It also doesn’t inform you that the Malkavians perceive the world “differently” and most of their speech is gibberish. The game doesn’t inform you that the Nosferatu are forced to avoid nearly all social encounters in the game and are shot at by humans on sight. You can choose to be one of several clans ranging from the beautiful Toreador to the hideous Nosferatu to the utterly insane Malkavians. Released into the wilds with barely an awareness of what you are, you soon become wrapped up in the complicated politics of Los Angeles’ undead nightlife. This is actually illegal by the laws of vampiredom and your sire is immediately put to death by the snobbish vampire prince, Sebastian La Croix, who would kill you as well if not for the intervention of vampire revolutionary, Nines Rodriguez. The premise is you are a mortal embraced by a vampire during a night of rough sex. While based on the tabletop game, Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines manages to exceed its parent in creating a lived-in world of darkness (pun intended). There are many horror games out there but few with the style, fashion, darkness, and humor of this game. I would also say yes because the game is still fantastic.

If you choose to play Bloodlines, you shouldn’t play the original game, but indulge in its amazing patches that make it one of the best roleplaying experiences of its era.īut does it hold up? Does it have anything to offer gamers in the 21st century? Especially when the sequel, Bloodlines 2, is coming out next year? Well, given Bloodlines 2 was delayed an entire year, I would say yes. For two decades thereafter, the game was continually added to with more fixes as well as additional content. The original developers, themselves, helped create a patch that fixed many of the issues the initial release suffered from.

Instead, Bloodlines picked up steam via word of mouth and benefited from one of the most active modding communities on the internet.

By all accounts, the game should have drifted off into obscurity and never been thought of again. Reception of the game was also terrible due to the fact that it was a glitchy unfinished mess and was released against the megahit Half Life 2. It is a computer RPG that bombed so hard in its initial release that it destroyed its studio. Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines remains one of the great cult classics of video game history.

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