Nordic Games has released three sets of before-and-after screenshots from Darksiders 2, showing how the game has been enhanced since its initial 2012 debut for re-release later this year as a 'Deathinitive Edition'.
The remaster runs at 1080p and offers players all of the DLC released for the game, which combined with the main story amounts to over 30 hours all told.
"When we thought about what we wanted to do for the Deathinitive Edition of Darksiders II, obviously we wanted to run in native 1080p and increase the resolution of the textures," Gunfire Games' design director John Pearl commented in a press release. "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."
The developers have also reworked the balancing and loot systems, among other enhancements.
Darksiders 2 Deathinitive Edition launches for PS4 and Xbox One this winter.
