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  • Its hard to find a game thats better or equal to God Of War =P it sucks that God of War is only for PS3 =P Bayonetta is the closest thing i've played to god of war on xbox 360 =P this game doesnt look that intense

  • slow motion gets annoying

  • God of war is my most fav game of all time. especially 3. but this game is just as good

  • @Skepsis90

    God of War is shitty game with linear maps. I can't believe that game with such vulgarly simple gameplay design is praised, play Arkahm Asylum and see some good designed maps.

  • @kethoth Arkham Asylum was shit!. City shat all over it :) n fuck you GOW was the shit!!! Castlevania was too fantasy like for my liking compared to GOW

  • @kethoth but not sayin Castlevania was shit. i loved the game. but dont campare it to GOW. GOW brought out the gore n it looks fluent n more realistic. Castlevania didnt look so realistic with the blood n gore

  • Huh ?? When 1st GoW released they Said GoW copy from Castlevania of Enhanced version in PS2 and now Castlevania Copied from GoW ?? GUys Dun Confusing for Other Gamers pls... Do the research b4 Pin-Point who copied who LOLz Very Amature..

  • This is the best 3d Castlevania since Legacy of Darkness.

  • HAHAHHAHAHHA im laughing soo hard with the top comments, i dont belive that theres idiots calling castlevania rip, just grab your old and cool NES and play Castlevania II, fucking newgen kids.

  • I used to play Castlevania for hours till my hands were hurting when i was kid ... so for you bitches who say they ripped GoW .. if your argument is true then whoever used a whip in a game ripped Castlevania!

  • Sadly Castlevania is not longer an RPG, and i miss Michiru Yamane as the best composer castlevania has ever known

  • @Keyslayer at start castlevania wasn't a rpg to...

  • The fact first Castlevania game was released in 1986 doesn't mean Lords of Shadows can't be a rip off in terms of gameplay.

    This whip attack surely looks very similar to the one Kratos does using his chained swords, and the whole gameplay very much reminds of GoW.

    And I found Lords of Shadows to be a boring game, I enjoyed Symphony of the Night much more than any other Castlevania game, to me they kinda ruined the series.

  • @DukeKesha they took everything out of another castlevania game on the ps2, nothing out gow

    and lords of shadow is a great game once your over the fact this is a reboot, at first i liked this game then after some time i noticed it had little to nothing to do with the older castlevania's and thought this game was garbage, but then again after some time in the dust a friend told me he wanted to try that game and i ccontiniued and finished the game 3 hours ago,trust me,try playing it again and

  • @reflexassassin

    Ok, thanks, I guess I'll try this game then:)

  • @DukeKesha good idea :D

  • @DukeKesha getting inside of the sory defenitly makes this game (one of the) the best of all castlevania games(not including sotn, 4 and rondo of blood)

  • Castlevania: first released

    September 26, 1986

    God Of War: first released

    March 22, 2005

  • cara é god of war depois de uma birita

  • Castlevania = since the nintendo 2 bits

    Gow = :|

  • @xolitaire the clothes change, the essence remains the same. But in fact, God of war is a Devil May Cry rip off. (which doesn't mean it's a bad game).

  • cast;evania rox

    gow suxxxxxxxx

  • who cares if this is a GOW clone? i sure don't. I only care if the game is fun, which this game surely is. Almost every video game could be considered a clone of something else at one time or another. If someone REALLY wants to split hairs, Call of Duty is a clone of Doom. But again, who cares?

  • god of war copied mr clean

  • GOW is a clone of Prince of persia sands of time & the first Devil may cry, so stop f***ing saying that lords of shadows is a clone of GOW. and they copied from Shenmue as well when you fight against a boss on God of war just before doing the finish, it tells you to press X , square, cercle just like shenmue when you fight the guys on the street, what makes really GOW Original from others, is the use of the GREEK MYTHOLOGY.

  • I bet GOW was a clone of some other game.

