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Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition

FromSoftware · Aug 24, 2012

PC

Mature

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Enhanced with additional content for its PC debut, the Prepare to Die Edition of Dark Souls includes an enhanced PVP mode allowing players to more closely assemble battles against one another online in an all-out fight to the death that fans have demanded! In addition, the development team at FromSoftware has revealed an untold chapter in the world of Lordran created specifically to help further expand upon the lore of the game. 'Artorias of the Abyss' will include all-new areas to explore, enemies to encounter, and bosses to take down one by one as players are treated to an unseen side of Lordan where players must stop the spread of darkness at all costs by facing and defeating the Dark Knight Artorias.

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Critic 8.7 (17 critics) · Gamer 8.9

8.6

Critic reviews

  • Games Radar+

    Michael Grimm · Oct 10, 2012

    9.0
    The cure for the common Triple A title, Dark Souls takes every gloriously strange and punishing moment from Demon’s Souls and expands and improves upon it. While its fundamentals hew closely to the original's, Dark Souls is a completely unique experience with no direct competition on the market. For those who get it, it's undoubtedly one of the year's best.
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  • GameSpot

    Carolyn Petit · Sep 10, 2012

    9.5
    The genius of Dark Souls isn't just in its environments, or its monsters, its thrilling combat, or the unusual and exciting ways in which players are connected. It's in the uncompromising way it throws conventional wisdom to the wind, dropping you into its dangerous world without guidance, making you fend for yourself, and teaching you to shrug off defeat time and time again to finally earn victory.
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  • RPG Site

    Simon Chun · Sep 09, 2012

    9.0
    Dark Souls is a fantastic game from beginning to end. Extremely difficult and challenging, it'll test your skills as a player - but is also rewarding. The expreience and the thrill of having your butt handed to you time and time again is something that is uniquely enthralling - this is a game that gives you a true feeling of accomplishment after overcoming the challenges. Dark Souls remains to this day a cohesive and compelling game that warrants a try -- even if death scares you a bit.
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  • Inside Gaming

    Lawrence Sonntag · Sep 06, 2012

    9.0
    Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition is one of the worst PC ports I’ve played. It’s also one of the best games ever made, so don’t let a few trivial issues push you away. If you play with a 360 controller and install the resolution fix, it’s every bit the game that you might have imagined when you first heard the game was coming to PC.
  • Hardcore Gamer

    Adam Beck · Sep 01, 2012

    9.0
    Even with some graphical hiccups, it remains superior to the console counterparts, offering more content, better graphical options and a frame rate that is steady throughout. Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition is an experience like no other that will invoke a multitude of emotions while keeping you planted on the edge of your seat.
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  • IGN

    Quintin Smith · Aug 31, 2012

    9.0
    An action game that dares to teach us patience, and caution. A video game with respect for the player, that dares us to be an actual hero. Not once when you die does Dark Souls help you back up, not once does it let up in its astonishing quality or turn to padding, and not once do the ideas stop coming. Buy it.
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Gamer reviews

  • Gfreeman

    Nov 14, 2021 · PC

    8.2

    Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition

    i've played DS2 it was hard but not as hard as this game. it's really really hard, i coudn't even get souls. i get and then i lost all the souls everytime, and coudn't level up. then i was trying to level up with some noob methods. yeah that was good. there is no teleport until anor londo, there is shortcuts from on location to another but cmon bonfire must can teleport. monsters respawning all the time no matter how many times u killed them, they,re keep respawning. but it's dark souls, and i think how many times u die, u're getting stronger in real life. i love dark souls. i'm stronger than everybody who didn't play dark souls yet.

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  • Ibrahim Adji

    Jul 7, 2020 · PC

    8.9

    I still remember how hard and challenging this game was... The graphics are so good back in the days, the gameplay also has its unique vibe.. dark souls vibe, it become the identity of DS itself.

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  • justin christy

    Jun 26, 2020 · PC

    9.7

    My very first souls game, it was really the first of its kind. The souls journey for me is like an episode of my life and I can't explain it in a few lines. I was lucky enough to have found this genre. If you not yet tried it, it's no doubt you will in love with it.

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