Playing as Strife is like playing a twin-stick shooter, with him serving as the DPS to War's tank.ĭarksiders Genesis players will find a satisfying rhythm to the game's combat, where Strife is hanging back and blasting enemies from afar while War is making sure that foes are constantly focused on him. Playing as War feels more like the Diablo games that clearly inspired Darksiders Genesis with a focus on hack-and-slash combat, but playing as Strife is a completely different experience. War plays like a tank, and he comes equipped with many of his abilities that he has in his solo adventure. Playing as either one of them is a blast, especially since the developers went to great lengths to make sure that they feel like truly distinct characters. War and Strife don't just shine in the Darksiders Genesis story. However, Strife's quips combined with War's grim seriousness is consistently entertaining.
Fury's personality in Darksiders 3 was a source of criticism for many critics of that game, and it's possible that if this were a solo adventure for Strife, his endless quips would be grating. War and Strife's conflicting personalities make for some amusing banter throughout Darksiders Genesis, and they help balance each other out. Since Darksiders games have been completely solo ventures up to this point, the personalities of the Horsemen haven't really been fleshed out all that much, but here we get plenty of interesting conversations between Strife and War, and both come out of the game far more compelling than they were beforehand. The two Horsemen of the Apocalypse join forces to try to foil Lucifer's plot, and they team up with Darksiders regular Samael to do so.
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Even though its switch to a Diablo-style isometric camera is quite the departure from series norms, Darksiders Genesis is still very much a Darksiders game, and while it certainly has some rather glaring flaws, it still makes for some great fun, especially when playing in co-op.ĭarksiders Genesis is the first game in the Darksiders series to feature co-op, letting one player play as Strife and the other as War.
Even so, some fans were just happy to be getting another Darksiders game at all, and luckily, they didn't have to wait six years for the next one.ĭarksiders Genesis comes just a year after the launch of Darksiders 3, and it's unlikely to be nearly as divisive as its predecessor. Six years after the launch of Darksiders 2, and fans were finally treated to the long-awaited Darksiders 3, though the game was met with a mixed reception by fans and critics alike. The company would eventually declare bankruptcy, leaving the future of the Darksiders franchise in doubt. Not long after the release of Darksiders 2 in 2012, it was revealed that THQ was in major financial trouble.