Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2

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.

My rating on this is not for the game itself. I love this game. I have many fond memories of playing it in my younger days. That's why I decided to buy it the moment I spotted it on GoG. Why the bad rating then? It doesn't work. I tend to praise GoG to everyone I know and I still do, but they screwed up big time on this one. When I can get it to start, it'll run about 30 seconds at most before it CtDs. If you got it to work, I envy you, but for Windows 7, I wouldn't trust this one to function.

It's a good game, but it's impossible to properly get running on modern systems and it crashes when you try to save.

With this being my favorite game from the gamecube era, I bought it on sale for $0.97 But apparently that is also the quality I paid. On first launch it tells me there is an error with my graphics drivers, then proceeds to give me a list of numbers and dimensions I dont fully understand, only for it to never get to the title screen. I watch the opening developer cards then it freezes up to about a fram a minute.

On the boss battle with Sebastian when you have to mind trick the guard to flip the switch for me he just sands there and does not/cannot move and keeps repeating the same audio over and over I am windows 8 pro by the way.