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9:00 AM on 10.10.2009, Jim Sterling

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Oh ESRB, you never fail to delight with your game release spoilers. Yes, once again America's game rating board has spilled the beans on a PSOne Classic, rating Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver for release on the PS3 and PSP. One of the most fondly regarded action games of two generations ago will finally be available for download in the PlayStation Store.

A sequel to the vampire-friendly Legacy of Kain, Crystal Dynamics' Soul Reaver tells the story of Kain's son Raziel, who has a problem with his old man due to the fact that he killed him. It's a dark and brutal game that garnered considerable praise upon release, and is still held up as a fine example of the genre today.

Yep, can't wait for this one!

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48 comments | showing # 1 to 48

xaliqen

It's good to see that Sony is finally paying more attention to their oft-neglected North American PSOne offerings on PSN.

I'd still like more classic RPGs like Xenogears and Arc the Lad, but, hopefully, that will come with time.

Here's to a PS4 with full backwards compatibility (I hope Sony realizes how important this is).

Drack48

Did anyone ever buy the first game to see if they fixed the loading times?

moose39

Great, great news. An awesome game like that can't go unnoticed.

Now give me Tomba! D:

Klarden

I know you, Raziel. You are PSN worthy

Preacher747

The lead writer for the Legacy of Kain series, Amy Hennig, is releasing her lastest creation, Uncharted 2. Respect the origins.

The Young Scot

What ever happened to this series? I want closure!

Nevi

The game are not that amazing, but the story (if you can get your head around it) and especially Kain and Raziel's VA and dialogue are utterly brilliant.

Hope this will come to the EU PSN store too. I have no desire to have to set up an NA account, but Blood Omen hasn't come out on the EU store yet, in spite of coming out on the NA store on 10 September, and there is no mention if it will or won't. Instead all the EU PSN store seems to get in way of PSOne classics are mediocre disney licenses. Little Mermaid anyone?

Zantetsuken

The best Action/Adventure game ever made. Hands down.

SilverDragon1979

This is a must buy for me.

Magnalon

@Zantetsuken
For me, that's almost true. It's not the best game ever (I needs me some RPG elements, not simple item/ability collection through boss battles), but it's a must buy.

@The Young Scot
They actually had quite a few games. 2 Soul Reavers: 2 Kain games: and one final mash-up with both that brings closure.

Milofo

@The Young Scot
They did finish the series. They had Soul Reaver I on PSOne, Soul Reaver II on PS2, and Soul Reaver: Defiance on PS2 and XBOX.

So the best game in the series will be up for download. Thanks Sony for finally showing us some love.

abydos

I hope they make a new one. This is one of the best franchises ever, imo. I've had so much fun, really awesome story and gameplay.

Crunshii

w000000t! yesssss!

ThrashingLimbsEd

I would kill for a new one.

ACTUALLY KILL.

Nogarda

YES! Finally one of the best games ever made is seeing a digital release :) I know theres been some issues with the writer or something but its a tragedy to gaming a current gen version hasn't been made. they have some of the best graphics and voice acting during its time.

TheToiletDuck

Fun Fact: This game is awesome.

CBunn

After buying tomb rider II I was put off PSOne games, because they don't even get enhanced resolution, the result is a pain to watch. Any retarded emulator can output greater resolutions for the polygons, but Sony won't do it on it's own hardware. It boggles the mind

Oncomouse

How does the PSOne version compare to the Dreamcast version?

BA Chieftain

@CBunn - do they really not have enhanced resolution? I've been playing through FFTactics, and that looks GORGEOUS compared to PS1 graphics...

AstralDrmz

Win!

Topher Cantler

YAAAAAAY

Narishma

Oncomouse: All the versions (PS1, PC and DC) were exactly the same if I remember, except obviously the PS1 version didn't have smooth textures.

The Silent Protagonist

Not to disrupt the lovefest, but what else is coming? Anything else good or just the usual PSOne channel vendor trash?

reindall

I like the direction in which ESRB evolved - games with "Blood, Crude Humor, Mild Language, Sexual Themes, Use of Alcohol and Tobacco, Violence" get a 13+ rating. In ten years stuff like the original Mortal Kombat will be rated E :-p

YellowHare

It's about damn time. I've been looking for a reason to replay the series, despite still owning all of my original copies (just too damn lazy to drag out the systems).

snoogans775

don't they have rights to dreamcast games now? the dreamcast version of this games is miles better. no collision detection problems and the graphics were awesome on the dreamcast.

shinryu108

about damn time. now if we could only get a proper ending...

pedrovay2003

YES. Finally, good games.

Mooks

OHOohhh! I was just talking with a friend about how much I wanted this game to come out on one of the download services. Good things come to those who... want~!

dwolfwood

This game was good... Too bad they left out 3/4 of the game!!!! I beat it in like 90min and had the most epic fail ending in all videogame history.

"To be continued"

Carlton Banks

Great news

David Dickerson

Amazing game, one of my favs of all time.

bmart008

I've been hoping for this game since I picked up blood omen a few weeks ago and loved every second of it. I also went out and bought the other three for 25 dollars CDN. So as soon as this comes out, it's a full week of Legacy of Kain blood sucking soul reaving awesomeness.

Demtor

It really can't be said enough how great Soul Reaver is. The story behind that whole series is just spectacular. Glad to hear it will reach a wider audience hopefully.

ViewFinder

Hells yeah! I'm so going to download this. Now some one make sequel to this.

Shin Ra

Raziel isnt the son of Khain wth?

Im OK

This is totally the Citizen Kain of video games.

bmart008

@viewfinder - hey man, there were three sequels to this.

Brlito

@bmart008:

Two prequels and one sequel.

PirateGuy

Ever since I saw the trailer for this game that came with Gex, I always wanted this game but never got around to playing it. I'm definetely getting this now, though. :D

Mulk Calathar

Goths and emos? WTF? Try D&D nerds.

stafax

they need to put up the Dreamcast version instead of the PS version

Im OK

never saw what was so special about this game...a good game for a certain crowd..the goths and emo fucks will love this "yea, we're non-conformists" apparently, you still shop at hot-topic...non-conformist my ass, faggots

Man, oh man, how I so miss the days when Destructoid was relatively free of dipshittery like this.

dwolfwood

Oh and even though I loved the 1/4 of a game this was, I didn't mention that the ending made me so mad that I refused to buy another sequel and so have suffered the fate of not knowing the rest of the story. :(

Blood Omen was my favorite game on ps1 for a long time too!

Did the sequel to this game start back exactly where this one left off?

Rational_Jesus

The Legacy of Kain series is ridiculously underrated. Loved them all. Just got Blood Omen off PSN and love it again, just wished they'd have fixed the load times. I'd kill for a current gen Kain game.

munkee

whoooooooo, Second favorite action/adventure EVER! \:D/ Pretty excited for this as i dont think my ps1 disc can take too much more! [second only to super metroid]

ViewFinder

@ bmart008: Oh snap, I totally forgot that. But hey, they could make more of them, it's been quite while since last one.

levkar

ohhh i can't wait for this one. i think i'll start my let's play series with this one.

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