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  • No, it's more like God of War + Shadow of the Colosus.

  • 2:41 lol.

  • not for pc?another awesome game that i won't play:(

  • is this for pc?

  • Ladies and gentlemen... i give you....

    VAN HELSING!!!!!!!

  • prince of persia+dante's inferno=Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

  • god of war, DMC, prince of persia all combined

  • The game does look amazing, but can we please bring back Simon?

  • When I was younger and played Castlevania for the first time in my GameBoyAdvance and saw the whip instead of blades, I said: "That guy is fucking Amazing"....First hero smashing monsters whit a whip!!

  • reminds me of van helsing

  • Not to say it doesn't look good but, let's get one thing straight... The whip used to be the only weapon, besides the others you could pick up occasionally. It made the game more challenging to players. Now the whip is so over powered and as if that wasn't enough, they had to add another weapon.

    I'll probably still get this though. XD

  • i have to admit, even if im afraid that it could fuck up the castlevania image and stuff, The design fkn rulz, defenitely unique and beautiful game enivornment

  • How can have this game dislikers!?

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  • I still like the first castlevania better...

  • this is a good game, but it doesn't nearly qualify as a castlevania game.

  • The titan boss fights are basically boss fights from shadow of the colossus. Don't complain people, at least its not the final fantasy, metroid style game like all the castlevania games were after the playstation, but castlevania was never meant to be 3rd person, havn't they learned from the N64? but lets hope this will be different.

  • The protagonist kinda looks like Shang Tsung from MK: Armageddon.

  • this game did not dissapoint...strong visuals, storytelling, and mechanics...you can just tell how much passion and dedication the programmers and everyone involved in the project put into it...it is pathetic in today's gaming industry where games such as halo and skyrim receive an average score of 9 or better based on reputation and biased reviewers...yet a game like LOS recieves much unwarranted criticism in the face of other games with far more flaws and shortcomings...LOS is a work of art

  • @islapilluminati

    You're 100% right. One of the best games I've ever played.

  • @micahman3000 it wasn't just a game....it was a fucking experience:)...and you get your money's worth out of it...20+hours when the average game today can be beaten in 6-7 hours

  • @islapilluminati This games does look incredible, but it's funny how you said that halo and Skyrim developers don't put any passion or dedication into their games, I'd find their creator studios to be one of the most dedicated and fan responsive developers out there.

  • @14DEADSOUL actually so there is no misunderstanding...I never questioned the passion or dedication of the programmers of halo or skyrim...I love both games and they have much to offer...my criticism is directed at the biased nature of reviewing in the gaming industry and settling for lesser standards...Skyrim was released broken...I already have 10 broken quests that can't be completed, as do many others...halo has had a substandard graphics engine since halo 2...they are not 9/10 games

  • @14DEADSOUL in regards to my passion and dedication statement in particular, I was saying Castlevania LOS had it...I wasn't suggesting that Halo or Skyrim developers didn't...they do have passion and dedication....but they far too often have to many glaring weaknesses that make it inexcusable for these game reviewers to kiss their ass and give them unwarranted high scores where games of a much higher quality with far less flaws get shafted with poorer scores

  • @islapilluminati I see what you mean, still partly disagree with using them as examples though. Anyway Castlevania ~RULES~! Playing through Aria of shadow on the Gameboy currently. Retro for the win :)

  • castlevania is the mos old game. i play it in nin 64, en is well..bat now it's great game i love.;

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  • Im a huge fan of castlevania and my favorite is symphony of the night. I wasn't planning to play lords of shadow but the thing that made me play this game is the fact that gabriel belmont would eventually becomes Dracula. So i thought that the coming sequel would be playing dracula ( like playing Alucard in symphony of the night ).. I have complains in this game though, the camera angels are not controllable making it difficult to steer on the direction you wish to go or see the area wer you wa

  • Shadow of the Colossus too weak.Castlevania: Lords of Shadow stronger

  • XD

    

  • super bueno

    

  • where did i get this music?????

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  • fuck the whip, i like the cross .

  • OMFG WHERE IS THE WHIP??

  • shadow of the colossus copy

  • @KelKreatorMan lol...it's nothing like Shadow of the Colossus

  • it's just like prince of persia combined with dantes inferno, but much better

  • @resh612 +god of war

  • @resh612 And devil may cry

  • I'm so fucking will have you!

