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/ Adam Richardson

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver Television Ads Announced

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver Television Ads has been announced, and the pitch is now loose in the wild for PC and console players to start arguing about.

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver Television Ads has been announced, and the pitch is now loose in the wild for PC and console players to start arguing about.

The useful part: The 3D action adventure game, which lets players portray rival vampires who feed on souls in the real world and a dark, spectral plane, will be heavily promoted with national television commercials running on MTV, Comedy Central, ESPN, ESPN2 and WWF pro wrestling broadcasts. The five-week television campaign run, which begins Oct. 29, continues through the lucrative Thanksgiving gift buying season. Though the game, a sequel to Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen, has been greeted with hot-blooded enthusiasm by game book and newspaper critics, Eidos’. File it under the usual 1999 PC pile: interesting, crowded, and probably fighting five other releases for attention.