Dark Souls Xbox 360

Be prepared to get hooked. You will die - lots, but once you start there probably wont be any quitting. It will show you no mercy and it will take over your life. Sorry gotta go, need my next fix of death...........

This is an absolute epic game! It is a RPG which you will never stop playing. If you are a fan of RPGs then you will not be disappointed with this brilliant game. The game's storyline is not a significant aspect of this game. As, you will only find out brief facts from cut scenes and the narrator. Most of the storyline will be gathered from talking to npcs and exploring the vast world. From the offset you awake in a dungeon and have to find your way out whilst the undead marauder around trying to either "praise the sun" or brutally murder you. The ability to lay down messages for people online to see and read is a fantastic mechanic and helps out a lot! It is two player online, which involves one person summoning their friend to their world to assist them in the game. You can dual-wield mostly any weapon (even shields !). You will sprawl through catacombs, parishes and castles then battle gigantic bosses which will not show any mercy ! This game provides a vast amount of play time and is well worth the money. The enjoyment and reward you will receive from smashing up bosses and completing dungeons will be the best feeling you will ever get from a game !

"You Died" "You Died" "You Died" Get used to that as you're going to see it A LOT. Let me start off with some positives: considering how large the game world is, there is zero load time. The world looks amazing and is vastly populated with seemingly endless, forever spawning enemies that are so hard, their nightmares are afraid of them. But that's where it ends for me. Don't get me wrong, I love a challenging game, but when I say a challenge, I mean one that isn't a chore to grind through for three hours whilst dying and returning to your checkpoint 15 minutes sprint away. And that's a massive failure to me, not only do the checkpoints happen only during a full solar eclipse, but if you stop by after killing 5 baddies, and you heal up, be prepared to kill those guys again, as they seemingly come back to life. Enemies also seemingly never run out of stamina, and despite the belief that the move set is varied you will be killed by the same 2 hit combo over and over by every enemy that is near you. "You Died" Bosses should be this hard in all games, but what they shouldn't do (and in Dark Souls they do EVERY TIME) is hit you with an area of effect attack that knocks you down, wait for you to just start getting up, then as you stand hit you with same attack again and again and again and again and again ad infinitum. I say that though, you'll most likely die from the evil stare they give you as every weapon an enemy wields, seemingly does about 10000000 HP of damage. In all if I was told why I started in a prison at the games start and what the outlining plan was (after 4 hours I'm yet to get out of Lordran as I have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing or where I'm going) it may be forgivable. Suffice is to say that this game is unforgiving, aimless and boring. After defeating bosses for a reward that seemingly does little more than look nice, and levelling up to find I'm still getting killed in 2 hits, I find little else to praise. The other great idea that was implemented: no pause menu, which means no stopping to take a cigarette break, or to use the lavatory...EVER. Despite the world being populated, no body ever helps you in combat unless scripted, so you could be mowing down enemies right in front of them, to see them sit there and do nothing. The world is also flawed with the inability to step over pebbles or the gust of wind that blew into you. Poorly implemented targeting and boring "story" make this feel like a chore rather than fun. For the same price you could buy bookcase to smack your head against for equal "fun" AVOID