Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is an action-adventure game for Xbox 360 featuring Gabriel Belmont on a quest to acquire a powerful mask that can resurrect the dead. The game enhances combat mechanics from previous titles, notably Lament of Innocence, and incorporates brutal finishing moves, drawing inspiration from the gameplay style of God of War, released in 2005.
Gabriel Belmont learns of a mask with the power to raise the dead and sets out on a mission to obtain it to bring his recently murdered wife back from the dead.
Lords of Shadow builds upon the combat systems first explored in this series in 2003's Lament of Innocence and adds more violent kills to the mix. Inspiration for these changes seems to have come from 2005's God of War.