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if you like vampires and good gameing this is for you

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: November 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

well right of the bat i was expecting a good game and so far it hasnt diaponted me i was ahuge fan of the frist game and this one excedes it it in everway it combians a good frist person shooter with all the great features of a complex rpg it was very easy to learn how to play also the story is complex and intregeing this is defently not a game for kids i was worried that they game would not run well on my system like dues ex 2 but im running it at maxuim graphic settings and it runs vertual flasely on my computer it only has a few small sound glitches and a split second bog on the systems the only thing i can say i dont like about the game i there is almost a load screen for entering ever area but i can get over that its a freaking great game with ifentposablitys in story line i hope this game makes it to everyones shelfs want to see a 3rd release in the future

multiplayer? NOT

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: December 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Big box store's eXPERT couldn't determine if the game is multiplayer. The box sort of suggests that it could be.
Gamespot review states that it definately is NOT.
Looks as if I'll end up returning the extra copy.

rrrrrr!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: August 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First I'd like to say I've played kotor + kotor II, they ran perfectlty on my computer(pentium 4,512 ram,2.4 GB w/9600 radeon vcard). This game wow so buggy it was painful, my blood pressure went through the roof.It has a decent story and could have been ok.Dont waste your time and money on this one. Sorry for the bad news I was looking foward to being a vampire too.

Don't buy this game!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 56
Date: July 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The only thing you do in this game is nothing. Do not buy this worthless peice of trash and waste all your money. The only word I have to describe Vampire: Bloodlines is YUCK.

Fun concept but bad game play

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: May 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

it was a great idea but the graphics and glitches brought it down

LA Lurid

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

In addition to all the excitement etc., this is a wonderful panorama of LA's famous high spots at their most lurid and then some. "The Big Sleep", "The Black Dahlia", with vampires.

Falls Apart at the End

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Great game, until it devolves into a mindless beat-em up with wave after wave of spawning enemies spamming you to death. It's like some other developer finished the game and turned it into a console button masher. And the switch to third person during hand-to-hand and melee combat doesn't help.

It starts out great though, so if you can handle TONS of combat for the last third of this game (remember to put ALL exp. points into combat related skills during and after the much maligned sewer level) buy it.

Decent game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Becoming a vampire, isn't that everybody's dream? Superhuman strength, heighten senses, and immortality are just some of the perks of embracing the vampire life. Unfortunately, not all of us have a vampire friend who can convert us, so we have to settle with role playing with Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines by Troika.

Bloodlines is set in Los Angeles where vampires live in secret under the rules of the Masquerade, which are a set of hard rules vampires follow to keep their existence a secret from all the humans. For example, the Masquerade dictates that if you want to feed, you better do it in a dark alley with no witnesses. In game, the Masquerade operates under a five strikes and you're out mentality, so you can't go around using your vampiric powers or drinking blood indiscriminately.

The game plays a bit like a first person Fallout where you are free to roam pockets of LA completing a variety of quests for a reward. At the outset, you choose from seven different races of vampires each with their own subset of vampire powers and abilities. The races are fairly standard fair, some specializing in vampire magic, others in combat and others in persuasion or sex appeal. Some of the races do stand out though; for example, the Nosferatu are so physically deformed that even being spotted by a human result in a Masquerade violation, so they must specialize in stealth and stick mainly to traveling through the sewers.

The quests have very good variety and are made even more interesting by the lore of the Masquerade and the politics that these vampires are steeped in. For example, *minor spoiler alert* you will be running through a haunted house avoiding flying furniture to retrieve an object for someone, or trying to clear out a strip joint so you can single out and kill a stripper who turns out to be a vampire hunter. The unfortunate side of this is that the game is built around a poorly executed combat system.

Combat in Bloodlines is tiring. First of all, the game strips away two of the most important reasons players enjoy combat: loot and experience. There isn't a rich economy of weapons in Bloodlines. There are a handful of guns to choose from and even less melee weapons. The only thing enemies drop, except for specific quest related enemies, are the weapons they are holding, so if you are running around shooting up security guards you will at best be breaking even with the bullets you put in them and the bullets that they are dropping. The big slight is the lack of experience gained from enemy encounters. This may be a slight boon to players who enjoy playing RPGs diplomatically; this sucks for the average player.

Another issue with the combat is the enemy AI. They are idiots and they are too similar. Either they are shooting at you, in which case you are ducking behind something and shooting them back, or they are lunging at you, where you back pedal and shoot them in the face. Either case, they are idiots. If you get two goons who are shooting at you and you line them up in a straight line, the one in the back will shoot the one in the front in the back. This is made even more irritating that they all are amazing shots.

Bloodlines takes advantage of the Source engine so the game feels a very Half Life like (more towards part one than part two) and also benefits from the Source engine's amazing ability to create life-like NPCs. All of the characters are very expressive and are treated with some amazing voice acting which helps suck you into the game's narrative. It is truly a shame that the game's combat drags the whole thing down and makes it feel like a chore to get to the juicy story.

Overall playing the game was a positive experience. At first, the game was very immersive, but as you become more aware of the game's shortcomings, the experience did tend to drag at the end. It was bad enough at the end that I decided to forgo playing the game again as another race and Goozexed it.

7/10

Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

A fun vampire game that plays a lot differently than Vampire the Masquerade Redemption. Its a little glitchy at times but other than that its an over all enjoyable game.

fun game that turns boringly tedious

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

first off, yes, this game is the buggiest game I have ever played. it crashed about once an hour usually. SAVE OFTEN!

secondly. this game starts off incredibly. the first 3/4s of Bloodlines is addictive and ingenious. it made me nostalgic for 1995 when I first started playing Vampire: The Masquerade. the music and mood is perfect. the gameplay (while buggy as hell) is incredibly responsive and fun.

but the last part of the game is absolutely tedious and irritating. instead of coming up with creative, fun ways to solve quests like they did for most of the game, they decided that to make the end "hard" that they should just throw millions and millions of badguys at you. endlessly respawning, never-ending hordes of baddies. and if you didn't make a combat character, you're dead as fried chicken. there are no longer any ways to solve quests by talking them through or using different approaches. everyone has to deal with it the same way. combat. endless, intensive combat. which in my eyes did the entire game an utter disservice, as it was designed for multiple approaches to problem solving.

Vampire: Bloodlines was an excellent game with a potential for greatness. if only they hadn't taken the easy way out at the end.

B-

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