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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.

A valiant effort, but well short of good...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 12
Date: July 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I sadly remember the day when this game was released. I had waited long enough, and finally I had the game in my hands. I remember being so excited until about 1 hour into the game. It was then that I realized that this game was terrible.

The graphics were nice, and the cut scenes were above average. The voices sounded good, and the combat was a little fast, but adequate.

But I wasn't having fun. I realized that the game was pretty deep, and dwelling deeper into the game's cool storyline would require more of the bad AI, terrible - I mean HORRIBLE combat system, and scrappy mouse driven interface. I couldn't take it anymore. I wished I could just watch the game instead of play it, then I would of been happy.

I did what I had to do, and finally uninstalled it. I thought of all the money I spent, and went to find another game. What a tradgedy that a game with that much potential had to be ruined by an obvious rushed product. If your a gamer who likes fast action and addicting gameplay, then go buy Icewind Dale or Diablo 2, not this game.

If only...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: August 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I've read all the reviews on here so far, and they seem divided. I'm sure I would like the game. If I could play it.

I have a brand new computer, which surpasses all the system requirements, except for the supported chipsets for the graphics. I'm a big fan of the VTM system, so I bought the game as soon as I discovered it, sat through the interminable install process, and began to play. Gorgeous stuff in the beginning. Then you hit the part where you start to take control of the action, and everything is gray.

This is a game I would gladly have handed over more money for than I did, but it's going back because I refuse to buy a new video card in order to play it. If you plan on purchasing this game, MAKE SURE your system is compatible, or you'll end up returning it unplayed no matter how much you want it.

Somebody needs to review the term Role-Playing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: June 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Okay, I have to admit that the graphics and sound are top notch, better than I've seen in a very long time, but the game is otherwise a disappointment. Unfortunately, after all the hype, the game falls short of being a role playing game. You don't get to make your own character (for the main game), the opportunities to make a choice for your "character" are few and far between, and the choices you make have little or no effect on what happens (I made different choices for the same thing and got the same result each time). The game essentially leads you by the nose. In addition, there are long, drawn out cinematic sequences (excellent graphics) where your character interacts with individuals, and you have NO CONTROL over what happens during these scenes. The single player game is a pretty decent hack-n-slash/shooter game with excellent graphics, and an okay interface, but role playing it isn't. There are no opportunities for real strategy, role play, or thought, and the multiplayer game that has the potential to closely resemble the pen and paper version (the storyteller feature is a cool idea) has so many holes it resembles swiss cheese.

For Add on cards only!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 17
Date: September 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I have and Intel 366 Celeron on the i810 chipset. I only expected average results form my average system but this game will not work at all with the i810! Once you go into Prague(2nd act) the game goes into grey block. It wont even work on the lowest pixel setting! Activision has yet to tell me how to remedy this. I bet their answer will be to shell out $200 for a add on card. Don't buy unless you have a power system. Screw you Activison, I'll stick with game engines (like lithtech)that work cross platform!

Disturbing, Dark and terrible language

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: March 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

You know a game is "bad" when your teenage son voluntarily removes it from the computer and describes it as "disturbing and dark". If video games were "returnable", this one would definitely be returned. My son said the game was not very much fun and that it was a "sad failure of a game".

Don't Waste Your Money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 16
Date: March 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This has to be one of the biggest computer game dissapointments and waste of money ever. This game does not run - I tried to install it on three different machines, two of which had graphics cards which the game claims to support. Every time, the install routine crashes. I don't care how good the hype or the potential may be if you are one of those lucky ones who have managed to get this buggy disaster to run. I was so disgusted with the product that I sent an angry letter to Activision's CEO with the product.

Warning ALL MAC users

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: January 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I waited a long time for the release of this game to Mac platform. Unfortunetly for me I could have waited forever and not had the damage caused by this game.
It not only destroyed my hard drive, the game was not worth the price I had to pay to fix the damage caused by the game.
I took my machine to a licensed Macintosh dealer to have it repaired, the main cause of the damage was this game according to MAC.
Save yourself the trouble, wait for company to fix whatever causes the hard drive to crash and burn.

Vampire: The Masquerade Redemption

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Overall: Not Impressed

Good:

Pretty Graphics

Ok Story

Bad:

Saving while playing the game not pratical, but can be overcome

Spells are completley useless in battle (there was no time to casts spell other then an occasional heal spell)

Group Problems:

- There is no control over your group in battle

- Group constantly geting stuck behind walls and other objects

- Group wastes ammo and mana

- Group would constantly get themselves killed by charging into large groups of creatures

- I was eventually forced to leave group at zone entrance and solo the zone, calling on the group only when needed

Basically a hack at it until it dies game

Very abrubt ending

THIS GAME IS TERRIBLE!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 13
Date: April 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME IS HORRIBLE. THE AMOUNT OF SPACE NEEDED FOR IT IS TREMENDOUS AND A WASTE. EVEN AFTER THE FULL INSTALLATION, I HAD PROBLEMS. THE GAME FREEZES UP, THE MOUSE MOVES TERRIBLY, EVERYTHING STAYS AFTER IT SHOULD HAVE LEFT SO YOU HAVE LAYERS OF STUFF. EVERYTHING GOES SLOW. THIS IS GOING RIGHT BACK TO THE STORE. DONT BUY UNLESS YOU HAVE ONE AMAZING COMPUTER THAT MIGHT ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO HANDLE THIS. I JUST COMPLETELY UPDATED MINE WITH TOP OF THE LINE STUFF A FEW MONTHS BACK AND IT STILL DIDNT WORK.

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