Posted on: September 4, 2012
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A fun game that is trapped in the bad stigma of being a black sheep to the series.
At the peak of the Legacy of Kain series Eidos/Crystal Dynamics thought that it would be a great idea to try and make two Legacy of Kain game series, The Soul Reaver games that involved playing Raziel and the Blood Omen series that involved playing a young and brutal Kain. So while Soul Reaver 2 was being a made a separate team started and created Blood Omen 2, using an engine that was meant for a remake to the game Chakan: The Forever Man. The ending result was a game that was a rather slap in the face of most Legacy of Kain fans. Legacy of Kain has always been about deep story and plot as it's main draw and you will not find that here. In fact Blood Omen not only has the weakest plot of the series but contains some major plotholes due to the team working on it not paying attention to established series lore. This has created much resentment of this game among most diehard fans of the series. The Soul Reaver team in their next game Defiance did their best to reconcile these plot holes and got most of them.. and now Blood Omen 2 is considered to be an alternate timeline created by the events of the Soul Reaver games time traveling and time changing events. However not all is bad with Blood Omen 2. The game is actually one of the more fun games to PLAY in the series. A great combat system. You are Kain set loose upon the citizens and Sarafan and at your arsenal is a plethora of ways to maim and kill your foes. The game is quite long, linear but long. Only the original Blood Omen is longer. Blood Omen 2 will take you at least a good 20 hours to beat and as you progress the level design gets really good. Unlike Soul Reaver 2, there are actual Boss fights again as well and the game does a great job of introducing new skills slowly through out the entire game. Kain himself voiced by the amazing Simon Templeman is full of his own style of one liners that will make you chuckle and cheer but what is a great surprise is the city of Meridian very lively and the conversations many of the citizens, thugs and Sarafan will have while you creep around in the shadows is hilarious and outstanding. Graphically of course the game is showing it's age but at 1920x1080 resolution the game I still think look great. Go into this game expecting a fun but casual experience and I think you will enjoy this game quite a bit. Don't go into this game expecting jaw dropping story because you won't find it.
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