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Horrible game controls. VERY adult content.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

On the positive side, this game is seriously beautiful. Just looking at the environments kept me playing when the gameplay didn't. But the control system--terrible. The way the world whips around constantly at the slightest mouse movement made me want to throw up. You'd think you could fix this tendency by altering the mouse sensitiviy, but you'd be wrong. At the lowest setting BO2 still resembles the jerky camera parts of Saving Private Ryan--and I mean that in a bad, unexciting way. Also, what's up with no strafe controls? You can't bind any keys to move your player sideways. When you get in a fight the keys that previously and redundantly (since the mouse does that already) rotated the character are mysteriously transformed into the missing strafe keys. Why Eidos would abandon the tried-and-true Quake-type controls in this game is a mystery. I suspect it's an artifact left over from BO2's console port. With its whacky control system, the hardest part about BO2 is keeping your lunch down.

Also, parents should take note of the "Mature" rating for this game. If ever a game deserved an "M" rating (or worse), this one does. This is coming from someone who's enjoyed other "M" rated games like Soldier of Fortune which features gory, war-type violence directed at armed soldiers (with a penalty for killing civilians). But Blood Omen 2 takes violence in a very dark direction. As a vampire you're encouraged to view humans as food and feed on them wherever you find them. In practical terms, this includes walking up to old ladies and clubbing them to death as they scream for you to stop. They fall down and try to crawl away while begging for their life and you have to beat them to death before you drink their blood (necessary to refill your health meter). While I generally view "kills" in video games as cartoonishly entertaining, I found this level of violence disturbing. I suppose it's passed off as "natural" vampire behavior (though I wonder about the public response if these were, say, Harp seals being clubbed instead of people). Everyone's got their own standard regarding game violence. Mine's pretty liberal, but this is the first game that made me feel like I'd seriously signed up with the Dark Side. The Mature rating means someone out there thinks it's suitable for your 17-year old son. I suggest you make that call yourself.

Great game... if it weren't for the bugs.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Well, I initially played and beat this came on my friends XBox. I'm a huge fan of the LOK game series so I spent two 6 hour sessions parked in front of my friends TV playing this. And it didn't take twelve hours because I'm a bad player. It's just an incredibly long game.
Anyways, I really liked this game and I wanted to own it and be able to play it whenever I want, not having an XBox or any of the other next gen consoles I opted for the PC port. I'm always wary of multi-console/PC ports but it was really the only way I could get to play this game. I got the game and noticed a few differences from the XBox version, first of all, Kains magic powers are an indigo colour instead of the pink they were in the XB version. The graphics look really great, I wasn't expecting this game to run as well as it does because of the way the graphics look.
Lets talk a little bit about controls. I don't really use the keyboard to control this game. There's no need. I have a mock-playstation gamepad that was über-cheap and I never expected it to actually come in handy. But anyways, with this particular gamepad, the crontrols were already fully mapped perfectly. This makes the fighting a whole lot easier. The only problem I have with the controls is that there doesn't seem to be a way to look around. When I'm near a cliff or an edge that might be fatal to fall off and I need to look down to survey it, I have to go into options and switch to keyboard + mouse controls, very annoying.
Now for the bugs. I haven't noticed any other reviewers mention this, but this game crashes incessantly. It's possible it could just be my particular system but I doubt that. My PC is WELL over the recommended system requirments and still this game tends to crash every ten minutes and for such a long game (that doesn't have the ability to skip cutscenes) it can get really annoying to have to redo all your progress over because the game crashed before you could save. And it's also not very fun to interrupt the continuity of the game every five minutes to save for fear of the game crashing. It would be nice if Eidos released a patch to fix the controls and this annoying crash bug. But apparently not many people have purchased this PC version so it probably wasn't reported to them.

As for the game it's self? Well, the game play, in my opinion, is very fun. This game is, however, ludicrously violent. You're encouraged to kill the innocent bystanders throughout the game. This seems to have been a complaint in the reviews I've read about this game. But I think people have failed to realize that the character you're playing as is "Kain" and he is by no means a nice guy, even in an anti-hero kind of way. Kain is quite simply the most evil character around and I think the game developers did a good job of allowing people to fully experience that.
The voice acting, as with most Eidos games, is superb.
The story is the weakest point of this game, but I guess they needed something to tie in and help explain Soul Reaver 2 a bit more.
I also feel that while the original Blood Omen is arguably the best RPG of all time, this game is straight forward action, it contains no element of RPG and it's pretty linear game play also. I don't think it makes for very good replay value other than just wanting to experience the story again.

Blood Omen2-The part vampire, part human, part crap game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game was a great game. I rented it and played it for the 2 days I rented it as a new release. I had just met the seer and had to return it. Then I walked next door and bought it at Wal*Mart. BIG Mistake. It seems the copy at blockbuster was the golden copy. After that the rest of the game is glitchy and bad voice over. There is no replay value. You get frustrated by the bad combat control.By the way, every boss is a puzzle fight. It's always hit hit, flip switch, throw into steam. Do that 3 times and the boss is dead. Rent this game.(Note:My copy was not a glitchy copy. I wnet to my friends house and played his blood omen 2. same thing. also wasn't the playstation2 either)

Rather Disappointing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The storyline seems to connect in only the loosest of ways to the rest of the Legacy of Kain series, the gameplay tends to get a bit repetetive and YES, the software is full of weird, often annoying glitches - both in terms of polygon collision detection and in terms of the audio

