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Artwork from canceled Legacy of Kain pop up photo

Here is an interesting curio for anybody who counts himself a fan of the Legacy of Kain series. The attached gallery shows off some artwork from the canceled Legacy of Kain sequel, including some environment screens.

The screens have been posted by artist Aaron Hausmann, whose shipped work includes Luxor 3, 25 to Life and Sin: Emergence. He has also done work on Medal of Honor: Airborne.

It's a shame that the game got canceled. I was never a huge fan of the Kain games, but I think current-gen systems are due a title starring the arrogant vampire git. On a wider note, this must happen to artists all the time. I wonder how many canceled games stuff the portfolios of videogame artists. 

Oh well, check out the rest of Hausmann's work, especially that third gallery for an unannounced title. I want that game, whatever it is.


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RJG at 11/12/2008 04:35
I loved the first Legacy of Kain, didn't enjoy the second and ignored the rest. If I could ever find a way to play them all on one platform I would leap at it.

You hear that Eidos? Get these old games working and available cheap over DD on PC and you get free money!
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ParaParaKing at 11/12/2008 04:57
It's really sad, they canceled the game, because the story never got an ending. Although the story got more and more screwed up with plotholes over the time, so this may not be that bad a thing.

Also those artworks look kind of gray.
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Capn Birdseye at 11/12/2008 05:27
the Legacy of Kain series is one of the best scripted and voice acted games of all time IMO.

The gameplay could have used some work, but it was worth playing through anyway.

The last one was pure fan service, with one of the most satisfyingly long endings I have seen.

It's a shame they cancelled the next one, but the series ended so well with Defiance that it would have ruined it making another one
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shinryu108 at 11/12/2008 05:41
I'm still holding up hope for a proper ending to the series. Then again, with Amy Hennig leaving Crystal Dynamics not only the possibilities are iffy, there's actually a chance we'd get a crapfest made by some other team which as nothing to do with the series in the first place, like Blood Omen 2.

re: plotholes - apart from being a brilliantly written series, LoK has the rare distinction of actually BEING ALLOWED PLOTHOLES, since characters often travel through time and change history, which has a domino effect on the future. Basically anything that you experience in the early games might not have really happened. Then again, it might, we're just not sure. Which allows any retcon and/or plothole. Writer's paradise.
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KamikazeTutor at 11/12/2008 05:48
Which Legacy of Kain? Looks like Defiance's engine... Well, I did enjoy Defiance's ending and I would have no problem leaving it there. Seriously, it gives it a unique feeling.
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KamikazeTutor at 11/12/2008 05:53
Also, you guys know that Amy Hennig left Crystal Dynamic and she's working for Naughty Dog now. So, no Legacy of Kain no more, or I hope, as she's the hearth of it.
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Requeim at 11/12/2008 06:27
Legacy of kain is such an awesome series, needs more sequels :'(
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Cataract at 11/12/2008 06:33
You mean this?

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Demtor at 11/12/2008 06:46
Didn't know they had canceled the next in the series. Thats too bad :`(

I should play through that series again one of these years. I agree with shinryu108 about the plot holes, but its such a unique story with such memorable characters and voice acting that it all just make it work. Most of the time, it really shouldn't, but it does.
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psycho terror2 at 11/12/2008 07:01
wow, what a shame. i do kind of disagree about the plot holes though, as i found that LOK pulled off the time travel thing extremely well. (SPOILER!!!) the scene where the reaver consumes raziel at the end of SR2 is one of my favorite videogame moments.
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VaeVictus at 11/12/2008 07:20
My favorite series of games simply b/c of the well written, brilliantly voice acted game. For the most part, the gameplay was good as well. I own all games and revisit them often.

I wish it wasn't canceled. It was great to hear Simon Templeman's (Kain) voice in Uncharted, a project Amy was the lead for.
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shinryu108 at 11/12/2008 07:25
BTW, I recently discovered that Simon Templeman was in an old episode of 24. The creepy thing is that he actually looks like Kain.
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KamikazeTutor at 11/12/2008 08:52
@shinryu108: I was made to believe that all the plot holes where covered in Defiance. That's why its half-cliffhanger ending is perfect. The main plot is over.
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DinnertimeNinja at 11/12/2008 09:44
Best voice acting and storyline EVAR in videogames.

And yes, basically EVERYTHING was made clear in Defiance. Even thing that seemed like plotholes from previous games (*cough cough* everything from Blood Omen 2 *cough cough*) was integrated awesomely by Amy Hennig.
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Drach at 11/13/2008 03:00
I liked the Original Legacy of Kain. Blood Omen. The blood and gore in that game was so damn entertaining.
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