Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition is the PC release, as well as the PS3 and Xbox 360 re-release, of Dark Souls, including the Artorias of the Abyss DLC.
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition is an adventure developed by FromSoftware, released 24 August 2012 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition is
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition is an adventure game developed by FromSoftware and released in 2012. It was published by Namco Bandai Games. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Dark Souls is a 2011 action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware and published by Namco Bandai Games. It is the first game in the Dark Souls series and a spiritual successor to FromSoftware's Demon's Souls. Set in the kingdom of Lordran, the game follows the Chosen Undead, who escapes from the Northern Undead Asylum and travels through Lordran to discover the fate of the undead. Gameplay centres on exploration, deliberate combat, character customisation, and online interactions including messages, cooperative play, and invasions.
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. There are 41 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Dark Souls series
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition is the third of 25 entries we hold in the Dark Souls series. It arrived 10 months after Dark Souls: Collector's Edition. The next entry was Dark Souls: Artorias of the Abyss in 2012. Its critic score of 84 is almost exactly the series average of 85. The highest-rated entry is Dark Souls at 91.
How it was received
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 14 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 87, across 222 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 GHz+ or AMD Phenom II X2 545 3.0 GHz+, 2 GB of RAM and GeForce 9800 GTX+ or ATI Radeon HD 4870+. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 4GB.
What it launched against
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition launched on 24 August 2012, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and FTL: Faster Than Light. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, FTL: Faster Than Light.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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