TM CONTENTS Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Starting Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Getting Into the Game . . . . . . . 6 The History of Nosgoth . . . . . . 8 Kain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Raziel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Game Progress . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Telekinesis (TK) . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Kain's Unique Abilities . . . . . 14 Raziel's Unique Abilities . . . 16 The Reaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Health and Feeding . . . . . . . . 20 Status Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Combat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Bonus Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Enemies and Strategies . . . . 26 Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 FPO Inside Front Cover Remove this page before printing. See the "LOK Xbox ins cov.eps" document for the actual page STUCK? Call the EIDOS Gameplay Helpline 1-900-285-4500 Up to $1.99/minute Please be 18 or have parental permission or call 800-295-5870 with a major credit card GETTING STARTED STARTING UP USING THE XBOX CONTROLLER USING THE XBOX VIDEO GAME SYSTEM 1. Set up your Xbox video game system by following the instructions in the Xbox Instruction Manual. 2. Press the power button and the status indicator light will light up. 3. Press the eject button and the disc tray will open. 4. Place the Legacy of Kain: Defiance TM disc on the disc tray with the label facing up. Close the disc tray. 5. Follow the onscreen instructions and refer to this manual for more information about playing the game. AVOIDING DAMAGE TO THE DISCS OR THE DISC DRIVE · Insert only Xbox-compatible discs into the disc drive. · Never use oddly shaped discs, such as star- shaped or heartshaped discs. · Do not leave a disc in the Xbox console for extended periods when not in use. · Do not move the Xbox console while the power is on and a disc is inserted. · Do not apply labels, stickers, or other foreign objects to discs. 1. Insert the Xbox Controller into any controller port of the Xbox console. 2. Insert peripherals into controller expansion slots as appropriate. 3. Follow the onscreen instructions and refer to this manual for more information about using the Xbox Controller to play this game. · When vibration is On, the Controller will vibrate in response to game events. You can turn vibration On/Off in the Options Menu. (See page 7.) Definition A/V Pack. Select Dolby Digital in the Dashboard menu of the Xbox display to experience the excitement of surround sound ABOUT SAVING GAMES In this game, you can save your game data and/or replay data onto the Xbox Hard Disk. The Hard Disk must have at least 22 blocks of free space available in order to save games. Do not reset the game while saving, or your game data could be lost or corrupted. PROGRESSIVE SCAN This game can be set to display a higher resolution image on TVs that support progressive scan mode (EDTV, HDTV). In order to use the progressive scan mode, you need a TV that can accept this type of input (see your TV operation manual), and an Advanced A/V Pack or Xbox High Definition A/V Pack. To activate the progressive scan mode, select Progressive Scan in the Dashboard menu of the Xbox display. Please note that on some TVs, activating the progressive scan mode will set the format of the image to a wide screen (16:9) format (see below). DOLBY® DIGITAL This game is presented in Dolby Digital. Connect your Xbox console to a sound system with Dolby Digital technology using a digital optical cable with an Xbox Advanced A/V Pack or Xbox High WIDE SCREEN We support wide (16:9) screen mode. In order to play in wide screen mode, select Wide Screen under Video in the Dashboard menu of the Xbox display. 2 3 CONTROLS MENU CONTROLS COMBAT CONTROLS Game start: display Title Menu. In game: Pause/open Pause Menu. Open/close Status Screen. Shuffle Status Screens. Highlight (select) menu item. Confirm selection. Cancel selection. > < l/r L/? A B Y X B GAMEPLAY CONTROLS Move character, climb, swim (Raziel only). L Aim Telekinesis sight. Action: interact with objects/environment, pick up/use X artifacts, push/rotate, grab/drag object. Dive while swimming (Raziel only). Tap to fire Telekinesis blast. B Hold to lift enemies off ground, aim with L and release to throw (see page 13). Jump up, jump on/off climbable walls. A Running jump (with L). Slow descent/long jump (Kain; press and hold). Glide (Raziel; press and hold). 4/3: Select Reaver enhancement. ? 1/2: (Raziel only), shift between Spectral/Material planes, press X to confirm (see page 16). Hold to aim Telekinesis, release to launch. b Camera (nudge to look around environment). R Click to enter/exit first person mode and look around environment. A l r Lift attack (ground), slam attack (air). Fatal blow (feed Reaver). Special attack (with L; see page 24). Slash attack. Reaver Spell (hold/release). Special Attack (with L; see page 24). Tap to fire Telekinesis blast. Hold to lift enemies off ground, aim with L and release to throw (see page 13). Special Attack (with L; see page 24). Jump up (double-tap in combat mode. Dodge (with L; see page 23). Hold to manually enter combat mode (if desired). Tap to manually exit combat mode (before battle ends). Hold to feed: Kain ­ drink blood, Raziel ­ devour soul (see page 20). · See Combat starting on page 22 for full explanations on combat moves. · See Common Abilities on page 12 for more explanation on character moves. 4 5 GETTING INTO THE GAME TITLE MENU · · · Options ­ Adjust the in-game settings. (See page 7 for details.) Bonus Materials ­ Review and select Bonus Materials you've unlocked by your successes in the game. Dark Chronicle ­ Replay storyline cinematics you've revealed during your progress through the game. SAVING GAMES OPTIONS 1. At start-up, the game will scan the Hard Disk for Legacy of Kain: Defiance saved game data. Note: Legacy of Kain: Defiance is an epic game. We recommend saving your progress frequently and continuing your saved games for the most satisfying game experience. 