Remasters of Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver I and II have seemingly been confirmed by a statue proven off at San Diego Comic-Con.
Noticed by a person on ResetEra, a statue of characters Raziel and Kain was displayed at San Diego Comic-Con, and the placard in entrance of it says, “Soul Reaver: I & II Remastered,” together with a QR code with the Darkish Horse Comics emblem. Just lately, Darkish Horse Comics introduced the “Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver – The Lifeless Shall Rise” comedian, so this statue means that an announcement of remasters may very well be imminent.
On the San Diego Comic-Con present flooring, Darkish Horse Comics vice chairman of product improvement and gross sales, Randy Lahrman, instructed GameSpot that the statue will come out in August, and that extra data can be launched later. Nonetheless, the corporate wouldn’t touch upon the remasters, and the signal referencing them had been eliminated by the point we arrived on the sales space.
Final 12 months, developer Crystal Dynamics confirmed that it was conducting a closed playtest, however did not say for which recreation. Round that point, those that accomplished a Legacy of Kain survey obtained an electronic mail from the developer about playtests “for an unspecified new recreation.”
Crystal Dynamics and Eidos CEO Phil Rogers beforehand acknowledged fan curiosity in “revisit[ing] the land of Nosgoth and our iconic IP, Legacy of Kain.”
This satisfied followers that Crystal Dynamics was making a brand new Legacy of Kain recreation, and it is doable that the brand new recreation is just a remaster of the 2 Soul Reaver entries. The primary Soul Reaver recreation got here out in 1999 with the sequel following in 2001. It has been over 20 years because the final recreation within the sequence, Legacy of Kain: Defiance, got here out in 2003.