Darksiders II is listed as an action adventure roleplaying game. It is meant to follow the path of Death (yes Death) one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as he seeks to prove his brother, War, innocent of crimes that were committed in the first game (Darksiders). In the Darksiders you actually played War and were accused of bringing the end of the world and the death of humanity early. Now it is up to you as Death to find a way to free your bother from imprisonment for this crime. Darksiders II was released by THQ on August 14th 2012 for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. It is a console port third person game and in addition to being available in the more typical DVD format can also be downloaded from Steam. We are taking a look at the Steam version but will also cover what you get in the retail version as well.
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The retail package is nothing special you get the typical DVD case with DVD(s) inside, manual and that is about it. This is what we saw at Best Buy and Gamestop. There was nothing overly special that would make buying the retail game a better value. On Steam you can grab Darksiders II for $49.99 and it will take a little while to get downloaded and installed (we will talk about that below). Overall the advantage of getting a retail product over an online copy is just going away. Still it is nice that you do have the option to get this in a store without the need to be online to install or play.
