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Dark Souls II (Rus. Dark souls II) — video game in the genre of action/RPG developed by From Software. It is an indirect sequel to the game Dark Souls. On the PS3 and Xbox360 the game was released March 11, 2014 in North America and March 14 in Europe. PC-version was released only on April 25 the same year, but in return for waiting, the developers will give more stable FPS, high quality textures and fit for keyboard and mouse control.

Development

The announcement of the game took place the ceremony of awarding the best games of the year "Spike Video Game Awards" December 7, 2012. There was shown the first trailer for the upcoming game - "Of Masks and Dragons". The designer Hidetaka Miyazaki, who worked on the previous games in the series "Souls" as head of development and producer, do not take a direct part in the work on Dark Souls II, taking the post of supervisor of the project. Place of Directors took Tomohiro Shibuya (Tomohiro Shibuya) and Yui Tanimura (Tanimura Yui). Miyazaki himself said that fully trust the new leaders and share their views. Speaking now as an observer, he will be able to speak openly what they like and don't like about the game development process, but to participate in the elaboration of the design of the game world, monsters, weapons, etc., he will not. Miyazaki also announced that the plot of Dark Souls II has no direct link with the first part, but takes place in the same world. Due to a lack of powerful technical characteristics of the seventh generation consoles were involved improved Havok engine is already known from the first part of the game, and not new, as originally planned. September 5, 2013 announced the closed beta test of the game. The first testing phase for North America, Europe and Australia was scheduled for 12 October and the second on October 27. Players were given the opportunity to choose from 6 classes of characters and to fully explore one of the locations - the Grove of the Hunter. In addition to showing gameplay and basic mechanics of the game, the beta also showed the possibilities - summon white phantoms for co-op locations, abandonment and evaluation of messages, invading other players worlds using cracked red eye. Some of the elements shown in the beta test have been revised in the final version of the game, in particular the modified and starting classes.

The plot

In the center of the new story is a cursed character who is sent to a distant land Kingdom Drangelic to find healing from struck his the Curse of the undead. But once in this world, the hero realizes that the once mighty Kingdom was reduced to ruins, which are teeming with creatures, obsessed with the desire to destroy anyone who gets in their way. King Vendrick who stared into the essence of the soul and perhaps opened the way to healing, was gone. Hero to go looking for him and meet with the most nightmarish and powerful creatures Dranglika to collect them the strongest souls, and find a way to return to the world of the living.

Supplement

Despite the fact that initially the developers stated that Dark Souls II is not planned to release additional content, June 4, 2014, BANDAI NAMCO and FromSoftware today announced the launch of three additions to the original game, United by the common theme and title - "The Lost Crowns" (Rus. "The lost crown"). In the course of the DLC the player will go to a difficult journey into previously uncharted lands to find the lost crown that once belonged to king Dranglika Vendrik. Each Chapter of the trilogy devoted to the search of the crown of one of the kings: Toplogo of the king (eng. "Sunken King"), Old Iron King (eng. "Old Iron King") King Ivory (eng. "Ivory King"). It was also announced that players expect a few new locations to explore, new enemies and challenging bosses as well as items that will allow you to better immerse yourself in the world of Dark Souls II. Crown of the Sunken King. Release date - July 22, 2014 (PC and Xbox) and July 23, 2014 (PlayStation3). Crown of the Old Iron King. Release date - August 26, 2014 (PC and Xbox) and 27 August 2014 (PlayStation3). Crown of the Ivory King. Release date - September 30, 2014 (PC and Xbox) and 1 October 2014 (PlayStation3).

System requirements

OS: Windows XP\Vista\7\8. CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.17 GHz+ or AMD Phenom II X2 555 3.2 GHz+ RAM: 2GB Free disk space: 14GB Video card: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT+ or ATI Radeon HD 5870+ DirectX®: 9.0 c Sound: Direct and compatible sound card