  • and well now to end my comment, I should just say... if you love gaming, or find it a hobby, then do whatever you like, you people debate on what game is better,and hate when there are other games that "look like" a game you either love or like, or in this case "idolize", but what do you really gain with it?, NONE (including myself) of you did anything else than play, the ones that can and should dabate are the game developers, which took years to create these games, LOL just play it or don`t :P

  • castlevania has Dracula, a vampire yeah, then they have a bunch of research over demons and monster from many mythologies, or cultures... :P, I like greek mythology, but you won`t debate on this..., another good thing to mention is that castlevania`s gameplay hasn`t been that great, because it was based on 2D platforms, for most of its releases, then they moved on 3D, and now have finally made a decent 3D, GOD, never had to do such transition, GOD simply is what it is, from the very beginning

  • and to add to my critict, as people have said, castlevania has been out for more than 20 years, GOD if done folks, you all know that. Great? yeah IT WAS; lets move on :P, save your copy in a glass box if you idololize a game so much, meh such geeks.... I mean GOD lifespan has been of 4 games, in 5 years :P, Castlevania series have 35 games from the MSX 2 platform, up to PS3... in exactly 25 years, and GOD takes all its ideas or enemies, or practically most of it, is made out of Greek Mythology

  • meh... yeah meh... I hate this guys who say this is a GOW ripoff, I mean look at the following games : Devil May Cry (Which was actually done before GOW, and as you have seen, GOW copies the hack and slash, the "blocked zones" and many other things from this game), Ghost Rider, Dante`s Inferno, heavenly sword, prince of persia, etc, etc,and well there was a Castlevania released before GOW for the platform it all began for GOW, and another Castlevania release the same release year :P

  • it not just better than GOD OF WAR

    its god of war gameplay with some devil may cry environment and some shadow of colossus gameplay too the graphics is great "like god of war 3 or little lower"

    the music is the best so YEAH ITS THE BEST NEW IP IN MY OPINION :D

  • Ahhhh i rmb playing Castlevania on my Gameboy Colour.. How nostalgic ~

  • THIS JUST LOOK LIKE GOD OF CRAP

  • DUUUUUR ITS A GOW CLONE!! HUUUR DUUUR!!!

  • wow another god of war cool ;)

  • @cheekcongo why cause of the whip and castlevanias have been out long before gow and the main characters in castlevanias have been using whips for over 20 years now to actually GoW is another clone of castlevania so get your facts right!

  • @rmRAMbo3521 dude relax i hav castlevania games for snes this is rip off of modern gow its not a bad thing

  • @cheekcongo haa sorry i just gett kinda pissed when ppl be trollin i thought you were just bien a trol who has nvr played a castlevania so ya sorry man i thought u were trollin :p

  • @rmRAMbo3521 no prob dude tis all good ;)

  • yea i will agree they are similar this castlevenia and god of war games dainties inferno as-well for that matter but w/e good games, but castelvenia came out first and it is not a copy of god of war but all good games IMO.

  • Its looks very similiar to God of War but i think castlevania has been out much longer than god of war well dont care really but im definitly gona get this game and try it out

  • @mauricio3lias yes but it has the style of god of war.

  • When does this game come out i want to get it. And which consoles are they for?

  • and even if it was tecnically a "god of war clone" (which its not) the god of war series is excelent so why are people complaining about more of a good thing? :D

  • This still look lije gow to me and this is not The castlevania you say. The old castlevanias were aboy strategie you need to learn the pattern of the enemies to defeat them I played this crap and it's like the generic hack n slash that only you press 3 buttons in the entire game

  • @fdo69 not to make fun of u but were in the 21st centry and were american we wanna hack n slash not spend a whole game doing research

  • 3D is going to kill a perfect platform game.

  • not a GOW clone, you can't spell ignorant without ign

  • This whole ripp off thing is ridiculous!!! thumbs up if u agree

  • this game is not supposed to be named castlevania. It's a hack n slash like GOW, Dante inferno, Devil May Cry, etc...

