Kain wakes up after his defeat by the Serafan Lord 200 years ago, he has been nursed back ti (Un)life by the Cabal, a vampiric cabal in Meredian in the world of Nosgoth, whom wants to use Kain to gain control of Nosgoth and defeat the Serafan Lord. To this extent Kain must regain his strenght and some new abilities by defeating former friends now turned traitor in a Highlander'ish way of their can be only one style of taking/gaining the abilities of the defeated foe and along the way acquiring the Soul Reaver, a magic sword at the center of the series.
The story is good and the world of Nosgoth is excitingly Dark Age meets Steam-Punk, all in all a cool if somewhat dark setting. Apparently there are some time-line problems with this addition to the series seen over the whole series (funny enough the same holds true for Highlander), but since I have only played the first and this I can't comment on this.
The graphics are all nicely done, there are however a small glitz with the dead people whom can 'fall' through a wall instead of resting against it, but this dosn't take anything away from the game-play. The sounds are also well executed and the lips movement looks in line with the spoken word. The controls is a bit lacking, it's impossible to jump when in attack mode, so you'll have to release the attack key and then press the jump key to escape some of the unblock-able attacks which is very annoying later on in the game, otherwise the controls just have to be aligned with your preferences which can be a bit hard but should be obtainable. As the story is good the game should have a good last-ability for most people bar the ones that don't find the setting to their taste.
I give this a 7 out of 10. It's close to an 8 but fails due to the jump thing mentioned.
The story is good and the world of Nosgoth is excitingly Dark Age meets Steam-Punk, all in all a cool if somewhat dark setting. Apparently there are some time-line problems with this addition to the series seen over the whole series (funny enough the same holds true for Highlander), but since I have only played the first and this I can't comment on this.
The graphics are all nicely done, there are however a small glitz with the dead people whom can 'fall' through a wall instead of resting against it, but this dosn't take anything away from the game-play. The sounds are also well executed and the lips movement looks in line with the spoken word. The controls is a bit lacking, it's impossible to jump when in attack mode, so you'll have to release the attack key and then press the jump key to escape some of the unblock-able attacks which is very annoying later on in the game, otherwise the controls just have to be aligned with your preferences which can be a bit hard but should be obtainable. As the story is good the game should have a good last-ability for most people bar the ones that don't find the setting to their taste.
I give this a 7 out of 10. It's close to an 8 but fails due to the jump thing mentioned.