Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

List Price: $29.99 Discount Price: $89.95

Features:

• Cutting-edge role-playing that integrates elements of shooter gaming with the adventure
• Select 1 of 7 different vampire clans, then use experience points to develop your vampire powers
• Explore the L.A. vampire underground - Visit seedy Hollywood hotels, thumping raver clubs, the underground caverns Downtown and mansions on the Sunset Strip
• Living world reacts to your character by clan, gender, allegiance and other choices
• Team-based online gaming -- choose to be a vampire or a vampire hunter

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

fun game that turns boringly tedious [Posted on 2008-05-19]
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-

Over $34 for a game that's almost 4 yrs. old?! [Posted on 2008-05-30]
I don't ordinarily write a review like this but the price being charged for this game right now (May 2008) is absurd. Four months ago, it was $9.99 here at Amazon.

The game was a lot of fun and looked great for its time, and it offered better gameplay than many of the "whack-and-slash" melee games we've seen so many of over the years. And $34 would have been a fair price for it, say, 3 1/2 years ago.

But if you still want to buy this game, go to the bargain racks where software is sold and you can buy it easily for five bucks. It is certainly worth that, and, if Amazon still had it available for $9.99, it would be worth that, too, in new condition.

Yet another good..but not great game [Posted on 2008-06-19]
Simple facts: this is a classic and great RPG game, this is worth buying and playing but DO get the latest official patch before playing and DO NOT use firearms.

Bugs aplenty in the retail version. Fair warning.

As far as the firearms go: I am all the way to hollywood and realized that the developers must have seriously hated gun use in this game and am about to restart the thing or quit because my cheap knife (skill lvl 2) does more damage to most things than my 300+ dollar handgun(skill level 6!!!) and forget about reloading while you fight with a shotgun...you better run forrest RUNNN....

Good game anyway. I am a nosferatu and some of the dialogue when ppl meet my guy is so funny I was laughing about it for a long time. Classic.

VTM great game, must get unofficial patch for bugs [Posted on 2008-07-04]
When this game came out, I opted to follow the other major release of the day, Half-Life 2. I figured I'd come back to this game at a later time, and that time is now. Good thing, too, since all the bugs have been polished by a devoted fan following, you need to get the unofficial patches for this game to be able to savor it to its fullest. Search for them on the internet.

The game is great in atmosphere, the source engine of its day still provides a very nice offering of visual realism, nice colors, details, etc. The game itself provides an almost endless amount of role-playing choices, similar to the other great RPGs of the era.

Overall, I had a highly enjoyable experience playing this game.

Wicked awesome [Posted on 2008-07-16]
Fantastic game, but these sellers are insane. Why would I pay $50 and up for a game that's been out since 2004 and can be found on Ebay?

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