  • TIPO EU ACHEI LEGAL O JOGO MAS GENTE, SEM OFENSA,CONCORDEM AI.TA IGUAL AO (GOD OF WAR}) ALGUNS DOS BICHOS, OS ATAQUES DELE, A ASA DELE, O JEITO QUE ELE PULA DE UM LUGAR PRO OUTRO, E ALGUMAS OUTRAS COISAS

  • o nome deveria ser (O jogo mais paga lasca de god of war)

  • Putz o ultimo comentario meu saiu errado

  • Mas o jogo ta pagando um pau mesmo pro god of war ate e espadinha ta igual e os monstros tbm.Deve ser q ultimo lançado do castlevania foi ruim e tentaram copiar

  • O jogo ta legal pq eu tenho um akee q e paia....

    mas esse ta pagando um pau pra o (God Of War) e o (Prince Of Persia)

  • Im disapointed at this game. There is only few enemies on each stage, there is only few skills too and they are worthless and its just bad God of War and Shadow of the Collosus rip off in fuckin boring Tolkien like ( so far ) world. Fuck goblins, wargs and trolls i wanted some zombies skeletons and undead shit everywhere, and more action , less climbing, less short pointless cutscenes and horror atmosphere instead of this candy fuckin shit.

  • @Rauser142 Are you serious? The game is literally swarming with undead stuff once you get past the first chapter, especially zombies and skeletons, ect.

    It's an absolute masterpiece of a game, when I beat it, I felt genuinely moved.

  • can u play as a werewolf?

  • WOW!!!that's a LOT of focusing on graphics...

  • Castlevania only from its name. That's a shame ):

  • This is...Without a shadow of a doubt one of the greatest games I've ever played.

    It's fucking beautiful.

  • THIS IS SOOOO MOTHERFUCKING GOW ISh!!! Oh my god -.-

  • @yUrilpx69 and the titans are just like shadow of the collosus -.-

  • @yUrilpx69 It's times like this that you have to think...which game series came out first...when God of War wasn't even in conception this franchise was kicking butt everywhere. So Castlevania didn't copy off God of War...God of War copied off Castlevania.

  • @2011seniortiger are you stupid?? im saying castlevania lords of shadow's style is the same as god of war... only lords of shadow... and i did not say it was copied... i said it sucks and i want the old castlevania back

  • @yUrilpx69 Alright chill. You can't be too careful with the idiots that get online these days. For a second I thought that you were implying that God of War was the original title of the two. Now that I know that you understand the truth I ain't gonna have a pointless internet fight.

  • Looks like a fireworks show at 6:00

  • maybe its a little bit alike god of war, but who didnt love god of war? this game looks pretty good

  • what the fuck is a fucking lady goddamn gaga video ad doing in a castlevania video ?

  • this game has too many puzzles, they should have focused more on fighting instead of forcing a puzzle in at every turn.

  • The only Castlevania game I played was Portrait of Ruin, and it was awesome!

  • @KnightxxArrow Get a Play Station 1 Emulator, and get Symphony of the Night. You won't be disappointed.

  • @KnightxxArrow then you are missing out. play the original too!

  • @KnightxxArrow You should play Symphony of the Night and Dawn of Sorrow too! They are my definite favorites and amazing games as well~

  • The voice narrating here is TERRIBLE. Makes me not want to buy the game at all. Too sterile and disinterested. This kind of introduction might be suited to explaining the game to some interested investors (speaking in terms of "the experience), but not for exciting actual players.

  • Let's be clear. Ripoff because of the long ranged weapons?

    Do you remember Castlevania: Laments of Innocence?... it was released in 2003, while God of War was released in 2005. Castlevania has used whips and long ranged weapons before GOW even existed.

  • @TheFranGloria Yeah also if this game's a GOW clone then GOW was a Ninja Gaiden clone.

  • @TheFranGloria have you ever thought that he might be a god of war fanboy kid and has only ever heard of god of war? or just ignorant. comon man lay off of him.

  • sort of like an xbox version of god of war

  • @jcool628 Bullshit. It is also avaliable for PS3 and you can say that God of War is like Ninja Gaiden or Devil May Cry. I hate the comparism of every Action game to God of war...

