Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain is a top-down action-adventure video game with role-playing game elements. It is the first game in the Legacy of Kain series, and the only one developed by Silicon Knights and…
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain is an adventure developed by Silicon Knights, released 1 November 1996 on PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation. The main story takes about 18.3 hrs to finish.
What Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain is
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain is an adventure game developed by Silicon Knights and released in 1996. It was published by Activision. It is available on PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
During a journey, the human nobleman Kain is ambushed and killed by a band of assassins. Mortanius offers him the chance to exact revenge — Kain assents, heedless of the cost, and awakes as a vampire. Once he kills his attackers, Mortanius tells him that, while they were the instruments of his death, they were not the ultimate cause. In search of the truth, and a cure to his vampiric curse, Kain travels to the Pillars of Nosgoth. There, Ariel explains that he has to destroy the Circle of Nine before he can realize peace. Kain begins by tracking down and killing Nupraptor, and then confronts Malek, but their duel ends in a stalemate. To defeat Malek, Kain solicits the advice of the Oracle of…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Legacy of Kain series
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain is the first of 17 entries we hold in the Legacy of Kain series. The next entry was Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver in 1999. Its critic score of 85 is 8 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 at 95.
How it was received
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored 15 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 80, across 70 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 18.3 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 27 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain launched on 1 November 1996, within three weeks of Tomb Raider, Circle of Blood, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! and Twisted Metal 2. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Tomb Raider, Circle of Blood, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, Twisted Metal 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Blood Omen: 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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