Although Crytek recently picked up the core of the Vigil Games development team, Darksiders III won’t be happening anytime soon, says its CEO.

Speaking with Gamesbeat, Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli said, “We didn’t want to continue with Darksiders III, since that doesn’t fit with our strategy”.

“It’s not like we set the team on a specific game concept,” he added. “They’re actually going to work on what David and the team identifies as what they want to do.”

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Vigil's combat designer Ben Cureton has given the world a glimpse of where the Darksiders franchise was planning to go:

"There was a shimmer on a slither of hope, that at one point, there'd be a Darksiders III: 4 Player Co-Op; It rode off into the sunset today" he tweeted.

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The Wii U edition of Darksiders II will feature additional bonus-content not included with other formats. Included on the disc will be the first DLC expansion, Argul's Tomb, as well as all pre-order bonuses from other editions, adding around five hours of playable content and new legendary weapons and armor.

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Much like its predecessor, Darksiders II is a derivative action-adventure title, but it still provides extensive and varied entertainment.

What a curious game franchise Darksiders is turning out to be. Criticism of the first game almost universally focused on its derivative nature, and the critics were right – Darksiders was a game that seemed to have pilfered the best ingredients from a handful other games and stewed them as some kind of apocalypse-flavoured gameplay gumbo. Of course, the second part of nearly every critic's review of Darksiders was going on to say that this concoction turned out to be a surprisingly fun – perhaps even excellent - game.

So here's Darksiders II, and following in the footsteps of its predecessor, much about its gameplay mechanics seem awfully familiar. Although Death takes the protagonist's role, Frankenstein's monster might have been more appropriate, for Darksiders II is once again a game cobbled together from the bits of other games in a way that probably shouldn't be natural. Games needn't be altogether new in everything they do, of course, but it's the uncanny degree to which Darksiders II manages to provoke at times a feeling of out-and-out déjà vu that is worth mentioning.

Gamers who have previously enjoyed the God of War and (especially) the most recent Prince of Persia titles will experience the strange feeling that they've done some of this all before, but beyond just those two titles, and a big Zelda influence, Darksiders II can also induce sudden flashbacks to specific gameplay elements from titles as diverse as the current generation of Tomb Raider games, Fable III, Devil May Cry, and even Shadow of the Colossus. The real surprise turns out to be that, for a second time, a game that borrows so heavily can end up working as well as it does.

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Vigil's Lead Combat Designer Ben Cureton explains the many ways Death deals death in Darksiders II.

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Lead Combat Designer Ben Cureton introduces the Arena mode within Darksiders II.

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"When the initial idea for Darksiders was made it was basically Joe Mad[ureira] texting Dave Adams being like, 'well what about the Horsemen of the Apocalypse?', then everyone said, 'that’s perfect, that’s absolutely what we want to do'," Associate Producer Jay Fitzloff tells Gameplanet.

"Originally when we started creating Darksiders, Joe sketched out all of the four horsemen, and when we decided we were going to do Death for Darksiders 2 we then had Joe go do iterations on the art style," continues Fitzloff. "It’s funny, when you challenge yourself and try to rethink what you’re doing they say you should just go back to what you started with, and that’s exactly why Death looks like that."

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Few details regarding the Wii U’s specifications and orders from Nintendo to developers not to discuss the console have led to speculation that the machine was underpowered.

However, with a full E3 reveal only about a week away Vigil has insisted that Wii U owners will see visual parity when it comes to multiplatform games.

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THQ confirmed the news this morning after weeks of speculation that the release date could be moved.

On the game’s official forum, THQ cites time for additional polish and bug fixing as the reasons for the slip.

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