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The long-awaited first downloadable adventure for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Reverie, has finally received an official release date of March 30th for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 owners, with a foreboding trailer accompanying the announcement:
The biggest videogame surprise of 2010 (at least for me) was the excellent Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. From start to finish, this action adventure game is superb (read El33tonline’s review to find out why), and now we can look forward to more adventures in the game with the first of two downloadable content (DLC) packs.
It seems as though some gamers have been experiencing a bit of trouble with Mercury Steam and Konami’s excellent Castlevania: Lords of Shadows with regards to corrupt save files, or more accurately, having their save files wiped from existence.
‘No more!’ says Konami triumphantly, as a patch for the epic action adventure game has been released to take care of this peculiar error.
“Where did this game come from?!”
That was a question I put to myself over a dozen times as I played through Mercury Steam and Konami’s Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, an action adventure game that could be written off as a ‘simple’ God of War clone by casual observers, but once the action is experienced and the adventure completed, the game amounts to so much more than a mere ‘clone.’
There are indeed elements of God of War in this 3D iteration of the classic Castlevania franchise, but there are also pieces of Uncharted woven into the title, too, with ingredients borrowed from Zelda and even Shadow of the Colossus mixed into the concoction to form a game that may be a little unrecognisable to Castlevania fans, but is wholly unique and amazing.
“But… where did this game come from?!”
I had paid attention to Castlevania: Lords of Shadow since it was first announced, but like a few others, I wasn’t convinced that the Spanish development outfit, Mercury Steam (which had worked on ‘American McGee presents Scrapland’ and ‘Clive Barker’s Jericho’), would be able to deliver anything other than a generic ‘God of War clone,’ even with the help of Hideo Kojima and Kojima Productions.
After playing the game to completion, however, and discovering a title that is anything but generic, with stunning environments, a gripping story, memorable characters and truly interesting gameplay and scenarios, I’m of the opinion that Castlevania: Lords of Shadow has outdone God of War in every way that matters, and stands alongside Bayonetta as an action game to beat.
Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.
A 2 GB demo for this week’s Castlevania: Lords of Shadow has just gone up on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, giving everybody a chance to check out this new three-dimensional vision for the classic 2D franchise.
We’re all hoping that it’s not as poor as previous attempts at moving the beloved series into the world of textures and polygons, and if online hype and previously released media is anything to go by, Konami and Mercury Steam have created a solid entry that we don’t have to worry about!
Here’s the official description:
Someone mail Merriam-Webster, quick! After watching this latest Tokyo Game Show trailer for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, they’re going to need to update the meaning of the word ‘epic.’
I am not joking!
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