🎮 GenreAction, Adventure, First-Person Shooter, Horror📅 ReleasedFeb 07, 2012💻 Dev2K, Digital Extremes🏢 Publisher2K Games📺 PlatformPC, Xbox One, macOS, Xbox 360, & others⏱ Playtime~3h★ Metacritic77/100 (1118)
The Darkness II is a 2012 first-person shooter video game developed by Digital Extremes and published by 2K. The game is the sequel to The Darkness (2007) and based on the comic book series published by Top Cow Productions. The player controls Jackie Estacado, a mafia hitman who possesses a mysterious power called "the Darkness" that grants him supernatural abilities and a pair of Demon Arms. The game features elements found in role-playing video games such as skill trees, experience, and a four-player cooperative mode.The player must rescue the soul of Jackie's dead girlfriend, which was trapped by the Darkness in Hell, and confront the Brotherhood, a group of armed cultists trying to take the Darkness away from Jackie. Digital Extremes replaced the first game's developer Starbreeze Studios, though Paul Jenkins returned to write the script for the sequel.
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Submitted by: David K.
New Game +
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To unlock New Game +, just simply finish the game once. You can use it to
retrieve the remaining relics.
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Submitted by: vjx012
* Weapons in The Darkness 2 are really precise, even automatic ones.
* The problem, however, is that the built-in game crosshair is imprecise.
* The solution? Install a third-party crosshair overlay!
That brings us to the second issue. In Windows 10 and 11 most crosshair overlays
fail to draw over games, but there is one that works for the vast majority of
games. It's name is Crosshair V2, it's completely free and minimalistic, has an
imperceptibly small impact on your computer resources, and it can be found in
the Microsoft Store and it's a small app, which you can then pin to the taskbar
after launching in through Microsoft Store.
Follow the instructions on the top-right window that opens with the app to
configure desired shape, color and size of the crosshair, and then press F2 to
hide the helper window. To exit the crosshair, either press F2 to make the
helper window reappear then press F3, or right-click on its icon in the tray
and click Exit.
Using this crosshair overlay you'll find the game much easier to play with
guns, as wherever you point your crosshair, even with automatic weapons and
even if the enemies are far away, you will hit them reliably as your shots
arrive dead-on where the crosshair points. Much better and precise than the
wide and approximate game's crosshair.
Enjoy!
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Complete the following tasks to unlock the corresponding achievement. To
view your achievements and stats in Steam, select "Community", then "My
profile", then "View all my games", then the game and view stats.
Achievement How to Unlock
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2 Guys 1 Pole - Kill 2 enemies with one javelin.
At Home in the Dark - Finish all chapters in New Game+ on any difficulty.
Back in the Saddle - Rescue Jackie from the Iron Maiden.
Burned His Mansion - Kill Luigi Palladino.
Carnie Kid - Earn a score of over 1000 in each of the carnival games.
Cheque Please! - Survive the hit.
Coward - Kill Cedro Valdez.
Cut and Run - Kill 50 enemies with the Demon Arm Slash attack.
Dark Akimbo - Kill 100 enemies while dual wielding 2 different guns
while playing as Jackie.
Dark Ninjutsu - Complete a mission as Inugami.
Date Night - Protect Jenny.
Free the Mind - Finish the game on any difficulty.
Karma's a Bitch - Kill a shielded enemy with his own shield.
Mmmm Essence! - Pick up 5 Relics in the single player campaign.
One Flew Over... - Return to reality...?.
One Man Army - Kill 25 enemies while being dragged from the restaurant,
without dying or restarting checkpoint.
Romantic - Real guys know how to dance.
Sweet Revenge - Avenge your Aunt Sarah.
Talent Show - Max out all of Jackie's Talent Trees.
The Swarm King - Kill 50 enemies who are swarmed while playing as Jackie.
Versatile Killer - Kill enemies in 5 different ways within 30 seconds.
Whipping Boy - Kill Frank Marshall.