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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow special edition mockup outed by Amazon

by JC Fletcher on Aug 11th 2010 12:07PM

An image spotted on Amazon (and since removed) suggests that there will be a special edition release of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow -- as if its status as a major game from a large publisher didn't already make that clear. The image shows a package comprising two Xbox 360 game discs, a soundtrack, and a "The Art of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow" book.

Lords of Shadow producer David Cox told Joystiq, "The images of the special edition leaked onto the net are mock ups and NOT final," before adding that the retailer "jumped the gun" by publishing early images. Though neither Cox nor Konami had anything official to announce about a special edition, someone at Konami is mocking up special edition images. Probably in advance of a real special edition. That would just be a weird hobby otherwise.

Via: ExtraGuy
Source: Amazon

Tags: Amazon, Castlevania-Lords-of-Shadow, david-cox, Konami, Lords-of-Shadow, Mercury-Steam, microsoft, playstation, ps3, Special-Edition, xbox

Reader Comments (26)

Mother Superior jumped the gun...

What if I jumped the gun by preordering it?
The Limited Edition of course.

This collectors ed. I just might have to get...good looking out, now I know to save my money.

That's some pretty sweet box art btw.

That box art is bad ass. 10000x better than the standard edition box art. Why do they purposely make the standard box art ugly to make me want to drop my hard earned money on a special edition?

Who's doing the artwork for the game? If it's Ayami Kojima, well I'll buy it at a high price (for the artbook alone)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nuuuuu, not another special edition! My poor gaming budget. :(

I hate to be one of "those people," but I'm getting sick of special editions... I'm a hardcore gamer and quite the collector, making these editions too hard to resist and now a days, every frickin thing coming out gets a limited version!!! Every game I want this fall now has a collectors version, means instead of 6 x $60 = $$$ it's now 6 x $80 to $100 = bankrupt

@shadow I reaper

I know what you mean, I found out tho (after waiting so long to buy Devil May Cry 4) that you can still buy the special editions (new) after waiting a while for a much cheaper price (-$20 or even cheaper) on amazon. Sometimes tho it might be reverse depending on the rarity of the game. So you kinda have to know what's going to be REALLY a collectors edition or limited edition.

@shadow I reaper

Not always tho. Like the Alan Wake collector's is only sold used now at even higher prices.

In mexico, they're already selling it

http://www.gameplanet.com/castlevania-lords-of-shadow-collectors-edition-ps3/

@jackooct In the US they're selling it too, at Gamestop.

YESSSSSSSSSS!!!! I can't wait for this game!

I'm so getting this game.

Amazon? Video Games? Oil and Water.

@Gil Is Munny : Amazon + Videogames = Discount, no sales tax and (usu.) free shipping. That equation works for me!

Wasn't the game not an Castlevania game at first? Plus wasn't Konami not sure of it till Kojima jumped on board as producer? Might be good but yeah this is super premature to say the least.

@Johnny Neat Correct. It was just Lords of Shadow, with no connection to the "Castlevania" franchise, that was being developed by Spanish-developer MercurySteam until Konami jumped in to publish the game and added Castlevania to the title to get more sales. Kojima's name on it is there to also sell more copies, he has "exec producer" role on it at best.

@Johnny Neat
I heard that there was more than one game pitched to konami to continue the castlevania franchise, Lords of Shadow being one of them. I don't know if anyone remembers but somewhere floating around the internet is a video from e3 2007 or something where Igarashi is put on the spot and announces an xbox 360/ps3 castlevania game being in the early stages of development, the trailer they showed had what looked like a 3d Alucard but not much else

@Lordd G
That's what I thought, glad to hear I'm not making up stuff in my mind.

@JackD
I hope this is good and I would love to have an Alucard game that rocks. Who wouldn't?

@honkyjesuseternal Only on 360.

How is that I went from not really caring for this game (since it's not a "true" Castlevania game) to wanting to shell out money for the collector's edition?

I am really looking forward to this title. Count me as a sale, don't even need reviews for this one.

I'm using my third eye this time.

I think they just got me. Castlevania music and artwork is always a plus.

No comments about it being a 2-disk game? haha that cracks me up EVERY time

Wow. That looks interesting. Definitly a collectors you'd want in your Collection.

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