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Oh well, another turkey

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: April 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I just received my Dracula 2 game from ... today. That's the good news. When you open the box the only thing inside is the jewel case which contains the two CD's and the worlds shortest "manual".

There appears to be no way to change the resolution settings, color settings, sound or anything else. Or re-map the keyboard. Keyboard? There is nothing in the "manual" which shows keyboard assignments. How do you move forward? Who knows. Backwards? Run, walk or jump? Who knows. Want to use mouse invert? Sorry about that.

Having played PC games for a couple of years now I am conditioned to the fact that you're gonna get ... sometimes, and this is one of those times. Think of it this way: I get to have turkey in April, because Dracula 2: the Last Sanctuary is a turkey (and it's not even Thanksgiving yet!).

Would like to play but keep falling asleep

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: June 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Welcome to the worlds most boring game. When I ran this game for the first time I was very impressed with an introductory movie that was very long, detailed and creepy. I couldn't wait to start playing to see more of that. However, once I started playing I was dissappointed with this game and it's over-simplicity.

There are only certain places that you can move to. Want to go check out that dark corner over there? Forget it, you can't. You can turn around 360 degrees but only move in one direction, go figure. You collect different items and solve different puzzles and that's all this game really is. It's a pretty puzzle game. There are no special effects and no movement by the monsters. They just stand there and grunt at you.

Not to mention this game is so pathetically easy that my four year old son could play it with no problems at all.

Don't buy this game. ....

was sent the wrong platform

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 10
Date: December 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

i order DRACUAL: the last santuary for the windows platform and was sent the PLAYSTATION platform............now i have to hope i can quickly and easily get my money refunded or do a swap for the platform that i want. I did get the order in time for XMAS.........however the game SHOULD have been sent under a windows platform..........that is what seller listed the platform under.

Pass by this game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: April 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is not the best game out there. I'm a serious gamer and this is not a serious game here. I could have more fun out of solataire! The box looks good but the gameplay isn't there at all. You could pass this game up and not miss a thing. If you want a cool vampire game then check out Nocturne by Terminal Reality. That's a game that rocks and has tons of action and puzzles.

Dracula Schmacula!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game promised to be a good thing, but like most promises it was meant to be broken. The narrative graphic are beautiful and exciting however the game graphics are not really interactive. It seems as though you are just looking at a picture either up close or far away as you play. I don't like the way you have to move yourself around either, never felt involved. The directional arrows are ambiguous leaving you hanging without knowing why or what you are supposed to do. We were very disappointed.

This game needs a stake in the heart...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Fortunately, I bought this game at Half-priced books, used. Mind you, I'm an action/adventure gamer, so you folks who love these kind of games might find it fantastic. To me, it's absolutely and painstakingly slow! I thought something was wrong with my mouse, because it took forever for me to turn around in a room. Nope. I checked it out and the mouse is fine. So it's something to do with the game. It's one of those games you can't interact with. You have to find the clues and sometimes when you aim the cursor at the clue, it doesn't highlight, so you miss it completely. Not good for THIS type of game. I have to say, I'm just starting the game and using a walkthrough. Still, even with the walkthrough, the clues aren't showing up and it takes forever to get them to show up and work! The graphics are pretty good. I'll give it that. But holy perogies... How do you people enjoy these types of games? It's so damned boring! I like games where you can interact with the environment; where you feel like YOU are part of the game. So far, this doesn't cut the mustard (whatever that means...). I'll probably try a little more tomorrow and the next day before I finally get tired of wasting so much time just trying to move around. Click here and wait... Dum dee dumm... Ok finally. Now, click here and wait... Dum dee dumm... Thanks but no thanks. I'll stick to my action games where I can at least move the character at will. I had to give it two stars because the graphics were good and the atmosphere WAS spookey. But, in my opinion, don't buy this game new. Unless, of course, you're the type who enjoys these tedious, slow, poorly controlled games. I can usually tell within a few minutes whether I like a game or not and I don't like this one. Nope. No questions about it.

