theRobot

Pretty much Deus Ex with vampires. Real vampires, not some **** shinning on sun **** Every character you encounter is either a psycho or manipulator, trying to drag you into some **** or at best just wants to ask you for a favor. Additionally there's a strong atmosphere of the end of the world being about to happen. The game gives you loads of options when it comes to dialogues. You have 3 skills exclusively related to dialogues (seduction, intimidation and persuasion) and additionally in some conversations you can use some vampire magic (aka disciplines). A lot in the game depends from your stats - some people will react to you differently if you belong to certain clan (one of them seems to have the whole dialogue script replaced with his own), some of your choices might affect stuff that will happen later in the game etc. Huge replayability. There's also not a single classic RPG quest: bring me 10 of X. Every quest has some sort of story behind it Sometimes you will have to fight. It's not Planescape: Torment. Near the end of the game you will be forced to fight almost constantly. You are warned about that by one of the major characters, but a lot of people don't listen and end with no fighting skills. It's not a good idea. Battles can be seen from first or third perspective, depending on your current weapon. They aren't bad, but you don't get any experience for them, so you don't feel any satisfaction from taking part in them. Graphics look slightly worse than in Half-Life 2. It's the same engine, but in Bloodlines it actually look as if it was about to crash at any second. To be honest, crashes are rather rare, but minor glitches are almost constant. Sound is awesome. Both soundtrack and character voices are incredible. Despite flaws regarding glitches, it's one of my favourite games and I've played a lot of them. The atmosphere, sound effects, replayability, nice dialogues, multiple ways of dealing with things on your way all make playing this game very nice experience. If you haven't played it yet, it's high time to do it. I have finished it 3 times, I'm in the middle of 4th and I already know that I will play the game for the 5th time as well, because I'm currious how would people react to nosferatu character.

If you're an octopus, you're going to like this game. Otherwise you probably won't be able to get used to the controls used in this game. Seriously, for the first time I saw an FPS that had so many controls binded, that some of them were unable to be placed on the keyboard and had to be binded as combos (double shift for example). Additionally, I've had no fun while playing this game.

The game itself is quite decent, I need to admit. I like Star Wars, but I'm not a huge fan of this universum and yet I enjoyed every single bit of battle atmosphere this game could offer to me. The game in 2014 is still not dead and while finding populated European servers was difficult, there were still american servers with like 20-30 players. There are flaws, however, and I'm affraid there are pretty big. Big enough to ruin the game. After playing the game for like 20-30 minutes, it always starts to lag incredibly and CPU usage grows to 100%. I've read it's a comon problem, but none of the solutions I've found on the internet worked in my case. So in general it's a decent game, especially if you are a Star Wars fan. However, from what I've read on the internet, it's kinda incompatible with both newer and older systems and getting it to work might be difficult. 3/10 from me, since I wasn't able to enjoy the game at all. If I could I would probably rate it somewhere arround 7-9/10.

Level design in this game is just plain horrible. In majority of levels to proceed you're pretty much forced to find something, what in other game would be considered a secret area. This begins in the first level with cracked silo you need to blow up and reaches it's peak in map sixth, where you need to find some extremely well-hidden button to get out the sewers. It's really too bad, because some of those maps are pretty well designed when it comes to atmosphere and visuals. Map with tornado gives you a really comfortable feeling while exploring all of those trailers, farms looks like farms and bars look like bars. They offer you nice views and atmosphere, but in majority they are unplayable, because you will get stuck at some point. Animations are awful, enemies are boring, annoying and number of their types is very limited. Weapons are ok, I guess, but there's nothing special about them. Additionally, the game crashes in the last level after encountering the final boss. And eventually, after making through all those awfully designed levels, killing laggy animation enemies with equally laggy weapons, you can see a cinematic, which quality is worse than the ones you could have seen in Blood (I didn't even know it's possible). tl;dr This game is the worst build game I've played - it could have been meh or even good, nothing special, but something that could easly get 5-6 bars, but level design completely killed it and made it unplayable. Avoid it like plague, unless you want to get stuck on stupid obligatory secret search every level.