Dark Souls 2 Free Download for PC (ダークソウルII Dāku Sōru Tsū?) is an action role-playing video game developed by FromSoftware and published by Bandai Namco Games. The third game in the Souls series, Dark Souls II was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.
Although both are set in the same universe, there is no direct story connection between Dark Souls and Dark Souls II. The game uses dedicated multiplayer servers. Taking place in the world of Drangleic, the game features both player versus environment (PvE) and player versus player (PvP) play, in addition to having some co-op components. As in the earlier games in the series, it again features challenging gameplay, but with a more powerful graphics engine and more advanced AI system.
After some initial delays, the game was released worldwide in March 2014, with the Microsoft Windows version being released on April 24, 2014. An updated version of the game, Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin, was released in April 2015. The title is a compilation of the original game and its downloadable content, and also encompasses a remastered port of the game for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows with upgraded graphics, expanded online multiplayer capacity, and other various changes. A sequel, Dark Souls III, was released in 2016. Dark Souls 2 Download free Full Version.
Gameplay
Dark Souls II retains similar mechanics from its predecessors in the Souls series. Being known for its unforgiving difficulty, both bosses and standard enemies have the potential to kill the player in only a few hits. Unskillful play is punished severely by most enemies, opportunities for recovering health are limited, and as in Demon's Souls, each time upon death, the player's maximum health is reduced (to a certain lower limit) until the player expends a rare item to reverse it. The game uses a form of joint currency called «souls», which are used as both experience points for leveling up and as «money» for purchasing items from shops. Upon death, the player's entire collection of souls are dropped; the player can recover their dropped souls by returning to the spot where they died, but if they die before picking them up, the souls are permanently lost.
Multiplayer in Dark Souls II is the same format as its predecessors; players have the choice between co-operative play in the form of being «summoned» into another player's game world, or player-versus-player through «invading» other worlds. Both forms of multiplayer occur pseudo-randomly, although matchmaking formulas are used to pair characters at similar levels together.
Dark Souls II allows the game's difficulty to be adjusted by mechanics built into the game. The game designers placed powerful items early in the game allowing newer players higher basic damage and defense than they would normally have at that point. For more experienced players, the designers placed higher skill cap items early that do more damage if executed correctly. Other penalties, such as the health reduction on death, can be significantly reduced with certain items. This allows the player to set the game's difficulty based on their experiences with the game, rather than through a menu option. Dark Souls 2 Game free Download Full Version.
Similar to other games in the series, Dark Souls II features a New Game Plus mode. The initial replay is named «NG+», with subsequent replays named «NG++» and continuing until «NG+7» is reached. With each replay the player will retain their levels, souls, and most items.
Plot
The story of Dark Souls II begins with a human who is to become a Hollow, a zombie-like being, after dying. To break this, the undead travels to the fallen kingdom of Drangleic and is tasked by the Emerald Herald with obtaining four Great Souls from other powerful undead. Once obtained, the Emerald Herald directs the undead to «Seek the King» in the capital. After fighting through the remains of the royal guards, the player encounters the Queen Nashandra, who reveals that the king failed in his duty and fled his kingdom long ago. She asks the protagonist to slay the king.
Near the end of the Queen's quest, the player learns that the ruin of the kingdom was in fact caused by Nashandra. She came to the king and deceived him into launching an ill fated invasion across the sea into the lands of the Giants. She coveted their souls and sought to steal their power. Though the raid succeeded in stealing the Giant's unspecified power, the Giants retaliated. Invading Drangleic, the Giants eventually destroyed the kingdom. With his kingdom in ruins, the king discovered Nashandra's true purpose and locked himself inside the Undead Crypt.
In order to confront Nashandra, the player character travels to the keep of Aldia, the King's brother, to obtain the Ashen Mist Heart, an artifact that allows a form of time travel, by accessing the «memories» of corpses. The player must enter the memories of a deceased Giant to defeat the Giant lord during the invasion and claim his power for their own. Confronting the Emerald Herald one final time, she also states that Nashandra is a fragment of Manus, who was the final boss in the Artorias of the Abyss expansion in Dark Souls. She then asks the protagonist to put Nashandra to rest and to link the fire.
In Scholars of the First Sin, the base story changes slightly, notably with the addition of Aldia after the defeat of Nashandra. Aldia attempts to help the protagonist understand that there might be another way, a way out of the cycle of light and dark. The player is given a choice, they can either link the fire, restarting the Age of Fire, and repeating the cycle; or the player can abscond the throne, as they have now collected the four crowns from the downloadable content expansions, and can resist the effects of Hollowing, and follow their own, unknown path, beyond light or dark. Dark Souls 2 Free Download Torrent.
