Back in the year 2014, before Dark Souls 3, there were those of us out there looking to find some more Souls-style RPGs who hoped perhaps we’d find it in CI Games’ Lords Of The Fallen. No such luck, as it turned out to be quite an average attempt to emulate the formula. Now, CI Games are talking up their planned sequel Lords Of The Fallen 2 once again, revealing a logo and plans to make the series more popular among those Dark Souls fans they didn’t quite convince the first time around.

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Despite the first game being a bit rubbish, publisher City Interactive Games are insistent on making Lords Of The Fallen 2 a thing. They’ve also booted recently-hired developers Defiant Studios from it just one year into production. As reported (and translated from Polish) by Eurogamer, the publisher announced via a press release that their partnership was being terminated over “inadequate execution by Defiant [of] a key work stage”. It seems that the publisher were unhappy with both the quality and timeliness of the project, although Defiant disagree with CI’s portrayal of their company.

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Three years after City Interactive first muttered about a sequel to Lords Of The Fallen, 2014’s Souls-tinged action-RPG, they’re finally going ahead with it. Today they announced they’ve drafted Defiant Studios, a new studio co-founded by the director of Just Cause 3, to make Lords Of The Fallen 2. Lords creators Deck13 parted ways with CI after the first game, see, going on to continue their ideas in The Surge (read our Brendy’s review for more on that). CI don’t say much of anything about the sequel, so it’s clearly still early days, but hey, it’s officially on. Okay then. (more…)