Darksiders 2 Slashing Its Way Back to the EU eShop

This is still one of my favourite games on Wii U, It's a shame the original "Darksiders" wasn't re-released and that 3 might never happens at all... in case you missed this the first time, make sure you don't miss it this time. The soundtrack alone by Jesper Kyd is worth the price alone.

I think Nordic is overestimating the enthusiasm that Nintendo owners will have for a direct sequel to a game that they don't have access to.

I would gladly buy both games, but I really have no interest in this one without the other.

Maybe a low price cut? I've seen the physical Wii U copy go for around £8 in CeX, so I doubt many people will be picking up the digital copy at that price.

Hell, port the first one as an eShop exclusive at a budget price and I'm sure it'll pick up sales numbers a bit. You're already releasing a collection on PS360, so may as well continue to make money off of old games on Wii U... ;P

Price needs to be lower if they want sales since retail is like 10 bucks. Anyway its a shame the 3rd one got shelved as the ideas they were talking about sounded pretty awesome.

Did Darksiders II on Wii U get all of the content that the other versions got?

@CrazyOtto Yh, plus the DLC came on disc as an extra bonus. It also had decent gamepad functionality.

Price is a bit steep Nordic... especially considering it's on sale. Sort it out!

@Shiryu Forgot about how great the score was in this game until I saw your post. how great is it? I haven't played this game in almost 7 months, and I can remember a few scores right now.

We have a situation here in the ICU. What is it? The Wii U. Is it bad? It's bad, not much we can do but monitor vital signs. Right, let me know if anything changes and call the family.

@sugarshack a reminder for any people who don't remember the soundtrack or never heard it in the first place.

I agree with all of you guys — this game might do pretty good if it had a price cut. I mean, it's two years old and still $60 digital. There might be a real desire for it at $20 some time during the spring or summer.

@Shiryu Yeah, Jesper Kyd is an amazing composer-he's done music for the Assassin's Creed, Hitman, and Borderlands series. I really liked his work on Darksiders II, in fact, I have the soundtrack with me now!

@CrazyOtto All, apart from the last piece of DLC, which was released on PS3/Xbox in early December.

@RainbowGazelle
Yes, if it actually had it all I would have bought it again since I love the game so much.

not patched and how much on sale as well.
Serious no one buy this

@CaviarMeths

You do not need to play the first game to enjoy this one. It's not like a movie trilogy where you need the story of the first to understand what's going on. This game explains everything that happens perfectly, and stands on it's own two feet, separately from the first title. Yes, it's a sequel and yes, certain references are made to events which unfolded in the first. However, they are just references, and explain what happened. People are missing out on too many great games nowadays because they think they have to play the first in a series. You can, but by no means is this a game which depends on the story of the first to entertain you, the gamer.

And maybe you're right about not much enthusiasm for this game from Wii U fans, but, there should be. There REALLY should be. This is one of the better games people will ever get to play. Definitely in my top 20 of all time. It's one of those games that, when you DO finally play it, you slap yourself in the face for ignoring it all those years.

Amazing game would recommend anyone with a Wii U to pick this up. Just today I picked up Darksiders the first one for my PS3 so playing the games backwards as already finished number 2 over a year ago now.

Darksiders 2 is still one of the best games available for Wii U.

Really good game. Shame the first one never made it to the wiiu.

It's a very good game. I would highly recommend it. It does feel heavily zelda inspired (except for the crazy amount of blood in some parts).

I've always wanted to buy this game. I've only got 4 games in my Wii U library and including Darksiders II, there's 5 more games I plan on buying.

