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Castlevania Lords of Shadow review: Yet Another 90+

So it's happened again. Castlevania Lords of Shadow has hit well into the 90s in its latest review in PSM3.

This time it's 94 percent, with the mag describing the Kojima influenced vampire action-adventure as "a glorious, epic with incredible combat and an involving story".

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JustSomeLogic5373d ago

Can we have normal review headlines from now on...please?

Game-ur5373d ago

So far every review is confirming my three pillars of a classic game: Gameplay, story, graphics.

Traveler5373d ago

90% of the credit goes to the actual development team that made the game, Mercury Steam. They have made an epic.

MisterNiwa5373d ago

Their first Next Gen Game, Clive Barkers Jericho was awesome aswell, I don't know why most people hated on it.

The atmosphere was absolute fantastic, it was a horror atmosphere like non other out there. The voice over may be stupid, but the story was pretty darn good.

And I couldn't complain over the gameplay, having a whole team to play with individual psychich powers is awesome.

meganick5373d ago (Edited 5373d ago )

Sorry, I have to disagree with you about story and graphics. Good graphics and a good story can compliment a game but it's all about gameplay in the end. For example, Pac-Man and Tetris are classics but they have archaic graphics and no story.

DaTruth5373d ago

You can't blame them, that was the ugliest game in history!

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firelogic5373d ago

It really is the kojima effect. he had a suprising amount of input in the project. even down to the main character's design.

JokesOnYou5373d ago

This game wasn't on my radar until recently but I've been hearing only good things about it and the few trailers I've seen look great. Guess I'll be picking this up soon.

JOY

tinybigman5373d ago (Edited 5373d ago )

and i've been waiting for a really good translation in 3D, the 1st one on ps2 was ok but this looks to finally it the series justice. i also would like to say shame on Konami for not giving Koji Igarashi a high budget for his 3D game; because if they did that ps2 game could have turned out just like this one.

i really hope people support this game by going out and purchasing it, but i have a bad feeling that this will not do any better than the rest of the games in this series.

castlevania is the definition of cult classic.

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Ahasverus5373d ago

It-s the original headline *Very Silly IMO

redDevil875373d ago

Ok now its definately a day one buy for me, this game seems way to good to pass up.

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Best Hack and Slash Games To Play On PC

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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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NecrumOddBoy1712d 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.

rgraf771712d ago (Edited 1712d 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.

magdiellima1712d ago

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

Terry_B1712d ago

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

FreeckyCake1711d 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.

isarai2069d 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.

RememberThe3572068d 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.

AK912068d ago (Edited 2068d 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.

PhoenixUp2069d 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.

Abcdefeg2068d ago

Curse of darkness was ahead of its time

Hedstrom2068d 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_red2068d ago (Edited 2068d 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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