$19.99Darksiders Warmastered Edition Heavy combat in a ruined world
Fight angels and demons as a stripped-bare warrior, solving dungeons and chasing the truth across a dead Earth.
Is Darksiders Warmastered Edition worth it?
Darksiders Warmastered Edition is worth it if…
- you like hack and slash combat with real weight behind every swing
- you want a dark fantasy story about angels, demons and one very angry Horseman
- you enjoy metroidvania exploration where new abilities open old doors
- you don't mind puzzles and older mechanics mixed into your action
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A Horseman out to clear his name
The setup is a good one: War is tricked into starting the apocalypse ahead of schedule, Heaven and Hell tear the Earth apart, and the Charred Council pins the whole mess on him. Sent back to a dead world to find whoever framed him, he makes deals with demons he would normally be killing and fights off vengeful angels on the way. The story has a real mystery at its core, and it ends with a reveal worth the ride. War himself carries a lot of it: a huge, humourless, unkillable presence whose answer to most problems is a very large sword.
Combat, dungeons and a fiery horse
The fighting is weighty and brutal: combos, supernatural abilities and weapons that grow stronger the more you use them, so grinding on demons literally levels your gear. New abilities and relics keep unlocking routes to places you could not reach before, in proper metroidvania fashion. Between fights there are dungeons, platforming and puzzles that slow the pace down, and the locations change often, from ruined cities to demon pits. And when the road opens up, you call Ruin, War's fiery phantom steed, and ride down everything in between. The combat can get repetitive over a long run, and some puzzles and mechanics show their age.
What should you know before playing?
Is this a pure action game?
No, and that surprises some people. Combat is the biggest part, but dungeons, platforming and puzzles take up a good share of the playtime, and the game regularly switches things up with new abilities, traversal and different ways to fight. If you only want to hit things, there is plenty of that; if you also like exploring and figuring out a dungeon, it fits even better.
Do you need to play the other Darksiders games first?
Quite the opposite: this is the first game in the series and the one to start with. Later entries fill in more of the story, and the ending lands harder if you come in fresh. Playing it before the others is the order most people recommend.
