"Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2" HD Intro (1080p)
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- Intro from the 2001 PC video game "Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2."
"Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2" is currently being sold online for $5.99 (USD) as a DRM free download at "Good Old Games" (gog.com). This and all their games are XP, Vista, and Windows 7 compatible.
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www.gog.com/en/gamecard/legacy... - Hry
As long as a single one of us keeps watching LoK cinematics, we are legion!
true
Ryan Decker
Yup
Always.
still watching :D
mah nigga!
i think this saga has some of the best voice acting in videogame history. Hell i even think this was one of the first series who had that level of great and serius voice acting and dialogue
Yeah. I want this game remastered for console.
It has THE BEST voice acting in video game history in my opinion and holds it's own in terms of voice acting in general outclassing hollywood voice acting.
I completely agree
Youll be hard pressed to find a series with such great and consistently high standards in voice acting.
This was one of my greatest loves in gaming and one of my first examples in showing others that gaming was a home for such great story telling that film and tv just couldnt accomplish at the time.
I really wish square enix would revive this series like they have with tomb raider and hitman.
I think the time is ripe to have a great dark fantasy series come forth and really grip a new generation of gamers
Best monologues too. Dialogue wise, I enjoyed Raziels conversations with Vorador and Jarnos
This is truly top performance, but MGS 1998 has equal or even better voice acting.
As long as a single one of us are still into classics like this, we are LEGION!
We are legión
As someone who is only know playing the games, and just reached SR 2.. we are LEGION!
"Who better to serve me than those whose passion transcends all notions of good and evil"
~ Kain
+France Hopper "Free will is an illusion."
"As long as a single one of us stands we are legion."
this game is pure poetry
Eternity is relentless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Daniel Pérez You nearly had me Raziel.....
17 years later, and this still looks and sounds amazing.
Now it's been 22 years since SR2 released & still an amazing game.
Neat little detail in the opening cinematic, there's a faint light or rather an aura tracing around Raziel's figure. This shows he is currently at full strength and able to call on the Soul Reaver. When he suffers any blows from Kain, the light fades momentarily then is regained just before he arrives at the time portal.
oh my god ur right!!
"I find no nobility in the unlife you rudely forced on my unwilling corpse" - Raziel
What a sentence!
god the dialogue is so rich and the story so intricate. true it's gameplay wasn't the most notable but damn if there was ever a game that felt more like an incredibly layered novel then this would be it. we need a legacy of kain for this generation
+Vosk21 Gameplay was perfect tbh. :o
+Pöwner Iq movie material
+Vosk21 well said
+Pöwner Iq well not, i think that in gameplay, SR 2 was a step back compare to the first Soul Reaver (who was a nearly perfect balance between action, free exploration and puzzles) This has alot of puzzles, some problems on combat system and almost nothing of bosses. I love the history as the first one tho, but if you ask me, i stay with the first SR
***** i played soul reaver and well it would be a great movie story line is awsome
This game had the coolest spell effect sounds. Everything sonically was gold the VO, the music....... forever in my ♥
Why does no one EVER mention Michael Bell's stunning acting as Raziel??? His voice is so soothing and so elegant. Man, truly it sounds so majestic and awesome with his lines and personality. Brilliant just BRILLIANT character!
I had to throw that in there because I always see praise for Simon and Kain and yes he's awesome but Raziel is equally just as awesome. In fact, the rivalry between these two is truly some of the finest encounters I have seen in gaming.
Michael Bell is one of my favorite voice actors because of his portrayal of Raziel.
Michael did an amazing job. What troubles me is how his voice sounds like that. When I heard Raziel I legit thought he sounded like an 18 year old. Then when I saw the voice actors in the arcane tomes I was stunned
Bro Raziel is the shit! Also, I believe he played Tommy Pickles in Rugrats...and I recall an episode where Tony Jay (Elder God) played Santa lol
He's fucking incredible
Michael and Simon are God tier voice actors
fucking Shakespearean dialogue! XD this is why LoK is amazing
VYxFrost Yeah. It's hard to not indulge in this insane level of literal quality. The music and the game design are also god tier.
This game was released in 2001. These FMV sequence graphics are fucking AMAZING for their time.
Would easily watch series of LoK made exactly like that cutscene....
