Top Cow spills on Darkness sequel

By Robert Purchese Published 21 April, 2008

Comic creator less than subtle.

Comic creator Top Cow has all but confirmed a sequel to The Darkness.

Speaking at the recent Comic Con event in New York, the picture-book maker made rather blatant suggestions that a follow-up game was on its way.

"We can't say 'Darkness' and 'videogame sequel' in the same sentence. So: 'Darkness.' Wink. 'Sequel,'" said a Top Cow panel (watched by TheQuarterBin).

The Darkness popped up last summer on PS3 and 360, and followed the adventures of possessed gangster Jackie Estacado as he tore enemies apart with his grizzly assortment of powers.

Top Cow was coy over what we would see in a sequel, but suggested we would meet a villain "worthy" of our protagonist.

Publisher 2K Games had no further comment.

Pop over to our review of The Darkness to find out more.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (28) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • the_dudefather #1 4 years ago

    awesome, stabbing people using the tentacles and watching popeye cartoons was fun.

    its a shame it was a bit short and no-one seemed to care too much that you had demonic powers
    Edited by 1 at 21/04/08 @ 10:42

  • louyfitz #2 4 years ago

    sick first game was phat, bring on the second one!

  • asphaltcowboy #3 4 years ago

    Awesome! Loved the first one - absolutely fantastic!

  • bdgr #4 4 years ago

    as long as they sort out the loading times - going station to staion and waiting for it to load up sucked the big one

  • Prodigy_BE #5 4 years ago

    Starbreeze, give us a more interactive ending this time, and I'll be 100% happy.

    Still remember the moaning no limbs soldier in the hospital. Damn that was some harsh shit. Almost as harsh as that Johnnie got his Gun movie.

  • Quint2020 #6 4 years ago

    Yay!! One of my favourites from last year, can't wait for this.

  • Darren #7 4 years ago

    The first game was absolutely terrific and very atmospheric so I'll say "Yes please" to a sequel.

  • menage #8 4 years ago

    "Starbreeze, give us a more interactive ending this time, and I'll be 100% happy. "

    +1

    I really expected to rip that chopper out of the air myself.

    Loved it for the rest of it though.
    Can't wait.

  • Anthony_UK #9 4 years ago

    Brilliant news!, after recently going back to The Darkness, i'd say if starbreeze can fix what wasn't that great first time round, and improve on what did, this could be one amazing game..........

    My only problem with the Darkness, which is also the same problem I had with Riddick is that although starbreeze are for me now pretty much second to none when i comes to telling a story and creating a feeling 'place' when it came down to the actual action, as awesome as some of the close range kills and darkness powers where, I would sometimes feel a little disjointed from what was happening on screen as if i wern't in complete control, not helped really by the slightly woolly aiming.

    Still an awesome game though dispite the flaws. So i'll be really looking forward to this one, while were on the subject, where's this Riddick remake got to?
    Edited by 1 at 21/04/08 @ 10:59

  • smoothpete #10 4 years ago

    Sweet, I loved the first one

  • penhalion #11 4 years ago

    Yep one of the few games I actually finished last year. I definitely want to know what the darkness did when it realised that it couldn't control Jackie like it thought it could. I wanted to be able to not shoot the guy at the end and have an alternate ending. It was painfully obvious by that point that killing him would make the darkness stronger!

    @the_dudefather

    No-one could see the darkness as it only became visible in well er the darkness. They could see the imps though and the tentacles were visible when you sent them out. I suspect anyone with night vision goggles may have had a bit of a shock too.

  • anomagnus #12 4 years ago

    one of the BEST games of 2007

    i loved everything about it

  • razzastuta #13 4 years ago

    I picked this up for £16 for the PS3 last month. Was an absolute bargain and is an excellent game, I've nearly finished it too. Yeah it is short but the characters and side-missions provide that little human touch to it.....a shame there doesn't seem to be much RE-play value to it. That's it's only downside but then I suppose that's why it was only £16!

  • thedaveeyres #14 4 years ago

    This is great news. Superb game.

  • space_ace #15 4 years ago

    Top Cow refuses to shed light on Darkness sequel

    surely? :)

  • vegard #16 4 years ago

    you guys wanna stop talking about the ending till i get time to finish it please?

  • asphaltcowboy #17 4 years ago

    yeah, I have to agree - @penhalion: a bit spoilerish! (I have finished it mind you)

  • pjmaybe #18 4 years ago

    Yum Yum, bring on The Angelus and this could be spectacular.

  • Quint2020 #19 4 years ago

    "Yum Yum, bring on The Angelus and this could be spectacular."

    Plus. Fucking. One.

    That would be all kinds of awesome.

  • asphaltcowboy #20 4 years ago

    Didn't know who The Angelus was until you mentioned it but via google I found this: LINK

    ...and I pretty much agree that she should be in the game ;)

  • RobertFoster #21 4 years ago

    I really enjoyed the Darkness, even if I had a mid-game hiatus due to my 360 dying.

    Sometimes though, I do wish that the games I like stayed just like that. There's really no need for sequels all the time, is there?

  • muscleblade #22 4 years ago

    What happened to the Riddick remake?? Assault on Dark Athena. I want that.

  • nickthegun #23 4 years ago

    Steroids for Jackie this time please.

    Or loosen the flaps on his trench coat so he can run a bit faster...

  • jontam #24 4 years ago

    Loved the first game, the only real flaw imo was the aiming. Everything else was superb.

  • TheTingler #25 4 years ago

    I just wish that in a replay you could stop Jackie's girlfriend from being shot. That really shocked me. Although that would change the whole storyline (both game and comics).

    As for the antagonist in the new game "worthy opponent to Jackie"... please God let it be Witchblade!!

  • SomaticSense #26 4 years ago

    "I just wish that in a replay you could stop Jackie's girlfriend from being shot. That really shocked me."

    That was the point though, that you were forced to watch it and you couldn't do anything about it. That you were utterly helpless was what gave it that huge shock value. If you could've prevented it, it wouldn't have had that effect, would it?

    Anyway..... excellent news if there really is a sequel. Iron out a few of the (very) minor flaws, and it could be an absolutely fantastic game. Best gaming news so far this year in fact, for me.
    Edited by 1 at 21/04/08 @ 20:18

  • vegard #27 4 years ago

    you didn't REALLY have to qoute that you bastard:)

  • DFawkes #28 4 years ago

    I hated the game at first, but I've played the demo 6 times in the past few days. Might be time to purchase soon.

    I don't know if it's just in the demo, but I was disappointed with his look as the Darkness - tentacles are nice, but he looks really awesome in the comics. Or how about Captain Miguel Estacado as the main character - get some piratey Darkness on!