Lots of itemization, hundreds and thousands of weapons and armor pieces and that stuff. It’s been 20 years since they had a Legacy of Kain game, and a lot of people have said, 'Hey, this looks a lot like Kain.' We had one of the old hardcore fans that have been following Kain for 20 years do an interview with us on our YouTube channel. The Legacy of Kain community is really resonating with this. You’ll suck blood from people and use your blood to cast spells. As an example, the vampire has blood magic. All of them will play extremely differently and do different things. You’ll be playing revenants, wraiths, vampires, liches, banshees, ghouls, wights. We have physical, magical, and essence, which is essentially artifacts.
He likens the gameplay to "Bloodborne meets Diablo" with a class building system called the "trinary archetype system" that the team has trademarked "for fun." Here's an excerpt explaining the system and a bit more about the game's direction: In the interview, Dyack regularly mentioned Legacy of Kain and how it influences some things that are being done in Deadhaus Sonata. In an interview with Venture Beat, Dyack declares he's "coming back from the dead."ĭeadhaus Sonata, being developed by Dyack's new Apocalypse Studio using the Amazon Lumberyard game engine, is a third-person RPG that casts players as undead creatures fighting against the living.
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That along with Dyack's other ventures combine for a pretty dire series of events and he's embracing that morbidity with his new studio and project. With the launch of Apocalypse, I’ve gone through some things and can bring that experience to light in ways that I think are refreshing and new.”Īfter losing case and counter-suit from Epic Games, Silicon Knights was closed and the company filed for bankruptcy.
“When I talk about the House of the Dead, I feel like I’m talking about myself,” Dyack said in an interview at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas.
Now, he's hoping to rise from the dead with a new free-to-play game called Deadhaus Sonata. Throughout his history with now-closed game development studio Silicon Knights he has overseen the development of Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, battled with Epic Games over the use of Unreal Engine 3 in Too Human, served as director for the critically-demolished X-Men Destiny, and more. Denis Dyack has had an interesting journey within the gaming industry.
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