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PlayStation Plus gains exclusive Castlevania: Lords of Shadow demo this week

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PlayStation Plus subscribers can look forward to a further exclusive treat this week, as a Castlevania: Lords of Shadow demo makes its debut on Sony's next-gen console.

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GuruStarr785378d ago (Edited 5378d ago )

NOW THIS...could make me take the ps+ dive...except it's Europe only so far....

StanLee5378d ago

I really want to get excited about this game but I'm getting that Dante's Inferno vibe all over again. I was so excited for Dante's Inferno and it was so mediocre. I saw a few developer diaries of this game and the combat seems really one dimentional and boring.

monk3395378d ago

Glad to see Sony is figuring out a way to monetize their online service all while keeping the free online play. MS needs to take not of this.

cliffbo5378d ago

don't even go there! this game is going to be as good as GOW3 and that's coming from a PS3 owner and a big fan of the GOW franchise

JonDiskonected5378d ago (Edited 5378d ago )

Completly agree with Stan Lee. I even thought God of War 3 was meh at best. I hope this one does the genre justice.

EvilBlackCat5378d ago

"I'm getting that Dante's Inferno vibe all over again"

seriously WTF?

By the way Dantes inferno is great game IMO.

ULTIMATE_REVENGE5378d ago

Well the graphics of this game are already very appealing so hopefully you wont feel the same disappointment as you did when playing Dante's Inferno.

Redrum0595378d ago

please for the love of gaming, bring it to the US

Imperator5378d ago

It won't be as good as GOW3. A multiplat simply cannot compete with a Ps3 exclusive. It will, however, be a great game (from what I've seen).

mastemikegee5378d ago

konami are making this. and hideo kojima collaborated. it has to be good. right?

The Creep5378d ago (Edited 5378d ago )

this graphically already looks better than God of war 3. so i dont know what your goingon about mate.

http://www.gametrailers.com...

the video doesnt lie

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showtimefolks5378d ago

enslaved
LOS
fallout
medal of honor
vanquish

if LOS is ok/good other games will get my money we have waited far too long for a 3d castlevania game and this better be good.

its just like GOW combat wise BUT THAT GOOD if you copy the best and ADD A FEW OF YOUR OWN THINGS it just needs to work

raztad5378d ago

Agree about the game need to be great. I feel it has a good chance to be great. First of all, having Kojima on board, means there will be a crazy story about battle between good and evil for world domination.

Second, the visuals are pretty solid.

Third, combat looks like GoW but platforming like UC2 and big boss battles like Shadow of the Colossus.

Tis might be a winner. I only need to know how long the game is.

ElementX5378d ago (Edited 5378d ago )

What's the point of listing enslaved, fallout, medal of honor, and vanquish? The rest of your post is a grammatical mess.

MGRogue20175378d ago (Edited 5378d ago )

Hmmm.. Does this mean that the US PSN store will get it also.. for everyone including regular users instead??

That's what happened with the Mafia II demo. I'm in the UK & I downloaded it using my US PSN account while PS+ members in Europe/UK had to pay for it. :P

FAGOL5378d ago

YES this is why I bought ps+

Kamikaze1355378d ago (Edited 5378d ago )

The demo comes out for Xbox LIVE members for free, yet PSN users have to pay to get to the demo? Am I missing something here? >_>

Oh alright, thanks guys. It's been a long time since I've owned a 360 and I forgot about the whole Gold and Silver members. Can't wait till it comes out for us regular PSN users.

raztad5378d ago (Edited 5378d ago )

yes you are. The demo will be coming later to regular PS users, it is just PS+ users getting it earlier.

monk3395378d ago (Edited 5378d ago )

so, just how gold works? With Xbox live gold people get the demos early, and silver accounts get it later. Besides the free online play, PSN+ is looking a whole lot like gold.

raztad5378d ago

Yes, I guess it would be equivalent to Gold in that sense. After all PS+ users pay to receive VIP treatment.

