This is my attempt at informing the community who already own Darksiders 2 and is not actually a review of the game itself. For the sake of being able to post I will recommend the game as the game itself is a good game, but this practice of keeping consumers in the dark needs to stop! So if you are a new customer who doesn't own Darksiders 2 just ignore the rest I am about to write for the game is excellent and Vigil Games deserves your money in order to make Darksiders 3. Now If you already own Darksiders 2 then save your money and redeem your free key through this web page. http://ds2dekeyredeem.nordicgames.at/
I had no idea this was even a thing and I really wish I was informed of this, but sadly I found out about this just now after a friend got his free copy. Nordic Games not mentioning this for Steam users is shady as all Helheim and it is obvious they did this to score more sales out of us loyal fans by keeping us in the dark about this while also making themselves feel smug and charitable by having a web page at all. I mean just look at the damn web page! Doesn't that look shady!?

If you are in doubt whether this is legitimate or not then I don't blame you, you can see my own breakdown to this news in both these forum posts.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/50650/discussions/0/492379439692091931/
http://steamcommunity.com/app/388410/discussions/0/492379439692084930/

And you know what sucks the most? They didn't even let me have my free copy when I tried to redeem it because I already owned the Deathinitive Edition, how messed up is that!? Not even a copy to gift to a friend...

Welcome FateWeaver! ( SteamUserID: 76561197971286820 )
You own Darksiders II
You own the Darksiders II Season Pass
You own the Darksiders II Arguls Tomb DLC
You own the Darksiders II The Abyssal Forge DLC
You own the Darksiders II The Demon Lord Belial DLC

You already own Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition. Enjoy playing it!

We would appreciate a positive review on the Steam Store Page! Thank you,
Nordic Games

Enjoy playing it they say, how the Helheim can I enjoy playing it when they hoodwinked me and the rest of us loyal fans like this!?

Write a positive review they said... The nerve on these people... Well they can forget it!!! Instead I am informing you the reader about this so you can avoid feeding Nordic Game another shady and undeserved sale!!! Stick it to them where it hurts so they will learn to not take advantage of their fanbase community!!!

One of the worst Port ever...
TO Many BUGS..
Any time you play you will finde more and more.
And the Game have the Worst port system ever, is incredibly Hard to use in PC.

If you paly it and have near to 30h gameplay always exist the change to return and loose the save..
And in that BUG, It also has the STEAM responsibility.

Not recommend waste of money even if the game is good.
Or w8 to take with 2~5 $ MAX

Rating 7.5/10
Overview: Third Person Action RPG

The Good:

+ If you love Legend of Zelda dungeons then you will love this game. Between the main game, side quests and DLC there are roughly 20 dungeons to complete. The dungeons provide a good mix of puzzle solving, platforming and combat with a decent boss battle at the end.

+ 2 skill trees to develop your character. One skill tree focuses more on offensive abilities while the other focuses more on summoning and defensive abilities.

+ Lots of different loot to customize your character. Loot has different modifiers to fit your playstyle, i.e health on kill, fire damage, ice damage etc. Mix and match different loot to get the best results. Special weapons can be upgraded allowing you to customize what attributes it gets.

+ Combat is fast and fluid making good use of all your combat abilities.

+ The story is somewhat minimal but does a good job of further fleshing out the story of the horseman

+ The crucible allows you to play 100 waves of fighting enemies that get progressively harder with each wave. After every 5 waves, you have a choice of accepting loot or quitting. The higher the waves the better the loot.

+ The additional DLC is also worth playing, providing more dungeons, unique enemies and weapons.

+ Fantastic soundtrack and voice acting

The Average:

+/- Bigger doesn’t always mean better. What this game makes up for in size it lacks in focus. The open world is big but also feels a bit empty. The open design of each world feels ‘segregated’.

+/- Graphics have been updated and the new lighting looks impressive but like the first game, I’m not so sure it’s a reason to replay the entire game over again.

+/- Given the vast amount of loot given, I would have liked a better UI to manage everything. It would have been nice to have an option to put items in a junk pile and then sell everything to a vendor all at once rather than having to select every individual piece of loot.

The Bad:

- The side quests are atrocious. Almost all of them is some sort of collect-a-thon requiring a walk-through to find every little piece. To make matters worse, to complete one side quest you must complete another first, so you must collect everything. Many of these collectibles can add a permanent boost to your stats. The good news however is that these side quests are completing optional.

- The game suffers from technical performance. The game crashed on me a few times, experience some odd glitches etc. Its been well over a year since the last update. The developers have promised a new patch but that still remains to be seen.

Conclusion:
Like its predecessor, this game borrows different elements from different games and puts it together in one cohesive package. Its an action RPG with the platforming from Prince of Persia with level design from Legend of Zelda. A solid recommendation for anybody interested in the genre.

I'll start off by saying this game does not have many of the bugs and issues that people are saying in other reviews, I'm guessing they're reviewing the original game and not the deathinitive edition since this version of the game does work pretty well. There are one or two bugs here and there but nothing completely gamebreaking. For example the game sometimes crashes when you minimize, Bringing up the steam ui sometimes breaks the controls for some reason and that's a bit messy, there's a couple parts in the game where your progress is blocked by an invisible wall but if you just go back to the main menu or restart the game that usually fixes it. Aside from that no other problems here.

