Somehow, Darksiders is Making an Apocalyptic Return to Games

We’re successful an property wherever immoderate and everything aged tin conscionable signifier a comeback, often wholly out of the blue. If you request an thought of however wide that nett goes, it looks similar the Darksiders franchise is returning to video games?

On Friday afternoon, THQ Nordic enactment retired trailers for its slate of upcoming games. One featured a trio of unmoving chromatic creatures dubbed the Charred Council, whose eyes airy up successful flames and utter the connection “Horseman.” Cut to black, followed by the tagline of: “Be prepared to thrust again.” Is it a remake, oregon a full caller game? Unclear, but Remnant 2 developer Gunfire Games (which antecedently helmed Darksiders III) volition caput up the project, which presently has nary merchandise windows oregon expected consoles.

If you haven’t played Darksiders, it’s 1 of the alien gaming franchises from the 2010s. Story-wise, the archetypal 2010 crippled focused connected War, the youngest of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He accidentally triggered said apocalypse prematurely and was sent to a ruined Earth to redeem his name. Eventally, War learned the Council acceptable him up arsenic the autumn guy, and the crippled ended with him calling connected his siblings to instrumentality up arms against his bosses, positive the abstracted forces of Heaven and Hell.

You’d deliberation the adjacent crippled would absorption connected the Horsemen wrecking it up together, right? Well, aboriginal games ne'er made bully connected that ending’s four-player promise. Darksiders II and III were parallel sequels respectively starring chap Horsemen Death and Fury, portion Strife co-starred with War successful the 2020 prequel Darksiders: Genesis. Beyond that, the bid was notably comic book-y arsenic hell; Battle Chasers artist Joe Madureira co-directed and co-wrote the archetypal 2 games and designed the characters. Each rubric has besides switched genres; the archetypal 2 games were influenced by God of War and Zelda, Metroidvanias and soulslikes inspired Darksiders 3, and Genesis was driven by top-down and Diablo.

Several aged crippled franchises person resurfaced aft a agelong clip away, but nary of them person failed to consistently present connected its promises rather like Darksiders. If Gunfire and THQ privation to bring it backmost from death, by each means—let’s conscionable determination the bid guardant and not drawstring players on again, yeah?

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