The Darkness II

"Most critics gave this game about a 7 or an 8, which are good scores, but not a lot of people picked this one up. [...] The voice acting was some of the best I've heard it video games, period, and the production value of the story mind-blowingly good. Couple that with the fact that you got to literally tear people's spines out through their assholes using demonic arms, and you've got yourself a recipe for one hell of a game. It was a perfect example of a linear game working how it should."

- Sohinki

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Game information
The Darkness II is a 2012 first-person shooter developed by Digital Extremes and published by 2K Games. It is the sequel to 2007's The Darkness. The player controls an Italian-American hitman named Jackie Estacado, head of a New York crime family and wielder of an ancient and ruthless force of chaos and destruction called The Darkness. It has been two years since he has used The Darkness to kill the men responsible for his girlfriend Jenny’s murder. He has been unable to shake the memory of her death since bottling up his supernatural power and now The Darkness wants out. A sudden, unprovoked attack by a mysterious organization called the Brotherhood heralds the start of a full-scale war and opens the door for The Darkness to reemerge, setting Jackie on a journey to hell and worse.

The Darkness II received generally favorable reviews on all platforms. Reviewers praised its dark story, gameplay, finishing moves, visuals, and multiplayer, but criticized its while criticizing the campaign's relatively short length, the ending, and problems reviving allies in multiplayer. GameRankings and Metacritic gave the PS3 version 77.35% and 79/100, the Xbox 360 version 80.90% and 80/100, and the PC version 76.78% and 77/100 respectively.