"Lords of Shadow is a beat'em up game with solid combat, a good story, beautiful graphics, good voice acting, but a terrible camera

Pretty good voice acting though Stewart can get a little annoying after

Stunning visual presentation and decent voice acting, especially Patrick Stewart as the narrator.

SoundThis game has a wonderful soundtrack, and pretty decent voice acting.

, graphics not as sharp (Again still good) & voice acting not as

You will most likely die a

Pretty good voice acting though Stewart can get a little annoying after

"Lords of Shadow is a beat'em up game with solid combat, a good story, beautiful graphics, good voice acting, but a terrible camera

Unfortunatly as good as the acting is the actual dialogue these characters spout ranges from good to pretty

SoundThis game has a wonderful soundtrack, and pretty decent voice acting.

Even though Castlevania: LOS gets the hack and slash/QTE portion of the game right to a phenomenal level, it also gets punished by negative nay-sayers for being too much like other successful games of the action genre

You will probably die a few times, but its very easy to learn your lesson once, and you don't spend a lot of time replaying a mundane level just to get back to the spot where you left off.4

Level design and variety of terrain not as varied or amazingly fantastical as Castlevania, but awesome enough to be totally engrossing (the way you could just check out the forest in Avatar all day).

Level design and variety of terrain not as varied or amazingly fantastical as Castlevania, but awesome enough to be totally engrossing (the way you could just check out the forest in Avatar all day).

basically like a level set up. if it was all open like God Of War it could of been a better game

As I progressed through the game, the music toned down and became a bit darker and softer

beautiful visuals, amazing music, and challenging but not impossible if you persevere

If I were scoring the game, I would give it a 9.5 for a great, 20+ hour action game with a few camera glitches along with some repetitive action scenes and music

I forgot to mention, the music to this game is absolutely breathtaking

The graphics are AMAZING , the Music is Amazing, really enjoy a new version of a Cstlvn 4 music and hope to find more oldies, but if not, the music have the "felling " of gothic castlevania , but with today's tools

It's a hack n' slash and there will always be the 'light' attack button, the 'heavy' attack button and a grab and jump

There are puzzles in the game that break up the action and you can choose to skip it if you

If you are a fan of God of War or like a good action game get this game you will not regret it.

The action is great and the environments are amazing to see.

Castlevania:LoS is a solid action RPG game, much like Devil May Cry.

If you like puzzles there are tons and tons of them in this game

some puzzles are hard like olrox blood puzzle, the the bone forest jumping i hate

I really enjoyed the puzzles and the platforming.sound- This game doesn't have the classical castlevania score that you would expect, but themusic they have in this game fits it very well

The puzzles are actually kind of neat, but the game blatantly offers you the solution, taking the necessity out of solving them

This game kinda dragged a little and just seemed at some points like it was a job to play I like the story but not the gameplay too much and the puzzles were bad.

Not only were the puzzles overbearing, but I found my myself many times thinking "where do I go next?" because of some sort of bizarre environment design.

The environments are really good,and the cutscenes (not even my thing) are amazing!

Waterfalls littered with falling autumnal leaves, snowswept forests, foul swamplands, fog-haunted dead woods, decaying castles and abbeys, and many other environments are portrayed well.

It's a hack n' slash and there will always be the 'light' attack button, the 'heavy' attack button and a grab and jump

The environments are cool though, but that's about all this game has going for it.

In great Castlevania fanfare, Gebriel gathers relics that boost his powers as he learns new moves and acquires subweapons

Compared to the best Castlevania has to offer, this Lords of Shadow game is pathetic

BUT, not as good as the other Castlevania games (actually its true, the game feels like a totally different game altogether).

However it does everything with polish and is an impressive reboot of the old whip-and-kill NES Castlevania

Is the best castlevania game on 3d to date and to be a new beginning, to me, is a very good one

The controls are frustrating, the camera angles are bad, and the game is hard.

Controls: controls are fine for the most part until you get into the platforming areas of the game.

If they wanted to do a God of War style game, that's not a bad idea, but the game should have been far less linear and had better controls.

Fixed camera angles in a 3D environment and loose, over responsive controls will be more of a villain than the bad guys of this game.

i felt i got a good value from the trade, game has nice graphics, controls, and fluid motion

The gameplay was lacking in some areas but not enough to dimish the

Castlevania for the Nes blew me away because it was pretty much the first horror themed game for any system and it had great gameplay, a nice difficulty curve, and imaginative boss battles

The gameplay was decent, the graphics incredible, but this game was NOT Castlevania.

The gameplay is difficult enough to try over and over and even when you have won, you try again just for fun or to watch the cutscenes

Great gameplay, production values, music and the graphics are as good as Uncharted 2

:Castlevania PROSGRAPHICSFor those of you who enjoyed GOW3 as I did, well, Castelvania BLOOOOWS it away.

Some upgrades are well hidden or out of reach until these upgrades are found, but you can play earlier chapters again at any time to go to previously unavailable areas

There's also the ability to go back and replay past levels with new powers, which often allows the player to uncover power up items in previously unreachable areas.

In great Castlevania fanfare, Gebriel gathers relics that boost his powers as he learns new moves and acquires subweapons

Mercurysteam made it simple: jump, area attack, direct attack, secondary weapon

I really love the art direction in this game - intricate gothic architectures, lush jungles, a graveyard of titanic crumbling creatures - really well done.

In great Castlevania fanfare, Gebriel gathers relics that boost his powers as he learns new moves and acquires subweapons

Many of the boss fights are quite epic and amazing as you move along

Once activated, light magic will heal you as you hit your opponents and shadow magic makes your attacks much more damaging

:Castlevania PROSGRAPHICSFor those of you who enjoyed GOW3 as I did, well, Castelvania BLOOOOWS it away.