  • @fdo69 castlevania has been using this hack n slash for 20 years since NES stfu YOU NO NOTHING ABOUT GAMING dumbass. GOW is the one who ripped off of castlevania and rygar, which were developed in the 1980's. faggot.

  • Fucking stfu about gow, Jesus christ your going to change anything so STFU !!!!!!!!!

  • should i get this or fable 3

  • @wowrogue8 assasins creed brotherhood this n fable3 both really good but really short

  • no not GOW clone dantes inferno clone the cross the heavenly powers

  • all these games are tryna be like GOW

  • @illbyahero Youre so dumb... Its GOW that looks like "all these games" castlevania has been once since it was a freakin nintendo gameboy-game, and thats a freakin long time. its way older than GOW. Go somewhere else and moan...

  • @FunFasit yes but castlevania back in the days was not like this.

  • Funny things about people thinking this is ripoff from GOW. GOW is actually the REAL ripoff from Castlevania since Castlevania been here for 20 years before the appearance of GOW. Anyone saying this game is ripoff from GOW are delusion and in need for reeducation.

  • not really like god of war just a ripoff of dante's inferno youll know if it has a clone if you see big stretchable swords slashin enemies like god of war and dante's inferno you know its a clone

  • I totally love the "he uses a whip he is a Kratos rip off" comment, because the Castlevania main characters have used whips for over 20 years now XDDD You guys call yourself nerds and geeks? You know nothing.

  • @xolitaire you damn right!!

    its because they never play Castlevania and play GOW (obvious) and then think they know about games!!

    read or play before you all say stupid things!

  • @xolitaire damn near every castlevania game, it was called "the vampire killer" the main family seems to have changed to, it was the belmont family since sega came out

  • @xolitaire amen to that hahaha.

  • @xolitaire iiiieee why would i wanna call myself a nerd or geek lmao faggot

  • @DopeBass Instead you prefer to revert to the mental age of a kid and use "faggot" as an insult? Taking that into account, I'd rather be a nerd.

  • JESUS CHRIST LEARN YOUR FACTS. Castlevania has been an institution for exactely 23 years now, whereas GoW? Yeah, cute, but not really memorable. A few good ideas left and right, a main character that tried too damn hard to be badass and... oh. Nothing. Personally I am sick of GoW already and don't really want to see another sequel, whereas Castlevania? Another 20 years plskthx.

  • i am pretty sure GOW is a Castlevainia evolution. seriously, swords on chains seems strikingly similar to the whips and ball and chains that Belmont used. Just because GOW ripped off Castlevainia's obvious next evolutionary phase doesn't mean that Castlevainia can't go where it was already going. PS: I can't imagine any old school gamer playing GOW for the first time and not seeing the similarities between the two games. The whiners, I assume, are the youngins who just weren't there

  • fuck commercials

  • all these people that say its a GOW copy are clearly 10 year olds that CLEARLY havent played in the 25/24 YEARS of Castlevania timeframe, or never really had a childhood :\

  • Why is everyone saying they copied GOW? What came out first? Castlevania or GoW? Both games pwn but dang, chill out.

  • u want old games that were hack and slash lets see D&D board games ring a bell. oh you mean video games? well Castlevania would be one of the first so there HAHA dont belive any of us look it up. One of the first if not first midevil type of hack and slash game for NES but Back then everything was in 2D style since 3D wasent out yet.

  • stop calling this a GOW clone eesh... enough already. I guess we should call GOW a DMC ripoff too then? but we won't stoop to that..your entitled to your opinions but please for the love of satan and fallen angels ENOUGH with this argument. Now unto other stuff..I HOPE TO SEE A SYMPHONY OF THE NIGHT RE-MAKE tighten the graphics keep the music the same keep it 2D with 3D elements WOOHOO I LOVE SOTN!!!!!

