to have a mental breakdown complete with hallucinations of his dead girlfriend Jenny and occasional trips to a mental hospital that may or may not be real. And given Jackie’s constant monologues about his grim life leading up to acquiring the Darkness, he’s none too happy about letting it out again after years of keeping its raspy voice silent. ![]() Turns out, some mysterious and evil organization known as the Brotherhood is trying to get at the Darkness, and is willing to do anything to get it from Jackie, up to and including murdering everyone he’s ever known. Things don’t stay quiet though, and The Darkness II opens with a particularly loud and messy assassination attempt against Jackie in an Italian restaurant. After his girlfriend Jenny is killed, Jackie goes a little crazy with the Darkness to avenge her death before suppressing it and trying to live the good, quiet mafia life for a while. Our hero Jackie Estacado, a young mobster, is cursed with a power known as the Darkness, granting him superpowers but at the cost of his sanity and soul slowly being eroded. If you missed out on the first The Darkness, here’s a quick summary. ![]()
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