Solid game play that is brought way down by the weak level designs.

User Rating: 6.5 | Castlevania: Curse of Darkness XBOX
Castlevania is an action game that pretty much everyone has heard of. There is nothing really new here, I mean that literally!

Game play: Pretty simple stuff, all it really is, is button mashing. You use button combinations to pull off little combos. You level up like an RPG game, so you will need to fight a few monsters here and there to be strong enough for some areas. You can also find some material in order to make your own weapons that fit your style. You also get a little demon creature to help you fight alongside of you. They each have different abilities and you will need to use certain ones in certain places.

Sound: The music is pretty nice to listen to while playing the levels. It fits the game.

Graphics: It's on the XBOX so you expect solid graphics, and that's what you get. Nothing jaw dropping here.

Playability: This game is simple to play. Simple button mashing as I said earlier. The thing that really brings the game waaaaaay down is the level design. Once you played the first level you pretty much seen everything there is to see. All the levels just repeat themselves. It gets pretty boring after the first few levels.

Overall: It could have been a nice little game, but the level re-peats really make the game boring.