  • @davisfontanes SOTN got an HD release on the xbox360, albeit not the greatest.

  • If this game is a copy of God of war why dont we just change the genre hack and slash to hmmm maybe God of war, Cus it was the first fucking ever hack and fucking slash or im just being ignorant

  • Game really kicks ass..

  • I know the people says that Castlevania is long before God Of War. But look at the game style, It's total ripoff, I'm not talking about gamestory. I'm talking about gameplay. Look at the health bar. Look at the grap attacks, look at the jump attack. Everything was copied from GOW gameplay. Same thing with Dante's Inferno. I mean, I would still get this game and enjoy it. I'm just saying. Games like these started taking the style after God Of War.

  • @AZNJABBA but GOW take the combat style from castlevania lament of innocense and inproved

  • @AZNJABBA nope, after Lamment of Innocence

  • @AZNJABBA What the hell are u talking. Castlevania has always had the same gameplay. It's in 3D now. Thats all.

  • @AZNJABBA So you are telling me that before GoW you have never seen jump attacks, health bars and grab attacks? Tell you what. Check your facts and look at the last few Castlevania games. You would be surprised. GoW did not invent the genre you know. This whole concent has been around for decades. GoW itself is a rip off of a conglomerate of other games.

  • Everyone who keeps saying that this game is a ripoff of God of War are ignorant. The Castlevania franchise has been around for about 25 years, and saying that the combat engine is God of War, Devil May Cry is untrue. Every long-running franchise games go through changes, and it doesn't mean they're ripping someone else off. It's all Castlevania through and through, but in the 21st century.

  • a must buy game for sure

  • Like i said 2 hot chicks Castlvaina baby!

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  • thx to all the intelligent people who arnt reatarded fanboys of god of war and know something about the castlevania series (ps god of war fans this game is 100 times better)

  • RIPOFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF, DANTE AND ALL OF THEM

  • @boxinghands did you know that these are the same creators that made dantes inferno

  • @tommierick both dante and casteWARnia are GOW ripofffffffffffffffffffffffff, thats what i said

  • @boxinghands does it really matter you didnt even make this game so why do you even care

  • @boxinghands then you must be mentally ill

  • a.......copy sorry my friends 0o0

  • We should be able to see our hit points D:

  • Just because he uses a whip...Thats doesnt mean its a god dammed GoW Rip off AND Kratos dont exactly uses a whip,he dual wield two blades ATTACHED to Chains (Blades of Chaos). And Gabriel uses Holy Sources , etc.

  • Castlevania first came out in like 1986 or something GOW came out in 2005, right? GOW fanboys are sooo busy jerking off to Kratos that they don't even use their brains anymore.

  • got this game today it's awesome plus the strategy guide:D

  • EVERY one of you who says "GOW Clone"...is absolutely misinformed. There have been action games that play like GOW BEFORE that game even conceived to storyboard...get your damn game facts straight before calling EVERY action game released a "GOW clone"...you people are ridiculous

  • @maxsword007 GoW clone

  • in this game is like god of war the same skill with hits

  • I WANT PC VERSION PLSSSSSSSSS

  • I came. Anyone who says this is a copy of god of war or dantes infermo or whatever the shit, you need to get out of here. Castlevania was in before any of those games came out, and he does use that whip weapon ever since the NES games of caslevania came out.

  • @Andrewterrorist Me and you are on the same page. But remember these 12-19 kids that don't know nothing. That's before their time.....

  • @IRON5 Don't know nothing, how gret at English are you, to make such bold claims as someone "don't know nothing".

  • @NonnagLava Oh I'm sorry you forgot the letter a in great. Ok you can go kill yourself now...

  • @IRON5 lol;p

  • @Andrewterrorist agree completely  ppl should research tyhe games b4 makin statements

  • @Andrewterrorist it's not about what game/name came out earlier. it's about copying the game mechanics. I can't stop thinking about god war when i see this kinda of game play.

