Castlevania: Curse of Darkness (2005) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Castlevania: Curse of Darkness

Castlevania: Curse of Darkness is a direct sequel to Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse. The game differs from its predecessor in a number of ways, including a more complex, action-adventure style of gameplay…

66 1 November 2005

What Castlevania: Curse of Darkness is

Castlevania: Curse of Darkness is an adventure game developed by Konami and released in 2005. It is available on PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In Dracula's Curse, Trevor Belmont teamed up with Sypha Belnades, Grant DaNasty, and Alucard to take down Dracula. Curse of Darkness adds some backstory to this event. Apparently Dracula had two go-to guys, Hector and Isaac. These Generals in Dracula’s army are Devil Forgemasters, which means they pal around with familiars that they can manufacture, then summon and dismiss at will. The story goes that Hector betrayed Dracula in some way in response to objections about Dracula's actions, indirectly causing his defeat at the hands of Trevor Belmont. Ashamed at his own betrayal, Hector gives up the trade until Isaac, who remained loyal to Dracula, kills Hector's girlfriend Rosaly. A furious…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Castlevania series

Castlevania: Curse of Darkness is the 48th of 108 entries we hold in the Castlevania series. The next entry was NES Classics in 2005. Its critic score of 66 is 13 points below the series average of 79. The highest-rated entry is Super Castlevania IV at 100.

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How it was received

Castlevania: Curse of Darkness holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 27% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

Castlevania: Curse of Darkness launched on 1 November 2005, within three weeks of Shadow of the Colossus, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Call of Duty 2 and Sid Meier's Civilization IV. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Shadow of the Colossus, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV.

Cheats and codes

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