OMG!!! What an incredible idea! Heck, keep your fingers crossed as it may one day happen just like with Castlevania. In fact, it may be better as a series than a videogame.. Sometimes a world and story are so well done it is too good for videogames.
IronRooRoo not only for that time, still today at least for me it is an incredible achievement.
God I wanna play SR2 again. Me and sis used to act out this very scene because we knew all the dialogue by heart since we watched it a million times
that's so wholesome!
This game was beautiful, the cut scenes, the music, the voice acting were all perfect.
"That crystal was significant, but how? I had not yet discovered."
For some reason this line is branded in my memory.
Probably because it's the exact moment when you get to control Raziel and begin playing.
Same.
I was just thinking to myself, "What happened to story writing, and voice acting like THIS?" Games these days are good, but this series was truly great...
Currently the only series that I rank close on Story telling to Legacy Of kain would be a Japanese series called The Legend of Hero's, it has awesome lore and a awesome story and interesting villains, the main character are somewhat standard but are good, the only thing that no game could ever top is the dialogue, LOK has god like voice acting
The voice acting and the facial movements were amazing for a 2001's game. Playable even today.
Yes!
It's been almost 20 years and i'm still amazed by this script, vice acting and dialogues. They're THAT good.
Simon Templeman is the coolest voice actor for antiheroes. He's perfect as Kain or Loghain from Dragon Age.
Imagine if Kain was in Dragon Age XD
+Ethan Stansmore He would actually be more powerful than any demon or being there plus the only way to kill him is with the Soul Reaver so even if they say took out his heart he would just revive
first thing that came to my mind when I first hear Loghain xD I couldn't stop smiling
MDKGunner because he's destined to become the Guardian of pillar of balance and the scion of balance cause of raziel's doing.
Uncle Joe plus he's the only one that can properly voice Dr.Doom
I remember after finishing the original Soul Reaver how badly I wanted this game to come out (that cliffhanger at the end). Then it did, and I was NOT disappointed. Then I eagerly awaited the next. Defiance was truly an epic in it's own right. Yet . . . that's where it "ended". Watching this now, I'm immediately immersed in the quality of story. Something so few games actually possess today, and I miss this series. I miss it so much. But, perhaps I should be glad they don't pick it up again. I would hate to see it ruined by morons looking to make a quick buck. Thanks for uploading this treasure, mate, and cheers to a golden franchise.
The only thing this series needed to overcome was it’s gameplay, if they fixed that, it would be the masterpiece it deserves to be.
The first 2 games had spectacular gamepay and control for their time. Especially the first game on PS1...it was the Zelda of gothic adventure.
Is it weird that some facial expressions in this game look more authentic that some of the newer games, the shifts in expression on Raziel, Kain and Mobius are very well done.
I know right!
My God I loved these games. I played right through the series from the first two games on the PS1 and the other three on the PS2. The storyline and the dialogue were so incredible.
Best vampire story
+Franco Bordon Better as twilight? kappa
Better than Interview with the Vampire???
Mobius may not be a physically intimidating villain but those final words and tilt of his head before he warps off are no less chilling. He was such a well written and acted antagonist, even if he was ultimately a lacky of greater entities.
He was really underwhelming in Blood Omen. It made him seem rather weak and honestly just insane. Soul reaver definitely turned that around and made him a lot more the schemer he claimed to be. Pulling strings for his god to unfold the events destiny demanded.
@@TerreosI wouldn't say he's any less a schemer in BO, he manipulated Kain into blundering so hard he doomed his own race.
@@Terreos I think Raziel alludes to Mobius's "masks", in a matter of speaking, back in Soul Reaver 1. Something about one side of Mobius being a fortune-teller of sorts to most people, and the other being the Time Streamer and master manipulator of many.
*EDIT:* Here it is, in its entirety, spoken by Raziel:
"The Oracle's Cave, where Kain's first fateful meeting with Moebius occurred.
*Moebius played the role of a doddering soothsayer, stirring his pot of visions while dispensing enigmatic predictions to gullible visitors. Underneath the facade was Moebius the Time Streamer, sorcerer of the Circle of Nine - a ruthless manipulator with the power to bend time.*
Since his murder at Kain's hands centuries ago, these caves have stood vacant... though, like Moebius himself, they are rumored to be only a facade for a much larger, more elaborate complex..."
