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Darksiders Trailer

Biblical action in an open-world setting from THQ.

Jun. 15 2009

Posted by: Brad

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Oriental_Jams

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Edited By Oriental_Jams

Huh, looks like Too Human. Kinda.

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Edited By Jeffsekai

This looks sweet

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@Oriental_Jams:
yah thats definetly the vibe im gettin also
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Edited By Galv

I agree that it looks similar to Too Human.
Looks like it could be alright.

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Edited By Rockanomics

SPACE ARTHAS HAS COME FOR YOUUUU

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Edited By RawShark

Animation looks realy stifled because of those roid-pumped character models =/
War has HUEG limbs.

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Edited By Fritzerbacon

ya, Too Human meets...Prototype (just cuz the way he picked up that car) meets... End of the world apocalypse? and maybe some God of War quicktime events?

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Edited By Tarsier

concept is pretty cool, but the animation looks bad. is it an MMO? if so then i might think about getting it..

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Edited By Jimbo

They decided to rip off Too Human of all things?  Good call.

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Edited By Kohe321

Looks allright.

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Fuck. It's the same with almost all of these god of war type action games, the trailers convince me to buy them for some reason. 

I like the premise for this one, sounds pretty unique 
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Edited By MeatSim

So Too Human expect in a modern urban city.

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Edited By JamesKond

Too Human with good controls, yay
Also that looks way more like DMC (see the gunplay?) also the spawning blue shit that's so DMC, what's wrong with you people? only because it has some dark sinister voice saying doesn't make it like Too Human

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Edited By Andheez

I guess I can see how the character models are similiar to too Human, but the gameplay looked completely different.  (Too Human very underrated gameplay in my opinion, just damn fun, can't wait for #2)  While this looked kinda bland, it is defeinently a new premise to I will give them credit there to be sure.

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Edited By EmptyQuarter

Love that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are now seen as Greek and Norse mythology rip-offs.


I really like the colour palette they've got going on. 
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Edited By MasonL87

So it's a cross between Hulk Ultimate Destruction and God of War?

Effin' A! Two of my favorite games, mixed together into a fine paste, with a dash of creative storytelling and sacrilegious stuff folded in.

Looks fun.

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Edited By Vonocourt

Not really digging the character designs there.

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Edited By Serker

Very Arthas-y... good on them for making their first trailer all gameplay. Looks interesting enough, not as gritty as I thought it would look... game needs more Dante's Inferno and God of War, and less Too Human

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Edited By okuzy

hahaha at 0:52 I expected him to say "his name...is arthas".

anyone else think this is the same voice actor as the WoW guy?
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Edited By Jayzilla

lol. why do people always steal from the bible but never stick to it? the source material is so much better than "War" fighting both heaven and hell lol.

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Edited By Whiskeyjack

Dear Joe Madureira,

Please stop trying to make video games and finish Battle Chasers. We've been waiting for issue  #10 since the end of 2001. Thanks.

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@Jimbo said:
" They decided to rip off Too Human of all things?  Good call. "
one of the developers said it was more like Zelda than anything else. 
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Edited By irishjohn

Very cool trailer but I don't know about the game itself.

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Edited By Satune

Gory violent fighting scenes, one button push weak ass guns, yep its a 3D action beat em up!

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Edited By Samaritan

I love the premise but don't we have enough hack'n'slashers on the market right now?

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Edited By Arjuna

JESUS CHRIST!!!

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Edited By Coltonio7

Ahh this actually looks pretty cool. A little too much ROBOT and not enough OMG HE'S WAR.

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Edited By Cerza

Been there... Done that... Sooooo, What else ya got?

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Edited By cowdrunk

I've been watching this one for a quite a wile and am looking forward to it comeing out....but what is with thies terrabel trailers?

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Edited By Agnogenic_delete

That looks really sweet. :D

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Edited By InsanePotato

Has me psyched. I like the story/setting alot.


The guy talking sounds nothing like Arthas btw.
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Edited By jdevl

Still holding out hope for this one. Looks better than the last trailer I saw, and I'm digging the art style which makes it stand out a bit from God of War and Dante's Inferno. I'll take a polished and colorful style over another brown and muddy default Unreal Engine mess.

Also, it would be nice to see THQ get another surprise hit on their hands if this and Red Faction sell better than expected. Competition is always good.

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Edited By Chummy8

Been looking forward to this game for a while now.. let's hope it lives up to it's potential.

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Edited By CallMeRotten

I love how this game looks.

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Edited By SenatorSpacer

That looks fucking awesome!

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Edited By zityz

I forgot all about this game. Or at least what the name of this game was called. I don't really see how it resembles Too Human except for myabe the angel thing with glowing wings but uh okay. They should have shown more gameplay with you riding on the horse and the more openess of the game as well, unless all that has completly changed then if so, bleh.

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Edited By Xeiphyer

I like their source material, but I'm not really digging the character model, the enemies look cool enough but War looks kinda squished down like hes not very tall or something, not to mention he looks a lot like a marine guy from Dawn of War, or any other power suit giant armor wearing person like in gears or most other games coming out these days.

I would like him to look way more epic, or atleast be able to become more epic which will hopefully be the case, Also I kind of get the feel that this game is going to have most of the cool stuff shown through scripted events rather than just badassery you can accomplish during gameplay.

Don't take my comments to mean much though, lets wait till we see the game, because either way, its just a trailer. Kudos for using lots of gameplay stuff though.

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Edited By Death_Unicorn

I love the potential, but I don't thing I like the execution.

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Edited By smokeH

im interested in the storyline and just what they could do with it and the whole concept but thats if they do it right. Probably going to pick this up anyways check it out for myself.

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Edited By dQuarters
Here's a list of games I've seen Darksiders accused of ripping off ...
  • Dante's Inferno
  • Dark Sector
  • Dawn of War
  • Devil May Cry
  • God of War
  • Gears of War
  • Hulk Ultimate Destruction
  • Prototype
  • Shadow of the Colossus
  • Soul Reaver
  • Too Human
  • World of Warcraft
  • Zelda

Those are just the one's I can recall at the moment. In peoples' lazy attempts to pigeonhole this game, they've actually highlighted its diversity in both artist direction and gameplay. Not to mention most of the games people think of when they see Darksiders are awesome AAA games.
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Edited By chickendoughnut

for a moment I thought it was another fable. lol

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Edited By Gelatinousgelboy

So I'm getting God of War + Warhammer 40k here. Biiiig meh.

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I'm happy that there's very little chance of morality based game play.

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Edited By EpicReflex

Too Human? I don't see where that comparison is being drawn. If anything, it's anouther God Of War clone.

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Edited By leky1

set in modern world but using swords? i mean what the f*ck?"

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KRATOS IS BACK MOTHERF*CKERS!



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very cool

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Something between Archangel and Hellgate London with the sword that is almost an exact copy of the sword the bad guy had in Dungeon Siege 2 if i remember correctly...and of course another third person perspective game which is so trendy at the time i think.

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Edited By raidingkvatch

Betrayed? After vengeance? Torn between Heaven and Hell? This concept is fucked up! Seriously where do they get this shit from? How can any of the horsemaen have been betrayed yet when the game is set in seemingly modern times? Therefore the apocalypse has not happened yet!

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Edited By skrutop

I'd be interested to see how Darksiders compares to the other open-world superhero games on the market.  The premise is certainly interesting, but the art style is a bit of a mixed bag in my opinion.