Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Ultimate Edition
Includes the DLCs, Reverie and Resurrection. "Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ultimate Edition is the complete edition of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, a dark and vivid new re-imagining of the Castlevania…
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Ultimate Edition is an adventure developed by MercurySteam, released 27 August 2013 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Ultimate Edition is
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Ultimate Edition is an adventure game developed by MercurySteam and released in 2013. It was published by Konami. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
"Gabriel Belmont is a member of the Brotherhood of Light, an elite group of holy knights who protect and defend the innocent against the supernatural. His beloved wife was brutally murdered by the evil forces of darkness and her soul trapped for eternity. Neither living nor dead she realizes the horrific truth of what is at stake and guides Gabriel to his destiny and hopefully salvation for the world."
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 47 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Castlevania series
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Ultimate Edition is the 73rd of 108 entries we hold in the Castlevania series. The next entry was Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate HD in 2013. Its critic score of 84 is 5 points above the series average of 79. The highest-rated entry is Super Castlevania IV at 100.
How it was received
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Ultimate Edition holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 14 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
A full completion run takes around 50 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1 GB RAM and Direct X9 compatible video card 512Mb Ram. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 15GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Ultimate Edition launched on 27 August 2013, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto V, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please and Rayman Legends. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto V, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please, Rayman Legends.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Ultimate Edition yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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