Posted on: March 18, 2023

The_Righteous_One

Spiele: 13 Rezensionen: 6

Black sheep in an awesome series

First, get the Peixoto's and Widescreen patches and you're golden. No bugs/crashes whatsoever. Blood Omen 2 is a hit-or-miss title, but regardless of its stature with fans I myself enjoyed it. It was developed by a B team at Crystal Dynamics and it was their first game ever. Let that sink in... With that in mind, I think they did a great job. They sought to create a game that was more action focused and they deducted exploration and puzzles from the previous entries. Gameplay and combat are enjoyable and I really liked the stealth mechanics together with Kain's powers at your disposal. It gets repetitive after a while, but I can't say I was bored. Graphics are aged sure, but they are still pretty fine, well except for some awkward animations and face models for civilians. The general atmosphere of the game is awesome and it really fits the game, as well as the soundtrack. Now for the story... I can see why fans don't like this game so much. It's because it feels like a spinoff of the series. And as it stands it kinda is. But! The story of the game was meant to introduce some very important plot points and to foreshadow the events that would happen in a sixth game that sadly never was released. There were some things that were left unexplained like how and why Vorador get resurrected and what were Seer's agenda and part in the series... I am sure that if the sixth game was released this game would be seen as a completely different picture. The dialogues and the story itself are not bad per sē, rather they are subpar in comparison to other titles, which is understandable in my opinion, especially because the A team was developing Soul Reaver 2 at the moment. Except for Kain of course. Kain as a character was done excellently and the voice acting of Simon Templeman is as good as always. In summary, I liked the game pretty much and I'm probably biased here because this is one of my favorite game series. Off to end my playthrough of the series in Defiance. Cheers!

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Posted on: June 15, 2014

Dimbo_sama

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Spiele: 212 Rezensionen: 2

Fun game if not the best.

That's pretty much what Blood Omen 2 is. Stitched together from previous abandoned games, and created in tandem with Soul Reaver 2 without any interaction between teams, Blood Omen 2 suffers from the rest of the series having such high standards. Blood Omen 2 does a good job of feeling like Kain in a new setting and control style, but fails in characterisation and storytelling. As it stands, it's the weakest in the series but I personally still find it fun enough to play multiple times. If you're looking for something enjoyable and either don't care about the over arching Legacy of Kain series or can remove it enough from the rest of the story, it's well worth your time picking this up.

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Posted on: March 27, 2022

SitromRogir

Spiele: 49 Rezensionen: 1

Good title, enjoyable

Let me start this review by saying I have a lot of nostalgia tied to BO2, so that may be a factor. Apart from that, even when I was unfamiliar with this game I still grew to enjoy it. It doesn't exactly feel like the rest of the entries in the series, but that doesn't mean it isn't worthy. The controls are going to be hit or miss for many, but I found them fairly easy to learn. I've heard there are issues with rebinding, but there are programs that may help with that ( if you don't mind using them ). The graphics are what you may expect from an older game, but not terrible for its age. Boss fights feel pretty nice overall. Not too strong and not too weak. The performance, which many have had trouble with, may indeed require a bit of tinkering. I had the same issue as others with the menu freeze and I found that limiting my frame rate to 60 I believe was what ultimately fixed it. To be safe though I'd recommend running in compatibility mode for an older Windows.

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Posted on: May 21, 2023

TheTrueConqueror

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Spiele: 307 Rezensionen: 9

There was an effort, but...

I really wanted to like this game. I saw so many great reviews about this game, not just on GOG but on other sites as well. But alas, I couldn't, let me explain to you why. Let's start with the story. Comparing to other Legacy of Kain games, the writing is sub par. Those famous monologues from Kain in the original Blood Omen are almost non existant, and that was one of my favorite things in the series. Since this was separately made from Soul Reaver series, there is a lot of inconsistency with the plot, but even ignoring Soul Reaver, it still has contradiction with the original Blood Omen. Existing characters are more simplified and less interesting than previous games. Kain is no longer an ominous vampire that seeks power, now he is reduced to a mere lackey that follows orders. The in game story is full of plotholes and just bad writing. The graphics are okay. For 2002 they are nothing spectacular, my only complaint is that the human models look absolutely ugly. Environments range from okay to plain boring, nothing really memorable. Music is completely dull. Again nothing really memorable, just a 15-30 second loop. Controls are terrible. Even if you switch to a controller using a fan made patch, the main problem is that combat is absolutely attrocius. Extremely limited combat that involves parrying and sidewalking until you build enough rage to use a special attack, normally at the first few levels you can beat enemies easily, but later on your attacks are just limited to using special attack because enemies like to parry your every single attack. Dash is non existent in this game, which is kind of funny because Soul Reaver games had dash. Spells are also non existent. Remember how Blood Omen had variety of spells and consumables? Not in this game There was some effort put in this game, and it's not completely unplayable, despite some game breaking bugs, and for that I give it an extra star. Trust me on this, just skip it.

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Posted on: June 27, 2014

Аллард

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Spiele: 417 Rezensionen: 11

Kain is deified

First of all, if you started the LoK series with Soul Reaver installments, yeah, you might not like it. The game was being created side-by-side with SR1 and 2. Back then, both SR and BO subseries were intended to go in two different directions. Thus, Daniel Cabuco was the main artist on SR subseries and Crystal Dynamics invited Steve Ross, who worked on Chakan: The Forever Man and it's unreleased sequel. Contrary to popular belief this game wasn't based of Chakan 2's engine. Just some of concepts Steve brought along with him. Anyway, the resulting game is very, very different in terms of feel to the rest of the series, While SR subseries eventually tied itself to BO, BO2 is a side-story it was always intended to be. Plus, the story has a couple of holes. Is it a bad game then? Hell no! Gameplay-wise, it's better than SR2, believe it or not. Pretty lengthy gameplay, interesting levels, awesome atmosphere (it's different, but damn, it's good) and a bit reVamped combat system to satisfy your bloodlust. Plus, the boss battles that were nowhere to be found in SR2 are now back with a vengeance and so are cool powers you receive after them. The game is different - don't expect it to be anything like SR subseries in terms of art or story - but it's still good, allowing you to feel like a real vampire.

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