History VideoGame / Darksiders

** Speaking of The Watcher, it's Mark Hamill doing the voice. [[BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Does it sound familiar?]]

* AMythologyIsTrue: Judeo-Christian Book of Revelations type stuff is very real, and will probably kill you. Subverted in that a lot of creative license was used, making the universe seem very loosely based on it.

* LoadBearingBoss: Straga is declared to be one by Azrael, however, you can revisit the Black Tower after you defeat him anyway.
** [[GameplayAndStorySegregation ...but if you look north from any of the outdoor zones, you'll see the Black Tower's shattered remnants on the horizon.]]
* LostForever: Subverted. Despite Azrael's words to the contrary, you ''can'' go back to Lost Eden at any time after your first visit.

* OneWingedAngel: War has the ability to do this, though only when the gauge is full.

* ActionCommand: Press B to '''destroy''' your opponent with extreme prejudice.

* ActionGirl: Uriel, which is funny, since in Christian tradition Uriel is a male angel.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: Played straight with The Watcher, who never stops treating War like dirt, and completely averted with everyone else in the game. Other characters, even his enemies, treat War with much more respect and/or fear. Heck, the ''entire plot'' happens because every major player ''[[spoiler: including the Council]]'' is scared shitless of the Horsemen.

* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Uses a Variation. [[spoiler: The apocalypse is not only inevitable but there's a system in place to ensure that it ''DOES'' happen.]]

* FantasyGunControl: Averted, demons and angels both use enormous guns, War himself gets a [[HandCannon massive revolver]], which sadly isn't good for much.
* FourFingeredHands: Most Demons only have four fingers on each hand. Angels, Humans and Horsemen have the normal 5 for some reason...

* GondorCallsForAid: War enlists the help of disgruntled former employees of the Destroyer. [[spoiler: The games ends with War summoning the other three Horsemen to sort out the Charred Council it appears.]]

* ManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: A woman heavily implied to be Lilith, Adam's first wife and the eventual mother of all demons, was the one who offered Abaddon his DealWithTheDevil.]]

* AMythologyIsTrue: Judeo-Christian book of revelations type stuff is very real, and will probably kill you.
* MysteriousBacker: Sammael is an archdemon from hell so powerful that the Destroyer had him imprisoned and reduced to an extra. He uses what power he does have left to help War, the protagonist, so that War will help him get his powers back.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Nice job starting the apocalypse without the 7th seal being broken, War. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that he was tricked by the council to come down.]]

** Samael ends up as one as he fulfills his end of the bargain.

* OrderVersusChaos: Angels versus Demons, guess which side is which.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: These angels prefer full suits of futuristic armor to white robes and laser-shooting spears or energy cannons to flaming swords.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Yes, they are. They also have guns but in fewer numbers than the angels. They are mostly melee fighters and tough as nails.

* RatedMForManly

** Having an angel named Abaddon being killed by a being called "The Destroyer" is funny on multiple levels, considering Abaddon is Hebrew for "the destroyer" or "the place of destruction" and is actually supposed to be a demon. [[spoiler:Averted, since Abaddon ''is'' the Destroyer after all, and he ends up being so after his "fall".]]

* SandWorm: They happen to live in a desert created from the ashes of all humanity (or perhaps, from all living things in the planet, possibly including all fauna and flora).

* SceneryPorn: Eden definitely qualifies. Anvil's Ford is quite pretty too.

* TheStarscream: Samael, who was imprisoned for trying to take over Hell. He's on your side... sorta.

* ViolentGlaswegian: With a huge hammer, no less.

A [[VideoGame/DarksidersII sequel]] was released, featuring Death as the new playable Horseman. A [[UpdatedRerelease Warmastered Edition]] was released on November 22, 2016 for UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/XboxOne, with a UsefulNotes/WiiU version arriving on a later date. The PC version was released on November 29, 2016 on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and UsefulNotes/GOGDotCom, and owners of the original PC version of the game can upgrade to the Warmastered Edition free of charge.

* UpdatedRereleased: The Warmastered Edition gives the game a visual overhaul with higher resolution textures, higher quality shadows, new post-processing effects, remastered cutscenes, and runs at 60 FPS (save for the Wii U version). This version also includes the Harvester scythe previously exclusive to pre-orders.

[[VideoGame/DarksidersII A sequel]] was released, featuring Death as the new playable Horseman.

* XMeetsY: Franchise/DevilMayCry combat meets Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda travel and puzzle-solving. An ''epic'' case of TropesAreNotBad.

-->-- '''''BadassOfTheWeek'', describing [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/horsemen.html War]] [[HilariousInHindsight years before the game came out]]'''.

* GenreSavvy: War is sharp enough to realize [[spoiler: it would not be a good idea to reveal the secret he is given in a vision from the Tree of Knowledge - that the Charred Council set up part of War's quest of revenge in order to force you to hunt down those responsible for breaking the truce - specifically not to the one person that has the power to kill him on a whim, The Watcher]].

[[VideoGame/DarksidersII A sequel]] has been released, featuring Death as the new playable Horseman.

