{"id":13714,"date":"2011-08-29T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"2k-on-the-darkness-ii-s-design-brief-f-it-we-re-gonna-go-all-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/13714-2k-on-the-darkness-ii-s-design-brief-f-it-we-re-gonna-go-all-out","title":{"rendered":"2K on The Darkness II\u2019s design brief: \u201cF*** it, we\u2019re gonna go all out\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going into development on The Darkness II, Digital Extremes has been all about taking what worked the first time around, and evolving it into something even better.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if the decision to emphasise action gameplay was motivated by a decision to do something a bit different with the sequel, 2K producer Seth Olshfski tells <a href=\"http:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/tara-long-interviews-seth-olshfski-for-the-darkness-2-210037.phtm\" target=\"_blank\">Destructoid <\/a>that, &ldquo;It was a little bit more &lsquo;fuck it, we&rsquo;re gonna go all out.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If you look at the first game, you gain more and more and more powers, and then when you get to the end of the game there&rsquo;s this cinematic sequence where your demon arms start slashing people to bits and picking people up and throwing them around &ndash; absolutely wreaking havoc.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That was sort of the inspiration for the second game, we were like &lsquo;hey, I wanna be able to do that with my own controls. I wanna be able to make the demon arms do those things.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And Jackie is so powerful. He&rsquo;s earned that action. It makes a lot of sense for it to be that active because he&rsquo;s learned how to use his powers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Darkness II is due to launch in February 2012, after being delayed twice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harder, better, faster, stronger, now with limb-ripping action<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}