  • @Alxphat these kind of game mechanics have been around for years even before GoW. It's nothing new.

  • this looks like dantes inferno and god of war. epic

  • 1:39 real damge

  • okay am sorry to say this but they r repeating gow with a different character and story

    nothing interesting .. am rly disappointed.

  • @TheSimpleking And you know this because?

  • @obiwankenob i know castlevania is older than gow .. i thought it will be something different something kooler .. for example the fighting style will be more random but its all the same so its justt like gow .

  • @TheSimpleking fucking noob talking shit

  • @Zer0Belmont mate i played the game its not that good ..... and if u r saying this is the best game u played ever .. then am sorry to tell u that u dont know anything about video games :/

  • @TheSimpleking this isnt the best game i've ever played, but it's a good game and idc if u think that it sux ;)

  • @Zer0Belmont well u said ur opinion and i respect it ... but Next time try to be more respectful with other ppl u dont need to be aggressive and start swearing ppl thats just not kool ... And have a nice day :)

  • Slash, slash, roll, roll. Fill up at magic fountain. All new to me. Might have played it if i saw him rip off the werewolves head or something equally as cool.

  • Alrite people almost every game in todays market is a fucking clone look at all the fps's thier clones of goldeneye for the n64. GoW cloned Devil may cry and ninja gaiden resident evil 4 was the last game i cared about to make somthing new so stop bitching about clones cause thier everywhere

  • @TheGreatBothwell Feeding the laziness and lack of creativity of game companies doesn't sound good to me. Having a dozen of clones of the same thing is never a good thing. Sure, some games improve the formula, but for the most part we are just getting drowned in a sea of mediocre game design.

  • God of War didn't create the Hack and Slash genre, but they certainly influenced its future and helped to pioneer it. I'm sorry, but you're really naive if you think that this game doesn't borrow a lot of elements from God of War in particular. Sure, it looks fun and I'll be buying it regardless, but you can't deny the similarities. It's not like this game has lots of DMC or NG traits, it's all GoW man. It's like Dante's Inferno all over again.

    Enjoy the game.

  • is this on ps3 gameplay? OR xbox? is it for pc this game?

  • i wish they would make a 2d castlevania game

  • i have completed it to the 3rd chapter and i have to say its one of the best hack n slashes ive ever played

    8/10 just because story line is pretty damn hugeass clitche. play it and youll understand.

    kthnxbai

  • ok i just played this...and this is horrible...theres no dracula in this.....music is bad....this is not castlevania anymore...

  • Pwease stop digging!

  • The reason these kids think its a gow knock of is because they are to damn young to have played any of the old castlevania games , sure it uses a similar engine and platform but other than that Castlevania came waay before any of gayd of war business.

  • Super Castlevania IV is my personal favourite.. 

  • omg Kratos with hair and clothes

  • @JonBushido remember that castlevania came before God of War.

  • @ourtrueworld yeah so???

    Castlevania games were not like this !

    They were mostly 2d ~ Walk and kill with skill~

    But this !!!

    The camera, the weapon moves all here is like GoW~

    I dont say its a bad game but i hate ~clone games~

  • @JonBushido soz for double posting couldnt edit!

    Now look at the moves rotation ~ Omg they are exactly exaclty the same~

    O_o

  • @ourtrueworld ya u are right!

  • @JonBushido can i ask why you dont look at god of war as a rip from the DMC

    (devil may cry) series? it clearly is, the only thing you cant do in devil may cry that GOW uses is the boring wall scaling while lashing wall zombies..i hate bandwagon bullshit talk.....

  • cant believe your dracula in this

  • games are very repetitive, it seems that the creators of these games saw the god of war was successful and start doing all the same games, prince of persia, everything sucks .. do not know how to innovate innovated the console (a play) ..

  • os jogos estão muito repetitivos, parece que os criadores desses jogos viram que o god of war foi bem sucedido e começam a fazer jogos todos iguais, prince of persia, tudo uma merda.. não sabem inovar como inovaram no console (play 1)..

