Eidos Montreal Reported To Have Been Making A Legacy Of Kain “Soft Reboot” – WGB

We have been this rattling near having the Legacy of Kain sequence again once more, according to a new report from the folk over at Insider Gaming, however plans have been scuppered when Eidos Montreal was purchased by Embracer.

Public CVs from former Eidos Montreal staff have revealed that the corporate was engaged on a “Darkish fantasy ARPG” previous to being laid off. Nonetheless, Insider Gaming claims that sources have informed them that the sport was truly a “mushy reboot” of Legacy of Kain, and that it was cancelled a couple of years in the past.

Insider Gaming goes on to say that the challenge – dubbed P16 as a consequence of it being the studios sixteenth challenge – was round a yr into growth when it was cancelled. Regardless of this, Insider Gaming says that it was apparently doing effectively and even had some barebones gameplay.

It isn’t identified why Embracer pulled the plug and despatched the IP again to Crystal Dyanamics, nor, sadly, does Insider Gaming know if Crystal Dynamics is doing is something with it.

Eidos Montreal is a studio that has sadly confronted many hardships, together with a number of rounds of layoffs and quite a few cancelled initiatives. They’ve wound up doing numerous help work, like serving to out on the upcoming Fable for Xbox. However they’re engaged on a brand new inner challenge that was begun in 2019. Insider Gaming’s sources inform them the challenge already has a number of hundred million {dollars} into it and that it’s unlikely to recoup that price, however the funding is just too large for it to be cancelled, at this level.

As for Legacy of Kain, it did make a quick comeback within the type of the unique video games getting launched on PlayStation as a part of PlayStation’s ongoing efforts so as to add traditional titles to its playable library.