Excellent game, but it has it's flaws.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is the second Dreamcatcher Interactive game I have bought. Excellent quality game for the price. The graphics and sound are excellent. The puzzles aren't too difficult, but clever. The storyline is long enough to enjoy the playing. It does have it's flaws though. The entire game runs from the CD-ROM making acessing the inventory take a minute or so, which is irritating at some points in the game. Also, the movement in the inventory is jerky forcing you to attempt to get an item several time. Overall, though good game and worth the money

Not as good as the first one.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: February 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

After playing Dracula: The Ressurection, I was excited to see that there was gonna be another one. Dracula 2 didn't quite live up to what I was expecting. The graphics for the most part were still solid, but some of them were pretty crappy.
Here are some of the pros for me:
1. This game was harder and more challenging
2. A good story
3. Cool cut scenes
4. Much cooler puzzles

Now the cons:
1. In the first game, most all of the puzzles were like things you could do in real life. In this one, alot of them mad no sense at all
2. Tedious gameplay. you had to do many of these puzzles over and over
3. The sound. The monsters sounded the same. And the sound they had, they sounded like a cat with a hairball. Very bad

But the overall play was very good and there are many places to explore and many fun puzzles to solve. If you got the first Dracula game, then this is a must.

Very Good, But Could Be Better.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: November 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed this game very much, mainly because of the great graphics, decent storyline, and creepy and detailed characters. Although there are a few problems... But first, I'll concentrate on the good aspects of this game.

First of all, this game succeeds in what it's supposed to be: A creepy game with Dracula as the main antagonist. Everything about this game is creepy, from the old dilapidated house filled with shadows and god knows what else, to Dracula's dungeons, filled with a sea of skeletons. The characters are especially creepy. They're downright ugly, and their imagery will remain stuck in your head. Especially the insane Hopkins, who a mother couldn't even love. This game isn't "scary", not really... Although there are a few places in the game (mostly in Carfax, the run-down house) where you will jump a little bit, but mainly those situations are few and far between. This game is mostly creepy... You will get the chills while playing this game, especially late at night.

The graphics are really good, as I've said before. The backgrounds are, at first, really nice to look at, although soon you'll find out that they look a little flat looking... But they still look nice. I do have a complaint about the enemies... They really stand out from the flat backgrounds, so they look unnatural in their surroundings.

There's no music (besides some in the cut scenes), but there's some creepy background noises... Such as creaks, groans, wind, growling, insane laughter... And in some scenes, there's nothing, so it's creepy silence. Basically, I didn't mind that the game didn't have music, because the sounds were enough.

The cut scenes are really nice and add to the storyline well. The only problem I see with them is that the lip-synching is downright horrible. It really throws off the entire thing. Too bad... But the character's voices are really good... The voice actors really put some time into making them just right.

At times you will come across some books, which you can read. If you don't feel like reading, you can just click on the words, and the character that written them will start reading them out loud for you. I liked this function.

Okay, now it's time for the bad things...

This game is really uneven. Most of the puzzles are not very hard, meaning that if you poke and prod long enough, you will come across a solution soon. But, there are a few puzzles in the game that will frustrate you. So, you'll end up doing a really easy puzzle, then go into a really hard one, then end up doing a really easy one again. Another thing about the puzzles that I didn't like was that the solutions to the puzzles lie in items that are really hard to find. Meaning that you'll spend a lot of time moving you cursor all over every scene to try to find that one missing item. This will really frustrate you, so you must have patience if you're going to play this game. The reason the items are so hard to find at times is because they're usually hidden in dark corners where you can't even see the item hardly, and/or because they're small so you'll usually pass over it without seeing your cursor change. 98% of the time I used a walkthrough is when I couldn't find the item, and usually it ended up that the item was right under my nose, which frustrated me.

