Vampire: The Masquerade -- Bloodlines
- April 16, 2004 17:44 PM PST
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Troika?s Source-engine-based vampire action/RPG trades Half-Life for unlife.
Based on White Wolf Game Studios? gothic-punk RPG, Vampire: The Masquerade -- Bloodlines casts you as a vampire, a denizen of the night who must feed on the blood of the living to survive. Yeah, there was a Vampire game a couple of years ago, but based on what we saw back at E3, this one looks good.In Bloodlines, you play a vampire from one of the game?s clans as you take part in vampire society in the underworld of Los Angeles. You?ll choose from 12 vampiric abilities, including invisibility, super strength, shape-shifting, and the power to drive others insane as you explore a nonlinear world of the undead.
You?ll receive objectives by talking to your vampiric elders, but how you accomplish these tasks will be up to you. As you go, you?ll engage in first-person-shooter-style combat and develop your character in true RPG fashion using traits, skills, and powers taken directly from the White Wolf tabletop game.
The most interesting thing about Bloodlines is that it will be one of the first games to take advantage of Valve?s Source engine, the engine that powers the much-hyped Half-Life 2. With that kind of technology and the well-tested setting of White Wolf?s game, Bloodlines should have an easy shot at eternal life.
