BloodNet

Description

BloodNet is an adventure game with RPG elements.

You play as Ransom Stark, a computer hacker, scrounger or mercenary (depending on how the player answers the opening questions when they start a new game) who finds himself caught up in a sinister affair involving an evil global megacorporation, TransTechnicals, Manhattan, a fight for Cyberspace and vampires!

Ransom Stark became stricken with Hopkins-Brie Ontology Syndrome whilst working at TransTechnicals, due to his forced extended exposure to Cyberspace while he worked there. As soon as he was diagnosed he was dismissed from TransTech and found himself homeless and hopeless. Thankfully an ingenious woman, with a personal vendetta against TransTech, named Deirdre Tackett saved his life by inserting a prototype brain implant of her own design and this restoring his grip on reality.

Over the following year Ransom became known as a reliable freelance until one day he got a job worth much more than he bargained for! His employers turned out to be vampires and as part of his 'payment', Ransom was turned into a follower of the evil head-vampire, Abraham Van Helsing -- except his brain implant kicked in allowing him to keep temporary control of his humanity.

Now Ransom must put a stop to Van Helsing's plans to take over Manhattan and control Cyberspace and hopefully save himself from being a vampire before its too late!

Alternate Titles

• "BloodNet: The Cyberpunk Vampire Game" -- UK tag-lined title
• "Bloodnet: A Cyberpunk Gothic" -- US release title

Part of the Following Groups

• Theme: Hacking / Pseudohacking
• Theme: Vampires

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User Reviews

Never underestimate the power of crap gameplay when it comes to trashing good ideas	DOS	Zovni (9429)
The original urban-dystopian RPG	DOS	András Gregorik (63)
Should have been a book.	DOS	-Chris (7371)
Excellent story, excellent setting, excellent atmosphere, horrible game.	DOS	SebastianLi (46)

The Press Says

Génération 4	DOS	Nov, 1994	82 out of 100	82
PC Zone	DOS	Jun, 1994	75 out of 100	75
Power Play	DOS	Jan, 1994	71 out of 100	71
MikroBitti	DOS	Dec, 1994	70 out of 100	70
Amiga Games	Amiga	Feb, 1995	69 out of 100	69
High Score	DOS	Dec, 1994	2 out of 5	40

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Rare old Bloodnet demo	5	Donatello (350) Sep 15, 2007

Trivia

References

Check out the foreground at Transtech's nanomachines lab, and you'll see a box of Microprose's F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0.

Secrets

• In the Well NOUN you will find a puzzle to break
• At "The Cloisters", bite one of the people in the north room to find a Hammer on his corpse. This item cannot be found anywhere else in the game.
• Note the ":)" on DEATH's clothes when you die
• The Well NYVAULT is a bank, if you can find a way to take money from it, enjoy.
• Find the Elvis Virus on the cyberspace, and make a body for him, than you'll have "the King" on your crew, and he is strong!

Information also contributed by Zovni