Silicon Knights designed Blood Omen as "a game which adults would want to play", intending to evolve the action role-playing genre and bring artistic cinema to video game consoles. Reviewers praised its scope and storytelling, but criticized its lengthy loading times. After its release, a dispute arose concerning ownership of its intellectual property rights, after which Crystal Dynamics retained permission to continue the series with their 1999 sequel, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver.
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| - Silicon Knights designed Blood Omen as "a game which adults would want to play", intending to evolve the action role-playing genre and bring artistic cinema to video game consoles. Reviewers praised its scope and storytelling, but criticized its lengthy loading times. After its release, a dispute arose concerning ownership of its intellectual property rights, after which Crystal Dynamics retained permission to continue the series with their 1999 sequel, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver.
- Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, re-titled Kain the Vampire(ケイン・ザ・ヴァンパイアKein za Vanpaia) in Japan, is an action role-playing game developed by Silicon Knights and published by Crystal Dynamics, with distribution involvement from Activision and BMG Interactive. It was released for the PlayStation in 1996, and a Microsoft Windows port was developed by Semi Logic Entertainments and released by Activision in 1997. The game is the first title in the Legacy of Kain series.
- Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain is a top-down action-adventure video game with role-playing game elements. It is the first game in the Legacy of Kain series, and the only one developed by Silicon Knights and published by Crystal Dynamics. The game was first released in 1996 for the PlayStation, and later ported to Microsoft Windows. A Sega Saturn version was announced during production but later cancelled before release. It was followed by four sequels, which were all developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Eidos Interactive.
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| - Mark Wallace
- Jeff Zwelling
- Joshua Marks
- Lyle Hall
- Rick Goertz
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- (1996)
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| - "An Eternity of Midnights..."
- ''"Revenge.
- You can almost taste it."''
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| - Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain
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| - CD-ROM
- • Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain: Official Game Secrets
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| - Microsoft Windows
- PlayStation
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- PlayStation Network
- • March, 1997
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- PlayStation
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| - Darren Cranford
- Ken McCulloch
- Kevin Gordon
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