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Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain Activision (Silicon Knights;Crystal Dynamics)1996[b]Minimum:[/b]
* Windows 95
* 100 MHz Pentium CPU
* 16 MB RAM
* 1 MB VRAM
* 12 MB HD space
* 4X CD-ROM drive***[spoiler=Weapon plot:;Close][gametag=weaponplot]Weapon plot[/gametag] - the Reaver sword is central to the overall story of Legacy of Kain series.
[/spoiler]highborn protagonist - Kain was a nobleman in life.
[Sanguine]***Overhead action-RPG where you play as the vampire Kain in the sinister world of Nosgoth. You can kill and feast on any human you encounter.

Kain was a nobleman who was murdered during his travels. He sought vengeance and the necromancer Mortanius offered him a chance to do so by reviving him as a vampire. Kain then quickly enacts his revenge, but finds out that there is a greater plot to be uncovered. The story is probably the darkest to ever grace a console video game. Violent, yet mature and serious.

The storyline is too deep and complex for a simple summary so for more details, visit the link below and go to the Blood Omen section, or better yet, play the game.

Kain can use various weapons, spells and items, can morph in the classic vampire states (bat, wolf, mist), feast on humans or even some monsters and explore various environments.

The game features excellent voice acting and several cinematics. The bugs found on the PlayStation version were corrected for the PC version, and there is even a little extra dialogue (though not much).
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Excalibur 2555 AD Sir-Tech (Telstar)1997 labelimageminimize
xuānyuán jiàn cān:yún yǔ shān de bǐ duān  Softstar Entertainment1999Requires Pentium or better CPU, Win95+, 32MB, 4X CD-ROM, Keyboard and/or Mouse. 1 Player
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Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver Eidos Interactive;Square Enix (Crystal Dynamics)1999Latest version: 1.2 (as of 1999-11-04?)

There's also an unofficial XP compatibility patch.***[b]Minimum:[/b]
* Windows 95 or 98
* Pentium 200 MHz CPU (with 3D accelerator)
* Pentium 266 MHz MMX CPU (without 3D accelerator)
* 16 MB RAM
* 4 MB VRAM
* 320 MB free HD space
* DX-compatible soundcard
* 4X CD-ROM drive
* keyboard
* mouse

[b]Recommended:[/b]
* Pentium 266 MHz CPU
* 3D accelerator
* 32 MB RAM
* 8X CD-ROM drive
* gamepad or joystick

AMD's 3DNow! is advertized on the back cover, so obviously this game can benefit from it.***You're Raziel, one of Kain's Vampire Generals.. or rather, you were. Kain betrayed you, when you showed him that you had evolved beyond him. So he granted you death, by ripping out your new wings and throwing you down in to the Abyss. Dead, at least that's what you thought, you re-awaken in the Underworld, right under the nose the Elder. Confused, weak, and no longer a vampire, you set out to settle some matters with your former master, Kain.

More in-depth description:
[spoiler]... Although you were no longer a vampire, you still suffered some of their natural weaknesses, such that of water burning you like acid or sun scorching your skin like fire. However, you rid most of these weaknesses from yourself over time as you devour the souls of your slain enemies. You're young in your new form, though, and can't hold your physical form forever in the material realm, constantly draining your strength, the longer you stay there unsated. So at any time you're weakened too much, you're transported back into the spirit realm where you can sate your hunger with the lost souls. Your ability to transport yourself back and forth between material and spiritual realms is fundamental to your success, and adds an interesting depth to some puzzles and fights. However, you're practically immortal, even if you were to die, as if you could, you're transported back to the underworld, below throbbing tendrils and the everwatchful gaze of the Elder.[/spoiler]
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Wizards & Warriors  Activision (Heuristic Park)2000Latest version: 1.0b (as of 2000-??)***EAN-13: [code]5017783556421[/code] (Xplosiv budget re-release)***[b]Minimum:[/b]
* Windows 95 or 08
* 233 MHz Pentium II CPU
* 64 MB RAM
* 800 MB free HD space
* 4X CD-ROM drive

[b]Recommended:[/b]
* 3D accelerator
* 16 MB VRAM
* 1.5 GB HD space***The turn-based combat can be disabled, IIRC, and it helps a bit. Somewhat frustrating until you get used to how the game works through.***From official site:

"In an enchanted medieval realm known as the Gael Serran, an evil Pharaoh has overcome a curse and returned to a world unable to defend itself against him. Only the legendary Mavin Sword--a blade forged of twin metals, one cursed by evil, the other blessed by the divine--has the strength to bring his defeat. With the assistance of Kerah, an angel, and Erathsmedor, a dragon, you must engage on a dangerous quest to uncover the legend of the Sword and bring an end to all evil in the land."
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Daikatana  Eidos (Ion Storm)2000[b]Minimum:[/b]
* Windows 95, 98, NT4, or 2000
* 233 MHz Pentium CPU
* 32 MB RAM
* 4 MB VRAM
* 200 MB HD space
* "A brain capable of comprehending complex sidekick commands and composites and alloys"

