Soul Reaver definitely stands out in the gender. When you first play it, you get immediately immersed in its universe and start digging deeper and deeper within its story only to get even more involved with the game itself. The years have passed and the game doesn't look completely well after all this time, but all is compensated with a good adventure and a very interesting setting. Soul Reaver is definitely a good title to try.

The second game in the Legacy of Kain series, Soul Reaver follows the bad ending of Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen, where Kain, a former nobleman turned into a vampire to take revenge on his murderers, took part in the events that involved restoring the world's balance. Stepping aside from its vampiric roots, Soul Reaver ventures into a demonic area, telling the story of Raziel, one of Kain's "first-born" vampire leutenants who was thrown into the Abyss for daring to evolve prior to his own master, only to be awaken centuries later by The Elder God in a spectral realm.

On his quest to avenge his death Raziel must solve a lot of environmental puzzles that involve switching between material and spectral realms in real time. Enemy encounters are quite rare, but the fights look stylish thanks to many various ways you can finish your opponents using either weapons or the environment.

Controls are somewhat awkward and require some time to get used to. Being released in 1999, the game looks amazing even today. The world of Nosgoth is huge and seamless, you will never see a single loading screen here. Voice actors do an impressive job reading through beautifully written dialogues, which makes the complete lack of subtitles even more disappointing.

Soul Reaver is simply one of the best action-adventure games of its time. If you missed it during the PSOne era now is a good chance to join Raziel in his atmospheric journey through life and death.

This game continues the Legacy of Kain story (one of the best stories in a game series imo), and is the beginning of Raziels story. Being an older game now the graphics are pretty dated, and the game is hard to play without a game pad, but if you can look past the old ps1 graphics, the story is really one you cant pass up.

The game is fantastic! The storyline is great, as in the other titles of the series andgraphics are very good. The fight system was unique at it's time and I still play the game with pleasure.

Soul Reaver is a great game to me for a lot of reasons. I greatly enjoyed the story and the setting it was in. The voice acting was great in my opinion as well. The game play is fun but I do feel the camera controls hold it back a little. The graphics have also not aged well to me. Overall a very good game.

This might be an old game, but doesn't means it's bad, in this first game of the series, you will be playing as Raziel, on a path that will lead you killing your creator, Kain, awesome game with an immersive story with many hours of fun.

Soul Reaver is a great title that unlike others, fells fresh up to this day. Great story, innovative mechanics, charismatic characters... One of the crown jewels of Eidos' glory days. Absoulte must play.

Soul Reaver it's a timeless masterpiece.

One of the best action games of his era and still one of the best.

The story is charming and the puzzles are good too!

A must-have in every gamer collection!

3 years later...after Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain released you can dive again in the awesomeness.Great storyline,great gameplay...you simply cant say nothing bad about the game.It's a must have game.And for biggest pleasure you better play it with gamepad

An excellent sequence for Blood Omen Legacy of Kain, even if it´s not the same genre of the previous game. Soul reaver is a great experience in the exploration of the world of Nosgoth with a beautiful and gothic scenario full of enemies waiting to try taking your soul/blood. The game is full of puzzles, action gameplay and beautiful graphics (for it´s date).

This is the beggining, where we take control of Raziel for the very first time. The story is one of the best ones in the computer industry, graphics might be outdated, but the story will keep you, I promise.

The Wheel of Fate must turn...

I really loved this game as a kid, it was difficult at times but fun, the challenges it had against other games was high, but in my eyes this had something different, something which was worth playing.

A game without time! This is a game that gives you hours of fun even if the graphic is old. The story could catch you as no one. If you like action, vampires and dark storie, here you are ;)

Old school classic action games. The gameplay and story never get old. The graphic might be a bit dated technologically, but the artistic design is at good as it could be. A very rich game to enjoy.

Played a lot on the old PSX, now i can play on computer in HD resolution! This game has amazing characters, awesome enviroments, and epic story line and clever puzzles... One of the best games I've ever played. Buy it now!

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver begins 1500 years after the events of Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, and chronicles the journey of the vampire-turned-wraith Raziel, lieutenant to Kain (the protagonist of the original game). Raziel is executed by Kain, but is revived by the Elder God to become his "soul reaver" and to exact revenge. Raziel shares this title with Kain's sword, the Soul Reaver, which he acquires during the game.

This chapter is the best in the Legacy of Kain Universe,great lore,great voice acting,wonderful story.

The first game starring Raziel and the second game in the Legacy of Kain series, Soul Reaver manages to be one of the best action adventure games of this generation. Its charismatic protagonist and tight gameplay will keep players engaged and when they finish the game they will only want more (and more they shall have, provided that they also buy SR2 and Defiance)

Personally one of my favorite series.

The Legacy of Kain games have both a great storyline and a combination of complex puzzles and combat.

The game will give you many MANY hours of fun, which completionists will find even more fun due to the huge amount of side-stuff to do, explore and find, while others will just enjoy the game for it's plotline and design.

A highly recommended game!