(the frequency with which a Serafan guard's corpse and a much needed fresher weapon will disappear into a wall after you've killed them will annoy the crap out of you and the occasional death grunt of a victim caught in an audio loop and repeatedly playing like a chipmunk chirp for 10 minutes will totally kill the dark and sinister mood that the level where it happens)

Besides Simon Templeman's voice acting as Kain, the only other thing i genuinely liked about this game was the perverse thrill i got in my sick and twisted little black heart from the stealth kills and any of the kills in which i seized my prey by the throat and let them plead for their lives before finishing them off

because, sometimes, i'm evil like that

A sore dissapointment for those following the story closely

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Continuity is a beautiful thing. At times it may be acceptable to ignore continuity that is ancient history. Grant Morrison refuses to deal with past issues in X-Men, the Marvel Ultimate line has thrown continuity out the window entirely, but these are stories that are some forty or fifty years old, Legacy of Kain isn't even ten yet. Soul Reaver has had extreme attention to detail, and only one issue of continuity remains in Soul Reaver, leaving out the fact that Vorador attacked the Sarafan with the Soul Reaver in the original Blood Omen, a plot element that seems to have been forgotten, but is a nit pick and not that important.
Kain has always been about the story, and no other series has had such critical continuity, but in playing Blood Omen 2, which lets the player reprise the role of Kain himself, it would seem that the development team (which is different from the minds behind Soul Reaver) has not played any of the previous games. There are some serious plot issues in hand that contradict the original Blood Omen, as well as work against Soul Reaver, most notably, Vorador, love him as we all do, and his dealings in this game. It seems to me that someone on the writing staff wasn't informed that Vorador was decapitated by Mobious in a public execution toward the end of the original, a fact that was reiterated in Soul Reaver 2. This issue creates a massive hole in the timeline that is frustrating me because I want to know how Vorador managed to survive having his head taken off.
The game is a lot of fun, and sadistically satisfying. A lot of games have been very tame of late, and it's been hard to find a game that's been ridiculously gory. This game has plenty of blood, and doesn't hold back at all, and for that I have to give it praise. However, despite being fun there are a few issues that plague the game. How hard would it have been to build this game on the Soul Reaver engine? The control is more similar to Tomb Raider than it's predecessors and that is a serious draw back for the intense combat situations, it makes it harder to get away. While Raziel could literally run circles around groups of enemies at a time swiping every which way at his whim, Kain is stick with the pivot, press up to move forward garbage that has plagued many of Eidos' games for ages, an archaic style that I had hoped died. There is also an unreasonable amount of slowdown where the frame rate drops significantly. This is especially annoying when taking on multiple enemies at the same time.
Over all Blood Omen 2 is a good game, but if you are a Kain Devotee, then you will likely demand an explanation for Vorador, among other holes this game puts into the over all Nosgoth timeline. This game raises more questions than it answers; in fact it fails to answer any questions at all. I still like the story, but for continuity's sake, one may need to dismiss this game the way we have to dismiss "Never Say Never Again" for the Bond franchise.

Good Game... but doesn't follow storyline

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

now unless Vorador's death is explained in defiance2 that is one big error, for all those who do not know, in Blood Omen Vorador dies at the hands of the Saraphan whilst Kain was on his quest to revive the pillars... and this game takes place sum 600 years later (400 years after blood omen was the war and 200 years after that is Kain's awakining)

The Game is fun to play, with all of the cast from the previous games coming back to voice over.

I was actually expecting to see Kain raise Raziel in this game, but i was left in the dark, alot of questions about kain's past is still left un answered...

this games is really a filler story to the actual one of Legacy of Kain, and therefore there really isnt that much of one, especally compaired to the others.

This game gets only 3 stars, because it just doesn't fit into the Kain continuum...

Not scary as the first one

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: November 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I like scary games, 3d game, adventure games, but blood 2 was not as scary as the first one.
I admit that there are better guns, movies, and graphics.
Blood 1 had more monsters, but in blood 2 more cops.
I heard that they wnat to make blood 3, and I hope that this time it will be more funner.
But I addmit it was kind of fun, but ive seen better. :-)

better story than play, but still a Great Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this game has a good storyline, puzzle solving, really great background music, an incredible sense of atmosphere, sardonic humor, and a lotta lotta lotta blood and GORE. However it can get repetative and it is GRAPHIC, particularly the eternal prison. (i get queasy when forced to drink from the s-ders). there is also no way to skip dialogues if you dont want to watch them over and over. It also wasn't as challenging as it could have been (although some levels in the middle are tough) but the blocking options can spice things up a bit. that's why this game gets a 4 overall, because it's not as challenging as it coulda been, and because the gameplay can get a little dry. but it's still a great game: the storyline saves it from being a one time play, the blocking options saves it from being too easy, and it has a pretty decent shock and disturb factor too-which is really its crowning glory as a game.

(Also, i would HIGHLY recommend you check out Soul Reaver 2 from the legacy of kain series, its totally addicting.)

A MUST HAVE!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: March 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game the first day it came out, and until now i have rarley stopped playing it. It Is the best(and longest!)in the series and I was never frustrated. The game has some puzzle, but thier tough, not frustrating. Definently worth the money!!!!!!!!

Whoa!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome!! The storyline may be a little off but that isn't a big deal. For those who like games with good graphics, gore galore, and fast paced action, this is the game for you. It is a little expensive but it's worth it.

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