Another problem I had was the ending... It is bad. The reason it is bad is because it's really easy. You would expect the end to have the hardest puzzles... But it doesn't. In fact, the ending has some of the easiest puzzles in the game. The actual ending cut scenes aren't that bad, but you'll still be saying "Is that it?" after seeing them

Pros: Good graphics, good storyline, good characters, good cut-scenes with good voices, a lot of the puzzles are fun to complete, and it's very creepy. There also aren't that many bugs in it, so don't expect it to crash. In fact, it never crashed on me yet. This game, unlike a lot of other adventure games, does have some replay value. Mainly because it has a decent storyline and settings, so it'll be like going to an old favorite book and rereading it.

Cons: Some of the puzzles are frustrating because the items are hard to find, even though they usually end up being in plain sight, and when you do find the items, the puzzles become very easy. Lip synching is horrible. The ending is bad. The backgrounds are sort of flat, although that wasn't that big of a problem for me. Every time you want to play this game, you have to insert disk 1, even when you're on disk 2, which gets kind of annoying. The game won't take you that long to complete. It took me about a week to do it. It doesn't show how you die... Like for instance, on the chessboard puzzle... If you make one wrong move, a "Game Over" screen will appear, and nothing more.

Overall: It's a very fun game, although it can be frustrating at times. I recommend this game to anybody who likes creepy games, the Dracula story, or who likes adventure games. I generally liked it, in spite of some annoyances. I will be picking up the first game in this series, Dracula Resurrection, because I liked this game. Four stars.

Note: There are some violent scenes, but not that many. Most of the violence is when you plunge a stake through the heart of a vampire, and he fades to dust... But that's it for that. There are also some naked vampire women. (...)So, I don't really recommend this game for younger players.

Nice graphics and sounds, but gameplay is too linear

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

For the price, this is an entertaining game. It features cool graphics, appropriate sounds effects and a compelling premise: you are Jonathan Harker, and your quest to rid the world of the nefarious Count Vlad Tepes aka Dracula continues.

The styling of the game clearly borrows heavily from the Francis Ford Coppola interpretation of Dracula, as the Harker character seems cloned from the Keanu Reeves (dude) portrayal in that 1992 movie (down to his haircut). The game consists of static screens in which your character (via the cursor) moves and searches for items to further your quest. The cursor changes shape to signify the action you can or need to take (arrow for movement, gear cogs to indicate you need to use an item in your possession, and so on). There are also fully-animated cutscenes with decent voiceovers (bad lip-synch though) as well as animated monsters and other minor scenes.

That said, the major flaw I found was that the game is entirely too linear. In order to proceed to the next room/place/location you must find certain items and solve puzzles with them or combine them to make something happen - without them you're stuck where you are. Many of the items you're required to find tend to be small and not immediately visible (especially since the cursor is a small dot most of the time, and if you don't pass over the item in the right spot the cursor may not change, which is your only indication that the item is something you need). So you may find yourself moving the cursor over every inch of the scene in case you missed something. Your character's viewpoint can move a full 360 degrees horizontally (and 180 degrees vertically) but you can only move in the directions the game needs you too. There's no side exploring of anything interesting you see in the corner, and you can only pick up things the game needs you to (and only if you are facing them the right way). This may be helpful for some gamers but can be quite tedious for others.

Also some of the puzzles you must solve are somewhat unnecessarily long-winded and can be frustrating. I recommend using the walkthrough found on the game's website (especially when you get to a puzzle that you can't solve and realize that you need to go all the way back through several screens and pick up a barely-glimpsed piece of rope that was on the floor next to you, or something like that).

A final minor quibble is that when your character dies you see nothing - no scenes of Jonathan being mauled by a vampire monster or drowning when he stays underwater too long. You simply get a big "Game Over" screen with a picture of Dracula holding his hand out like he's asking you for spare change. Overall the game is worth its price and can provide some reasonable entertainment, particularly if you like creepy locales and themes (the game takes place in, among other locations, an asylum, an abandoned house, a deserted movie theater, cemeteries, a dungeon full of skeletons, and even a room full of fire-breathing dragon's heads). Worth a look, but don't expect to think too much.

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