:Castlevania PROSGRAPHICSFor those of you who enjoyed GOW3 as I did, well, Castelvania BLOOOOWS it away.

It's a hack n' slash and there will always be the 'light' attack button, the 'heavy' attack button and a grab and jump

In great Castlevania fanfare, Gebriel gathers relics that boost his powers as he learns new moves and acquires subweapons

comparison would be to Castlevania: Lament of Innocence, which is something I imagine one would expect.

As for the GOW or the Devil May Cry comparisons, they are unfounded

Once activated, light magic will heal you as you hit your opponents and shadow magic makes your attacks much more damaging

"Lords of Shadow is a beat'em up game with solid combat, a good story, beautiful graphics, good voice acting, but a terrible camera

Yes there are problems with the game, some lack of polishing here, a bad camera angle there

The camera is not the worse I've ever seen but it can get frustrating at times, but truthfully it's not to the point where you would be deprived of an enjoyable experience with this game

There were some frustrating moments with the bad camera angles (one spot in chapter 11 especially) and parts where the game had my adrenaline boiling for more and suddenly

One slap with a whip that actually made super bad guys cower and display visible pain

Fixed camera angles in a 3D environment and loose, over responsive controls will be more of a villain than the bad guys of this game.

It was, I'm sad to admit, a relief when she died, simply because it meant you didn't have to listen to her yelling at you as you tried to battle your way through bad guys, figure out puzzles, and otherwise survive

You face three main bad guys, Lycan, Vampire and Satan, yes Satan

One slap with a whip that actually made super bad guys cower and display visible pain

I have the game set on easy difficulty and I cannot imagine what the other two higher settings would be like

You spend more time fighting colossal enemies that are boring to face and are pretty damn easy even on the toughest difficulty

Try to 110% the game(one thing to note: You can't 110% the game until you beat each level on Paladin (the most difficult) difficulty

There seems to be this cult of GoW fans that think the action game industry started off with GoW; it's true that this may be the first combat intensive western title of its kind, and GoW is certainly more popular in the west, due, mainly, to its more accessible difficulty level, but Japanese game companies were turning out tons of games like this way before GoW ever saw the light of day.

I played it through on the hardest difficulty available, and still only died a handful of times

Once activated, light magic will heal you as you hit your opponents and shadow magic makes your attacks much more damaging

The game is filled with invisible walls (like Alice: Madness Returns), which can be overlooked, but at times there were so many other places I wanted to explore that are just unexplorable

No longer are you stuck in an improbably huge castle, fighting bosses for power-ups that let you explore more of the castle, nor are you breaking down walls in hopes of finding strangely placed boosts

:Castlevania PROSGRAPHICSFor those of you who enjoyed GOW3 as I did, well, Castelvania BLOOOOWS it away.

And if the ledges you can grab onto didn't blink, it would be impossible to find them, because although there are ledges everywhere in the game that would seem like you could climb, the invisible room walls prevent you from grabbing most of them.4

Plus you can add additional characteristics to the game found in the extras, or dressing Gabriel like Snake from Metal Gear.

Once activated, light magic will heal you as you hit your opponents and shadow magic makes your attacks much more damaging

Before the final battle, you find out that Gabriel himself killed his own wife, because Zobek used a spell to force Gabriel to kill her.

Huh?So Satan manipulated Zobek to go out and manipulate Gabriel to kill a lady?

By the end, I was wondering if Gabriel was as exhausted as I was on the overall journey

Like Devil May Cry, however, the enemies are actually pretty smart, and don't hesitate to block and dodge, so if you don't fight intelligently, and learn the different combos, you will die

Like Devil May Cry, however, the enemies are actually pretty smart, and don't hesitate to block and dodge, so if you don't fight intelligently, and learn the different combos, you will die

The enemies are definitely awesome, and very unique, like every other enemy, of course some are annoying to beat, but when you get the hang of it, you will just look at the enemies as another fun ride throughout the game.

Last time I enjoyed punishing enemies was in Devil May Cry games

Repetitive enemies are the only drawback that causes the game to get a little tedious at times.

From my experience, especially on higher difficulties, the counter attack is your best friend

From my experience, especially on higher difficulties, the counter attack is your best friend

Plus a few of the people that you meet, the bosses you fight, anyone thats talking repeats themselves over and over and over adnauseum until you wish you could just kill them (friend or foe).Well thats all for my review on Castelvania.

He goes on and on about how he "fears for" his "poor friend" (Gabriel), because he is at the end of his sanity, basically...throughout the whole game

Unbeknownst to Gabriel, though, it was he himself, under the mental manipulation of Zobek (who poses as a friend and fellow knight), who murdered his wife

Kill bad guys, then at the end, you get your wife back.

He is trying to rescue his wife (who was murdered by the bad guys) from hell, and he has to kill a bunch of bad guys during a long quest to revive his wife.

There's also another main story of Gabriel doing all of this on the notion he'll be able to bring his dead wife back to life once he completes his overall mission

The story follows Gabriel Belmont as he tries to find a way to avenge/possibly resurrect his dead wife.

Before the final battle, you find out that Gabriel himself killed his own wife, because Zobek used a spell to force Gabriel to kill her.

In this you get a new Belmont, Gabriel, who goes on a mission to help bring peace to the world by stopping the evil lords that that rule the land

The storyline made no sense whatsoever, and the final cutscene was just confusing (why is Gabriel cursed to be a Dark Lord, after such a lengthy scene about his being forgiven by God,

(Zobek, the vampires; and Gabriel, the werewolves) -- he didn't actually do a thing...while Gabriel was running around slaying werewolves and killing the werewolf Lord of Shadow, Zobek apparently was sitting on his hands...because he is waiting for Gabriel when he finishes, and lets Gabriel do just about everything