She’s desperate to be the leader of the Horsemen – a role none of the others have ever cared about – and it seems like she’ll almost blindly follow the series’ well-established Charred Council’s orders to reach her goal. Even in the few cutscenes I saw, Fury seems more driven, hungrier, and probably more stubborn than War or Death ever were. With a new Darksiders comes a new protagonist, and Gunfire assured me that Fury (voiced by Firewatch’s Cissy Jones) has the strongest arc of any of the characters yet. Of course, there are significant changes. We went through this process of, what are some of the tropes that you get rid of, what are some of the tropes that you keep? We sanded it down, and here we are.” That completely made sense to me. I know that sounds odd, but that’s one of my favourite things about it. One of the designers told me, “It’s a video game.
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Honestly, I think I’m mostly comforted by the fact that Gunfire – a team comprised largely of the original Vigil Games group that made the first two games – seems to have done a remarkable job of modernising the series without departing from the core pillars of the franchise at all.
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It has evolved significantly since the first time I played it, but it’s still, at its core, a post-apocalyptic, hack’n’slash, puzzle-filled adventure set in a world full of angels, demons, and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
The long-awaited sequel went dark after the reveal trailer was posted in May 2017, but just a couple of weeks ago, I was able to play almost two hours of the latest build at the Gunfire Games studio in Austin, Texas. And just above the words ‘Press Any Key’, right in the front and center of the screen: Darksiders III. Seeing little embers drift across the screen, with a slowly building, slightly gothic orchestral track and the bold, angular logo for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse lingering in the background, is one of the most unexpectedly welcoming things I’ve seen in a while.
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