Description Blood Omen 2, the latest installment 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 drives you through huge lushly detailed 3D environments and challenges your game play skills in combat, puzzle solving, stealth and exploration.
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Rating Reviewed by: Trigon(Unregistered User)
Review Date August 17, 2003
Overall Rating 5 of 5
Review NaN of 15
, from Coorhagen, Nosgoth
Price Paid:
$20.00
from An associate of mine
Summary: Ah, yes. Legacy of Kain. By far the greatest video game series of all time. You can't just try to describe one without the others. Incredible storyline, multi-dimensional characters, comendable continuity, and one hell of a history. But don't take _my_ word for it... ------------------------------------------------- The warrior vampire from Coorhagen is back after a two-century long rest. Between the events of Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain and now, Kain took up the damned throne and raised a vamire army. Accordingly, the Sarafan was raised as vampire resistance for the people. The Nemesis was the Sarafan Lord, and a bloody battle ensued. Finally, the battle ended with Kain and the Nemesis locked in battle. Kain had in his possesion the most powerful sword ever forged, the Soul Reaver, left from his previous adventure. Despite this, Kain questionably fell, was defeated, and the Nemesis stole the reaver. After the battle, Kain was left alive, but in a slumber. And so, we start the story...
Summary: I played Soul Reaver and didn't too much care for it. I decided to give Kain a chance to redeem himself...and he has. Combat, puzzles, and enough story line to keep you going to the next chapter.
Summary: It seemed very good from the movie trailers that I saw , but when I played it I was a bit dissipointed. Mostly in the charecter design, puzzles, combat and sound.
I think they could have done better on these like they did with Soul Reaver 2; however, playing the roll of a blood drinking vampire is a little better than playing as a soul sucking like demon.
Summary: Everyone's favorite vampire returns from hiatus to rape, pillage, plunder, and reqonquer the land of Nosgoth in what I can only characterize as... absolute schlock.
For starters, I'll introduce my main biases as a LoK 'fan' - I loved Blood Omen. I hated Soul Reaver. I far preferred the sheer sadism and sprawling adventure-RPG aspects of Blood Omen to what I believed at the time to be yet another 3D garbage masterpiece. However, Blood Omen 2 has granted me new respect for Soul Reaver.
With gameplay inspired entirely by Soul Reaver, Blood Omen 2 has severed almost all gameplay ties with the original Blood Omen. Gone is the gargantuan overworld map of Nosgoth, replaced by 100% linear 'stage' runs. Gone are the secrets mired in that gargantuan overworld map, replaced by... hell. I don't know. I haven't found any secrets in BO2. I'd imagine there are a few, since each stage comes with a completion percentage, and I can never seem to complete 100% of any given stage. Not half as many as there should be, though. A few of the puzzles in BO2 seem to have an almost Shadowgate quality to them that require the performance of illogical actions to be solved. The rest of the puzzles have obviously been designed to insult the intelligence of anyone who has the mental capacity to place the BO2 disc in their PS2 and turn it on.
BUGS, and bugs galore. I'll have to admit that as of writing this, I would estimate that I'm about halfway through the game, and cannot complete it because of a bug. After wrapping up one of the game's multitude of contrived puzzles, I enter through a door and fall off a ledge into an oblivious loop of nothingness. Other bugs I've noticed are sound loops that become so irritating at times that I had the choice of either resetting the game or heaving my PS2 out the window.
But hey, look on the bright side - at least it doesn't take half an hour to change weapons any more. Or another half hour to go from one screen to the next. But man...that was an hour of load time well spent in comparison to this garbage.
Overall: Too much Soul Reaver, not enough Blood Omen. Poor game design, lackluster graphics, poor combat execution, ridiculous puzzles, BUGS, and brilliant voice acting. Ironic how not enough love and attention went into making what could've been the next benchmark of cult b-video gaming. I honestly cannot express the disappointment I felt with BO2, not simply because I wasted 45 bucks on a game I can no longer complete due to an obviously rushed production, but also that I despised every moment until that point of non-completion came to being.
Summary: :SPOILER WARNING: Once Again the Dark one graces our t.v Screen. yet It is regretful that i send in this review as This game despite having various improvements has MANY negative sides. Aliens , Vorador still Alive? Mysterious Vamp Chick who has worked with Kain before when in the heck did this happen? Kain never seems to get more powerful, the weapons no matter how Big or Sharp arent better than one and the other.the weapon boost boxes do nothing, No items no new combos and what happened to the Morphs. Kain looks like some Pale Make-up wearing pretty boy. He doesnt look realistic.the various boosts to this game is I like the soul reaver format more then the original LOK world map version.to easy to get lost. anyway, I loved the storyline until i got to the part when i found out about the whole alien thing. Basically this game could have been excellent they just stated smoking something near the middle. instead of aliens it could have been a souped up Moebius or Mortanius back from the dead.the block ability is king. he A.I of the monsters is better.and the new dark gifts are really good.
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