A few centuries later, an old friend of his, Zobek, wakes him up and asks for help him fight against a new enemy, Satan. After hundreds of years of Gabriel’s brutal reign, he loses the will to live and locks himself up in the cathedral. As it was revealed at the end of the first game, he fell victim to the evil he fought and was transformed into the eponymous Lord of Darkness, Dracula. In Lords of Shadow 2 we assume the role of Gabriel Belmont, the protagonist of the first installment in the series.

In contrast to the classic Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 is a three-dimensional adventure action game with a combat system reminiscent of God of War or Devil May Cry. Lords of Shadow is still a fairly loose adaptation of the Castlevania franchise which is mainly connected with two-dimensional, nonlinear platform games. The developer has developed their ideas in this installment and improved many shortcomings of the original. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 for PC, PS3 and X360 is the second installment in the modern Castlevania series, launched by the studio Mercury Steam.