@@rueceless7580 Me too, and also the fact Moebius went back in time to ensure William the Just would become the Nemesis, before he would use Kain to kill William BEFORE he became the Nemesis, and igniting Moebius's genocidal war against vampires, even more so than what he did with the Sarafan centuries before, or his working to have Mortanius help him overthrow Janos and the ancient vampires due to the Elder God's tricks.
there back and forth has always made me smile.
Can we all just appreciate how ahead of it's time these games were? The facial animations, the voice acting, and the story. Fuck and the music!
My very first PS2 game!
Mine was Dark Cloud.
The way Kain gets in Raziel's face when he says "even closer"...
I was hoping they kissed
@@nicolasriveros943 i was disappointed they didnt
Eternity is relentless Raziel
- Kain
So are the fans. :)
the lip syncing and animation in this fucking game NOT the cgi cutscenes but in game, is fucking incredible. Just had to come back and say that after seeing andromeda's absolutely atrocious, horrendous poor excuse for facial animation and animation in general.
I agree. It's amazing (and kind of sad) that the lip syncing in this game is still better than so many games today.
Look at his wardrobe! KAIN'S WEARING URKEL PANTS!!!
@@JMObyx If Urkel ripped the button and zip out
@@irishdc9523 "At last, i must say I'm disappointed with your progress, i imagined someone'd point that out sooner..."
Best game ever, I miss this time when game took months to finish, I felt so complete in that time..
I got stuck and came back to it several months later...even had a friend play w me...this game ain't ez
@@Ridley_Lockhart yay i got a reply 9 years after I posted lmao
@@gabrieldosanjos9293 hey man, it happens 👊✌️ btw i double teamed this game with a friend, we took turns. Son of a bitch i had to come back to it later. And yes, one of the best games. 🤘I finished Blood Omen 2, Soul Reaver 2 and Defiance. Not BO1 or SR1, although i owned those as well.
@@Ridley_Lockhart You were destined to visit this sanctum again. Just like us, one by one, returning, pondering the past and the future of this franchise.
1:50
and.. *kiss!*
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i'll go throw myself into the abyss now.
Someone should catch Amy Hennig and make her work on the last Legacy of Kain game.
that sarafan theme just suits so well in those conversations as well in non combat moments, composed and used so well for scenes, love it.
Raziel is such a badass
Fucking right he is. Michael Bell's delivery is just flawless.
And thus starts the greatest story in Video Games...
@Vox Populi Vae Victis bro.
@Vox Populi It really does suck that it was never completed. But I still found the ending in Defiance pretty good, it did keep with the themes of the series.
Even though with Dark Prophecy there obviously was a lot more they wanted to do. What can you say... At least I am still hoping for an eventual remaster of this series.
I've played thousands of games in my lifetime. No other voice actors even come close to the performance of Kain and Raziel voice actors!
Dont forget the elder god
Seriously how has this game series never got a remaster or reboot but some how Tomb Raider gets tons.
Becuase Lara Croft is popular. The mainstream only knows Tomb Raider. Ask any modern ding dong about LOK and they won't know what the heck you are talking about.
@Vox Populi the creator of blood omen has a new kind of game coming out and one of the voices in it sounds insanely close to him.
They should remake the games with the opening graphics
can you imagine any LOK with the intro graphics. Oh god it would be amazing
and make the whole game into one!! starting from Blood Omen to Defiance .....
Want! And not the shit controls like Defiance. Each character should get their own play style. Give Raziel his speed back again, and Kain the brute monster we all love him to be.
Defiance had awesome controls.
Also, KAin was never a brute. He used magic with pretty basic swordsmanship.
I still love this whole story and wish Crystal Dynamics would give us a proper ending or continue from defiance with even more stories.
kain becomes an angel heals world stabs elder god in the face with some new pillars, everybody lived happily ever after, the end
Is CD still alive?? i thought that company died o.o
Yes they made the new Tomb Raider game
The dialogue, the setting, the story. This is true nerd stuff. I say that in a good way. Nowadays nothing compares, everything is made with simple easy to understand words and plots so even your everyday jock or bimbo can play and enjoy and then they talk like their nerds. Bah humbag i say.