  • @jcool628 what the fuck are you talking about you piece of shit, this game is also available on ps3 retarded fuck

  • @TurkishHegemony someone is a tad bit off puberty

  • combat cross? wtf? where is the whip?

  • @Diavolino1988 The whip was mentioned RIGHT BEFORE THE CROSS, you fuckin' retard.

  • @Diavolino1988 There's spoilerish reasons why he doesn't have the whip. Beat the game first, and you'll see why he doesn't have Vampire Killer.

    It's a sense of irony, really.

  • @Diavolino1988 9:47 shows a whip and mentions the "vampire killer"

  • @Diavolino1988 The Combat Cross is the whip he said it in the trailer.

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  • This game was awesome! Its a shame more people didnt get to experience this masterpiece!

  • Castlevania 4 music! best castlevania by far

  • Every Game is a Rip-off of Pong! ...But i love this game and also the old Metroidvania style and the even older Sidescrolling NES/SNES Classics ;)

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  • Its Like God Of War in the moves and techniques and Prince of Persia of the run in the walls etc...

  • Was about to say SOTC content has been revealed.

  • Belmont is DRACULA

  • Sooooooo love this game / genre / game style

  • I had a good "shadow of the colosus" feel when battling the Titans, nice job Konami :)

  • the music....it's so...nostalgic<333

  • the best game in this kind of games that ive played ever!!!fuckin amazing!

  • 8:14 remember to shadow of the colossus :D

  • at some points this game does remind me of God of War and Dante Inferno but it still looks pretty good. Will consider this after I finish GoW 3.

  • shadow of the colosus much

    

  • God Of War + Uncharted = Castlevania: Lords of Shadow ♥

  • i think its time for castlevania to move forward and exclude itself from hack and slash games that are automatically stereotyped as "god of war rip-offs".

  • It looks...ok. Now the NES Castlevania... THAT'S what I call a game.

  • It doesn't seem to be a REAL Castlevania at the start, but you will get your castle, vampires, and everything that makes it a castlevania later on BECAUSE it's a prequel. I don't want to give out to many spoilers, but, It IS a Castlevania game. I don't know why this one in particular got so heavily criticized.

  • This trailer tricks me into it being a Castlevania Game. But, no Vampire Slayer, no Dracula. In fact, this goes on before Lament of Innocence, which showed us how the fight between the belmonts and dracula started. So it's like "Why was it named castlevania?" I'm just waiting for Konami to decide and do the game with Julius Belmont in 1999 showing how they killed Dracula for good.

  • fucking aswome

  • I just beat this game. It's a pretty good game if you know what your getting into. I definitely wouldn't say it's a "must have" but it's entertaining.

  • this isn't castlevania...REAL castlevania is from 1 to 5...that's it

  • What, no whipp?

  • GOW ripoff. Castlevania should stay in 2D.

  • @Rauser142 -_- just because its a hack-n-slash with platforming doesn't mean its like GOW, and im pretty sure there are WAY more hack-n-slash games that came out "Before" GOW so what, did those games copy it too?

  • @xKaRMaLx

    GOW was inspired by DMC. But this fuckin game really is just a GOW and Shadow of the Collosus ripoff. Actually all games look same its annoying where is any imagination ? Damn lazy ass bastards.

  • @Rauser142 any imagination?

    This franchise has existed when arcades were popular.

  • @lolatmyaccounts

    I know. And was kickass then.

  • @xKaRMaLx It's a ripoff cause of the double long range weapon and the wings for example, not only the gameplay in general.

  • @vboxeca i get what your saying, but its not really a rip off just because it has a few things in common, and game play? like i said in my other comment what about Dante's Inferno, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Blade and all the other hack-n-slash style games out there. Just because the game play is similar or it has a few elements from other games doesn't mean its stealing anything, there are so many games out now that it's almost impossible to make a game without another game having the same elements.

  • @xKaRMaLx Well maybe it wasn't intended as a ripoff, but all these games are pretty much the same and I find them all boring.

  • @xKaRMaLx Yes... and all games of this area obviously got the idea of using a whip like object to overcome obstacles from the old castlevanias... like spinning the whip and grabbing ledges and swinging to your goal and even Rygar and bionic comando used these ideas in the late 1980s

  • @xKaRMaLx Well said, too many people have this gradeschool "copycat" mentality when it comes to games. In the reality of things, they don't realize that good elements that show up in good games actually change the genre, if it works well, then it will be used by other titles. Otherwise, heaven forbid all these games for being basic "copies" of old school Super Mario Bros. I mean c'mon, jumping in the game? That's straight old school.

