If you saw our coverage from THQ’s Darksiders launch party, you may have noticed that THQ is really using sexto sell the game (despite Darksiders having maybe one ancillary female character and virtually no reference to sex whatsoever). Not that anyone’s complaining… That’s just a simple statement of fact.
Now Playboy is getting in on the act by inciting notorious game blogger/Playboy’s Cyber Girl of the Year, Jo Garcia, to act as a human projector screen for the game’s extended launch trailer. It’s a lot like one of those pictures from the 90s, where if you squint at it, you eventually see a sailboat pop out of the image. Only instead of some bullshit sailboat, it’s a hot, half-naked Playboy model. Is it “art”? Will it give you a “boner”? I don’t know, these are questions for someone far wiser than myself. Maybe you should just watch the trailer and decide for yourself:
You can see more videos of Jo Garcia being hot and pretending to like video games at Playboy.com!
We talk to creative director Joe Madureira and check out a sexy horse-riding contest!
Darksiders is a new action/adventure title from THQ that we’re pretty excited about. Especially after attending the premiere party in Agoura Hills to check out the game for ourselves. It plays sort of like a cross between “God of War” (which is what I compare all action games to now because I am unimaginative) and “The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction”. In Darksiders, you play as War, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Basically, someone started the Armageddon without you, and you’re tasked with killing your way across a post-apocalyptic world to find out who dicked up the master plan and why.
A welcome alternative to the usual spry Little Mac action hero, War is a tank that bashes pissant enemies to mush with his swords and guns and even crushes them under the hooves of his trusty steed, Ruin. Even the bigger enemies feel sort of equal measure to War, which is not to say that they are easy, but rather that you actually feel like you are in a fight as opposed to constantly playing David & Goliath throughout the entire game like many similar titles will force you to do.
We talked to creative designer and comic legend Joe Madureira about his designs for the game and why you should buy tons of copies. It had something to do with making him unimaginably rich, if I remember correctly. While we were there, we also had the good fortune to check out a sexy horse-riding contest! Or more specifically, sexy girls riding a mechanical horse. Not “sexy horses”. That would be weird. Check it out!
