The Darkness II Demo Coming Soon (Later For PS3)

[Earnest Cavalli]

The Darkness II Demo Coming Soon (Later For PS3)

Publisher THQ has unveiled its plans for the upcoming The Darkness II demo, and they're unexpectedly complex.

Instead of simply dumping a demo onto the major platforms all at once, THQ has decided that staggering the release based on some kind of arcane profitability index is the best course of action. Thus, American Xbox Live Gold members will get first crack at the title, while European PlayStation 3 owners will have to wait to get their fix of demonic entities voiced by the lead singer from Faith No More.

The company just dropped the full schedule onto the game's official website, so let's have a look:

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17TH
Xbox LIVE: Worldwide (Gold subscribers)

TUESDAY, JANUARY 24TH
Xbox LIVE: Worldwide
PlayStation Network: North America
Steam (PC): Worldwide

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25TH
PlayStation Network: Europe
PlayStation Network: Asia/Pacific

So, in conclusion: This is great news for those who routinely shell out the cash to subscribe to Microsoft's premium online gaming service. That $70/year just bought you a chance to be among the first to play the highly anticipated sequel to the creative, quirky, wildly underappreciated The Darkness. Congrats on that one guys.

On the other hand, I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news for those of you devoted to Sony's platform. If it makes you feel better, you can totally spend that week in PlayStation Home. That's still a thing you guys do, right?

Source: The Darkness II [http://www.embracethedarkness.com/us/news/news6.html]

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[Rad Party God]

On the other hand, I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news for those of you devoted to Sony's platform. If it makes you feel better, you can totally spend that week in PlayStation Home. That's still a thing you guys do, right?

Or, you know, they could play Skyrim and reset their save every 100th save due to that nasty performance issue.

I've never played any Darkness game and I've heard good things of the first game, I'll have to download that demo when it gets released on Steam.

 

[Sylveria]

Yep for just $70 a year you can play DEMOS 1 week before everyone else!

 

[Waaghpowa]

I never played the first one, but a demo means that I will give it the time to try it. PC demo's are rare these days and I appreciate these guys making one.

 

[TastySurvivor]

I love the Darkness, and I cant wait for this demo but.......I want my Mass Effect 3 demo!!!!

 

[Stalydan]

Just pointing out on behalf of Europe and Asia & Pacific, we tend to get our updates midday. So Asia gets it at the same time-ish as NA and Europe gets it a couple of hours later. But still, it's a weird thing to do. I've seen the PSN Plus gets demos early sometimes but that's a premium service. Does a Gold Membership on XBL (pretty much the normal membership for most online gaming services) really count among that category?

 

[jackanderson]

25th of January? Right, that's a day set aside! I can then sail through the demo with a fine tooth comb and see if they've f*cked it up.

Seriously, the first Darkness is my favourite FPS of this generation with easily the best campaign in an FPS this generation too. Tugged on my heartstrings more than once (the level where you just sit and watch a movie with your girlfriend is fantastic... only to be topped when she is mercilessly slaughtered later on. I cried for ages on that).

I am super defensive of it and if this sequel is in any way sub par, I will pounce on it and tear it apart.

So, yeah, rather excited!

 

[ShaneGunWolf]

Earnest's possible Xbox 360 bias aside, The Darkness 2 looks pretty good. I wonder if I should go out and buy the first one...

 

[MercurySteam]

The next Saints Row the Third DLC comes out on the 17th too. Good thing I'm already a Gold member so I can see how the game plays before I pick it up on Feb 10th. Gonna be a fulfilling day.

 

[Genixma]

I want Yahtzee to review Darkness 2 so everything can come full circle as to how he got the gig on the Escapists