  • I'm doing a fast track play through if anyone wants to see it.

  • shud i get 2 worlds 2 or this

  • I liked this game. One thing that did make me laugh was the narration by Zobek when he'd say stuff like ''Ah, Gabriel. Such hate in his heart, such anger in his eyes! He has not slept for days, for the nightmares they would torment him so!'' etc yet throughout the whole game Gabriel looks really relaxed and laid back

  • too much like god of war, not that interesting

  • Romania RULZ!!!

  • HAHAHA, how many games did these guys rip off? The titan battles are pulled STRAIGHT from Shadow of the Colossus. This game, while perhaps not a bad game, should never have been received the Castlevania title. I just hope one day we get a regular, non-mobile 2d Castlevania game. But no, can't make a 2d game anymore, why that would be like making a black and white movie. Fuckers.

  • @mygaffer

    I agree with the fact that the titan battles are copied from Shadows of Colossus, it's just obvious. There is no going around it. And you know good and well they tried to go with more of a God of War type of feel to the game, especially with the quick time events.

    But I don't agree that it has to be in 2-d. 3D is fine, they just have to make the game more original to castlevania and less like everything else. It was just trying too hard. I couldn't play the game after a while.

  • @0194D to be fair how exactly does one make a 3D castlevania and being more like the 2D games?

    After all the games at their core are just platforming and fighting.

    And thats what lords of shadow is, platforming and fighting.

  • @Mcmadness288

    *sigh*

    There is more to the games than just platforming and fighting. And I was referring to the game being more like the Castlevania series and less like the other 3D games of now. Why copy shadows of Colossus, with the titan battles? Why put in the quick time events(like all the other 3D action-adventure games)?

    Overall it was a decent game...but just certain things that made it feel not like it was a CV game.

    This game over all just needed more work.

  • @0194D Sure to the metroidvania titles, there was more then just platforming and fighting but with the classic castlevania games all there was, was platforming and hitting something with your whip or projectile side weapon. And thats what this game is like. Its a 3D variation of an old fashioned castlevania. And the visual style of the game is more reminiscent of the old fashioned castlevania games, and not the anime like ones from nowadays. (not saying those are bad mind you)

  • @Mcmadness288

    My point is, the game shouldn't have copied other games. It was obvious they copied shadows of colossus.

    The game is nice the way it is when it comes to just the fighting. But I'm not talking about the fighting, for most. And platforming and hitting doesnt mean it is automatically like the old games. The game needs more, of a haunting feel. The story needs alot of work. And they definately need work on some of the controls if they want CV LOS 2 to fit better into the 3d world.

  • @0194D Well ignoring the controls of the game (because personally I found they worked fine) how would you have done it?

  • @Mcmadness288

    I wasn't talking about like L2+O or something like that. I meant sometimes the controls fuck you over. While climbing I sometimes the character wouldn't jump when he obviously could, and sometimes the R2 doesn't pick up right away when you are trying to let go of one glowing handle to swing to another glowing handle.

    Stuff like that is what I'm referring to. And the camera needed work too, the camera is your biggest enemy in this game.

  • @0194D Honestly I've never had these problems so I dunno what was wrong with your game.

  • @Mcmadness288

    Nothing wrong with the MY copy of the game. It is the game in general. Anyways the game has problems and needs work.

    And the thing when you die, and they bring you back but with less life, SUCKS!!! I'd rather be restarted at an earlier checkpoint, than lose life. And everytime you die you have to wait until the damn game loads up again. You know what I'm talking about. When you die, it shows the chain extending at the bottom and you have to wait til it reaches the end. whack

  • @0194D Yeah the loading time is a pain but even some of the best games in the series have awful loading times.

    Like Symphony of the night.

  • @mygaffer ok then, if your so smart, explain how someone makes a 3D castlevania properly.

  • @Mcmadness288 They don't. Any 3d take on Castlevania won't be Castlevania. But if it has to be done the best way to make a 3d Castlevania is not to reinvent the game. SF4 uses 3d characters but it still plays on a 2d plane. If they wanted to make the character model, the enemy models, and item models 3d but still have all the action take place on a 2d plane then I would be happy and play the game.

