Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

You wade through grotesque environments performing brutal combat sequences, each strike feeling weighty and consequential as you hunt for dark power. The world is heavy with gothic dread, pulling you deeper into a nightmare mission driven by desperate love and supernatural corruption.

Gabriel Belmont learns of a mask with the power to raise the dead and sets out on a mission to obtain it to bring his recently murdered wife back from the dead. Lords of Shadow builds upon the combat systems first explored in this series in 2003's Lament of Innocence and adds more violent kills to the mix. Inspiration for these changes seems to have come from 2005's God of War.