Agoura Hills, California-based game developing and publishing company THQ’s highly anticipated action adventure title “Darksiders 2” has now received a live-action trailer known as the Last Sermon Trailer.

“Darksiders 2” will take place in the same time period as the first game. Players will now take control of the Horseman Death instead of his brother War, and the game will take place across an entirely new collection of maps, which have been confirmed to be double in cumulative size to that of its predecessor.

According to the game’s official page, “Awakened by the End of Days, Death, the most feared of the legendary Four Horsemen embarks on a quest to undo Armageddon. Along the way, the Horseman will discover that there are far worse things than an earthly Apocalypse, and that an ancient conflict threatens all of Creation. Become the terrifying force which everything fears but nothing can escape. Death Lives in Darksiders II.”

The game will also feature the remaining two horsemen (Strife and Fury) and will take Death across multiple dungeons and city hubs. Loot will also be included, dropping from encounters as rewards ranging from 12 different armor piece categories, which can have different enchantments and may power up Death's Wrath Powers.

“Darksiders 2” starts after War is convicted and sent back to Earth by the Charred Council, they inform the other three Horseman of his fate. The Horseman Death knows that his brother War is the most honorable and incorruptible of the four and would never have started the Apocalypse early.

Believing his brother is victim of a conspiracy, Death defies the Council's orders and sets out on a personal mission to find proof of his brother's innocence. Death travels to the Nether Realms, a place between Heaven and Hell, to call in favors from powerful beings that rule the realm.

The game is set to arrive on August 21 on current generation consoles and PC.

Check out the Last Sermon footage below