Blood Omen 2 Genre Action -> Action Today's Rank 0 Date N/A
Publisher Eidos Date 2002-03-28 Publisher Eidos North America
Retail Box ArtIt's probably for the best that Peter Cushing has
already popped his clogs, because he really wouldn't like Blood
Omen 2. Not only do you play the bad guy, but the vampires in
the Legacy of Kain series are more likely to talk you to death
than get around to chewing on your jugular. Blood Omen 2 is a
sequel to the okay-ish original, whose greatest claim to
worthiness is that it spawned two much higher quality spin-offs,
in the form of Soul Reavers One and Two. The original Blood Omen
was a top-down, 2-D, vaguely Zelda-esque action RPG that sold
pretty much on the fact that you were the baddie and could run
around drinking innocent people's vital fluids. This new game
has the same concept but because everything's now in 3-D it
comes across as nothing more than a poor man's Soul Reaver 2.
Despite the fact that there's just as much combat in this game
as Soul Reaver you're saddle