Description
You wake up one morning and discover that you are dead. Well, not exactly dead, but turned into a vampire - "sired", as the vampires themselves call it. Before you are able to reflect upon your new existence, you are taken to a court room, where you get acquainted with Camarilla - an organization that maintains order among vampires. Apparently, your sire turned you into a vampire without permission, so Prince LaCroix, the head of Los Angeles Camarilla branch, decides to execute both of you. Your short vampire life would have come to an abrupt end, if a mysterious person hadn't stepped in and convinced the Prince to spare it. The Prince takes responsibility for you from now on, and decides to test your abilities, sending you to Santa Monica. Before long you become involved in a net of intrigues between powerful organizations and vampire clans, and have to choose your own place in this terrifying new world.
The game is based on the pen-and-paper RPG
Vampire: The Masquerade. In the beginning, you create your character, choosing between vampire clans, each one with its own unique abilities. You receive many quests during your adventure, and gain experience points for completing them. Those experience points can be spent to raise parameters of your characters, as well as various vampire feats. You can make your character stronger in combat, proficient in computer hacking or stealth, more powerful in vampire disciplines, more attractive, more intimidating, and so on.
Many quests can be completed in different ways, and it will also be possible to choose with whom you want to side during the game. The combat is action-based. You can fight unarmed, use melee weapons, or guns. Melee combat is viewed from third-person perspective, but you switch to first-person if you are using a gun. Blood is used to activate your vampire disciplines. You can feed on humans; but there are two things you should watch for. First, if you do it openly, you violate the rules of Masquerade, which dictates all vampires to conceal their true nature. Five Masquerade violations lead to instant Game Over. And second, if you kill an innocent human in process, you'll not only be chased by policemen, but also lose a point of your humanity, which will raise your chances of becoming an uncontrolled beast.
Alternate Titles
- "吸血鬼：避世之血族" -- Chinese title (simplified)
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User Reviews
The Press Says
| HonestGamers |
Jul 18, 2008 |
9 out of 10 |
90 |
| PC Action |
Jan 19, 2005 |
90 out of 100 |
90 |
| PC Games (Germany) |
Feb 08, 2005 |
88 out of 100 |
88 |
| PC Zone |
Dec 22, 2004 |
8.6 out of 10 |
86 |
| IGN |
Nov 17, 2004 |
8.4 out of 10 |
84 |
| Playback |
Feb, 2006 |
8 out of 10 |
80 |
| JeuxVideoPC.com |
May 18, 2005 |
16 out of 20 |
80 |
| Video Game Talk |
Apr 13, 2005 |
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80 |
| Gamernode |
Dec 29, 2005 |
8 out of 10 |
80 |
| Boomtown |
Dec 13, 2004 |
8 out of 10 |
80 |
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Trivia
This game is highly infested with all sorts of allusions to all kinds of movies. Clan Nosferatu's network system "Schrecknet", for instance, hints to German actor Max Schreck who played the original Nosferatu in the ground breaking German silent movie "Nosferatu - Eine Symphonie des Grauens" (1922) by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau . This is even more interesting because Clan Nosferatu's whole look is heavily influenced by Max Schreck's outfit. Could he have been the first Nosferatu? Check out Merhige's "Shadow of the Vampire" (2000) and judge for yourself...
This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by
HandofShadow (48) on Nov 26, 2004.
