The time has finally come to end the Lords of Shadow story arch and Dracula is coming into the spotlight. The Lords of Shadow story arch has been a tremendous series for Castlevania.

+Visual Fidelity; +Revamped Combat

-Stealth Sections; -Questionable Design

There's good enemy variety too in terms of both look and behaviour, from aggressive flying Harpys to heavily-armoured Stone Golems. A.I. is sharp with increasingly challenging battles and a varied bestiary that mixes up enemies who have both short and long range attacks and various states of armour...

So much gameplay variation that it feels like an epic adventure; Intuitive and in-depth combat system; Rewarding open-world arena that begs to be explored

Dated-looking; slightly complicated skills menu could have been simplified and made to look more modern; Some repetitive stealth play

Gabriel Belmont--aka Dracula--is a deeply conflicted character, pulled in multiple directions by the dark and light influences of Castlevania: Lords of Shadows 2's story. As such, he's an unfortunate but entirely apt metaphor for the game's overall problems.

Powerfully affecting soundtrack; Beautiful medieval sections; Sometimes evokes the atmosphere of the first game

Combat lacks finesse; Too many poor diversions; Loss of scale and spectacle

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 brings the Gabriel Belmont story, begun in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, to a bloody conclusion. Gabriel, aka Dracula, is resurrected by returning frenemy Zobek and persuaded to help him defeat something even more evil than Dracula himself: Satan.

Gloriously grotesque gothic environments; Brilliant orchestral score.

Ludicrous story hinges on Dracula's naivety.

Initiée dans les années 80 par Konami, la licence Castlevania cumule un grand nombre de jeux, dont certains désormais très prisés par les collectionneurs. Initialement connue en tant que jeu d'action en side-scrolling, la série a également fait des apparitions peu appréciées en 3D.

Très bonne prise en main; Direction artistique réussie; Excellente bande sonore; Durée de vie honorable; Bonne réalisation graphique

Phases d'infiltration inintéressantes; Beaucoup d'allers-retours; Quelques effets d'aliasing; Les murs invisibles

Castlevania Lords of Shadow is a must play game on the PlayStation 3 that really draws you in from the start to give you a spectacular journey of good versus evil in this beautifully presented sequel.

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 built upon its predecessor in many meaningful ways, but it frequently stumbles whenever attempting something new. Comparing the segments set within Dracula's castle to those in the modern city shows a clear difference in approach.

Playing as Dracula could have been handled so many different ways, and while I don't agree with everything that MercurySteam did with Lords of Shadow 2, the positive aspects overwhelm the negative. This is a worthy and fitting end to a fine trilogy.

As reboots go, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow did interesting things with Konami's famous and much loved series, with developer MercurySteam crafting a game that was as much God of War as it was Castlevania, and it also featured a surprising conclusion that actually saw protagonist Gabriel Belmont...

Lords of Shadow may not have been the Castlevania game everyone wanted, but I mostly enjoyed it for what it was, and that ending was to die for. It was the perfect segue into Lords of Shadow 2 , which has been teased for nearly four years now as the return of Dracula -- the main man himself -- and a...