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Take off the goth fanboy goggles

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm not terribly sure what drives people ga-ga over the gameplay in Vampire: The Maquerade Redemption. I assume the game's popularity has more to do with atmosphere and subject matter than anything. I didn't enjoy the actual play very much.

The box art and cutscenes might mislead unsuspecting players into thinking Vampire is an epic RPG or even a first-person adventure. It's neither. While the story, conversations, and character development are engaging, the game itself is an old-style isometric hack and slash. Which is fine, when that particular system is implemented competently. Here it only occasionally works. Too much of Vampire's environments consist of narrow hallways and blind corridors where enemies and allies alike jam themselves into environmental wedges, run headlong into adversaries, and generally act in manners directly against common sense. Level design is pretty, well detailed, and enhances the mood of the game, but it is amateurish in terms of interactivity. This would be a minor flaw if, again, the meat of the game weren't the combat itself. Yes, there are many RPG elements like character leveling and the often fun experiments with trinkets and baubles picked up at the local shops, but the fun bits devolve into frustration whenever a member of your crew runs headfirst into a gaggle of bloodsuckers, despite your commands.

The story nearly makes the gameplay endurable. I didn't know much about Vampire's universe, and was intrigued by the "vampire mafioso" storyline. Rather than preying on innocent damsels in distress, Vampire's protagonists are a human-sympathetic clan at war with other more sinister vampire families. The story unfolds through fairly taut and convincing (for a video game) dialogue, and the occasional cutscene. I was never bored with the story progression, and my curiosity about the next winding turn kept me playing for a good while. Eventually the infuriatingly clumsy and often poorly balanced gameplay soured the experience for me though.

If you're a huge fan of this game's particular universe, and simply MUST know how the story goes, then Vampire: The Masquerade Redemption may be worth the effort. Just be prepared for the headaches.

Vampire The Masquerade Redemption: Platinum Hit Series

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The game was good and I enjoyed the story line. My only issue is that the game was constant combate and it started to feel very repetitive.

I only played to game to see how the stroyline unfolded.

Edge of your seat excitement!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Redemtion was an overall fun game with an interesting story, but unfortunatly it wasn't 100% true to the old World of Darkness books, but regardless, it was still a lot of fun to play. And the ability to play with up to three other players via LAN or internet and even create your own chronicles is not only exciting, but helps add to the creativity of the game; just like World of Darkness really is. Overall, for the price it's at, it's definantly a worthy buy to atleast try. Heck, it's cheeper to buy it than to rent it!

Vampire the masquerade: redemption

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

a classic that helped pave the way for mmorpgs' back in the day. still alot of fun although the graphics are good, the AI pales in comparison to current day titles. 4/5

This game is awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: February 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Well i think this game is really great how to play and the history is very cool i like it!!!

Great Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: October 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Very enjoyable to play, controls weren't overly complicated. I liked the challenges offered by this game so much I purchased Vampire: Bloodlines!

I am only rating it four stars because I've been spoiled by Bloodlines

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 14
Date: September 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've only played the DEmo, yeah, sue me! Since the demo is so elaborate compared to most chimpy demos I got a pretty good taste of it(no pun intended-well maybe). The demo starts you with the protagonist(no choice characters here as in Bloodlines) and his three comrads. One foxxy Camila'esque chick who casts blood magic(not Thuegmetry but Necromacy), a berserker Gangrel, and some other Brujah other than yourself.(I guess a scout or something). The full game contains countless locations in mideval and modern time periods. You always start in the mideval era as the Knight turned Undead who has to chase down some Trelane and find him in modern times(London, Germany, or US I don't know). You start in Vienna in I assume 900-1000 AD and end up in 1999/2000 or something. This game is rated "mature" for a reason, it is very bloody, so don't be one of those "mother of five" or "distraught daddy" coming on here and saying it's "inappropriate for children" when you didn't read the rating and allowed your kid into a store to buy the thing in the first place.(or come here online) Proper etiquette dictates you gather all the facts before venting on an adult game review post. The game contains cut scenes in battle where decappitations occurr, you have been warned, squimish ones...
The most important thing to remember in this game(unlike Bloodlines) is Save Save SAVE! It is brutal(aka brujah) and you get killed a lot and loose a lot of blood. Bloodlines is tough in tight spots but this game is constantly just that. You have four characters at first, but they are not much protection against what you have to fight. If the Necromancer dies, you have to hack and slash and it is easy to die and you won't get out of the first castle easily without her and the magic she weilds.(though she is very easy to kill and dies a lot). AI in the party is non-existant(I assume the full retail game is different) you cannot control what a character does unless you take direct control. For instance The Necromancer tends to melee a lot even when you try to get her to cast spells and then go to annother character. You cannot arm her with a ranged bow either. Micromanagement is impossible and scripts are just not there as in Baldur's Gate and the like.

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