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The Darkness 2 gets 4-player co-op mode in ‘Vendettas,’ we count the wieldings [update: video, more screens!]

December 6, 2011 by summerm

So, we’re not mathemagicians but we’re pretty sure we’ve got this worked out. The big marketing gotcha in The Darkness 2 is quad-wielding, meaning your character, mob boss Jackie Estacado, can not only dual wield pistols but also dual wield Darkness arms at the same time. With 2K’s announcement of a co-op mode in the game, playable by up to four friends, we had to use all of our fingers and toes to figure out how much wielding is going on and … we think we have it. Ladies and nerds, allow us to introduce: hexadeca-wielding. Google says that’s the Greek prefix for “sixteen.”

The co-op mode, dubbed “Vendettas,” is a “team-focused, mission based experience” with new environments and new story elements, “that takes place parallel to the single-player story.” And instead of getting stuck with ol’ Jackie Boy, perhaps you might try your hand(s) at another of the new co-op characters: Inugami, “a dark and mentally unstable character with revenge-driven motives” … and a samurai sword; Shoshanna, an Israeli Intelligence agent with a gun that fires “multiple rounds of gunfire at one time” which, real talk, is impossible; Jimmy Wilson, an alcoholic Scotsman (really!) who hates the English and summons Darklings with his “Dark Axe”; and lastly, J.P. DuMond, a New Orleans-based practitioner of voodoo medicine or, as he would perhaps be more commonly called, a witch doctor!

So that’s Vendettas, the first game to feature four-player hexadeca-wielding co-op play, a back-of-the-box feature that’s sure to bring all the boys to the killing yards.
Gallery: The Darkness 2 (Vendettas Co-op Mode)The Darkness 2 gets 4-player co-op mode in ‘Vendettas,’ we count the wieldings [update: video, more screens!] originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The Darkness 2 gets 4-player co-op mode in ‘Vendettas,’ we count the wieldings [update: video, more screens!]

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