FlintlockJazz: Unfortunately I doubt we will ever see another Kain game, which is a shame. I do think they screwed up the story somewhat with all the time-hopping, but the evil cunt that was Kain always made up for it, Simon Templeman seemed to have been born for that role.
orcishgamer: These games are actually my biggest "miss" of the last 2 decades, I don't own them and I doubt I can lay my hands on them to play them. I always wanted to, as well, not sure why I never bought them. Ooh shiny...
I think the shinies might have something to do with why you missed them. ;) They have great characters with them, and it had potential, but they did kinda screw it up a bit with the time travelling imho (typical issues you have with any time travelling story, contradictions and such like).
I'm actually not sure if I could really recommend them tbh, I loved them but it always seemed to be a case of the games having tons of potential it never quite achieved. Not sure if it was either a case of trying to do too much and failing or not being given enough time and/or budget to do it justice.