  • looks like god of war

  • castlevania COD is the best ever 

  • how the hell is this on the 360

    ?????? how can that outdated piece of horse shit even be able to run this game???? that just proves this games scale is not has great as god of war 3 and unless it uses 5 disc's on the 360.

  • @05candyman you know that some games still look better on xbox360, right?

  • GAY OF WAR , IN GAYSTATION 3 , XD .

  • looks like god of war to me

  • @maximusshell

    Kratos ripped off the whip of Castlevania.

  • @UtsusuZero

    yea, and castelvania from indiana jones but thats ok, in castelvania you chose where to whip...you didnt jump and move a shinny whip arround...its god of wars move :( anyway its ok but after dantes inferno thats ITS THE SAME SHIT (he is a templar but lets give him something to swing arround!...and SHINNY!)

  • @maximusshell

    Hack N Slash man, Hack N Slash, GoW didnt create the genre.

  • @UtsusuZero

    hack and slash was conan, were some of the prince of persia...same genre...diferent weapons, combos...jumps...the "i jump and i do the tornado with my "whatever weapon" that looks like a star wars whip!" thats not a genre...thats one copying each other, dantes inferno is a templar...he dont use a sword...a hammer...a spear...no! A SPINING BLADE that looks like a lazer whip!!!

  • @maximusshell

    Let me ask you something. How should be a Castlevania in 3D? And dont tell me stupid things like "Not like this one 8B", thats the most stupid answer that I recieved from an editor and reviewer from Destrucoid, Jim Stupidling.

    Grow up kid, games are made to have FUN, not for searching Da Vinci's code in each game.

  • @UtsusuZero first im not a kid...second the games most of them are pure art, and im kind an artist so i love to see what i like...for a 3d whip you can do it like in indiana jones for psp (very nice one!) but much better moves and quallity, maybe more direct atack, not so "rodeo cowboy"...and for sure dont make it shine like if its on fire...but thats my taste, i don need to be right...but yea! god of war, dantes inferno, castelvania...all the same and is not genre...its copy

  • @maximusshell I thought he was playing with a silver cross...?

  • @UtsusuZero by the way, modern warefare and medal of honor (the last one) thats copy...half life and medal of honor...thats a genre

  • @UtsusuZero

    it didnt move like a spining blade of ligth! IT WAS A WHIP!!! i dont care if its a rip off...i realy dont...BUT COME ON!!!...hack and slash was conan, were some of the prince of persia...same genre...diferent weapons, combos...jumps...the "i jump and i do the tornado with my "what ever weapon" that looks like a star wars whip! thats not a genre...thats one cooping each other, dantes inferno is a templar...he dont use a sword...a hammer...a spear...no! A SPINING BLADE!!!

  • this is sword,lasso or what?

  • @zryyty A chain-whip. A standard castlevania game series weapon since 1986 when Castlevania 1 came out.

  • Ok good nice, but i hate that they made this game like god of war type, was thinking more like first person like oblivion, you dont have time here go watch world in game, you justo go and kill...

  • CARALHO, OLHA O GRAFICO DESSA PORRA QUE INCRIVEL!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • omg, i gonna download it NOW LOL

  • @renansz2010 download?? is there any pc version of this?? y dl?

  • @refuxster Obviously you dont realize and appreciate the amount of time people in the gaming industry put in towards the development of a game they are trying to make for us. so when you sit there and complain about a game being a rip off of something else why dont you sit your ass down start working in something like zbrush and see how far you get.

  • @refuxster god of war wasnt the first game of tis kind and please stfu about this clone shit...

    even if its a clone why should that make the game shit ?

  • @refuxster you're a sad person, very sad indeed

  • @refuxster As i recall budy god of war copied castlevania,they just put greek stuff in it so you should get your shit straight

  • Really good *_* i play it soon ! <3