Konami has issued a second development video, focusing on the huge open-world environment of its upcoming Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 title. Featuring Dave Cox, Producer of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 and Studio Head of European Production for Konami Digital Entertainment B.V and Enric Alvarez, Head of Development at MercurySteam, the video details how the events of the new game take place during the course of one night, within both a modern city setting and Dracula’s castle.
Cox and Alvarez discuss how Dracula’s evil presence has impacted the many environments, with the castle’s Gothic look having a huge influence on the surrounding settings and their design, while also tying in the familiar look of past Castlevania titles.
The five-minute video offers a tantalizing glimpse of the game’s many settings, and how MercurySteam’s native Madrid provided inspiration for the locations. The pair also touch on the menagerie of creatures and bosses that lurk within the city, and set the stage for the game’s climactic confrontation with Satan himself.
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Looks amazing, hope its more well rounded than the last game.
Sounds like this will be like batman this time.
They achieved so much without particulary impressive sale figures, well done.
did you guys see the fraps logo at 2:00 ?
It would be nice if beating the game let you unlock another character to play as, like they’ve done in most of the 2D games since Symphony of the Night. A free roam mode where you start with all the necessary abilities and go around just killing everything.
Looks great and I’m glad with the amount of work MercurySteam is putting into the PC version.