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Please,stake me!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

What happen here???? This is game that could have been really good. The premise was great. What a waste!!!! Frist, the game was just to hard. What is the point of having a weapon when it's ineffective. I died more times in this game then I could count. I would stand a better chance of surviving a round of rush'n roulette. This was supposed to be a squad based game but you were mostly solo. The voice overs sounded very scripted and poorly written. The whole game took place at night and during the rain hence the "Rain" in the title. The vampires themself moved like they had some type of muscular disorder. They were wobbly,shaaaky,and slow, until they found you and then all of a sudden they were Flash Gordon and could leap on top of three story building. There were no check points or saves so you when spent 30 mins playing a mission and died, you got the joy doing all over again just to spend another 30 mins and die the same spot. "I shot that undead freak 20 times and he still came at me full force." This could have been a real worth while game and might have even spawned a series, but alas, it was anything but fun. The only good aspect was the multi-player. That was kind of fun. The only problem was no one playing it.As I said before, what a waste.

Why hate this game?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I know most people hate this game becasue of it's difficulty and mortal characters that actually can't go toe to toe with vampires. The difficuly and cunning is what it takes and make this game awesome, plus the tension is this amazing game can be cut with a knife, great tense game of stelth.

Reasonably Innovative

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: February 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Vampires and games about them have been done before. First-person shooters have been done before. However, I would say that Vampire Rain - a first person shooter about fighting vampires - is a reasonably innovative combination of these elements.

The story revolves around a new special forces unit made to investigate the millions of disappearances that had been occurring, connected with the appearance of "nightwalkers" - a kind of cross between vampires and zombies. They've got the "no sunlight", "really strong and fast", "hiding in plain sight", and "drinks blood" thing of vampires combined with the "turn victims into things like themselves", "hive mentality", and "rotting flesh" of zombies. The player is John Lloyd, a soldier who is part of a four-man anti-nightwalker team.

The gameplay involves a few different elements. Stealth is important, though it consists of staying out of your enemies' lines of sight (you get a "warning" of sorts if you're close to being detected). There's also a lot of crawling up drainpipes and ladders to get to the top of buildings in order to avoid detection. The emphasis is on avoiding fights more than participating in them - you're trying to reach the brain that controls all the nightwalkers, and killing it will kill them, so there's no real reason to kill any individual nightwalker.

You have a couple different gadgets, too; besides standard equipment like guns and nightvision, you also have "necrovision" that points out any nightwalkers that might otherwise blend into a crowd. Scanning any target with necrovision shows you their line of sight, which is of course helpful for a sneaking game. Necrovision can also be used to illuminate targets for snipers - if they know who's a nightwalker without the nightwalker knowing they know, the sniper can take it out free of worry or counterattack. Besides snipers and other combat support, the other use of teamwork tend to be Splinter-Cell style "I'll boost you up, then you pull me up" moves to get up on rooftops.

The nightwalkers themselves look like humans until they attack, at which point they turn into a muscular-but-rotting form. Certain weapons are better against nightwalkers than others - the pistol, for example, doesn't do anything to them except irritate them. In fact, unless you have your entire team firing at one, it's pretty much not going to go down. Pretty much any nightwalker can kill you in two hits, and even if you get the drop on them with a ranged weapon you rarely have enough ammo to take one down before you have to reload. So, in this way, it differentiates itself from Metal Gear Solid or Splinter Cell in that even if you sneak up on an enemy you can't really kill it - it's more about avoiding. In fact, that's one of the annoyances that's in this game - you're supposed to be loaded up with "anti-nightwalker" weaponry, but you can barely kill one even as a group. Thus, the stealth sequences tend to be more about survival than about defeating the enemy - hiding, sneaking, and avoiding your enemies instead of fighting them. Only until later in the game can you even hope to deal with the nightwalkers.

The game has multiplayer - the nightwalkers against the humans, with a couple of different rulesets for how death is handled (either regular death or with dead humans turning into nightwalkers. There are also 2 bonus levels that are downloadable for free from the Xbox Live Marketplace.

The graphics in this game are pretty good. The city is blanketed by both night and rain (as befits the title); the explanation for the rain is that the unit moves when it rains because the vampires' senses are reduced. The rain is well illustrated and smooth-looking. The heads-up display is the main problem with the game - the bars look bland and boring against the game's environment, and just look like there wasn't a lot of effort.

The negative aspects of this game include poor control, difficult combat, and a low quality of "horror" - basically, there's no suspense. Sure, you'll get killed if you get close to the enemies, but by the fifth or sixth time that a vampire has taken you out in two hits you won't really care anymore. Other than you, the main victims are people either grabbed or lured by the vampires into alleyways, where they are attacked. This kind of thing is sort of cliche for games (the screaming victim dragged into a hole who can't be saved). The stealth isn't very good, either, but again that's due to poor control more than anything. Your character doesn't ever handle particularly well, and considering the acute senses of your opponents this is less than helpful.

