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Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 30 / 50
Date: April 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game. Not only is it a fun RPG but being diferent clans gives it a great re play value. This is a perfect rpg and i strongly recomend it.

Vampire the Masquerade Redemption

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 29 / 37
Date: May 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I saw a preview of this game and highly recommend it for women. There is a shortage of games that appeal to women but this one has major female characters who are as strong as the male roles. The artwork is stunning and the play is not only challenging but fun. I was impressed with the realistic action and the attention to the authenticity of the locales used for the game. I can't wait to play it at length.

VAMPIRE MASQUERADE

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 14
Date: May 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

MISSED THE BETA TEST OF THIS BY 2 HOURS. PLAYED A BETA TEST OF IT ROUND A FRIENDS, GRAPHICALLY AMAZING THE GAMEPLAYS PRETTY GOOD TOO, WELL WORTH WAITING FOR. A MUST FOR ALL RPG FANS. A GAME THAT MAKES YOU FEEL PART OF IT!

Finally, Fangs for the RPG World!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 18 / 24
Date: June 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

For all of you who love RPG's, like I do, but are sick of the same old theme's Vampire will fulfill all of your dreams. This game rocks! The story is engrossing, and it changes each time you start a new game. Replay galore. The Quests are intriguing, and not too complicated. The combat is not as robust as it could be but that is because there is a plot here, and lots of little goodies to hunt for. The NPC development is great and they make for valuable company. The graphics are very well done, and general play will keep you going. I can only see two improvements that could be made to the game, but they are minor. One is that during combat the mouse moves to give you a wonderful panoramic view of the situation, but during the heat of battle you could get disoriented and lose some HP's because you are looking at the combat from a bad angle. Once you get the hang of it it wont be a big deal. The second thing is that the cinematics are often long and overdone, but they really do make the game more like a movie. One great thing is that this game starts out like a medieval RPG, but progresses to a modern day RPG like Fallout. Be careful sucking blood could be a habit! Buy it and you will be up very late. Have Fun!

One of the BEST games to come out in a long time!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: June 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Too many great things to say about this game. Excellent story, Incredible graphics and sound, extremely engrossing. The hardware requirements aren't too steep either. I am playing with a PII 300 and the game runs and looks beautiful. Bottom line, Nihilistic has created a steller and amazingly addictive game.

Hype!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 23 / 33
Date: June 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Well, we have another example of a game that is selling itself with hype and screenshots. First of all, the graphics are great, good, best. No dispute there. However...what is important in an RPG? Gameplay? Tactics? hohoho...there are none. You just keep clicking the mouse as fast as you can and the AI guys keep hitting as fast as they can. You move from room to room where monsters sit in one place and wait for you. The spell system is very bad. The game has much more action than the pen and paper game, so 80% of the spells are useless. Yes, you use your healing and maybe a few damage spells but there is absolutely no reason to use anything else. The stats...well, they seem complex but have a very small impact on combat, which I must say again, is devoid of tactics. The Group AI has some faults especially when ranged weapons are used (most felt in the modern day part) since your vampire friends will repeatedly shoot at walls without going around them to get a clear shot at the monsters. Story...I though it would be good, original, and immersive. I don't know how, but they managed to fail at doing that. It is very linear, predictable, not exiting, and is nothing like the vampire books that spawned the game. I have not and will not play the multiplayer game since in this combat system the speed of your mouse clicks determines your characters combat performance, and no story-teller, no matter how good he is, can fix this. Well? Do I think I am out of my mind? A few days ago, I would have thought the same. Alas, I bring you the sad truth. Vampire the Maskerade sucks and the people that made it should be ashamed of themselves for creating such a poor game. Still don't believe me? Check out the 'professional' reviews on sites like gamespot and they will tell you the same thing.