The best feud in gaming history
Well said! I'd even argue it surpasses the Cloud/Sephiroth rivalry from FFVII.
is it asking too much to see a current gen reaver....and a current gen raziel in all his rotting goodness?
ISetYourFaceOnFire well technically Raz is dead.At least corporeally.His soul is bound to Kain's weapon,who stands now alone in the story against the Elder God.Ressurecting his body would be too much fanservice,dont you think? Although,come to think of it, if he was resurrected he would most likely be made of non-blue flesh ,like before his 'execution'.
Plus,a game was about to come as a continuation of LoK,but i personally found what little i saw, to be inconsistent to the cliffhanger ending and unworthy as a Lok sequel.
Will Gravis I think he meant that he wanted a remake.
+ISetYourFaceOnFire well after seen the garbage reboot (luckily cancelled) that Square Enix pretend to launch (Dead Sun) i really have afraid that a remake is in the wrong hands. But who knows? Now that we have a new FF VII maybe someday Crystal Dinamics revive this game as they did with Tomb Raider
Yes, because some of the writers and voice actors have passed away meaning a remake is quite impossible.
Mint Mag They could just use the same audio from the earlier games just like how Hollywood sometimes used old audio of dead actor's m
Take a moment this was during in 2000s, where storyline and plot is part of golded era of gaming.
You nearly had me, Raziel
And then Square-Enix happened.
Yep. I hate those cunts.
More like "then Amy Hennig left the team"...
@@alexdhamp I mean, she did go off to give us Nathan Drake afterwards so i forgive her.... to an extent.
What really happened was Blood Omen 2.
@@Merc7734 Did she create Nathan Drake or did Sony just bring her in to write his character?
Need to dust off the PS2 and play through this entire series again!
Paul Murray i'ma buy a ps2 just to finish this never did
Paul Murray I only own Soul Reaver 1 and 2
From all the legacy of kain and soul reaver the sounds are the best
Kain is the Big Boss of this franchise and consequently Legacy of Kain is the Metal Gear Solid of Fantasy.
Mega-Buster Shepard you cant compare LOK with crappy inconsistent writing like Metal Gear, its an insult to be honest
Rüshiera Kiss me.
Ongan-San where
lips
Ongan-San *lips kiss*
When videogames used to be Videogames and not graphic-war simulators.
LOK, one of the best sagas ever.
That acting tho!
If you never played Blood Omen, you're like "Hmm, old wizard, I can dig it" if you HAVE played Blood Omen it's more "Oh no, not HIM!"
Hail to all my LOK Brethren!
Raziel would really fit in our present pandemic situation. His facemask in on.
"Raziel. Redeemer and destroyer. Pawn and messiah. Welcome, time span soul. Welcome, to your destiny..."
wish they would revive the blood omen saga best damn game ever
"You may have uncovered your past but you know nothing of it."
Just brilliant
Really wish the franchise was still going on.
This series will forever have a special place in my heart.....so fucking good
This type of CG was a marvel for game cutscene back then, but the PS4 graphics surpass it. I hope Sqaure Enix reboot the series, they could make it look exactly like these cutscenes now that there is tech to run this quality in real time.
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***** Because they can't carry on from the last game after a whole like 10 years. Plus it would be better for new players, plus WHY THE HELL NOT? lol
***** They need sales, they wouldn't get much sales from a sequel. A reboot could garner more.
So much nerd jizz
Ikr bb
I love Kain's voice
smash or pass
@@dygte man.. 😔😳
(mén)
One of the Most beautiful scenes :
...Kain says "keep his enemy's even closer......."
**hurls Raziel as far as he could across the room**
Me : *starts bawling *
December 2021... Let's keep this great game series alive.
Kain told Raziel not to comprehend what he did because like you, he did not know what Kain was thinking at the time. The fact of the matter is due to recent events, Kain came to the conclusion that humans were not worthy to serve as guardians. He ultimately wanted to return the pillars to their rightful vampire creators but if he sacrificed himself (the last remaining vampire) then that would be impossible and it would only be a matter of time before the pillars are corrupted again.
There is a Soul Reaver remaster petition. Go on google and type "Soul Reaver remaster petition" every signature is a step in the right direction
Theres little hope for that. The game deserves it pretty hard but you wont get enough ppl behind it. The game is/was too special for most ppl.
not many people knew about this :(
Despite not usually being a fan of global politics, I think that several video games introduced me to them, albeit by proxy.
