30 minutes of footage from the cancelled Legacy of Kain: Dead Sun have been posted online.

NeoGAF user Mama Robotnik found the footage, which gives a tantalising glimpse at what might have been. Dead Sun was cancelled after three years of development at British studio Climax, the team who are currently creating Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China. Series overlords Crystal Dynamics was also involved, though back then it was occupied with the Tomb Raider reboot.Square Enix, however, decided to cancel the title as it feared it would miss sales targets, though discussions were also had about making it a PS4 launch title first. Ultimately, however, the plug was pulled with the only element allowed to see the light of day until now being the multiplayer mode, which was launched as the free-to-play PC title Nosgoth.The gameplay below is from a vertical slice made for internal demonstration, so isn't fully representative of what a final title would be like. Still, it's nice to dream.

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