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The first one Blood Omen : Legacy of Kain developed by Silicon Knight. They give us the power of Raziel a soul catch by Kain and use to lead one of the six faction of vampire to take on human kind.

Legacy of Kain : Soul Reaver developed by Crystal Dynamic and publish by Eidos. In this one you are Raziel again but they transport you in a fantastic world of eating souls is the only way to survive.

The first thing we remark is the graphic, they are all exceptional, no exception. In a 3D game (most of it) when you go closer of the wall you can see the pixel, also in this game but in this one is really good. Travel the world of Nosgoth you have to find a way to do what is your mission. The mission is not easy at all ! To accomplish your mission you have to find item that will be helpful to your success and try to not be kill. One interesting thing in this game is you can’t really die ! Yes, you have a "life" spiral bar in down right corner but if you catch soul you can survive. To "suck" soul you have to kill some monster they are really mad and difficult to destroy.

The other thing that’s interesting in Soul Reaver the view angle. Using the third person view Soul reaver is giving us a good way to travel and explore our world. Is really fun to see our character in different angle, and you have a lot of angle to see you. But when you fight you never know if you are in front of your enemy or just decide him because the camera gave not a good angle of the fight.

Kill them all !

Fell the ambiance !

In this fantastic world you can go in the "real world" or in the soul one. Each one have they own attribute. In real world you see 3 stair but lead nowhere but if you go in soul world the stair the stair lead to a door and depending witch on you take your destiny is set. Alternating between 2 reality, what uncommon and that’s why this game is really good.

The sound is good but the developer should have put more dark music with special effect to attract attention or scare us. But the music did make the game ! What make the game is the story and in this one, the story is really good with a structure.

Like I said to survive you have to kill monster and take they soul’s. It’s not easy to kill vampire with our hand these days so Soul reaver gave us a good choice of weapon like a vase or a spear. Each weapon can be throw (aim) or use to hit enemy till they die. But remember a vampire can only be kill by a spear in they heart.

Legacy of Kain : Soul Reaver is really a good value, and you need to play it. One time in your life at least. To fell what it like to kill some vampire with a spear or just play a good and imaginative game with a story that’s not just kill every one and win. And now a tips, do not attack everyone you see not all monster attack, so remark who you attack because he will !

Companies

Developer
Crystal Dynamic
www.crystald.com

Publisher
Eidos
www.eidos.com

Category
Action - Puzzle

Notes

Originality: 90%
Gameplay: 80%
Interest: 90%
Graphic: 85%
Control: 87%
Sound: 70%

TOTAL: 87%

Requirements

Operation System
Windows 95-98

Processor
266 MHz Pentium

Memory
16 RAM

Hard Drive
100 MB

CD ROM
8x

Sound Card
Direct X 6.1 - Compatible

Video Card
Accélératrice 3D

Input Device
Mouse

Multiplayer
None

Rated by ESRB
"M" Mature

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