[b]Recommended:[/b]
* 300 MHz Pentium II
* 64 MB RAM
* 16 MB VRAM
* 450 MB HD space
* "Complete mastery over FPS games"

[b]Maximum:[/b] (no benefits on better hardware than this?)
* 500 MHz Pentium III CPU
* 128 MB RAM
* 32 MB VRAM
* 850 MB HD space***The japanese words used for the game's title graphics (大刀) actually read [code]daitō[/code], not [i]daikatana[/i]. The meaning is the same, however: large/great (dai) sword (tō, katana).***Latest version: 1.2 (as of 2000-09-??)
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Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 Eidos Interactive;Square Enix (Crystal Dynamics)2001[b]Minimum requirements:[/b]
* Windows 98 or ME
* Pentium III 450 MHz or equivalent
* 128 MB RAM
* DX 8.0 compatible graphics card with 16 MB VRAM
* 850 MB free HD space

[b]Recommended:[/b]
* Pentium III 700 MHz or equivalent
* DX 8.0 compatible graphics card with 32 MB VRAM***Soul Reaver 2 continues right from where [game=#162000]Soul Reaver[/game] left off. You're on the hunt for Kain, the one who betrayed you and threw you into the Abyss where your vampiric self was transformed into the Soul Reaver that you are now. There's a lot of time travel involved in this one, and is a bit more complex in the plot than the prequel, but at least you get to know the world better, and your own history, before you became a vampire and some odd prophetic stuff about your destiny. The ending was surprising, to say the least, and set ground for [game=#110390]Defiance[/game] quite nicely. The new Elemental Forge enhancements to your Soul Reaver sword was a bit annoying, but you still had most of your old abilities (minus the least useful one), and the Elemental Forges themselves were interesting and visually impressive puzzles (like rest of the game, though I only remember the wind forge right out of the top).
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Blood Omen 2  Eidos Interactive (Crystal Dynamics)2002A bit different foray in the game series compared to the others. Blood Omen 2 is tells a small part of Kain's history and storywise is set quite far apart from the rest of the series. This was the most disappointing part of the series, even though the game itself was enjoyable enough, it diverged too much from the main plot of the series.

You play the role of Kain, recently recuperated from wounds done to you two hundred years ago by a Sarafan Lord, though you remember little of it. So you set out, weak as you are, to get back into conquering the world. But the aim here is only to get your sword - the Soul Reaver - back and get your sweet revenge on the Sarafan Lord on the way. This all happens roughly four hundred years after the events of [game=#11237]Blood Omen[/game], and unspecified number of years before the events of [game=#162000]Soul Reaver[/game].

[spoiler]According to Wikipedia, the events of Blood Omen 2 took place _because_ of the events in Soul Reaver 2. The time-twisting and paradoxal time-altering done there was apparently the cause of this.[/spoiler]
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Legacy of Kain: Defiance Eidos;Square Enix (Crystal Dynamics)2003[b]missing images:[/b] gameplay screens for both Kain and Raziel***Although the game supports all resolutions your display reports as valid, using widescreen resolution will be rather unpleasant since the game understands only 4:3 aspect ratio, so at widescreen resolutions the display appears stretched. Although, the characters are quite spindly, so this may not be as bad as it sounds, the GUI however will appear much larger than it should.***Unleash your inner evil

For the first time ever play as vampire Kain and his archrival, the soul-devouring Raziel. Use their evil, destructive powers to attack and destroy your enemies in the dark odyssey. from which only one of these anti heroes can survive.

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- Experience both characters' fearsome battle skills and quests for vengeance in alternate chapters.
- Feed your dark hunger by sucking the blood and devouring the souls of your enemies to survive.
- Advanced AI and amazing combo moves provide intense and enforced combat.
- Increase the power of your weapon with new enhancements like fire, lightning, ice and more.
- Use new telekinetic abilities to pierce enemies on spikes, hurl them off bridges and burn them in fires.
- As Raziel, enter the shadowy realm of the Underworld in the Spectral Plane.
[Box blurb]***Minimum:
* Windows 98SE, 2000 or XP
* Pentium III 700 MHz or equivalent
* 128 MB RAM
* 32 MB VRAM
* 2 GB free HD space

Recommended:
* Pentium IV 1.3 GHz
* 256 MB RAM
* 64 MB VRAM
* 10 button dual-analog controller
[Sanguine]
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Shadow Warrior  Devolver Digital (Flying Wild Hog)2013 labelimageminimize
Transistor Supergiant Games2014[media=youtube]GTik6sYT_BE[/media] labelimageminimize
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