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A Leaked Look At The Cancelled Legacy Of Kain: Dead Sun

What could have been

Cast your mind back to 2013, when Square Enix announced the first new Legacy of Kain game in a decade. Well. Sorta. Nosgoth is set in the same universe as the vamp 'em up series, but a free-to-play multiplayer game rather than the usual singleplayer murder adventure. Well!

Turns out, according to whispers and rumours, Nosgoth was the spun-off multiplayer side from a Legacy of Kain game cancelled in 2012. Made by Climax Studios, it was to be named Legacy of Kain: Dead Sun. And now you can watch half an hour of leaked footage which, if not real, would have been a monumental effort to fake.

It's the result of years of digging by NeoGAF forum poster 'Mama Robotnik', who's chatted to lots of people and turned up a load on the game's development, its story, and what might have been. It would've been an open world-y sort of a game, with a hub leading to dungeons and so on.

Mama Robotnik's research only mentions Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions, granted, but I'd be jolly surprised if PC weren't planned too. And besides, even if not, don't PC folks want to know what happened to the series?

I won't recap the thread, so do give it (and the replies from folks who say they worked on it) a good read. Here's the gameplay video, which is logos and menus for the first 80 seconds:

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Alice has been playing video games since SkiFree and writing about them since 2009, with nine years at RPS. She enjoys immersive sims, roguelikelikes, chunky revolvers, weird little spooky indies, mods, walking simulators, and finding joy in details. Alice lives, swims, and cycles in Scotland.

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