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Kain, Thy Name is Tedium

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Blood Omen 2 is an example of what happens when bad choices are made for the design of controller pad commands. This is easily one of the most frustrating games to play for me personally. For example, during combat with one of the bosses by the name of Faustus, you have to be able jump away when he does one of his special attacks. Unfortunately, you also have to remember to let go of everything else on the controller pad in order to set up for pressing the "A" button to actually jump, all this within about half a second. Needless to say, if you forget to let go of the right trigger (which provides the essential auto-focus targeting for combat), the jump won't work and you'll get a boot to the head and lose an eighth or so of life. You'll end up fighting some of the bosses dozens and dozens of times unless you're just really coordinated. I play classical guitar and am pretty accurate with some faster pieces. Even so, I have a tough time keeping track of all the controls during combat because of the need to either keep both triggers down, or letting go of all triggers to move or jump, or leaving just one trigger down for attacking with the "X" button. Thankfully, the game does at least include a brief tutorial to familiarize new users with the theoretical functioning of the various control combinations.

For the most part, the standard citizens and solidiers you'll encounter in the early levels are too easy to kill. Unlike the bosses, they have little or no ability to take more than four quick blows, so they go down quickly and you don't have to worry about getting tangled up in the controls as much. Frankly, I seldom if ever bother with blocking because toe-to-toe is generally easier. You know once they're dead that you can recover lost life by sucking their blood. The animation of the sucking is always the same, but it's neat the first couple of times it occurs. I'm sure in later levels (4th & up), the foes become tougher.

The game itself is a standard hack and slash with a nice 3D environment that is generally always dark. Even if you turn out all the lights in the room to reduce glare on the tv screen, it still puts a huge strain on the eyes after about an hour of play. If you typically don't game for more than an hour at a time, you'll probably be okay.

Overall, I think this game had alot of potential, but its annoying command design makes it incredibly tedious to play at certain points, like the battle with Faustus.

EXTREMELY BLOODY AND VIOLENT AND AWESOME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: May 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

BLOOD OMEN 2 THE LEGACY OF KAIN IS A REAL TREAT OR SHOULD I SAY BLOODY SNACK.NEVER BEFORE HAVE I SUCKED THE BLOOD FROM PEOPLE AND HACKED UP PEOPLE LIKE IN THIS GAME IT HAS A GREAT STORY LINE AND PERFECT GRAPHICS AND CAN GET ALITTLE TRICKY AT TIMES ITS ABOUT TIME XBOX HAS COME OUT WITH A ADULTS ONLY GAME YA THATS RIGHT THIS ONES NOT FOR THE KIDDIES .JUST WAIT TILL YOUR GIRLFRIEND IS SITTING NEXT TO YA EATIN A SLICE OF PIZZA AND SEES YOU SUCKING BLOOD SHE WILL FLIP OR VOMIT
OHHHH YAAAAA.

A tired idea. Over and over again.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: March 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It's ok, nothing spectacular, and it feels a bit tried. A bit old. It features no new game play that takes advantage of the added muscle of the next generation systems; it seems contrived, essentially like a Playstation (one) game that has been rejigged with better graphics. Eidos has been bereft of new ideas for a while now, and the trend continues. One example, in a tavern in the early part of the game, I quickly disposed of all of the local townspeople, but could still hear the chatter and the talk of the crowd. Hey, there's nobody around. The AI needs work, since in many cases; some of the townsfolk can see the brutal murder and blood sucking of one of their "friends", as they continue to chat among themselves as if nothing happened. Come on guys. Also, block puzzles. Block puzzles? Seems like somebody doesn't have any new ideas. Finally, I have read that the Xbox version "is the only version" that comes with real time shadows. However, as you walk around a light source, close then further away, you would expect to see your shadow loom larger or smaller depending on your position. But in the game, nothing. Seems like a case of bad execution.
The story is two-dimensional, doesn't offer a lot of suspense, and is essentially straightforward with no real twists. The voice acting, as usual in this series however, is superb.
Not a horrible game, but just more of the same. I would strongly recommend Max Payne over this if your interested in this genre. If you've played that, then I would just keep waiting for some new ideas. This is not what we were looking forward to.

best one in the series

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: August 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

im was a little mad they only made blood omen 2 from the series for xbox and not the others from the series but i have beaten the game and they give u some clips of wuts happening in the storyline kain is a very cool and powerful vampire who once wanted to rule nosgoth so he had to deafet the sarafan lord and his army so he gathered up a lot of vampires but for some reason his sword the soul reaver a very powerful sword wasnt harming the sarafan lord because the sarafan lord was wearing the nexus stone so he couldnt be harmed by it in this game in the series he has to get his strength back and kill the sarafan lord who now has the soulrever so ya you guessed it kain gets the nexus stone anway this is my rating gameplay=4 and a half star (fun to kill then suck blud frome people+) storyline=once u see the clip really awseome graphics= 50% good and u people who think its the xbox and ps2 or the gamecubes graphics on this game r better then u r very wrong all in all i would encorage this game to everyon all ages very fun and cool i luved it

Blood omen

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: February 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

very nice graphics pretty freaky and cool spells besek is my fave my only complaint is its tooo easy other than that its awsome

Great addition to the LoK series

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you liked soul reaver2 you should love this game.

Boring

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Having never played a horror game I was looking forward to this one. Unfortunatley, I was disappointed. The gameplay soon became very boring as the only type of action is to run around drinking the blood of unsuspecting townfolk. Interspersed along the way is the occassional bad guy, treasure chest (I have no clue as to what benefit it gives) and the requirement of having to find a switch at different points in order to open gates. I found the controls to be slow and clumsy and the graphics are so-so. I guess I just expected more from an x-box game.

Just a Straight Port from PS2

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I expected at least slightly better graphics, or maybe a little bonus of some other kind, but I got none. I bought my X-Box because of it's superior graphics, unfortunately some developers just are not taking advantage to the X-Box's superior graphics.

Best Game for xbox and i played hunter,spiderman, halo..

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Wow, the story and gameplay are by far the best to anything out there. Great Game, a must have!

Blood Omen 2 a must buy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I got this game and started playing and loved it. You get new abilities as you progress and puzzles that arent that hard. The battling is cool but gets hard, but later when you get use to fighting the hard enemies its fairly simple. This also has stealth like abilities like in tenchu but you can still battle like any other game. If you didnt like soul reaver or blood omen 1 this is different and should still be given a shot.

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