The story behind the original soul reaver was captivating, how kain used the corpses of the fallen human "saints" as the vessel for his own abomination, along with the vast variety of gameplay dynamics that oipen up to you along the way and massive differences in levels (anyone remember the cathedral level where you had to ring the bells to shatter the glass??)
The second one, as i said before was a bit crappy in terms of gameplay, but made up for it in continuing a good story, coming face to face with your human self to realise you werent as self richeous as you thought you may have been, and that vampires were not always monstrosities of nature.
Im just hoping the third game will excell in both, finishing a good story with (hopefully) a decent game inbetween.
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history abhors a paradox... et al.