As a whole, this game gave a good try, but for a lot of reasons I didn't think it was enjoyable to play. It took a lot of elements from other stealth games but basically turned it from "you're a secret operative who uses stealth to take out enemies" to "you're a secret operative who hides from your foes so that they don't devour him". It just wasn't a very impressive game to play.

5/10.

Insanely difficult

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

*MINOR SPOILERS*

1-Gameplay: This is not a Resident Evil style "shoot em' up" action game. It is about 90% stealth based, 5% sniper based, and 5% boss battles. If stealth play is your thing, this has plenty. Trust me when I say, the stealth aspect can be very frustrating at times. The main character will die a LOT in this game.

2-Enemies: The standard vampires tend to be tougher than the bosses. If they see you and then hit you twice, you're dead. End of story. There are only about 4 weapons in the game that can take them down. One of them is a sniper rifle that has to be used from a distance, the shotgun you only have for about 3-4 stages, and the "cannon rifle" or whatever it's called you don't get until the very end of the game. The other is a UV knife that is for stealth kills ONLY. The boss battles are challenging enough to not be total push-over; however they can still be very frustrating at times. ESPECIALLY the last two bosses.

3 Graphics: Not the greatest in the world, but not the worst either. The CGI movies and cut-scenes were decent, but did look like they were from last-gen consoles at times.

4 Story: Not a cohesive plot. About what you would expect from a "good" B movie. Not Oscar material, but not terrible either. Some decent suspense, but some corny lines like Mission Commander: "When I get my hands on who did this!" after finding a dead team member, and then when they do get their hands on the person, they do absolutely NOTHING. My personal favorite aspect of the story is the mission commander always giving you the garbage work, ex. "You distract the nightwalkers and take down the communications tower. We'll stay with the command vehicle and make sure everything is ok." "You find a way to the top of the crane past those 10 nightwalkers while we stay here and hide behind this dumpster to make sure there's not a safer way around."

5 Overall recommendations: Pick up a cheap used copy if you enjoy stealth games, or are a glutton for punishment at the hands of a truly difficult game that drops you into no win situation after no win situation that you have to use imagination to get out of. When you finish the game, you WILL feel like you have accomplished something.

Syphon Filter, with vampires thrown in there

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Yeah this game really sucked, no pun intended but I can't really name too many highlights. I know there's an argument saying "it's not a terrible game," but this is definitely not nex-gen material. I know that's becoming a new trend now, people putting down games that they feel are not up to next-gen standards, but this game REALLY isn't. My roommate reserved this, mainly cause the preview looked awesome, long story short major disappointment. This would actually be a pretty cool title on the PS2 I think. The controls really don't fit right with the 360 controller, and I think for the stealth games, the PS2 controller has its advantages. (i.e. Metal Gear Solid) The graphics look well polished but you can tell they didn't make any effort to place it with the rest of the current 360 titles. If you're still not convinced, I can only urge that you rent before you splurge.

frustrating

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: October 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I made the mistake of purchasing this game before seeing reviews or playing a demo of any kind.

I got it the week it came out, but got frustrated and bored very VERY quickly after getting into the game.

As most reviewers before me have said, graphics definitely aren't next-gen HI-DEF by any stretch of the mind, I wouldn't say they are downright worst I have ever seen but it's not anywhere near where the graphics should be on a 360.

I don't mind games where you can't take 100 hits before being killed. I loved rainbow six vegas. But, this game... the absolutely most by far frustrating thing in this game is when you are seen and if you do not manage to unload an entire clip into the vampire before it gets to you, you have ALMOST a zero percent chance of living, they hit you once and it takes off 3/4 of your life. almost immediately after they first strike you and knock you back, you are hit a second time and it is game over and time to reload the checkpoint and probably have the same thing happen again.

I will admit I haven't beaten the entire game yet. I played it for a while when I first got it but then put it away for a while due to frustrating gameplay. I have started it back up but only because since I paid 60 bucks for it I might as well complete it before I turn it in for something else.

Also, As I mentioned, it does tend to be extremely boring at times. I wouldn't consider it an action game, or at least not a very good one, Because there is hardly any real action in the game asides from your character being killed. Rest of the game is slowly walking *sneaking* around town and AVOIDING all you see. So, if you want to kill a lot of vampires, dont get this game. Get Rainbow Six instead, it's still one of the best realistic action/fps games I've played on the 360. Or even get BioShock or Stranglehold if you like action.

If your still interested in the game, because you enjoy the whole stealth concept. Try to find a demo first before buying to make sure.

