Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Gabriel Belmont learns of a mask with the power to raise the dead and sets out on a mission to obtain it to bring his recently murdered wife back from the dead. Lords of Shadow builds upon the combat systems…
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is an adventure developed by MercurySteam, released 5 October 2010 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $4.43 at IndieGala. The main story takes about 15 hrs to finish.
What Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is an adventure game developed by MercurySteam and released in 2010. It was published by Konami. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Mercury Steam Engine. It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
From Wikipedia: Gabriel is sent by the Brotherhood of Light to the Lake of Oblivion, where his deceased wife, Marie, tells him that Spirits who founded the Brotherhood said that the Lords of Shadow's power will save the world. Gabriel meets a man from the Brotherhood called Zobek, who states that a prophecy has been kept a secret by a select few, which tells of a pure-hearted warrior who will claim the Lords of Shadow's power to overcome evil. Zobek says that he and Gabriel must enter the lands of the Dark Lords in order to unite the Heavens with the world again, and that with this Gabriel can bring Marie back from the dead. Gabriel defeats the werewolf Cornell and the vampire Carmilla for…
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 is the 66th of 108 entries we hold in the Castlevania series. The next entry was Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Limited Edition in 2010. Its critic score of 83 is 4 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 holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 82, across 234 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 15 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 30 hrs, roughly 2 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $4.43, that works out to about $0.30 per hour of the main story, or $0.15 per hour if you finish everything.
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 costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $4.43 at IndieGala, 84% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow launched on 5 October 2010, within three weeks of Fallout: New Vegas, Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach and Super Meat Boy. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Fallout: New Vegas, Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach, Super Meat Boy.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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