Dark Souls II: Crown of the Old Iron King
Dark Souls II: Crown of the Old Iron King is the second DLC expansion for Dark Souls II, released in August 2014. It takes players to Brume Tower, a massive, decrepit structure filled with new enemies…
Dark Souls II: Crown of the Old Iron King is an adventure developed by FromSoftware, released 25 August 2014 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 8 hrs to finish.
What Dark Souls II: Crown of the Old Iron King is
Dark Souls II: Crown of the Old Iron King is an adventure game developed by FromSoftware and released in 2014. It was published by Bandai Namco Games. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Dark Souls II is a 2014 action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware and published by Bandai Namco Games. The second game in the Dark Souls series, it is set in the fallen kingdom of Drangleic and follows an undead traveler seeking a cure for their curse. It retains the series' emphasis on challenging combat, character customization, exploration and online interaction, while introducing changes such as a hollowing system that reduces the player's maximum health after repeated deaths.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Dark Souls series
Dark Souls II: Crown of the Old Iron King is the 11th of 25 entries we hold in the Dark Souls series. The next entry was Dark Souls II: Crown of the Ivory King in 2014. Its critic score of 80 is 5 points below the series average of 85. The highest-rated entry is Dark Souls at 91.
How it was received
Dark Souls II: Crown of the Old Iron King holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 8 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 14 hrs, roughly 1.8 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD® Phenom II™ X2 555 3.2Ghz or Intel® Pentium Core ™ 2 Duo E8500 3.17Ghz and NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600GT, ATI Radeon™ HD 5870. 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
Dark Souls II: Crown of the Old Iron King launched on 25 August 2014, within three weeks of Metro 2033 Redux, Metro: Last Light Redux, Destiny and Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Metro 2033 Redux, Metro: Last Light Redux, Destiny, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Dark Souls II: Crown of the Old Iron King yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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