Legacy of Kain: Defiance Is Getting a Proper Remaster, Includes a Demo of a Never-before-seen Canceled Game

Legacy of Kain: Defiance is yet getting the remaster it's agelong deserved, and successful summation to a overmuch nicer looking and playing game, those who acquisition the Deluxe Edition volition get to play a never-before-seen demo of the canceled sixth Legacy of Kain game, The Dark Prophecy.

Announced today, Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered volition merchandise connected March 3, 2026 for PS5 and PS4, Switch and Switch 2, Xbox, and PC via Steam, GOG, and Epic Games Store. It's developed by Crystal Dynamics and PlayEveryWare, and per franchise wide manager Matt McCloskey, is based heavy connected "a digitization of this monolithic archive that we really recovered successful a closet astatine Crystal Dynamics San Mateo office."

This is simply a remaster, not a remake, but there's a batch to it. The graphics, lighting, cinematics, audio, and euphony subordinate person each gotten a large touch-up, alongside the controls and HUD. New successful this mentation is simply a third-person "floating" camera view, though you tin toggle backmost to the archetypal camera presumption if you similar the aged look. There's a caller combat tutorial that's a small easier to entree for newer players, a photograph mode, a cheat menu, and immoderate caller localizations the archetypal crippled didn't have.

The remaster volition besides diagnostic a line-up of bonus content, including caller collectibles, the summation of a fig of antecedently chopped mislaid levels, section level maps, an improved 3D lore map, and a clump of subordinate quality skins. For purchasers of the Deluxe Edition, a comic publication scholar volition besides beryllium disposable containing the Soul Reaver and Defiance comics.

But those who acquisition the Deluxe Edition volition besides get entree to thing alternatively astonishing: a demo of a cancelled game. It's agelong been nationalist cognition that Crystal Dynamics was moving connected a sequel to Defiance backmost successful 2003. Internally referred to arsenic Legacy of Kain 6 and rumored to beryllium subtitled "The Dark Prophecy", its beingness and immoderate details astir it were leaked implicit time, but the crippled itself was cancelled earlier it could beryllium formally announced. Crystal Dynamics has assembled a demo of that crippled from archived files, and made it disposable to play successful the Deluxe Edition, giving a glimpse astatine a Legacy of Kain that could person been.

All of this volition beryllium disposable connected March 3, leaving plentifulness of clip to hole for the merchandise aboriginal that period of a marque caller Legacy of Kain game, entitled Ascendance, which we besides learned astir today. This brace of releases marks a large revival for the franchise, arsenic the past "new" crippled was the archetypal Legacy of Kain: Defiance implicit 2 decades agone successful 2003 (which we gave an 8/10 each those years ago!), and the lone merchandise since has been Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered successful 2024.

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