I can't believe how well they made it!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: June 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I am surprised. White-Wolf is doing really well. This game is very well and thoroughly done. You even start out as a mortal! Disciplines are nicely done and everything works great. The story is very good. I hope white-wolf keeps producing games like this one and maybe in the future the games will contain even more variety of disciplines and powers and higher limits to the character's powers. Oh one thing that did piss me off is the fact that they like to emphasis that it is a roleplaying game not rollplaying by not allowing you to save your game. OVerall the game is highly recommended. Not for children though.

oh my god

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: June 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

V:TM lovers, here you are....the most wonderful game to come out for the computer....well not quite, but up there....one question, though, why do you spend blood on potence?

Incredible Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

One word -- WOW. This game rocks. Period. I got it two days ago and can't pull myself away from the computer. The graphics are amazing, the storyline is fantastic, and the gameplay is smooth and addicting. A must buy. Highly recommended.

Beatiful but bad AI, unbalanced gameplay, & lousy saves

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 97 / 113
Date: June 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I am a huge fan of vampire fiction in any form and also enjoy a good RPG. So I was ecstatic when I heard about Vampire being translated from the pen-and-paper sources to the computer. And Vampire is an amazing looking game that I really wanted to like. Unfortunately some bad design choices and poor features prevented it from happening.

I'll start with the good points. The graphics are stunningly amazing. The animation of the characters is fluid and weapons are superbly done. The lighting greatly enhances the dark and sinister atmosphere. I kept going in many places because I wanted to see what area I would visit next. The camera control is also very smooth and easy to manipulate with the mouse. The gameplay is actually fun for the first bit of the game while you are adventuring by yourself and with one other party member. The source material and the manual add a lot to this game. Wandering around towns and seeing people milling about made it feel alive. And it was always oh so fun to feed upon someone to refill your blood level.

The RPG system is also great. There are several positive and detrimenatl traits for the characters. A certain level of blood must be maintained to use the disciplines (spells/skills) and to keep your character from succombing to frenzy. Experience points can be distributed among such traits as strength, dexterity, intelligence, willpower and several others. Very nicely done indeed.

Here is where I have to get in to the demerits of this game. First off, the voice acting is not very good; but it's not the worst I've heard either. And the sequences of dialogue are long and boring. The characters simply stand in place and wave their hands about. NPC interaction is left to a few choices which really have little baring on the outcome of the game. Nothing as rich and detailed as Planescape: Torment.

The combat, while fun and reminiscent of Diablo, only keeps its spark for the first part of the game. Most of it consists of clicking on an enemy and waiting until you've hit them enough times for them to die. A big flaw that becomes noticable during the first few levels is that the enemies wait until you are in range before they attack. They will simply stand idle as you slaughter others in the same room! As the game progresses you will gain party members, and will bemoan similarly incompetant AI. I equipped one with a bow and laughed in disbelief as he continuously fired in to a wall when he should have moved a couple steps to the side before doing so. Also, you can control the other members of your party in combat, but the main character will stop fighting while you are doing so! Aaahhhh! Add to this that you can go through entire areas and clean up with little to no problem, but then come across certain areas that will be nigh impossible to pass. Both enemies and your fellow party members will get hung up on walls, doors and other obstacles in the room.

And here we come to the worst sin of the game, the save system. Saving is automatically handled when you transition between levels are areas. The only other way to save is to be in your haven or safe area. One can get there by using the Walk the Abyss discipline (aka spell/skill). But it takes a while before you have one of these in a given area. So we are left hacking our way back through areas and levels already completed. I found myself abusing the autosave feature by running back and forth between levels to save. But what if more than one person is playing the game as is the case on my computer? It's pretty much tough luck. This is a computer game, not a console. The game should have been balanced so that players could save anywhere at anytime.

The multiplayer sounds enticing with the ability for one person to take control of the NPCs and monsters. But if the gameplay is similar to the single-player then I can't see it being much better.

With great graphics, a rich source material and so much potential. It makes me sad to not be able to like this game. This takes me back to Revenant, another game with a lot of potential but came up flacid. Maybe the patches will fix the problems, I certainly hope so. But much has to be done for the AI to make this game worthy.

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