Top Cow, at this years Comic Con, finally confirmed The Darkness 2 is in the works for 360 and PS3. They also stated that Starbreeze Studios would not be working on the sequel in any capacity.

Sadly no media was available to accompany the announcement. No date also.

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Well, without Starbreeze, I'm not so sure about it. While I loved The Darkness a whole lot, I'm glad to see Starbreeze has moved on. They've proven to be an amazing company and I can't wait to see what they can come up with next.

Hmm, i got the first today and have already nearly completed it. Excited

I want me some Starbreeze though....they're brilliant work on atmosphere is what made that game for me

I still wanna play the first one but I am a little unsure about this since StarBreeze isnt involved

While I'm happy something has been confirmed, I'm upset that StarBreeze is moving on. Whoever takes the reigns over the sequel better take StarBreeze's lead in terms of making a First Person Shooter Adventure game, which is StarBreeze's gameplay trademark. I hope the same level of quality and style with the singleplayer campaign is apparent in the sequel.

While I'm worried who will take over, and to what extent quality the sequel will be. I should point out that StarBreeze is working on a Bourne game. As in The Bourne Identity. As in a perfect property to continue their style of story-telling shooter gameplay they started with Riddick.

I always felt the first Darkness (While did well critically and commercially.) Was kinda skipped out on by a majority of gamers. I thought it was a really well put together product, one of my top five games of that year.

Oh, and the multiplayer should actually try this time.

Good news, I guess. But no Starbreeze makes me a little apprehensive.

No Starbreeze? Pass. :(

" I always felt the first Darkness (While did well critically and commercially.) Was kinda skipped out on by a majority of gamers. I thought it was a really well put together product, one of my top five games of that year. "

w00t

The topic made me excited but no Starbreeze... I don't know. Hopefully it'll still be a great game, or perhaps even better :)..

I couldn't be less excited about this game.

I'll keep an eye on it but it sucks Starbreeze isn't involved.

I still have hope for it, even with a new developer.

I always felt the first Darkness (While did well critically and commercially.) Was kinda skipped out on by a majority of gamers. I thought it was a really well put together product, one of my top five games of that year.

"@vidiot said:

" I always felt the first Darkness (While did well critically and commercially.) Was kinda skipped out on by a majority of gamers. I thought it was a really well put together product, one of my top five games of that year. "

You took the words right out of my mouth. The shooting felt good, the atmosphere was pretty great, the story and the telling of it was compelling, and the darkness powers (especially the tentacles) really worked.  I ask around and yeah, it seems like a whole bunch of people completely passed on this game, which is a shame."

Hate to be dismissive just because of an announcement, but Starbreeze Studios' development really helped the first game become great. I'm not so sure about this one.

I want to be excited...but this could end up being a major disappointment without the involvement of Starbreeze. I just hope whoever's making it doesn't turn it into another run of the mill FPS.

They assured fans that who they do choose for the next game, will please.

fuck yes.

JENNY!!!

I am incredibly wary about this game being made by someone other than Starbreeze.  :\

" JENNY!!!

@Linkyshinks said:

" They assured fans that who they do choose for the next game, will please. "

There are few companies I could think of that would be able to do it.

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" @Linkyshinks: I would LIKE to see Starbreeze take another crack at it, mostly because they have a lot of the groundwork done already.  All they need to do is make the animations more fluid, upgrade their graphics engine a bit more, and offer gameplay that's a bit less stiff.  The rest was pretty much on par with what I wanted.

Nonetheless, since they WON'T be doing it, I think there's only one real choice:  2K Boston or Marin.  It keeps the IP under the 2K banner, we know the guys can do pretty amazing work with a story-driven FPS that focuses on dark subject matter, and it would be awesome to see something that ISN'T Bioshock come from the studios.  Starbreeze laid a great foundation down for making this a venerable franchise, but they missed a couple of key components to grabbing the audiences of today:  graphics that look like more than highly-shadowed Xbox graphics (putting Darkness side-by-side with Riddick on the first Xbox proves to be an interesting test), multiplayer that flows well and handles just as good, an extra sense of place and purpose...and for fuck's sake,  A CITY THAT DOESN'T FEEL LIKE A GHOST TOWN!!!  I really think that 2K Boston, with their Bioshock experience, could do well...but even then, if Marin were to work on it after the release of Bioshock 2, I'm sure it would work just as well.

Besides, as far as we know...2K Boston isn't doing a damn thing right now!

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" Well, without Starbreeze, I'm not so sure about it. While I loved The Darkness a whole lot, I'm glad to see Starbreeze has moved on. They've proven to be an amazing company and I can't wait to see what they can come up with next. "

Great,the first was amaizing...hope they also make a good multiplayer  :D

Really enjoyed the first game, though just moving from one subway to the next was kinda dull. And the finale was a little anti-climactic. I get what they were trying to do, but they'd already done it with the girlfriend so not sure it was necessary. Ah well. A sequel will be welcome :)

So, has there been anything new about this?