Vampire®: The Masquerade - Bloodlines™

Let's not look at this through rose-colored glasses, please. I absolutely love this game, but holy fracking frisky grandma Batman, It. Is. A. MESS. The combat is janky, weird and unsatisfying, there are barely any weapons and armor to choose from, there's all sorts of bugs and the whole thing just gets progressively worse and worse right down to the last minute where you can get one of 3(?) different endings, but they all feel like placeholders. By the time I reached the last hour of the game I felt like it was about to completely fall apart. This is NOT a finished product and charging 20$ for it is simply a rip off. On the plus side, the game really is one of a kind. It has a very cool, soothing yet ominous atmosphere, it's the perfect game for a rainy night. I loved the soundtrack, the setting, the quests and dialogues are well written, engaging and fun, there are lots of cool and interesting details that help to bring the story and the world to life, the characters are memorable, some of them lovable and somehow, they have much better facial animations than characters in today's releases. I can't help but feel sorry for the developers, because it's obvious that this game was handled with a lot of love and care, and I know that it really could have been a HUGE hit, had they had more time and resources to complete the project. You should definitely try it if you ever wanted to be a cool vampire dishing out toothy justice to the denizens of the underworld, but you should know that in terms of gameplay it's far, FAR from perfect. There is an unofficial patch out there somewhere that is a MUST if you want to enjoy this game as much as possible. It fixes a lot of things and even restores some cut content.

An incredible action RPG with stealth elements, heavy dialogue with meaningful choices, and a pleorthra of customization options for a truly player-tailored journey. The game was a complete joy from beginning to almost end. Almost end? Yes, almost end. The HORRIBLE ending completely ruined the entire wonderful experience for me. I was going to give this game 5 stars for the masterpiece that it is. Then I beat it and felt like someone took my laptop and kicked it off the table. There is enough crap in real life where I do not need crappy outcomes in a video game. Without saying too much to be a spolier; I just want to say that nobody should ever be punished for loyalty and morals in a video game. A bad guy should never win in a video game (don't worry this isn't a spoiler as there are TONS of bad guys in this story). The end sucked; plain and simple. It was a disgusting way to take this beautiful game I loved and enjoyed and ruin it at the end. I highly recommend this game; just be prepared to walk away with an empty, sick feeling at the end instead of a sense of accomplishment or closure.

it was cool back then, and not to a small part because of the graphic/design. the game is a rpg with action elements, but a lot can be accomplished through talking as well. while the idea and game is good, the execution, alas, was not. A non-broken game(the second half is straight up broken up to a crashing because of a glitch that has been there since forever) can be restored with (fan) patches, and it is quite decent then imo, but to ask 16.79€ for such an old game in a still broken state. i would see it with say some hd textures and whatnot, but in its broken vanilla state?? fucking hilarious. don´t buy, don´t support such practices. this is a bad joke, right?! how hard could it be after all these years and known issues? who "fixes" and "tests" these things, some brain dead monkey or what is going on gog?

Shortly: this is a trash, keep away. More: Despite good plot, design and music. Basic mechanics, such as gunplay, hit-detection and boss-patterns are break. A lot of glitches and buggs still 20 years after release. The price for this game is -25 euros. Do not tuch this stinky relict from the past even on give-aways.

This game surely had more potential in the design process than it demonstrated. For starters, it's a major improvement over its predecessor, "Vampire: The Masquerade--Redemption" (except that it still has a ridiculously cumbersome name), while using similar interesting RPG elements borrowed from the book-based RPG game series. The biggest improvement is the 1st and 3rd person views. Unfortunately, this is undermined by the fact that combat with melee weapons or fists can't occur in 1st person, and gun combat doesn't seem to be possible in 3rd person. Speaking of gun combat, ALL enemies, even humans, take a tremendous amount of ammo to kill, even when using a shotgun; this is utterly ridiculous, and was the ultimate dealbreaker for me. Prior to that, I was putting up with fairly small game areas and a fairly linear way of playing. The graphics were adequate enough to immerse me, and of course I kept its year or release in mind; but I've seen open world games from the same time period done better. It is NOT an open world game. Spells sucked; most of the time, they weren't worth using at all, if I could. Feeding sucked (pun intended). Stealth sucked; I was supposed to be able to sneak up on people, but it failed too often with no clear explanation as to why. Dialogue was great, and the addition of goth music with people dancing hard to it at the Asylum club was also quite cool to see. But pumping five shotgun blasts at close range into non-vampire enemies before they died (not sure if I ever chose a difficulty level) was just too stupid and killed my suspension of disbelief to the point at which I'd had enough. Don't pay more than $3 for this title.