Its a great game, and i'm happy that EU can have it again, great move, but instead of watching "this Wii U situation" they could be making more money off of guys like me. As much as i love the game and am still enjoying it, its the stupidest thing ever to have the sequel on Wii U without the original. LIke frickin' Mass Effect 3 FFS (Godzilla face palm). The stories in both IP's seem pretty important and interesting and i wanna know more without having to buy a stupid PS3 or Xbox. Of course, i also want a private jet and sad to say, obtaining the latter seems more likely

Cool game, a bit like a darker Zelda. Did have some AWFUL screen tearing though. It was like playing split screen all the time.
Edit: I was annoyed because it didn't have map on the gamepad but apparently it did. I guess I messed up somehow :/

Great game with great use of the gamepad. It has performance issues but it runs well enough for me to still be able to recommend it. My only gripe is that it doesn't support screenshot posts.

This game alone made me glad to own a Wii U. I don't think I've ever loved a game so much - I played it through four times last year; it's the first time I've ever bought a game soundtrack and it's the first time I've bought a licensed novel. Since my laptop needs replacing now I've gone the high-spec route just so that I have something to play the first game on (even though I'll miss the gamepad, which was put to great use in DS2 on Wii U).

So, as I said in the EU eshop release comments - I'd urge any Wii U owners who don't have this to buy it. Given the comparative price of Wii U retail discs though I can't see many people picking this up digitally at this price and I'm worried that Nordic will use that as a barometer for interest in the IP among Wii U owners. Hopefully they look at original release sales figures, too.

To those asking about DLC, the Wii U version includes most of it, including the 'Argul's Tomb' story/mission DLC. It does not include the final story/mission DLC though, which was never ported.

it's a bit expensive considering I can get the retail version for less than a tenner

£40! I just bought the retail version from Amazon for £12- what are they thinking? I don't understand anyone who pays these prices for digital downloads of discs which are far cheaper.

Nintendo really really should of bought up Vigil

Tis a very good game,even if it had quite a fair bit of screen tearing.
Well worth getting even if the price is a bit steep( I got mine for £20 brand new after christmas)

I hope they rerelease Darksiders 1 on Wii U even though I have it on Xbox...I love the Darksiders series and Darksiders 2 was the only game I really enjoyed playing during last years drought. Tempted to get it on the eShop despite having it on disk just to show we Wii U Darksiders fans want a sequel. With all 4 horse(wo)men.

I played this game for 4 or 5 hours (looked promising), my Wii U crashed 3 times during that time, I lost all the progress of the game and had to pull the plug on the Wii U (scary every time)
I never had the wii U freezing like this with anything else (disc/download games, apps, browser) and I use it a lot.
I never played this game again.

I already have the PC version but would be quite interested in a Wii U version.

£31 after discount for a two year old game you can pick up for £10 physical and brand new(lower if preowned),realy nordic games? You have any clue about business? This will be yet another dev pulling away from wiiu because "inexplicabley the game didnt sell on wiiu!"... sigh give me strength

This is one of the best games in wii u (albeit full of glitches) best buy hard copy £9 new!

I don´t know why companies sell always more expensive the digital games than retails. A retail game of $60 dlls must cost $30 dlls because it is only digital content without stores and production between selling process. This game in stores is like $20-30 dlls (in Mexico) so digital must be like $10 dlls.

Thing is if a darksiders 3 ever does happen, it wont be done by the same team because they all went to crytek I think.

@ToniK
Yeah you could switch between inventory, items ans special abilities on the gamepad. The problem was that to switch to the map you had to press the map in a top corner which I didn't realise was possible until half way through the game.

@Shiryu I hadn't forgotten about how awesome the soundtrack was, but now I've got it open in a tab so thanks anyway : D

@AJWolfTill So good. Just soooo good!

@Shiryu I think Plains of Death might be my favourite track! I still need to go and play the DLC campaign. The soundtrack really took this game to another level, and more than compensated for some of the issues I had with this game. Still at £8 it was an absolute steal! I was wondering why Borderland's soundtrack seemed familiar!

@AJWolfTill It's too hard to pick a favourite, maybe "Demon Realm"? The percussion is off the charts on that one! I too have not played the DLC campaign, saving it for a rainy day.