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The Cane and Rinse videogame podcast

The Darkness and The Darkness II – Cane and Rinse No.26

The Cane and Rinse videogame podcast

Cane and Rinse

Hobbies, Leisure, Video Games, Games

4.8767 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2012

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

"There's always a little light in the darkness." Tony, Joshua, Karl and Darren Gargette take a look back Starbreeze Studios' The Darkness, along with its more recent sequel, The Darkness II.  Is its play style truly unique or an excuse to have everyone's heads ripped of by small demons? http://media.blubrry.com/caneandrinse/caneandrinse.com/podcast/cane_and_rinse_issue_twenty_six.mp3   Music used in this show is as follows: 1: The Darkness Theme by Gustaf Grefberg 2: Jenny's Theme by Gustaf Grefberg 3: The End of the Line by Gustaf Grefberg Cane and Rinse 26 was edited by Sean O'Brien Do you have an opinion about this particular game or maybe about our podcast in general? Then why not venture into our forum and leave us your feedback. Whilst there you could also interact with our ever-growing and friendly community, in discussing past, present and future videogames (and lots of other stuff too!) and perhaps even arrange some games with like-minded individuals. Sound good? Come and say hello at The Cane and Rinse forum Josh takes a look at Starbreeze's take on Top Cow's popular comic series, The Darkness: Darren Gargette takes on Digital Extremes' pseudo cel-shaded Darkness sequel: If you like these Quick Rinse videos you can find many more (plus a few other bits and bobs) over on the Official Cane and Rinse YouTube channel.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Volume 1, Issue 26, The Darkness 1, and 2.

0:36.6

After the surprising critical success of the Chronicles of Riddick, Starbury Studio,

0:41.0

released the next licensed game based on the top power production of comic book, The Darkness,

0:44.9

on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in the summer of 2007.

0:49.0

It's the story of a man named Jackie Escocardo,

0:51.9

who inherits demonic powers of the darkness from his father

0:55.0

on the night of his 21st birthday. In 2012, while Stuyperry Studio had moved on to

1:00.1

syndicate, the development duties of the rather aptly named Darkness 2 fell to digital extremes.

1:05.5

On this week's show, we're going to discuss that these games are unique within their genre,

1:09.6

or merely just an excuse to rip countless millions

1:11.7

heads off with flats and flappy arms

1:13.4

joining me today are

1:15.2

Darren Gargett

1:16.6

Hello

1:17.4

Joshua Garrity

1:19.2

Hello

1:19.9

And Karlmoo

1:21.5

Hola

1:22.1

Hello We are on the end of

1:30.3

The war

1:32.3

The song

1:35.3

The king

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