Spec Ops: The Line and The Darkness 2 are now backward-compatible on Xbox One

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Microsoft has announced that Xbox 360 titles The Darkness 2 and Spec Ops: The Line are now backward compatible on Xbox One.
That's great news, and an excellent opportunity to revisit two games that perhaps didn't quite get their dues at the time of release. Both are fascinating, somewhat under-appreciated gems, each bringing their own unique outlook to the shooter landscape of 2012.
The Darkness 2, developed by Digital Extremes, is a narrative-heavy first-person shooter which, like its predecessor, sought to shake up its core action by giving players supernatural powers - and bloody great tentacles to boot. And if man-skewering tendrils somehow weren't enough of a draw, The Darkness 2 introduced a urinating cockney imp sidekick too.
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