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.
Legacy of Kain is, although aged, a very good series - and even as the black sheep of the whole Blood Omen 2 is a decent game. I've played through the original a half dozen times, at least.
And yet, this "port" of the game is completely unplayable on any kind of modern hardware. The menus are glitchy, the controls are bad (and cannot be re-bound) and even the game itself stutters, rewinds physics and crashes constantly. To be honest, I expected better from GOG than this.
If you happen to have an old computer, you can probably get around some of these problems; and it is only to those people with ancient Windows Vista machines that I could recommend this version. A sad day indeed, that such an awesome series as Legacy of Kain must be reduced to this.
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.
While this game is not completely worthless, it pales in comparison to the other games in the series from both a gameplay and storyline standpoint.
Now, as others have mentioned, the reason for this is that it was developed by a different creative team. It shows.
The gameplay is clunky and slow compared to its immediate predecessor, Soul Reaver 2. Many of the levels have glitchy instances, from minor instances of music suddenly being absent to major instances of being stuck in graphics, unable to open doors and proceed, and other issues resulting in having to shut the game off and reload.
But the biggest grievance is the storyline and atmosphere. Although most Soul Reaver/Blood Omen games controls are tight, outside of the first and latest games in the series (Blood Omen and Defiance respectively) one would be hard pressed to that the battle controls are the highlight of the games. Fighting games, they are not.
Blood Omen 2 fails to deliver the unique flavor of Soul Reaver. The vampires speak in faux-Anne Rice/ Dracula nonesense half the time, complete with bad English accented peasants in a sprawling "London" style town.
The character design and visual aesthetic breaks with prior depictions of Nosgoth and feels cheap, trite, and hackneyed. Many of the antagonists are also ludicrously garbed in goth and bondage club gear with garter belt wearing warrior nuns making their first and thankfully only appearance in the BO/SR universe.
The plot (The most essential aspect of any LoK game) is generally poorly written compared to the other games, with massive plot holes abounding.
The boss fights, which some found a redeeming quality, are somewhat lackluster. These are not the Pillar Guardians of BO1 or monstrous vampire kin of Soul Reaver.
Instead, we are provided with a bunch of fops that stepped right out of bad fanfiction to destroy.
In so many ways, Blood Omen 2 fails to live up to the Legacy of Kain.
The Good: The controls are tight and the levels, although lacking that particular Nosgoth flair, are large, sprawling, and undoubtedly epic. The Eternal Prison, Cathedral, and Sarafan Keep are quite entertaining.
I highly recommend the Legacy of Kain series to any and all, but I cannot recommend this game unless one is a completionist. It has no relevance, whatsoever, to the rest of the series.
It’s a great game all around to me I have it on the original Xbox and I love it. I also played it when I was a kid loved it then too!! Wish someone remakes it cuz it could be even better with updated graphics and mechanics .
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