10 Video Game Cliffhangers That Will Never Be Resolved
8. The Darkness II
Like Bulletstorm, The Darkness is one of those mid-tier last-gen games that doesn't seem like it made a big enough splash to be deserving of a sequel, and yet, it got one. The Darkness II launched in 2012, continuing the story of the first game while teeing up a third that never saw the light of day.
The series revolves around the relationship between Jackie - the hero of both games - and Jenny, his girlfriend. During the first game, Jenny is brutally murdered while Jackie watches, helpless to intervene. In the sequel, Jackie is haunted by visions of Jenny, which prompts him to kill himself in an attempt to rescue her from hell.
This leads to one of two endings: in the first, Jackie and Jenny are reunited in a hallucination, and the game ends with them slow dancing as the screen fades to black. Aww. The second, however, is a bit more grim: here, Jackie will fall into the underworld, where he manages to rescue Jenny for real. Everything looks great and it seems like it's over, right up until the moment it's revealed that Jenny has become the host for the Angelus, enemy of the titular Darkness.
Since Jackie is strongly affiliated with the Darkness, this plot development was not ideal for him. The game ends with Jackie screaming his head off as he's trapped in hell by the Angelus, and since The Darkness II was a financial disappointment, we're probably never going to find out what happened to him from here.