Eerder dit jaar leerden we dat The Darkness II werd doorgeschoven naar het volgende jaar, gelukkig leren we vandaag dat hier een goede reden voor is.
2K Games kondigt vandaag namelijk de Vendettas co-op mode aan voor de game. Het betreft een verhaallijn die parallel loopt aan de singleplayer en voor vier vrienden speelbaar is, waarbij ieder een karakter met unieke Darkness krachten krijgt. Doel is om ieders rol binnen de verhaallijn te ontdekken, waarbij samenspel voorop staat. De karakters staan hieronder beschreven:
Inugami: Wielding the mythical Kusanagi samurai sword rumored to have killed ten thousand innocents, Inugami is a dark and mentally unstable character with revenge-driven motives against The Brotherhood and their allies for the slaughter of his entire family. He can also use a swarm of miniature demons to attack and immobilize his enemies.
Shoshanna: Shoshanna is an ultra-efficient agent for Mossad, the Israeli Intelligence Agency, who was sent to New York to combat a spike in Brotherhood activity. Her obedience and devotion to her superiors makes her a perfect operative, and she harbors a passion for hunting and destroying evil in the world as part of her legacy. Shoshanna wields the Arm of the Night, a powerful weapon fueled with Dark essence and the power to fire multiple rounds of gunfire at one time.
Jimmy Wilson: A product of inner-city Glasgow, Scotland, and a notorious alcoholic, Jimmy believes The Brotherhood is simply another form of the Hated English that persecuted his family in the past, and he travels to New York to torment them to the fullest extent. He wields the Dark Axe, and has the ability to summon Darklings that he commonly refers to as “Little Jimmys”.
J.P. DuMond: A former doctor from New Orleans, DuMond is burdened with guilt for using a form of Louisiana Voodoo to heal his patients. The use of dark magic drew the attention of The Brotherhood, an organization which J.P. is now forced to combat in order to halt their pursuit of evil relics. J.P. wields the Midnight Stick and can pull enemies into an anatomy-crushing vortex when he tosses his Box of Tricks – a black metal box filled with dark power - into an open area.
In Vendettas zit tevens de Hit List mode, waarbij we als speler onze favoriete momenten uit de campagne nog eens kunnen doorlopen, echter met nieuwe scenario's.
