Darksiders III (2018 Video Game) User Reviews

Pretty fun game

[ghostamongyou · 8/10 · 11 June 2020]

It kept me interested from start to finish. I was sad to see it end because honestly I never got tired of the game. It's fun. It never got stale to me as some games do towards the end when you're sort of just ready for them to be over. A lot of work was put into the game and it shows.

Underwhelming!

[aasimazam · 6/10 · 5 December 2018]

As a stand alone game, it was good. But as a continuation of the previous titles it was a total let down.

I was very excited when this game came out, I expected them to build on Darksiders 2, despite the studio change, but they made it linear and boring.

• There is no armour (except a DLC)
• weapons are fixed
• There is limited scaleability, the enemies don't get that much harder as you progress, nor are they as imaginative as the ones in Part 2.
• The bosses don't have specials ways to be defeated.
• The puzzles are easy.
• There are not a lot of cut scenes and not much of a story.
• the scapes were not as expansive or had any difficulty to traverse or to find things in
• music was ok

Although I enjoyed the game as something to pass the time with, and the cliff hanger and twist were good, the over feel was underwhelming.

I'd advise to buy it in a sale, I felt like my money was stolen.

Hell hath no Fury...

[Pjtaylor-96-138044 · 7/10 · 25 March 2020]

After THQ shut their doors, nobody thought that the 'Darksiders' series could continue. That is until THQ Nordic and Gunfire Games announced 'Darksiders III (2018)', a game set before 'Darksiders (2010)' and around the same time as 'Darksiders II (2012)'. It's a direct continuation of the series' story, featuring cameos from all four horsemen (including the previously unseen Strife), and will surely satisfy fans of the franchise. The game has been changed slightly to be more 'Souls-like', with a harder overall difficulty and an emphasis on timed dodging. For the most part, though, it's a hack-n-slash with a 'Metroidvania' structure. Its combat is satisfying once you've unlocked more than just the starting weapon, and learnt some actual combinations, and its exploration gets more and more fun as you're given different methods of traversing the environment. The traversal itself is sometimes slightly unresponsive, though. On 'Apocalyptic' difficulty (which I played), the game feels ever-so-slightly cheap because of its tight timing windows and occasional unresponsiveness. However, most of your deaths will be your own fault, which is the mark of good difficulty (no matter how hard it may be). The difficulty doesn't feel particularly balanced overall, though, with enemies starting hard-to-beat and staying that way. A few of the bosses will surely just wipe the floor with you, too, which leads to some frustrating and repetitive encounters. I'm not a fan of the decision to make all enemies respawn when you die and for all your 'souls' (the game's form of currency) to be lost, too. The souls can be picked up again by making it back to the spot where you died, but sometimes this glitches out and the game basically steals the stuff you've been working so hard to get. That's annoying, to say the least. Having enemies respawn incentivises you to just run through most areas, especially if you've already been through them once - or, maybe, more than once - and that doesn't feel particularly great. You need to be fighting enemies to gain souls so you can upgrade yourself, which can itself get tedious because you have to take your time with even the most basic of foes. A lot of enemies feel like they have too much health, lapping up your attacks even when you're highly upgraded. The game can feel a bit clunky in general. Of course, the gameplay is still fun despite its issues. The world design is interesting, the characters are engaging and the story, though bare-bones, does what it needs to in order to aptly motivate your journey. It's of a decent length, as well, and takes you to some well-designed, intriguing areas. In the end, even if it does feel a little economic throughout, the game is an entertaining experience. 7/10

Worth your time

[bmartin148505 · 8/10 · 17 December 2018]

Not going to write a mile long review but I thoroughly enjoyed this game. If you felt 1 and 2 were a little too grindy with interesting, but kinda pointless traversal of expansive areas then this title is a breath of fresh air. The focus is combat and Fury is more memorable than death in my opinion. Bosses feel more like dark souls than a QTE event like every boss of 1 and 2 and it was a welcomed change. Only issues are technical issues and another prequel story but id like to see 2 more games from this series and supporting this title will help that.

Reckoning

[ushak-81004 · 10/10 · 29 June 2022]

After my 2nd playthough I can state that this game is so far the best one of the series, with engaging battle system and main character who actually evolves as the plot progresses. Hovewer, if you are not familiar with souls like combat systems I recommend playing on lower difficulties to get used to the game's mechanics.

The only downside of ds3 is bad optimisation, but it's just an annoyance, nothing game breaking whatsoever.

I expected more

[Aries_Primal · 4/10 · 12 February 2020]

For so long waited game I really expected more. The plot is good but many things were not done so well. War was made to looks so old and Council - they never ask if Horsemen are about to take a job, they order. I had reserves about Fury but they did a good job with her. PC controlls were terrible, they made me give up from playing the game till the end. Confusing menu, compared to Darksiders 2 it was terrible.

But the worst thing of all was Death's voice. How could they replace it, it was the best thing of the entire series Michael Wincott being Death. Anyway I think this game deserved more attention to small details, since it was waited for so many years to be released.