400 years have passed since the vampire Kain damned the world in the original Blood Omen, choosing to rule the world in damnation rather than die for its salvation. Now Kain, who once controlled the land of Nosgoth with his vampire armies, finds his brethren slain and his dark powers stripped by a m...
400 years have passed since the vampire Kain damned the world in the original Blood Omen, choosing to rule the world in damnation rather than die for its salvation. Now Kain, who once controlled the land of Nosgoth with his vampire armies, finds his brethren slain and his dark powers stripped by a mysterious figure. To reclaim his rule and exact his vengeance, Kain must dispatch armies of zealot soldiers and overcome legions of demons in order to uncover the ominous plot that threatens the land he seeks to conquer.
Blood Omen 2, the second instalment in the Legacy of Kain Series, is a 3rd person 3D action/combat game in which you assume the role of the vampire Kain. A compelling story takes you through huge, lushly detailed 3D environments and challenges your skills in combat, puzzle solving, stealth and exploration. With each success, you’ll gain new dark gifts that will grant Kain the ability to access treacherous new areas to explore and the power to face stronger, more aggressive enemies. As you develop a stronger, more skilled vampire, you’ll be rewarded with dozens of dazzling in-game cinematic sequences that unfold the continuing epic of Nosgoth, and Kain’s attempts to ultimately rule over it.
Move through crowds unseen cloaked in stealth, travel stories above the peasant herds on which you feed leaping from rooftop to rooftop, and use mind-control on hapless fools to help you overcome vampire-proof inventions.
Unleash your wrath in a lushly detailed, blood-chilling gothic environment that is not only gorgeous to the eye, but also alive with the soon to be dead.
Beautifully choreographed combat with surgical precision as you engage armies of demons and humans alike.
Installed LoK: BO2 on 2 of 3 computers of mine (Surface Pro 6 and an ITX build with a Pentium G4560 and GTX 970, both Win10 x64) and I had varying levels of failure on both. I couldn't get it to boot at all on my Surface. It instantly crashes when I try to run, despite running through several fixes for it. I had a bit more success on my ITX PC, being able to start it, and get through the opening videos. Then it locks up on the menu and all I can do is use the Windows key to close it. I don't plan on asking for a refund because I am hopeful it'll run properly in the future, but I feel like there should be less hoops to jump through to get a game to run.
so i love the soul reaver games and wanted to try this out but sadly i could not even get past the beginning area of the game because it freezes and or crashes so on newer high end pc just a heads up before buying it will not work smh really wish it did because i am sure i would have loved it but in the meantime use an emulator or some older machine to play the game.
First of all, if you want to get this running at all, make sure you're using the Re-Vamped mod, which has been done by the same people that made Soul Fixer for Soul Reaver 2.
Whether you should try to get this running in the first place is a different matter, however. For both Crystal Dynamics and Eidos, Blood Omen 2 was little more than an afterthought, as evidenced by the fact that its story and setting largely contradict the games that came before it, and only its sequel, Defiance, was able to reconcile these differences. The plot itself is nowhere near the epic tale the previous games in the series told, and about the only interesting thing about it is the character of Kain himself, whose well-acted commentary adds a pleasant layer of malignancy to everything that happens.
As for the actual gameplay, this was never the series' strength, and Blood Omen 2 is easily the low point in this regard. The puzzles are so simple that they do little but waste one's time, and the combat is tedious at best. Kain can do a basic 3-hit combo, and he can block, but only normal attacks, whereas stronger attacks go right through it. Unfortunately, Kain lacks proper tools to avoid these power attacks reliably, which is why you'll often be taking hits you shouldn't be taking, if the controls were more responsive. The combat loop basically amounts to blocking until the rage meter is filled, entering rage, repeat, until you get to see the bloodsucking animation, over, and over, and over again.
The game never gets more interesting than that, and it is a far too long game for how boring it is. You walk a linear path, only broken up by the occasional (unskippable) cutscene, and that is it. What's worse, when I once again died to a power attack and loaded a checkpoint, the game freezed, which also deleted my entire progress. At that point, I've had enough, and decided to delete the game in retribution.
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