Legacy of Kain™ Soul Reaver 1&2 Remastered is now available for
pre-order! Grab it now and experience the epic conflict of Kain and Raziel in original form or with remastered graphics.
400 years have passed since the vampire Kain damned the world in the original Blood Omen, choosing to rule th...
Legacy of Kain™ Soul Reaver 1&2 Remastered is now available for
pre-order! Grab it now and experience the epic conflict of Kain and Raziel in original form or with remastered graphics.
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.
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 .
This game is considered to be the least strong of the LoK games, and for obvious reasons.
The bugs when this game first came out were annoying, and now you have to jump through a couple hoops to make this game function.
You have to:
1. find the fan made patch to put a dll file into the main folder
2. when you run the game, you have to go to control panel and change the 'affinity' of the game to use only 1 core, instead of the like 2 or more that most CPUs are using nowadays
With that said, I have always had a soft spot for BO2, and actually consider the game play (despite the bugs) to be a bit more creative than SR2, though the plot driving dialogue in that other game was more valuable to the story.
BO2 (if it didn't have the bugs) would actually be perhaps one of the most unique additions to the franchise. It is still dark fantasy at its best, and exploring the terrain (city especially) was a lot of fun.
The only other thing that this game had going against it were the plot holes (like Vorador being alive) that never got a proper answer, but was supposed to get an answer in a later LoK game per true LoK fashion.
With that said, go into this game knowing it's limitations, but if you do the above fixes, you should be fine and get it to run.