


Eventually, he will also come across Kain's personal sword (named the Soul Reaver), and will use it to create a powerful energy blade weapon.

Raziel can arm himself with a variety of weapons including spears, daggers, swords, axes, as well as attacking enemies barehanded. Examples include: the ability to swim, file telekinetic projectiles, or the ability to phase through locked gates. If Raziel is able to defeat one of his brothers, he will additionally gain a new ability ("dark gift") upon drinking his soul. Throughout the game, energy is recovered by consuming the souls of defeated enemies. Existing in the material world drains Raziel's life energy at a constant rate. The two realms mirror one another, with distortions which give access to new areas and platforms. He can also shift through the material world into the spectral realm at will, but must find specific locations in order to shift back. Raziel's can grip onto the edge of ledges and his torn wings allow him to glide gently downwards. The player views the environments from behind Raziel's shoulder, moving him in any direction, climbing, attacking, jumping and using specific abilities. The game follows Raziel on his quest to purge the land of vampires and take revenge on Kain and his brothers, leaders of the six clans.

Soul Reaver is a third-person perspective action game with puzzle-solving and some platforming elements. Swearing revenge on Kain, Raziel now phases seamlessly between Nosgoth and its underworld, using his new powers to become a terrible reaver of souls. The Elder God recovers Raziel's soul and rebuilds the broken body, not as a living vampire, but as a strange new creature of the underworld. There, Raziel is lost in time, dead and his body consumed. Fearing that Raziel might one day surpass him, Kain tears off Raziel's wings in a fit of range and banishes him into the Abyss. Raziel was one such lieutenant, but lost his position through the insolence of receiving a new evolutionary "dark gift", the growth of feathery wings, before his master had acquired it. Ruling from a castle built on the Pillars of Nosgoth, Kain has established an empire of six vampire clans, each ruled by a lieutenant, the sons of Kain. One thousand five hundred years after the events of Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, the vampire Kain's decision at the end of that game has finally defeated the human kingdoms and brought the world of Nosgoth under his control. Dreamcast, PlayStation 3, PSP, PS Vita, Windows
