BloodRayne

List Price: $6.99 Discount Price: $19.95

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PC Gamer (1-year)

Customer Reviews:

Loved the Recharge [Posted on 2004-04-29]
In this game, you play a half-vampire who recharges her energy by drinking the blood of her enemies. After the first level, she gets a harpoon to draw them to her to feed. That part is really neat. Otherwise, it's your typical FPS. Your character defaults to blades, but can pick up guns and use them for a limited number of shots (you don't find ammunition). You can only save at the beginning of levels, but each level tends to be pretty short.
The game starts pretty slow, but picks up after the first few levels. Check out the breast enhancement cheat for a good laugh.
About the Nazis - Nazis are the perfect enemy for FPS games because (a) they actually existed - the developer doesn't have use any creativity or imagination and (b) everyone agrees that they were the bad guys (except a few nuts out there who we all agree are wrong). In the FPS context, it's not like the plotline really matters much anyway.

Fast paced and lots of fun [Posted on 2004-05-01]
This game is extremely enjoyable in its short lived, 7-10 hour, single player campaign.

The guns and blade moves all look terrific, especially her blood lust and slo-mo vision. The game is very gory and some of the slow motion death scenes are so over the top theyll make you laugh.

However, what keeps this game from 5 stars is its repetitive gameplay, 3 settings and each level on the same setting is very similar, and its short gameplay. The game will take you 2-4 days to beat and sadly there isnt much replay value.

But for its cheap price the game cannot be beat in terms of its quick and satisfying play.

A potentially great game marred by some major flaws [Posted on 2004-05-20]
This is a game that has a lot of potential. The sexy but deadly heroine is very well done, and is well positioned to build a story/game around. Her fighting style, which consists of two 3-foot blades which can be used simultaneously with a wide range of guns and explosives as well as acrobatic moves, makes for enjoyable and great-looking combat sequences. And there's something sadistically fun about having her jump onto an enemy, wrap her legs around him, and start draining him of blood, or simply gradually dismembering him with the blades. Other highlights include the various vision modes and the brief mid-game sequence where you gain control of a primitive mech.

However, the game has some major flaws that prevent it from living up to its full potential. These include a clichéd storyline (it's definitely not the first game to pit you against Nazis dabbling in the occult), short playtime (I finished in about 10 hours), low replay appeal, and drab environments. The inability to save anywhere other than the beginning of levels was frustrating, especially because on some of the larger levels it's really easy to die just before the completion of the level. Thankfully most of the levels were fairly short.

The biggest problem though is the lack of variety. The number of different enemy types is fairly small, there's little discernable difference between the various guns (other than the special weapons), combat boils down to little more than button-mashing, and there's really no character progression (you can increase your attack levels as you advance, but they make almost no difference to the gameplay). Even with only 10 hours of total game time, playing it started to become tedious.

I'd give this a 3 star rating if not for the fact that it's really cheap now, and it's probably worth playing just to lay the groundwork for the sequel. I played a beta of BloodRayne 2 at E3 last week, and I was quite impressed with it. Terminal Reality seems to have kept the good parts of the original and fixed almost everything else, so I'm looking forward to playing the full game later this year. It would seem that they have a very strong franchise on their hands.

This game worth the money [Posted on 2005-01-15]
Bloodrayne is a great game and let me tell yoou that some of the things that goes on in the game will blow your mind and get you to thinking about how it got started. I say it is worth buying

The start of a good one [Posted on 2005-09-18]
I got interested in bloodrayne 2 when my friend bought it for his PS2. But with me I'm not into council games so when I found out it was available for PC you could only imagine my delight. One thing led to another and after finishing that I wanted to play the original Bloodrayne but was told it was no longer in print so I decided to try online. The two games are somewhat the same but I found the Originals ending to be a much harder fight and took me several attempts to defeat it.

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