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You got to love the series.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Blood Omen 2 is an action/RPG for your PS2. The story is about a vampire, named Kain, who had fallen in battle during an attempted conquest of the world. After 100 years or so he reawakens to find that his kind is fighting a losing battle. Your goal is to rediscover your power while fighting to destroy this threat.

Being a fan of the previous game on PS One, I was looking forward to using Kain in a 3D environment. The magic system is very straightforward and fighting has also been made uncomplicated. Add to the fact that the game has a built in tutorial and you have a game anyone can just pick up and play. For every power you receive you get a situation to instantly use it, allowing you to experiment with usually minimal danger. Some spells and abilities can be used at any time. Others have special conditions that need to be achieved first. This gives the player options to consider at certain parts of the game. For example there is a mist form that allows you become nearly invisible allowing for a chance to get away or perform a stealth kill.

What keeps me from giving this game a high ratting is based one major reason, FRAME RATE! In order to enjoy a game it has to be able to be viewed while playing. When I first purchased Blood Oman 2, I had a lot of problems with frame rate. My friends had the same problems. This is just the product of rushed development or unsatisfactory game testing. It hurts to see key seems where the voices aren't synched and it takes away from the main game as well. Some levels are so big that while I was progressing through them the game nearly stopped. Loading time is also a factor but compared with the heal-dragging frame rate, it's really not an issue.

Overall the concept of the game is sound. If you enjoy being a night stalker drinking the blood of innocent and not so innocent victims give this game a good try. If this not your normal cup-o-tea skip it altogether.

bloody good fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

i played this game over the weekend. my brother in law came for the weekend to visit and he had just bought xbox. this game was so much fun. if your worried abot violence then stay away but if your into scary, violent and a fun time this is it.
you play kain and are on a quest for blood and power. there is so many great aspects to this game to this game. for me the most fun was just killing townsfolk either with my claws, a club or the sword. you can pick up people with one hand and do many things to them. either throw them, choke them or beat them with a club or stab them with a sword. you gain the ability to go invisible like mist and some of the "mist kills" are quite wicked and evil.
i found the controls easy to use and quite easy to adapt to. i did not get to finish it, though. i only made it to the end of chapter II. also worth mentioning are the sound effects. the howling dogs, the eerie sound of night, the screams of people etc.. all in all this was a great game.

length of play a little disappointing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I got this for a teen that was really into the whole set of soul reaver games. It has some really well done movie clips but the time it took to finish the game was a little disapointing. Took about 3 days for a teen that didn't play it but off and on over a weekend.

Please note: *starts off slow*

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I played Soul Reaver 1 & 2, and I think this game is better than two and worse than one. It takes a while to get going... you need some of the dark gifts to have any fun at all. The puzzles are too simple and the combat interface is unbearable. Hard to say why it's any good at all, except that the atmosphere is fun, and I like being a really bad guy sometimes... not for everyone for sure. No replayability at all. I guess the real interest in the game is the graduation through the levels and the dark gifts.

Its got its problems, but still a good game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I would have rated this game a perfect five had it not been for the dialogue problems. This might not be on everybody's disc but on mine it would sometimes remind me of a Godzilla movie. The would speak and 30seconds later you could hear their voices. Or the would speak but another sound effect would make it were you couldn't hear(when in the Sarafan keep try to see if you can understand exactly what the old hag is saying) a darned thing. You can understand what needs to be done(even though it was noisy and hard to understand, is still was able to understand she wanted the dude dead.) Some more fatal blows would have been nice, but there is still three times as many as their was in Soul Reaver 2.
The story is decent and in line with the rest of the Legacy of Kain series. It focuses on the slain nobleman Kain turned vampire who is on a quest of revenge against the Sarafan Lord and his armies. It also focuses on the arrival of the Hylden, Vampires sworn enemies. The game is fairly long(eleven levels) and the graphics and sounds are nice. It may not be perfect but its still better than most other games of its genre.

Soul Reaver or Blood Omen ?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The two games have alot of simularities Example in both you gain special abilities by completing different quest or fights. In Blood Omen 2 the abilities are for Kain while in Soul Reaver2 it is for the Reaver. Blood Omen and Soul Reaver's graphics are pretty much the same, but in Blood Omen there is sometimes problems where it will slow down or freeze which has never happened before with my Soul Reaver game. Despite some problems Blood Omen is still a great game but you should definatly rent this game before purchasing it you might just be able to beat it because it's kind of short but then again so is Soul Reaver. So you should definatly rent both these title's first. Happy hunting.

Great game but it could use a little cleaning up

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This turned out to be a great game. When i first saw the advertisment for BO2 i new i would get it. First off the game has a great story line, with a lot of twists and turns from area to area, it really cept me gessing wat was going to happen next. But i was a bit dispointed with the fighting system, you cant move around as much as u need to to dodge atacks and your wepons break way to easilly, i mean u pick up a glyph nights sword and in the middle of the next battle it is already about to break. The sound could be punched up a notch to. your tryin to listen to a conversation between two ppl and u have to turn in different directions to pick up thier voices. The cutsines get very annoyin wen you die and have to go through the same one over and over again becouse there's no way to scip it.
The dark gifts u get from bosses are really good they help u get through a lot of areas and really com in usful for killing enimies
All in all BO2 is a great game if u were into the LOK series, but if it is ur first game in the series try renting it first
it could use a little cleaning up but it sould appeal to you

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