


The original game, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, was developed as a partnership between the publisher, Crystal Dynamics, and the developer Silicon Knights, who boast a company history worthy of its own series of retrospective articles. Five games over the space of seven years is a pretty impressive turn-around for a series that isn’t an annual release sports game, but it’s a story that’s not without its own issues. The Legacy of Kain series spans five games which launched between November 1996 and November 2003. The Legacy of Kain History Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver The question we’re asking is: will we ever see a new Legacy of Kain game?

There’s several PlayStation games over the years that have been created in that genre, but perhaps none of them are quite as iconic as the Legacy of Kain series.īeginning life on the original PlayStation, but with a history that also includes the original Xbox, Gamecube, the SEGA Dreamcast and PC, the Legacy of Kain was a relatively short lived series that boasts both a tumultuous development story and a, for lack of a better word, legacy that’s still being felt to this day. 3D narrative focused action adventure games might have become a trend for PlayStation’s line-up of exclusives, but if we were to look back through the history of the console, you’d find that it’s not exactly a new formula for success.
