Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain
Blood Omen 2 is a third-person action game and the second installment in the Legacy of Kain series. Players control the vampire Kain as he travels through Nosgoth, using combat, stealth, exploration, and…
Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain is an adventure developed by Crystal Dynamics, released 21 March 2002 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain is
Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain is an adventure game developed by Crystal Dynamics and released in 2002. It was published by Eidos Interactive. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Legacy of Kain series
Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain is the fourth of 17 entries we hold in the Legacy of Kain series. The next entry was Legacy of Kain: Defiance in 2003. Its critic score of 75 is 2 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 at 95.
How it was received
Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 7 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.8 GHz Processor, 512 MB RAM and 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible with DirectX 9 recommended). At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB.
What it launched against
Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain launched on 21 March 2002, within three weeks of Resident Evil (2002), Resident Evil, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast and Heroes of Might and Magic IV. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil (2002), Resident Evil, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast, Heroes of Might and Magic IV.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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