Customer Reviews

The Art of Darksiders

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Length:: 0:33 Mins

The Art of Darksiders is a 288-page paperback art book, thicker than I expected. The cover is nice and has some shimmer underneath the art.

Joe Madureira is the creative director for Darksiders and the artistic direction is largely influenced by his designs.

The book is packed with hundreds of concept art on the characters, environment, weapons, artifacts, CG models and other illustrations. There are lots of sketches for anything that moves. The environment art are mainly coloured pieces. The art is beautiful and there are details everywhere.

The text was lacking as there are only character and location descriptions. With so much art, I was expecting some artist commentary regarding the game but there is none. Strangely, there's also no foreword and introduction -- you go straight into the art on page 1.

The binding for a book this thick is quite bad, hence the average rating I gave. It's fragile and will break when you open it too much. The alternative hardcover edition is only sold at Udon's site and cost too much.

It's a great art book let down by the terrible binding. Darksiders and video game art fans can expect bittersweet satisfaction.

Both Darksiders I and II artbooks were very impressive. Good art. Very fair price. Fast shipping. Great art and quality. I highly recommend it.

I spent hours browsing Darksiders and was thrilled with the amount of both finished and concept art. Even my father and my husband sat with it for a good hour, and neither of them are interested in video games or art in general. Love it!

In response to demanding fans, the Darksiders artbook is all that you'll expect and more. A 200+ pages book that depicts the artistic process that went into the game design. If you're a fan get it!

I think the front cover says it all. So incredibly stylized and intense artwork from a fantastic game! It's HUGE too! Almost 300 pages!

My only complaint is that the book itself smells like toxic chemicals and I can't get passed a few pages without gagging from the smell.. It was printed in Hong Kong.