Highlighting the visual improvements made between the original release of Darksiders 2 and their upcoming enhanced “Deathinitive Edition”, Nordic Games and Gunfire Games have shared three sets of “comparison screenshots” for the action RPG.
When sharing these screenshots, Design Director John Pearl shared the following comment:
When we thought about what we wanted to do for the “Deathinitive” edition of Darksiders 2, obviously we wanted to run in native 1080p and increase the resolution of the textures. Additionally, we decided to rewrite the renderer to be physically based like a lot of other current generation game engines. What this means visually is metal, leather, stone and skin look and respond to light as you would expect them to in the real world. This new rendering method meant we revisited every texture and surface in the game, reworking and re-authoring them for the new renderer. To take full advantage of these texture changes, we’ve also gone back and relit the entire game.
Set for release on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, this new edition of Vigil Games’ 2012 game is set to feature all original DLC content, an improved graphic render engine as well as improved and reworked level, character and environment designs. This is in addition to 1080p resolution support.
Images: Left (Deathinitive Edition), Right (Original).