2. On the Title Menu, press > to begin. Options that now become available are: · Continue Game ­ Available if data is already auto-saved on the Xbox Hard Disk from a previous game during the current play session. · Start a New Game ­ Start the game from the beginning. · Load Game ­ Resume a game you manually saved. On the menu that appears, highlight a saved game and press A. You will return to the game at the last checkpoint you reached prior to saving. (For information on saving, see page 7.) TM TM PAUSE MENU During play, press > to pause the game and display the Pause Menu. From here you can save your game progress and modify game options. You can save your game onto the Xbox Hard Disk at any time during play. Press > to pause, and select Save from the Pause Menu. Highlight Create a New File or an existing save slot and press A. All your progress to your current point will be saved. Your location at your last checkpoint is also saved. If older Legacy of Kain: Defiance game data exists in the slot you selected, it will be overwritten during the save. Be careful: once data is overwritten, it cannot be recovered. · Legacy of Kain: Defiance requires 22 blocks of free space to auto-save data and allow one manual save. Each additional manual save requires 9 blocks of free space. · To resume a saved game, select either Continue Game or Load Game from the Title Menu/Start Game screen. (See page 6.) · Do not turn off the power while saving. Doing so could damage or destroy the saved data. TM TM Move L or ? 1/2to highlight an option, and 4/3 to adjust the setting. Press A to see a submenu, if available. · Sound and Music ­ Select game audio during play: Sound, Music, or Sound and Music. · Subtitles ­ Toggle the subtitle display to English or Off. · Vibration ­ Turn the controller's vibration function On/Off. When vibration is On, the controller will vibrate in response to game events. · Brightness ­ Adjust your TV's brightness to your comfort level. · Hints ­ Turn on-screen hints On/Off. · Go Back ­ Return to the game. 6 7 THE HISTORY OF NOSGOTH THE PILLARS In the centuries before Kain's birth, the land was protected by an oligarchy of sorcerers known as the Circle of Nine. These guardians were sworn to serve and protect the Pillars of Nosgoth, the ancient edifice towering over the earth as a manifestation of the mysterious power that preserved and gave life to the land. But the Circle was infiltrated by dark forces, and Ariel -- the Balance Guardian -- was cruelly murdered. Her assassination sent psychic shockwaves throughout the Circle, and in their derangement the remaining sorcerers turned their powers to dark purposes, poisoning the land with their sorcery and abandoning the Pillars to stand like silent, decaying sentries. DESTINY Into this dying world Kain was born. The son of an aristocratic Nosgoth family, he lived the privileged life of a nobleman, never realizing his undiscovered destiny -- that he was marked from birth as Ariel's successor, fated to take her place as the Guardian of Balance. Ignorant of his destiny, the ambitious but directionless Kain roamed the land -- during one fateful journey, he was ambushed by brigands and murdered, cruelly impaled on his assassin's sword. A DARK COVENANT Plucked from the brink of oblivion by the Necromancer Mortanius, Kain awakened in the underworld, still transfixed by his enemy's blade. Tormented by his hunger for vengeance, and heedless of the spiritual cost, Kain recklessly accepted the Necromancer's offer of revenge -- and rose from his tomb to discover that he had been resurrected as a vampire. Kain quickly tracked down his assassins and exacted his bloody revenge. With his vengeance and hunger sated, he sought only a cure for the vampiric curse that afflicted him. Guided by Mortanius and the specter Ariel -- now bound helplessly to the decaying Pillars she once served -- Kain hunted down each of the corrupt sorcerers now poisoning Nosgoth. Only with their deaths could the Pillars be healed -- and only by restoring Balance would Kain be released from his vampiric curse. At first reluctant to live the horror of an existence blighted by a thirst for human blood, Kain soon adapted and discovered, within his darkened soul, a growing disaffection for humankind as he embraced his newfound immortality. During his journey, Kain discovered and claimed the Soul Reaver, an ancient souldevouring blade, and stumbled across -- not so coincidentally -- a time-streaming device created by Moebius, the Guardian of Time. FRAGILE HISTORY Against the counsel of the ancient vampire Vorador, Kain found himself embroiled in human events, caught in a bloody battle between Ottmar's Army of Hope and the ruthlessly advancing armies of the Nemesis, from the north. As the tide of the battle turned, Kain used his only means of escape -- the time-streaming device, which swept him nearly fifty years back into Nosgoth's past. Hoping to alter the course of Nosgoth's history, Kain assassinated the young King William the Just, who would become the diabolic tyrant known as the Nemesis. After sating himself on his victim's blood, Kain returned to the present -- only to discover that his murder of the beloved King had ignited a genocidal war against vampires, led by the time-streamer, Moebius, himself. Upon his return, Kain witnessed the future that he had wrought -- and the final, triumphant act of Moebius's cold-blooded mob. Vorador, the last of the era's vampires, was guillotined and his head held aloft for a cheering, bloodthirsty crowd -- leaving Kain the sole surviving vampire in Nosgoth. THE FATEFUL DILEMMA As his quest brought him full-circle, Kain confronted the destiny that Mortanius and Ariel had hidden from him -- that he was the Balance Guardian, and that only by sacrificing himself could he restore the Pillars. Ariel presented him with a final, climactic decision -- sacrifice himself to heal the land, but ensure the extinction of the vampires; or refuse the sacrifice, and seal the world's corruption. Revolted by the machinations of the human sorcerers and alienated from his former humanity, Kain chose the latter path -- opting to rule the world in its damnation rather than commit himself to oblivion. This apocalyptic act completed the Pillars' destruction -- the mighty columns toppled as Kain sealed their ruinous fate -- and damned Ariel to ceaselessly haunt the dilapidated Pillars she once served. Until the Balance is restored, she can never be released. KAIN'S EMPIRE Kain concluded with the realization that Vorador was right -- that vampirism is not a curse but a blessing . . . that vampires are dark gods whose duty it is to thin the human herd. With intentional irony, Kain established the ruined Pillars as the symbolic seat of his new empire, and the shattered Balance Pillar as the ...