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Awful!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 20
Date: July 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is no good! Do noy buy! Horrible audio/video. Great story, but the gameplay is awful! Load times are so ... slow! Buy Soul Reaver instead.

Poor Grahics

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: June 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Looked better than it was Poor Graphs Looked like a old nintendo

Fun but the puzzles are a little obscure...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: November 10, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I am enjoying this game but it is primitive compared to "Soul Reaver: Legacy of Kain" which I played first. "Soul Reaver" is the sequel to this game and its graphics and scenery are SO far advanced compared to this that it is unbelievable!

I like the freedom this game gives you to explore the world of Nosgoth but I am frustrated occasionally by how obscure some of the solutions are to the puzzles- ther eare still doors I can't open because I haven't figured out the trick.

The shapechanging and spell abilities are cool though!

"The Beginning of the Next Big Series"

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: April 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is the first of several games in a budding new series. Here is a list of the series so far:

Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain (1997) for the PSX/PC

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (1999) for the PSX/DC/PC

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 (2001) for the PS2/DC/PC

Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2 (2002) for the PS2/DC/PC

As you may have guessed from the list above, the series will split in to two later this year. "Soul Reaver" will follow Raziel. And "Blood Omen" will follow Kain. The makers of the popular series (Soul Reaver went GOLD, aka selling millions) plan to make more games so long as the fans keep buying them!

The series itself is very promising when compared to others that have done well even though they had for example, crappy voice acting. The Legacy of Kain series has superb acting, play them and you'll know what I'm talking about. I still believe to this day that Soul Reaver has the best opening sequence in a game EVER! It is truly jaw-dropping. The music, the game play, the graphics, the voice overs, just everything about this series is incredible. Blood Omen may be a little primitive when it comes to graphics, but it is still a great game. The 2 New games coming out look amazing!! I've seen pics throughout the net and it really has me excited.

It has been mentioned by other reviewers that Blood Omen is very hard to find, and they are right! However, I managed to find a BRAND NEW UNOPENED COPY of Blood Omen on Ebay just the other day! In fact, there were at least 10 unopened copies up for bid! Hurry over, as this is truly a great opportunity.

If you're a fan of vampires and darkness, these games are for you! There's just no words to describe them.

The Greatest Vampire

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 18, 1999
Author: Amazon User

One the best and finest quiet classics available for the PlayStation. The story, FMV, story, and voices were the greatest features, as well as shape-morphing. If there is anything that I can say about this huge and impressive blood-sucking adventure, it is this: Kain is the most powerful, realistic and exciting vampire ever; the ultimate vampire since Dracula.

The series that never was...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Legacy of Kain Blood Omen is a testament to world building, mature, dark story telling, visceral art, and good fashioned great gaming. Silicon Knight's debut even almost ten years afterwards still never ceases to amaze. Despite the long load times, and the dated graphics the core of the game remains strong and steadfast. The world you inhabit as Kain is huge in scope and probably could never be replicated for this very reason in this day and age of modern gaming, the visual style is both consistent with medieval time and history while posessing its own unique flare. There are literally as the back cover of the case boasts over 100 hundred types of enemies everythign from a common harlot with a knife to ghoulish demons.
The combat does not aspire to 'having the teh most powerful weaponz' but is varied allowing the player to mix it up with each approach having its own drawbacks and strengths.
The sound/FX are top notch with some of the best voice acting PERIOD.
Not only is the world huge but also multilayered with tons of new extra levels opening up as you more areas become available to you. The developers were not afraid to use the whole of the environment to weave a rich, dark, LIVING, story.

Though, alas LOK was never to again reach the same heights as it did here with Blood Omen. Soul Reaver while an admirable follow up was frustratingly incomplete, and the potential it was brimming with was never to be realized in the subsequent sequals.
Blood Omen is true vintage gaming and exemplary of what can be done with technology regardless of its restrictions and levels and Soul Reaver is a maddeningly brief taste of that translated to the modern gaming scene.
In a word:
Play Blood Omen and Soul Reaver, and pretend the rest of the games don't exist.=p

awsome

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I really enjoy rpg games and this game is one of lthe older best!

pretty decent action

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I can't believe more people aren't familiar with this Zelda-style game. I love Zelda: Link to the Past, and it turns out Blood Omen is almost as awesome as that game. The fact that the orchestra music is really nice, and the graphics are all dark and gothic, gives the game a perfect touch of adventure and fear. I love it.

Classica hack and slash

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Blood Omen is the game that started the all. The Legacy of Kain series has now spawned four following games, the last one 'Defiance' on the Xbox.
Blood Omen is a classic overhead view hack n' slash with some excellent, and for the time, innovative features such as morphing into bat and wolf form which allows the player to access different areas of Nosgoth.
The storyline is deep and racked with intrigued and deceit.
What really shines in this game is the voice acting. Seldom have I witnessed a game where the voice actors do such a phenomenal job.
For younger players which are used now to the glitz of HD games and incredible physics this game might be a bit dated.
For those of us that started gaming in the late 80's and early 90's this will be greatly appreciated.

Epic and Involving

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: December 08, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Although graphically ancient compared to the games nowadays, when this game came out 3 years ago...WOW. It has the feel of the old style 2-Dimensional arcade games. Besides running around and hacking things up..which is cool and all...you get to do a variety of exploring. New abilities granted to you in the game (Changing into a bat or mist) allow for hours of exploration to previously unattainable areas. The storyline is compelling and the gameplay is fun for anyone. There are a variety of weapons, spells and powerups that contribute to the lasting effect of the game. The computer generated movies are still well done even today...although parents may want to be cautioned at some of the violence depicted in them. For any lover of the vampire genre..this game is an epic!

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