JonDiskonected5378d ago

xbox live isnt free...sooooo it's the same thing

I'll bet you anything that the demo wont be out for silver accounts, only gold

Biggest5378d ago

It's funny that you think $50-$60 a year is free.

monk3395378d ago (Edited 5378d ago )

Well, I may be wrong here, but I don't think PSN+ is free either...

Biggest5378d ago

You're late to the party. I was responding to Kamikaze135 before his edit. And it's PS+. PSN is free.

YoshiMeetsU5378d ago

When everyone would get it before, now you gotta be a member of the Plus club.

And only for Europe?

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Looking Back to 2010 and the Gothic Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

Edgar writes: "To celebrate the game's 10th anniversary, let's take a look at the gothic world of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow."

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NecrumOddBoy1710d ago

Although being linear, which I wish it wasn't, the first game was absolutely incredible. A mix of old school God of War meets Date's Inferno; I was highly impressed by this title. I heard the sequel was trash so I ever played it but I think LoS was a good example of how a 3D CV game could be.

rgraf771710d ago (Edited 1710d ago )

I was very happy the game was Linear as I hate exploring. The first game was one of my all time favorites and the 2nd game was a total letdown with the lame hub system and stealth sections. Playing in current times sucked too. I wish they would make a remaster of part 1.

magdiellima1710d ago

Good as a game but terrible as a Castlevania. The sequence was even worse.

Terry_B1710d ago

It is a great game, but just like DMC is not a Devil May Cry..this one was not a Castlevania :-)

FreeckyCake1709d ago

Give Castlevania to Igarashi team, and they will nail it as they did with Lament of Innocence and Curse of Darkness.

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Terrifyingly Bad: A Look Back At the 3D Castlevania Games

If you decide to play a Castlevania game, make sure it's in 2D. Unfortunately, the series has never been able to make the jump from 2D to 3D successfully. Publisher Konami has tried. Six times in fact, but whether trying to build it in-house or with a third party developer, they never captured the essence of the series or make a good game for that matter. So just to be sure you know what to look out for, here are the six 3D Castlevania games that have been made.

isarai2067d ago

I loved the hell out of lords of shadow, lords if shadow 2 had its moments but just didnt leave as much of an impact on me as the first did, still loved it though. They are both great games IMO, maybe not the best "Castlevania" games but great games in their own right.

RememberThe3572066d ago

Yeah that first game was legit good. Really wish they hadn't taken a step back for the second, this series really looked great in 3D.

AK912066d ago (Edited 2066d ago )

According to one of the former devs of Mercury Steam the higher ups kept interfering with the sequel to the point where the game was nothing like what the dev team had envisioned for the sequel so we got the mess that was Lords of Shadows 2.

PhoenixUp2067d ago

I enjoyed Lament of Innocence and Lords of Shadow. They were entertaining titles and I wouldn’t mind trying Lords of Shadow 2 on PS Now.

Just because a game isn’t GOTY worthy does not mean it’s not worth playing. You could do a lot worse than those exceptional titles.

Abcdefeg2066d ago

Curse of darkness was ahead of its time

Hedstrom2066d ago

I really liked lament of innocence and Lords of shadow! Havent tried the other 3d games. But ive played most of the 2d games!

gangsta_red2066d ago (Edited 2066d ago )

I don't know why Castlevania: Lament of Innocence gets a bad rap. It was one of the best in the series at that time and really was a compliment to the Devil May Cry 3rd person style of action that was getting popular at that time.

I rented it on a fluke and was seriously surprised on how good it was. So much so I went out and bought a used copy of Curse of Darkness and instantly returned that trash.

The problem with Nintendo 64 games is they all tried to mimic the Mario/Zelda 64 style of gameplay and how could they not with that whacky ass N64 controller. Almost every game outside of Nintendo's own felt horrible and incomplete.

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