This event is subject to the availabilty of the game.
My video game bud says there are a lot of people in line ahead of me to rent this game.
Game Access is not dependable for new issues. The event will take place if I have a copy of the game. If not perhaps someone else would like to host.
This is a four-player co-op I believe.


Here is the Game spot critique:
I'd like to play Shshanna or DuMond If anybody else wants her/him too, we can rock paper scissors for it.


The levels we played through essentially amounted to fetch-questing. At the start, the team are told that Estacado needs them to rescue a mobster or find an artefact and then the player heads into a level, which involves running through an environment and shooting at anything that moves (the levels we played through involved a junkyard, a printing press and what looked like a run-down housing project).

Players can carry two firearms along with their Darkness weapon. They also have the option of dual-wielding by hitting down on the D-Pad, but this means they can't aim down the sights of the two guns they're holding. It's rare they'll need to use iron-sights all that much (although it does happen) because most of the action takes place in close quarters and at quite a frenetic pace. It's also graphically violent.

Due to the fact that the Darkness team are all superpowered beings, they're able to soak up quite a bit of damage before they go down. They can also keep their health levels topped up by using their Darkness weapon to extract the hearts of any of the enemies they've killed.

The Darkness weapons do feel a tad overpowered; one blast from Shoshanna's shotgun can send an opponent flying with a massive hole in their chest, while Inugami's katana cuts through enemies like they're made out of paper.

Wilson's axe is a thrown weapon, which returns to his hand like the hammer of Thor. DuMond's staff is the odd bird in this flock as attacks with it aren't lethal. Instead, the staff allows the player to levitate foes briefly, and then they can riddle their target with bullets while they're suspended helplessly in the air.

Each team member also has an execution attack. Players arm this by firing one or two shots into a victim and then moving in for the kill when a prompt to hit the left bumper appears.

At this point Inugami and Wilson will use their weapons to chop a foe in half, DuMond levitates them into the air and twists them apart, and Shoshanna puts her shotgun in the victim's mouth and literally blows their head off.

It's all quite visceral, although the in-game dialogue and comic-book cel-shaded graphics combine to make it seem more cartoon-like than shocking.

The AI doesn't seem too challenging, although it doesn't let the mode down. Players need to take stock of their surroundings because the AI will try to box them in and flank them should the opportunity present itself.


They also need to take out any electric lights in the environment as direct exposure to light weakens their abilities and will ultimately kill them. It's also worth keeping an eye-out for shimmering Darkness portals; players earn XP for kills, headshots, Darkness weapon usage, hearts they collect and executions, and can spend these points at a portal to level up their special abilities.

The other mode in Vendettas, Hit List, is a drop-in/drop-out mode where players can replay missions from the co-op Campaign mode. It also contains a set of unlockable missions that are exclusive to the mode and some levels that require two players.

Unfortunately, at the preview event we attended, we couldn't play any of the Hit List content, nor could we play the levels offered us in Campaign any other way except solo, due to Wi-Fi issues. So we can't report on Hit List or how Campaign stacks up when tackled with a few mates. We can say, however, that Campaign seems perfectly serviceable as a solo experience.

Still, the meat of the matter in The Darkness II is the main campaign, and so far no details have been forthcoming. In a world where the dominant trend in shooters is to package a short campaign with an extensive multiplayer, that's more than a little worrying.

Make no mistake, Vendettas looks fine and plays very well, but really, we're hoping it's a tantalising extra and not the main event.



Sounds inviting doesn't it?
I can't wait.
Ah, the imagined perfection of anticipation!

I will join you!! I will be getting the limited edition!! Happy gaming!

i got it too Al! count me in whenever if you have room?

I have the game also.

So far we have:

1) Law
2) Jen
3) Lone
4) AG

This looks like a killer-game!!!!!

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Sorry I gotta back out. Wife wants some couple time with a movie. Gotta know when to hold em and when to fold them I guess.

Yes. I arrived a litle late.
I suppose there can be too many events scheduled.
Melt-down can be the consequence.

I'm trying to organize a boosting for Saturday of Gow2 .....really complicated. March will mark a very big reduction in my hosting duties. It's great when it works, but so often it doesn't. The unplanned gaming sessions often work better than the planned ones.

Starting in March, if anyone wants to game with me, they can message me when I'm on.
Everyone has family preoccupations, jobs with shift work, social engagements, all of which contribute to a happy well-balanced life. So, it leaves less time for gaming. that's natural. totally the way it should be.

I'm seriously considering starting a site called "The Obsessive gamers" or "Gaming achievements b-4 life achievements" or "Gaming is life the rest is like the fable of Plato.

Plato lets Socrates describe a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them, and begin to ascribe forms to these shadows. According to Plato's Socrates, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to viewing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall do not make up reality at all, as he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners.

and so you see, gaming is real. Everything else is a shadow projected on a wall.

I'm joking of course.

March will allow me to gain a little perspective.

Take it easy.

In closing, I would hasten to add that I'm only being semi-ironic when I say that I might start a site for rabid gamers. I would feel totally at home there. I enjoy gaming until 4 a.m. periodically. Gotta find me some fellow obsessives.