Hands on with Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

By BatRastered — June 21, 2010
Tags: e3-2010 exclusive preview video

Wolves and bigger wolves get whipped and stabbed...

I had a chance to play Castlevania: Lords of Shadow for a short while at Konami's E3 booth. The game brings Castlevania into the current generation with a play style similar to the God of War series. The whip action controls well and throwing daggers is quick and easy. The only enemies I got to fight were werewolves and larger werewolves that were in turn ridden by the smaller ones. Weird. You can pull off some neat combos with the different whip attacks and you can unlock new moves as you progress through the game. The cutscenes are skippable but they do feature the voice of Patrick Stewart. Whatever, this being a Kojima game, I can see some of these scenes being on the long side, so as long as I can skip, I'm happy.

Take a look at me playing Castlevania at E3.

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

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Release Date: Oct 7, 2010

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It looks fun, but it also looks like it's for the PS2 IMO. How did you feel about the game graphically?

choke has not rated Castlevania: Lords of Shadow yet.
Jun 21, 2010 by choke

I didn't see anything blowing me away. Just wolves. The townspeople were all a foot or two shorter than the Belmont Jimmy.

goukijones rated Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Rent it
Jun 21, 2010 by goukijones

Seriously ... translation?

goukijones rated Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Rent it
Jun 21, 2010 by goukijones

@choke, yeah, the graphics look a little dated, but they're definitely a cut above PS2. It's certainly no God of War III. Granted, I only saw two enemy types though, so who knows what the later bosses and such will look like.

BatRastered rated Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Flush it
Jun 22, 2010 by BatRastered

I just always expect the companies to show the balls to the wall shit at E3. Like if I'm gonna screen a clip of the new Transformers movie, I'm not going to show an idiotic conversation between Shia and his parents to wow the 'tards, I'm going to show them an equally idiotic action sequence.

choke has not rated Castlevania: Lords of Shadow yet.
Jun 25, 2010 by choke

Castlevania will always get my attention, but some of the games they put out are total crap. This was a cut above some of the others, but if they are going to keep making them they need to get their shit together.

DragonKiss83 rated Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Buy it
Jun 2, 2011 by DragonKiss83

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