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bloodlines when?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 59
Date: November 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

OK great to hear how much some people like this game!
How can they rate a game that won't be out till the 16th of Nov
Nice people!How about waiting after you buy and try it before you rate it and mislead others.

Honest Review from someone who's played it.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 15 / 18
Date: November 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First off, I pre-ordered this, LOOK AT THE DATES OF THE REVIEWERS. Interesting how many "rave" reviews are posted prior to this game being shipped.

Here's the interesting reality, this game is both great, and it stinks.

The game is a fantastic RPG. The plot is well developed, the quests are interesting with a few twists, there are some minor complaints...but none too major. There are not too many time sinks, but actual entertaining quests and puzzles.

However, the game released with numerous bugs. My system well exceeds that which is required...and I've had problems. In fairness there are people who have insisted they've had "no problems" with the game. Funnily enough one person ranted they had NO PROBLEMS no crashing...and then went on to detail 'except for that one time...' 0_o

My personal opinion? Everyone has had problems with this game. However, the extent of those problems seems to be a crap shoot. Certainly if your PC isn't up to par, you'll have difficulties...but many people who did have system specs which far exceeded had fatal bugs that caused crashing so they couldn't complete the game (there have been workarounds posted though).

My honest advice? This game IS worth buying...when it's patched. It's an RPG that is the only one I've seen that could be on par with KOTOR. The dynamics of the world it's set in, is extremely interesting.

The game is extremely 'adult oriented', and they've seemed to go out of their way to do so. Profanity, adult situations, interesting outfits, blah blah blah. I think some of it is meant to be a little shocking, but I didn't find anything offensive personally. But I thought I'd mention that because where KOTOR could be played by younger kids, this game is far more adult.

I gave this game a 5 rating for fun, that's ignoring the bugs and glitches. The bugs and glitches earned it a 1 star. Once that's resolved with patching, that obviously would increase.

Again, I'd highly recommend it to anyone who likes a really well done RPG, or anyone who likes VTM...once patching resolves the numerous problems. Until then, buyer beware.

Wait for a Patch!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: November 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

While this game is getting good reviews and promises to be great, it is hard to know because it seems to have been released too early. You cannot skip opening cut scenes, and the audio sync for these is extremely bad. According to the boards many others are having problems as well. With a newer computer designed for movies and games, this crashes before I ever get to game play. You will get a lot of inane suggestions like diagnose your DirectX or defragment your hard drive but the fact remains that this game is premature. If you get it good luck, there are others who can get it to work. It should be awesome, if you are one of the lucky few. I think there is a patch in the works. Save your money till then, or even wait a while till the price goes down. It should not take too long with this. But once the kinks are out this should be one of the best games.

Buggy code....this is a BETA folks!!!! CAUTION!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 14
Date: December 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

My first piece of advise - DO NOT BUY THIS GAME UNTIL AN OFFICIAL PATCH IS RELEASED! ((I am not the only person saying this))Even then you should be leery until maybe a 2nd patch is out! This game is LOADED with bugs, the graphics engine consumes your CPU and RAM no matter how powerful your system is! Please read on - I don't hate this game...I just think they should have tested it before releasing it to the public.
There are many fansites with forums. In the forums you will find people screaming and yelling from the rooftops about how bad, buggy and choppy this game is!

Let me make myself clear and explain what I mean by BETA for those that do not know.

When a software company creates a program it typically goes through several stages before being released. BETA is a version that is ALMOST ready for sale to the public but needs to go through test drives first to hunt and find problems, crashes, bugs, mistakes, etc. This version would not be sold or released to the public for widespread use. NO WAY!
A release that is ready for widespread public use or sale is called a GOLD or RTM version. This means that it runs beautifully, very few bugs or crash problems, if any!

WELL, Vampires: Bloodlines is NOTHING BUT A BETA!!!!!!!! I can prove it. Keep reading!

I have a P4, ATI X800, 2 GB CORSAIR RAM....etc. You name it, I have nothing but top of the line, latest and greatest.
This game chugs along. It consumes over 750 MB's of RAM when being run, I get choppy frames, and lots of lag at times!
How can this be? Easy, this game was not meant to be released so soon. I think there was pressure to get it out before X-mas!!!! The code and graphics engine behind this game was not ready for retail release.

Bloodlines crashes at certain parts of the game, lip sync is off on many characters, some missions of the game cannot be completed, graphics errors and goof ups abound while playing the game, the combat action is TERRIBLE, involuntary switching from 1st to 3rd person disrupts your game play!! I could go on and on!

The GOOD -
Diverse campaigns/missions, funny interaction with characters, some interesting weapons to use, very creative game with clever ideas and lots of thought put into the concept.

The BAD -
Missions become repetitive, lots of level transitions that TAKE FOREVER TO LOAD!!!!! Lot's of talking about meaningless things with characters. It almost seems like they added this crap just to keep you busy! The graphics are nice but the characters are stiff and unrealistic looking.

The UGLY -
Parts of game cannot be completed successfully, parts of game cause you to crash to desktop, there is an unofficial patch but it does not work under many circumstances, slow load times, choppy framerates, music and voice sync is off in many situations. The worst part is the collision detection part of the graphics engine. (Translation -You can be stopped dead in your tracks by a measely drinking cup or piece of chair on the floor while just walking, but worst of all while being shot at or chased!!! Talk about ruining the gameplay experience!!!)

This game was not ready for primetime and should never have been released so soon. I think this game will be a good game once an official patch or two have been released and proven successful.

Don't buy this game until these issues have been resolved. TRUST ME ON THIS!!!!!!

Doesnt work Nvidia & Windows XP

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: November 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I get a black screen upon launch and must reboot my computer a dozen times afterwards. I've emailed tech support, downloaded a patch, and perused their problem board all to no avail. Now Doom3 works fine on my system. I dislike their solution, though I tried it, of changing my registry. I think software companies shouldnt even dream of suggesting to customers that they edit their registry. Instead, they should put out a playable game. As it stands, Vampire: Bloodlines, not only doesn't launch, it wasted hours of my time trying their solutions (including putting my desktop in 800x600 although the game box says they support 1200x1600). What gives here?

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.

way too buggy

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 14
Date: October 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I got this game about a year ago. My computer supports over every minimum requirement and runs fine on a friend's computer w/ less power. This game simply didnt run. The textures were busted, speech and sound was buggy, and more than often froze. Ive since seen the game on another friend's computer which only frustrates further. Ive heard the game is fun, but its hard to say. I suggest you think hard or wait til the price drops to invest in this mess.

Vampires: Buglines

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ugh. I can appreciate the "Vampire mythos", but this game has a problem with execution. Overall the plot and storyline was ok, but I couldn't tolerate the bugginess. The game just got slower and slower as it moved along, probably some sort of leaking somewhere. IT shouldnt take 3 minutes to load a game,go inside a building,etc. And even with the patches a few of the quests were still bugged and couldnt be completed. I knew this game had minimal/horrible testing at the 4th dialog spelling mistake in the first few hours of play. Horrible.

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.

Only if you're a true Vampire RGP fan

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 14
Date: February 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The only really good things I can say is that this game is a very accurate recreation Vampire RPG and the graphics are pretty good.

Each type of Vampire (Ventrue, Malkavian, etc) is accurately depicted. Your choice affects your dialogue options and how other vampires perceive you. For example, if you choose a Malkavian you get odd, almost non-sequitor, statements that the NPC you're talking to has to figure out.

The bad points in the game are numerous and should have been obvious with even cursory testing.

Off hand I can remember words mispelled (hte instead of the; uor instead of our); incorrect usage of words like

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