This particular game series, as well as Mega Man X4, were instrumental in doing so.
I miss this kind of animation. All that mocap to makes things look real takes away from the fantasy that keyframed can bring.
When games used to be good...
Good? You cannot be serious
to be honest, I love the story of the Legacy of Kain series, but except for the soul reaver series, the games are average and boring to me.
SUPERMiKEZ11 Yes very series. The Legacy of Kain games easily rank in my top 10, and that's all 5 of them.
***** what about it?
*****
Depends were you look, and what you will find as well. There are many good indie and kick-starter games, which a bunch of bad ones as well. And, the Triple A gaming industry is mostly dead to me, with a few games that catch my intention once in awhile.
someone pass the popcorn
After all these years, I just noticed. Kain is looking a lot less human at the beginning of Soul Reaver 1. Raziel remarks that he gradually seemed less human and more "divine", and that he and his brothers were gradually transforming and becoming more powerful as well. Until Raziel's revival, a huge amount of time passes. All his brothers have turned into monstrosities. Yet Kain is completely unchanged. I don't know how much time passes from Kain's point of view during Soul Reaver 2, but he doesn't change at all until Defiance.
He definitely changed after Blood Omen 1 and 2, but then he stopped, as if he "matured". I wonder why that is.
Raziel was thrown to the abyss and he lingered there for a millennium before he was resurrected. Kain did not wait all of that time. Instead he used the time machine to skip time till Raziel's awakening as a wraith. That is why Kain's appearance did not change by the corruption.
"As long as a single one of us stand we are legion."
God we need a animated movie of all this
one of the best games i ever played, great story with a cool characters, charming sound tracks and amazing weapons. its the most powerfull vampair game ever been made !
One of the best games/stories out there.
Now available on Steam SR, SR2 and Defiance :D
The game was sooooo good, the story was epic!!
Second favorite intro to a game.
Best character voices, best atmsphere, best story about vampires...
I want a new game settled in Legacy of Kain universe! :(
This is so much fun to memorise!
God I wish we'd get a remaster of Legacy of Kain series on current consoles
What gives him some credibility over someone like Mobius or the Sarafan is that he's honest about being a monster. Kain was born to be the guardian of balance just as the pillars were corrupted so fate did deal him a bad hand in that he had to die to restore the pillars. Seeing as how Kain has been unapologetically evil to that point. I'm inclined to believe him when he said he refused the sacrifice to keep vampires from becoming extinct and now he's gone back to try and have it both ways.
I miss this saga.
I need this game, just beat Soul Reaver yesterday and this cutscene alone is just fucking incredible!
Its strange how this differs from the ending of SR1. This is 1000x better. The best way to play SR1 is when you enter the final boss fight, close the game and watch this cutscene instead.
definitely one of my favourite game series fantastic story dialogue and music I'd love to see a new version but I don't think it would do the old ones justice
Damn subtitles lol
"Yeah"
-The Reaver 3:26
I always thought that Hugo Weaving should play Kain, because in my eyes he resembles human and vampire Kain from Blood Omen 1.
His performance as V from V for Vendetta already proves he can handle this kind of delivery and dialogue expertly too.
This game is 12 years old and still looks a thousand times better than NOSGOTH
"Fate promises more twists before this drama unfolds completely."
Great foreshadowing, but boy was that actually quite the understatement lol.
If politicians debate like Raziel and Kain the world would be far more interesting
They will surely kick Trump's ass*!
My 2024 cosplay because WE ARE LEGION!!!!
soul reaver 1 intro is still better.
+Donatas Simaitis No use comparing a tale with a legend.
which is the tale and which is the legend???
@Mr Dudemangeezermate Raziel... YOU ARE WORTHY...
the voice acting and dialogue is epic.
Who else wants them to bring back this franchise?
HD COLLECTION NOW.
How did you get that into such an amazing quality? Imagine a HD remake : O
Even my name is because of this game's influence
RaZeyLWindBladE same here
Hello from your future :)
This is 2021!
I love when Raziel is animated by hand, rather than motion-capture. He moves so unnatural, as he should.
Bring it back!
This game needeed one remake...