Darksiders - PC Game Review

Darksiders is supernatural third-person fighting game.

I am not a big fan of the 3rd person view, and only occasionally I have liked a game that uses it (Prototype comes to mind, specially as it has several mechanics similar to Darksiders). The fact that there  doesn't seem to be a way to use mouse + keyboard instead of the game controller doesn't help.

You are War, and somehow was summoned to Earth as forces from Heaven and Hell started battling. Most of the time you will swing your sword around to kill your enemies. That is well done enough and somewhat fun.

First boss in the game - the Destroyer

You can also grab and throw objects - such as cars - at enemies. For whatever reason I never really got the hang of it and it felt somewhat off to me. It also required in the first boss fight - the Destroyer (on the image above) will pop them from below your viewpoint and throw them at you, at which point you can grab exactly one and throw it back at him.

Several of the mechanics feel contrived and carefully scripted like that - much like the rest of the game. There are also the required "kill the bad guys before continuing" areas - where they don't even try to make an excuse, a "force field" just appear on the exits. There are also frequent points where the way back is somehow destroyed.

You can also get extra weapons and souls to trade, but frankly, at this point I wasn't enjoying the gameplay much, so I just left.

Overall, too much near a chore rather than fun for me, so not recommended.