Darksiders wasn’t the game I expected it to be.

Admittedly, I didn’t pay too much attention to this game when it was originally making the press rounds.  I had initially dismissed it as another game featuring beefy dudes swinging swords and firing guns at other beefy dudes; a game that I had played numerous times before.  As the game neared release, however, I learned that the lion’s share of the writing and art had been helmed by Joe Madureira, who had written one of my favorite comics from my high school years, Battle Chasers.  A comic that featured….beefy dudes swinging swords and shooting guns at other beefy dudes.

What I expected was a straight up action game, and what I got was an adventure game with a lot of elements borrowed heavily from The Legend of Zelda.  This is not a bad thing.

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