Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2
Soul Reaver 2 picks up where Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver left off, with Raziel having just plunged through the Chronoplast time portal in his relentless pursuit of Kain. Over the course of his quest for…
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 is an adventure developed by Crystal Dynamics, released 31 October 2001 on PlayStation 2 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 is
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 is an adventure game developed by Crystal Dynamics and released in 2001. It was published by Eidos Interactive. It is available on PlayStation 2 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Gex engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Soul Reaver 2 is set in Nosgoth, a fictional land with fantasy aspects. In the first game in the series, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, the vampire Kain embarks on a journey to restore the Pillars of Nosgoth—nine supernatural edifices which are inextricably tied to the health of the land, but become corrupted. During his adventure, Moebius, a manipulative sorcerer, tricks Kain into orchestrating the destruction of the vampire race: Kain is left the last surviving vampire in Nosgoth. After restoring eight of the Pillars, Kain discovers that he would need to sacrifice his own life to restore the final corrupt one. Realizing that his death would ensure the annihilation of his species, he refuses…
How it plays
It is played from a third person 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
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 is the third of 17 entries we hold in the Legacy of Kain series. It arrived 2 years after Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver. The next entry was Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain in 2002. Its critic score of 95 is 18 points above the series average of 77. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 holds a critic score of 95 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 23 points above the year average. Players rate it 89, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
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. 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
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 launched on 31 October 2001, within three weeks of Super Smash Bros. Melee, Grand Theft Auto III, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Halo: Combat Evolved. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Super Smash Bros. Melee, Grand Theft Auto III, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Halo: Combat Evolved.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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