The worst Xbox 360 game ever.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: September 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Vampire Rain I must say, is the opposite of Bioshock. While that game is
most likely going to be rated game of the year, Vampire Rain should be rated worst game of the year. There are quite a few reasons why this game sucks. For one thing, by the way the graphics look I would think this to be a Xbox, not a Xbox 360 game. The game itself is beyond boring. The first mission is just a training session where you do nothing but follow a teammate and basically just do whatever he does. There is really no point in having any weapons in the game because once you finally run into the first vampire in the game, you are sure to be dead. You can shoot it right in the head and there will be no effect. You will be lucky to even get a chance to fire your weapon because once it sees you, you're dead...kills you instantaneously. Really the object of the game is to "avoid contact with the enemy" as your teammate orders you to do. You have to hide from the vampires and stay on one correct path to progress through the mission. If you try to go your own way, you will hear in cheesy voice acting "Did you forget your mission, soldier?" If you are looking for a kickass game where you go through killing the hell out of everyone in your path, then this is not the game for you. These people who are giving it 3-5 star reviews are stupid and/or just don't know anything about video games. I guess they are just so desperate to play a Xbox 360 game and are willing to play whatever they can get their hands on. GameInformer Magazine rated Bioshock 10 out of 10 while in the same issue they rated Vampire Rain 1.5!. Hell, I even know someone who rented this game and scratched it up deliberately just to get his money back. It sucks that bad. Let this be a warning to smart gamers.

its not bad at all...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: September 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

i know this game it seems kinda corny but its not and i don't know why people hate this game from the beginning ...this game have only two realy bad bad things 1. the storyline is weak(even the female character its not hot, iknow there is no matching) .
2.no one play it on x box live(by the way most the achievement you will get it there)

Not bad, but not great.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If your thinking about getting this, first make sure you know exactly what you are expecting out of it. If you are fresh from next-gen innovators such as "Gears of War", "Bio Shock", "Oblivion" and the like and are hungry for more, you will be sorely disappointed here. On the other hand, if your craving a decent steath game to tide you over until the next "Metal Gear" or "Splinter Cell", then you will have a right fine time with "Vampire Rain".

Graphics: Functionally solid, they neither impress nor irritate. The enviroments are a tad bland, but the character models and rain effects are nice.

Sound: Mixed bag, enviromental sounds create an effective atmosphere, but gun sounds are limp. Voice acting is pretty cheesy, which may be a plus if you take it the right way.

Gameplay: The deal breaker for many. It's "Slinter Cell", but with vampires. If you enjoyed those mechanics, you can enjoy this. The only major difference here are the bad guys; there is no sneaking up slowly and breaking a terrorists neck, oh lordy no, more than almost any stealth game I've ever played you will do everything in your power to avoid running into the villans. Why? Because these Vampires are retardedly lethal. If you get spotted, you have all of zero chance of getting away alive, as the vampire will clear a distance of a hundred yards to you in a matter of seconds and will tear you apart in 2 swipes of it's claws. The enemy lethality seems to substitute for an alarm system and does add to the tension (and frustration) of the game. Later on you get some weapons to fight back and it's a welcome change of pace, but still be prepared to die often.

Overall: A solid, if unmemorable stealth game that has it's share of up and downs but should satisfy genre fans until the big dogs come to play again.

It Gets Good After about 5 Hours

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: August 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Every bad review I've read on this game was done by someone who picked it up, played for an hour or two, and got frustrated and quit. Those kinds of people describe it as difficult and linear, which it is not. No one I've talked to who actually played the game to the point where you get good weapons gave it less than 4 stars or so

When you start out, you're equipped with a silenced pistol that is basically useless, and nothing else. The whole game is just you sneaking around trying to avoid vampires, much like Theif or Splinter Cell. Tons of sneaking, not much else. I hated it

Then, as you complete a few levels, you gradually get better weapons, and the game becomes much more action-oriented and less stealth-oriented. There is still alot of stealth in it, but its not 99% stealth like the first 2 or 3 levels are.

Once you get the sniper rifle, you're free to sneak up to buildings and snipe at some vampires. Generally you don't have enough ammo to kill them all, but you can choose your own routes to your objectives and clear some of the vamps from whatever route you pick, making this game non-linear. You do not have to follow a set line unless you waste all your bullets, then there may only be one way for you to do it at that point, but that's not the game's fault

As you go, you get new weapons, which add to the non-linearity and give you more choices. Shotguns are great, and kill several vamps at once, but are loud and will bring every vamp on a level running unless you use them indoors or underground. UV knives are silent but single-use, and you have to sneak close to use them. UV mines are good but you have to set them in a vamp's path and then set them off, etc. Not to mention that some of the later levels are you and your team taking on vamps in a full on shoot out, more like Rainbow 6 or Ghost Recon than Splinter Cell

So basically this game is what you make of it. If you want stealth, its there. If you want to use your head and kill specific vampires with the right weapons, its almost a shooter. But you have to give it more than a cursory try to get the real game out of it

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