  • @mygaffer Now I think thats an incredibly closed mind statement.

    There are plenty of games that have both 2D and 3D installments.

    Why does a game suddenly stop being a part of a series just because it switches to the third dimension?

  • @Mcmadness288 Way to just ignore the whole part I wrote about how to make a 3d Castlevania. I said they could have done a proper 3d Castlevania game.

    Anyway, this game was never intended to even be a Castlevania game. The developer pitched it to Konami and Konami said, "looks good, but we want you to make it a Castlevania game". So lets not pretend this game is in anyway a real Castlevania game, 3d or not.

  • @mygaffer Actually it was originally going to be a 3D version of the original castlevania title.

    Besides whats so not castlevania about it?

  • @Mcmadness288 It was NEVER going to have anything to do with Castlevania. I read an interview with the developer, they came up with a game they wanted funded and published. The pitched it to Konami. Konami said sure, as long as you make it into a Castlevania game. Why do you care so much?

  • @mygaffer Curiosity.

  • "So new players can jump right in without knowing any of the previous adventures". First of all, you've never needed to know the back story to enjoy a Castlevania game. Second of all, the reason this doesn't follow any of the other games is b/c they took an existing game and slapped the Castlevania name on it to sell more copies. Marketing fucktards, kill yourself.

  • People here is how ! GOW barrows from Devil my cry . And DMC barrows from a game for the Dreamcast game called -sword of the berserk/guts rage. I love this game!and all the game that copied it!!!!

  • I teared up a little...

  • GOW IS BETTER BECAUSE YOU GOT RIFLE AS WEAPON AND CHAINSAW AS MELEE.

    BLOL!!

  • every hack and slash game in the market has it roots on castlevania ;) learn some shit before you post ignorant comments on youtube

  • It makes me laugh how people say GOW is better than CV! lmao!

  • i wish they would make a remake of castlevania symphony of the night i miss alucard

  • goddamn this music takes me back

  • these days are rebooting a lot of series: Tomb Raider, Castlevania, what's the next :P?

  • @the7tragic7prince7 devil may cry....

  • @the7tragic7prince7 Imagine if the did a reboot of Devil May Cry...

  • @the7tragic7prince7 Twisted Metal is next.

  • at 5:12 monster tits:D

  • @DarkMesmeric lol

  • @DarkMesmeric you are fucked in the head

  • @intermilanforever why am i fucked in the head???

  • @DarkMesmeric because you love monster tits?

  • @intermilanforever its just a comment i thought would be funny to say

  • @DarkMesmeric not what I was expecting man... :(

  • @leojr81 wasnt expecting what???

  • Pobres imbeciles los q dicen q CV es copia de GOW. La saga de CV viene desde los 80 retrazados mentales!

    Idiots! those who think CV is a copy of GOW . CV's saga has been on the map since the 80's you retards!

  • @klein2185 que esperabas? los que dicen eso rondan los 10 años de edad, esta serie invento la esencia de la jugabilidad de GOW, los ataques con cadenas, ademas fue pionera en darle a un juego un aspecto lugubre, tenebroso y medieval, que adoptaron juegos como RE4 y DMC por ejemplo

  • Funny how people keep saying that CV is just a copy of GoW when CV has been there long before GoW has been conceptualized. Don't get me wrong. I'm not a CV fanboy. I love both games. It's just that GoW and CV's genre of gameplay is very generic that they will a lot of similarities. And think about it, if CV will be released on the PS3 or Xbox do you think they will make another 2D side scroll? hahahaha!! that would be a complete waste...

  • this is ain't shit comparing to GoW ...

  • @chabinska Yeah and Kobe s better than MJ right? little kids...

  • god of war 3 is better :)

  • cool, you can play Shadow of the Colossus in CV Lords of Shadow

  • Cv is shit just copy GoW

  • They should make Castlevania Aria of Sorrow witch that graphic...

  • Lol...and i thought it was a puzzle game...

  • i think is the worst game i ever bought at 59 euro

  • im gettin sick of this gow and other games like god of war bullshit...gow is the best game with this system of fighting thats why people say its a rip off not cuz it came out first.... personally i think gow is the best game for me...but i like this game too

  • 6:12 Does this game have Orcs? If this game has Orcs I probably will have to buy it.