Dark Souls II

Dark Souls II is a 2014 action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware. The second installment of the Dark Souls series, it was released for Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 by FromSoftware in Japan and Bandai Namco Games internationally. Taking place in the kingdom of Drangleic, the game features both player versus environment (PvE) and player versus player (PvP) gameplay. Dark Souls II was released in March 2014 after some initial delays, with the Windows version being released the following month.

Dark Souls II
Developer(s)FromSoftware
Publisher(s)Bandai Namco Games
  • JP: FromSoftware
Director(s)
  • Tomohiro Shibuya
  • Yui Tanimura
Producer(s)Masanori Takeuchi
Designer(s)Naotoshi Zin
Programmer(s)Yoshitaka Suzuki
Artist(s)Keiichiro Ogawa
Writer(s)Toshifumi Nabeshima
Composer(s)
  • Motoi Sakuraba
  • Yuka Kitamura
SeriesDark Souls
Platform(s)
  • PlayStation 3
  • Xbox 360
  • Windows
  • PlayStation 4
  • Xbox One
Release
March 11, 2014
  • PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
    • NA: March 11, 2014
    • JP: March 13, 2014
    • PAL: March 14, 2014
    Windows
    • WW: April 24, 2014
    Scholar of the First Sin
    • JP: February 5, 2015 (PS3, X360, PC)
    • EU: April 2, 2015
    • NA: April 7, 2015
    • JP: April 9, 2015 (PS4, Xbox One)
Genre(s)Action role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Dark Souls II was a critical and commercial success. A remastered version of the game, titled Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin, was released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows in April 2015. It contains the original game and its downloadable content with upgraded graphics, expanded online multiplayer capacity, and various other changes. A sequel, Dark Souls III, was released in 2016.

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