Astute fans may recall Lords's original debut in brief demos for the press prior to last year's E3 sans an explicit link to the Castlevania dynasty. After whispers and rumors linked the game to the Belmont family's unending struggle against the night, Konami finally confirmed the title's vampire killing pedigree last June with an in-engine trailer (though little else), and gave in-person demonstrations to select press at last year's Leipzig Games Convention (you can read Matt Casamassina's preview from that demo here).
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Edgar writes: "To celebrate the game's 10th anniversary, let's take a look at the gothic world of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow."
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.
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.
It is a great game, but just like DMC is not a Devil May Cry..this one was not a Castlevania :-)
Give Castlevania to Igarashi team, and they will nail it as they did with Lament of Innocence and Curse of Darkness.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I really liked lament of innocence and Lords of shadow! Havent tried the other 3d games. But ive played most of the 2d games!
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.
This is God of War 3 all over again just with inferior graphics.
I've played almost every castlevania game at some point in my life. I even enjoyed the clunky N64 game. Curse of Darkness was fun as hell and way underrated. I have watched the E3 2009 teaser at least 10 time this past year, I get a tingle in my spine every time.
It kinda looks like they are borrowing alot from GoW, that is not necessarily a bad thing as long as they keep the addicting rpg elements in. I think castlevania fans will be happy. Can't wait
If Lament was years before GoW and the chain whip was 2 decades before that, then how did Castlevania copy anything? GoW is great but it's a different game. Can you be specific in what Castlevania is copying?
Lament of Innocence - 2003
God of War1 - 2005
What you're saying makes no sense. God of War being released later was a better game, but God of War did not invent or bring anything new to the table. It expanded on the already exsisting 3D action genre that Castlevania revolutionized. Fact.
How about we rate this game based off of it's own merits instead of comparing it to GOW. Sometime's I think fanboys want all other Devs to stop making games due to the fact that it may not be able to compete with GOW. I for one am looking forward to this and cannot wait to see what Kojima Pro. put out.