PC specs for Dark Souls 3

Fairly linear, but even the most claustrophobic is packed with secrets and shortcuts - items that hang from windows you can't reach from inside buildings, or elevators that save you the trouble of tussling with minions en-route to the boss. You can also trigger key encounters in a different order given a bit of computation, possibly unlocking alternate endings in the process, and there are entire areas, along with important NPC sidestories, that you will lose if you fail to heed the clues squirrelled away in dialogue and knowledge.

              

Lothric's grandeur is, unfortunately, hampered by a few too many callbacks to locations from previous games, although this idea is often as much to tarnish as it is to celebrate. More dilemmatic, the game's single-game narrative action arc robs the world of thematic weight. There's nothing like a new sense of purpose you might feel about acquiring Lordvessel in Dark Souls 1, or downing Rom in Bloodborne. The boss, meanwhile, runs the gamut from surgical through pretentious with little to no attention. There entity your gadget will best thanks to its meticulous pattern-reading and sixth sense for the difference between combo finishers and connecting attacks - grueling encounters that represent videogame combat at its most sophisticated. But there are also big bads that are about spectacle, where victory is a question of appearing a little vulnerable until it appears, or exploiting something in the environment, although it may pay you to fight without using such measures.

             

The skill system seems more of a skin graft than sea-change, in hindsight - I polished most AI opponents using the older tactic of riling them from afar with fireballs, then somersaulting in and out of swiping reach. But the true test of its value will be how to hold up in PvP over the coming months. As in previous games, forging "agreements" with certain elusive NPCs paves the way for a particular flavor of multiplayer. Covenant sunlight disciples are pillars of society, placing sigils summoning them to help those struggling with bosses or evil red ghosts. The latter, meanwhile, Lothric's raiders, invaded the world to kill their hosts.

Minimum PC Specifications

CPU: Intel Core i3-2100 / AMD FX-6300

RAM: 4 GB

OS: Windows 7 SP1 64bit, Windows 8.1 64bit Windows 10 64bit

Video Card: NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 750 Ti / ATI Radeon HD 7950

Hard Drive : 25 GB

Recommended PC Specifications

CPU: Intel Core i7-3770 / AMD® FX-8350

RAM: 8 GB

OS: Windows 7 SP1 64bit, Windows 8.1 64bit Windows 10 64bit

Video Card: NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 970 / ATI Radeon R9 series


Hard Drive: 25 GB