The Darkness II Limited Edition Announced October 4, 2011

The official Darkness II twitter feed has broken the announcement that the quad wielding comic book inspired game, The Darkness II, will have a Collector’s Edition for it’s February release, and it should not cost any extra.

The Darkness II Limited Edition will feature cover artwork by Mark Silvestri, and included in the package will be codes for digital versions of The Darkness Origins Volume 1 and 2.  Also, there will be some free DLC content included for the game, including the Gormet Hearts DLC, which gives a bonus for eating hearts (eating hearts leveled you up in the first game, or was the only way to put down some supernatural enemies).  The other DLC will help you find all the game’s collectables.  In the first game there was 100 collectables, all of which unlocked special content, and finding them all was very difficult without a hint guide.

The final DLC will be a special outfit for your Darkling, based upon one of the funniest stories of the first game.  In the first game, during level transitions, Jackie would make a small monologue to the player, either about what he was feeling in the game at that moment, or if you were backtracking, a small story about the area you were entering.  One of the funniest stories Jackie told in the first game involved a good friend of his and you can hear him say it occasionally when entering a subway station.

“Anybody who ever thought the subway was scary had never sat in the backseat of a midtown cab. driving in the wrong direction, up the midtown tunnel, by a guy who doesn’t speak a lick of English, my buddy, Crazy Abdul.”

Apparently Crazy Abdul is now a darkling, and Limited Edition buyers will be able to have their darkling look like him in their games.

For those of you intersted in how this new game is going to play, take a good look at the latest trailer for it, which features the game’s signature new feature, Quad Weilding.

The Darkness II is coming Feb 2nd, 2012 for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.