* {{Homage}}: A respected member of a supernatural order is stripped of all power before being given a second chance by a shadowy mysterious entity that manipulates him into [[LegacyOfKain gliding with wings that barely work and pushing around a lot of block puzzles.]] The game also contains a [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda boomerang]], [[Franchise/DevilMayCry souls used to purchase moves]], a [[VideoGame/GodOfWar button to execute enemies]] and a [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} gun that shoots blue and orange portals.]]

* XMeetsY: Franchise/DevilMayCry combat meets TheLegendOfZelda travel and puzzle-solving. An ''epic'' case of TropesAreNotBad.

* {{Homage}}: A respected member of a supernatural order is stripped of all power before being given a second chance by a shadowy mysterious entity that manipulates him into [[LegacyOfKain gliding with wings that barely work and pushing around a lot of block puzzles.]] The game also contains a [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda boomerang]], [[DevilMayCry souls used to purchase moves]], a [[VideoGame/GodOfWar button to execute enemies]] and a [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} gun that shoots blue and orange portals.]]

* XMeetsY: DevilMayCry combat meets TheLegendOfZelda travel and puzzle-solving. An ''epic'' case of TropesAreNotBad.

[[DarksidersII A sequel]] has been released, featuring Death as the new playable Horseman.

** [[spoiler: [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement The]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Armageddon]] [[InfinityPlusOneSword Blade]] is just as big, if not a little bigger. [[spoiler: Abaddon's sword in the final boss fight is much longer than either of War's swords, though it's not as wide.]]]]

* [[AndYourRewardIsClothes And Your Reward Is A Kickass Armor]]: When you amass the 10 fragments of the Abyssal Armor. It is also a [[GameBreaker a very awesome powerup]]. You get it quite late in the game, but you can [[NewGamePlus start a new game with it after obtaining it]].

* BannedInChina: This game was banned in the United Arab Emirates for "contradicting with the UAE's customs and traditions."

* DuelingGames: Released almost simultaneously with fellow religious beat-em-up, VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}.

* HeyItsThatVoice: If it wasn't clear enough, Watcher is [[SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker Mark]] [[StarWars Hamill]]. [[Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack (Applause)]]
** War is also [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Illidan Stormrage]] and [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Gaara]].
*** He's also [[VideoGame/{{Persona 3}} Akahiko]] and [[VideoGame/AsurasWrath Asura]].

* {{Expy}}: Vulgrim looks almost exactly like [[VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} Kel'thuzad]].
** Which must go very well with War looking just like Arthas.
** Samael reminds people of [[Film/{{Legend}} The Prince of Darkness.]] He even [[TimCurry acts and sounds similar.]]
** Stoic, kind and fatalistic winged sage, who guards some powerful weapon he never have dared to use himself. Azrael or [[LegacyOfKain Janos Audron]]?

An ActionAdventure game from Vigil Games and published by THQ, ''Darksiders'' (originally ''Darksiders: Wrath of War''; the subtitle was dropped before the game was released) puts you in the role of War, one of the HorsemenOfTheApocalypse. When the Creator gave the land of Eden to Man, the outcast Nephilim were outraged and fought the archangels. Only four Nephilim survived: Fury, Strife, Death and War. The Charred Council made them its agents charged with maintaining the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: the Four Horsemen. A truce was brokered between the Kingdoms of Heaven and Hell: the Seven Seals were created to be broken when the Kingdom of Man was ready, sparking the End War where the Four Horsemen would ride across Earth, restore the balance and forge the pact anew.

** [[spoiler: [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement The]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Armageddon]] [[InfinityPlusOneSword Blade]] is just as big, if not a little bigger. Abaddon's sword in the final boss fight is much longer than either of War's swords, though it's not as wide.]]

* CoolHorse: [[HellishHorse Ruin]].

* MysteriousBacker: Sammael is an archdemon from hell so powerful that the destroyer had him imprisoned and reduced to an extra. He uses what power he does have left to help War, the protagonist, so that War will help him get his powers back.

* NobleDemon: War, with his code of honour, can classify.

* TeachHimAnger: Samael goads War into focusing his hate in order to break the weakening effect the Council has imposed on him. This unleashes his chaos form which he lost after the Armageddon.

* BoisterousBruiser: Ulthane.

* {{BFS}}: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Chaoseater]], War's main weapon.
** [[spoiler: [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement The]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Armageddon]] [[InfinityPlusOneSword Blade]] is just as big, if not a little bigger. Abaddon's sword in the final boss fight is much longer than either of War's swords, though it's not as wide.]]

* CameraLockOn

* ImprovisedWeapon: Don't let being a Horseman of the Apocalypse stop you from swinging telephone poles, parking meters, and pianos at flaming demons.
** Strangely, there's an Achievement for killing 150 enemies this way, known as "Improvised Kills".

---> '''The Watcher''': "[[Film/{{Gladiator}} Are you not entertained?]]"
** The achievement for gaining the Mask of Shadows is called [[{{Thundercats}} "Sight Beyond Sight"]].

--->'''War:''' I choose what once... a coward did not.
* WhoDares: One of the reactions that certain EliteMook enemies give when the player approaches them is a snarly "Who daresssss?"

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Appears to be the Charred Council's plan for War when he's finished hunting those responsible for breaking the truce. Doesn't quite work out as planned though seeing as how he's still very much alive.]]

-->'''Vulgrim''': Mmmm, there were a few young ones in there. Haha, ''spectacular''!