First of all I want to talk about the improvements over the first game. There are many. The climing is a lot better, the combat is a lot better, the abilities aren't as annoying to use and switch out, the game overall feels a lot more complete, it's a much bigger open world, lot more to do, side quests here and there. Just overall Darksiders 2 improves everything over the first game. There are a whole load more weapons in the game and armor and just loads of different item drops that you can use to make yourself stronger, there are a lot more moves you can learn from different characters. Those are a just a few of the cool new things in the game.

The story seems to be parallel to the first game, as in it takes place at the same time and it is cool to see another one of the four legendary horsemen. It has a lot of new characters and a few returning characters, it's a pretty good story really. Like I said the gameplay is very good and much improved over the original. Not too much bad to say about the game.

There are however still a few bad things to say about the game. First of all the keyboard controls aren't very good at all. They're all mapped weird. For example in all the menus you have to press space bar on most of it and then if you want to fast travel you have to hover your mouse over a place and then press enter even though you press space in the rest of the menus, and then in-game space is just jump so it can get confusing. Some of the puzzles are quite annoying too, maybe they're just difficult but some are just a pain in the a$$, not fun to figure out. The graphical options aren't much, and the shadows on the characters are terrible, all pixelly and whatnot. There is a dodge roll but it's really annoying cause if you do it 3 times in a row you'll do a super roll that leaves you vunerable for a second and slows you to a hault, that's very annoying especially in boss fights where you need to dodge a whole load of times.

Overall this game is decent, much better improvement over the first game and a must play if you have played the original, there are some problems but nothing game breaking. I'd give it a solid 8/10.

to game gamaei

I have to go alone.
This is no place for a horse.

This game is just horriby broken. 30 hours into the game and there's a game breaking crash at the archon cut scene. Dev's said they would fix this back in 2015. It's still broken.

Darksiders and its sequel remain some of my favorite games from the previous generation. The first game was clearly and deliberately derivative of some of the best titles in history, Zelda and God of War chief among them. The dungeon crawling and puzzles were top notch, as was the sense of progression and the combat, while simple, was visceral and satisfying in a way that Zelda's never was. As important, however, was the story which was filled with engaging characters and a lore that was much more interesting than something based on Biblical mythology (not an uncommon road to tread) had any right to be. War, Samael, Vulgrim, Ulthane and Uriel were all extremely memorable characters.

And oh, that ending.

Darksiders II was one of the first games in years I'd preordered. I was looking forward to the game largely because I honestly never thought it would come when I finished the first game. Somehow, in spite of all of that anticipation, I was not disappointed. The world that Darksiders II presents is incredible. It isn't vast or filled to the brim with random events like many open world games; in essence, it's not one; but it is absolutely beautiful in its creativity and heart. It's clear that the game was crafted with care and that the developers and artists weren't just making set pieces but building something beyond the ruined Earth we see in the first game -- a world apart from the one we know.

The game expands on many concepts from the original. The combat is less heavy than the original's but is sped up considerably, with Death feeling more akin to Dante than Kratos which is very fitting for his lithe appearance. The fixed equipment from the original is replaced by a randomized loot system -- one of the game's few missteps, as this results in a less satisfying feeling of progression or, when all is said and done, completion.

The story remains engaging, introducing a whole slew of new characters with some familiar faces resurfacing throughout. The only negative is that the ending feels a bit lackluster as it doesn't really progress the story significantly from the original, though there are heavy implications for what's to come next.

That all leads me to the Deathinitive Edition. The launch of the game was marred somewhat by a crashing issue which was resolved within a day of release and a large swath of people complaining because their discount was less than others'. Removing those non-issues, the DE itself stands as a fantastic rendition and a worthy upgrade to the original. The implementation of the DLC weapons and armor make them feel like real, substantial items in the game world rather than throwaway trinkets which are useless within a few hours' gametime. I would have liked the Story DLC to somehow have been implemented directly into the campaign however I see how that would have been difficult.

Performance, after some beta patches and hotfixes, has been noticeably improved over the original and the game looks GORGEOUS by comparison. Initially, the picture may come off as a bit less saturated and in some areas that's simply the case (the opening of the game is the most heavily impacted by this so far, I think) but much of this is due to the much more realistic lighting. Overall, I think it adds depth and a slight touch of realism that really makes the game's world breathe. A simple improvement is that metallic objects now have a metallic sheen -- it's incredible how much this small change has impacted the visuals but in an odd way it adds weight and density to Death's armor and weapons.

Overall, I can't recommend this version enough, especially to current owners who currently get an extremely steep discount. For new owners, this is still among the best games of last generation and this is simply the best version of the game available. I'm really excited to see what Nordic and Gunfire do with this series moving forward.

I dream of one day seeing Darksiders 3 and 4, with Fury and Strife.
Some say that dream died along with THQ but I still have hope.

This is no place for a horse