CCRB RECORD No. 0015
Darksiders
Determination: Explicit — Deicide 3, Blasphemy 3
You play a Horseman of the Apocalypse and end the game by killing an archangel named from Revelation.
The previous record noted that the player fights named biblical angels and stopped there, which understated how completely the game is built out of Revelation. War is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, made an agent of the Charred Council; the Council brokered a truce between Heaven and Hell sealed by Seven Seals, to be broken when the Kingdom of Man was ready for the End War. The plot begins because War rides while the Seventh Seal is still intact, and he is arraigned for having broken a sacred covenant. The Horsemen themselves are the last four Nephilim, survivors of a war the outcast Nephilim fought against the archangels when the Creator gave Eden to Man, and War later reaches Eden and the Tree of Knowledge. The antagonist and final boss is the archangel Abaddon, described as the greatest warrior Heaven ever produced, who is corrupted by Lilith into the Destroyer. The…