Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption

Cannot go past first 30 minutes, game crashes every time.

I first played this game when it came out. Right then I thought the game was cool. But - almost 20 years later - I decided to replay the game. And let me state that I thought the game was even better now than when it was released. Gameplay: Basically, imagine a "Diablo-like" in 3D. You control your character with the mouse. Left-click to move the character & attack. Right-click to launch spells. It's "Diablo" even to the inventory management and quick-slots. Along the game you get to find random loot, sell that which you do not need and boost your character stats. A great innovation is that, as the game progresses, you get to manage a team (like a party-based "Diablo") which can react according to your instructions. As the game is in real time it can seem tricky at first, but you can press the "Pause" key at any time, freezing the game in order to manage your inventory, select spells, targeting enemies or choosing which character to control. The game is divided in two main plot-points: the Middle-Ages and the 20th century. The game makes a good job of showing the difference between medieval melee combat and the modern times, where you can use firearms, but have to manage ammo as well. Plot: The story is quite linear. No side-quests. But the main plot is entertaining enough. At first the story may seem extremely cheesy and cliché, but it gets better as the game progresses. Graphics: The game is from 2000. So the game shows its age. But interestingly enough, the visual quality of the game also improves as you play. If the "Dark Ages" setting may seem very dated and "blocky", the Modern scenarios are extremely detailed and well planned. Replaying it in 2020 amazed me by how good certain sets were. Bottom line: If you love "Diablo-Like" games, then you should give this one a try! (note: the store page states that the game won't run on Windows 10, but I managed to play it to the end without any issue.)

Bought this gamae when it was full price, and really enjoyed it. The storyline was brilliant too.

For those who weren't around or don't remember, Redemption was originally a brilliant game with massive potential that was badly hurt by two major (but very easily fixable) design flaws: the player couldn't save anywhere and there was no pause feature (big no-no for a party based game of its type). Unfortunately by the time patch 1.1 came out, the damage had already been done, but the developers repaired both of these issues, which made the game much, much better and I'd say it still holds up very well. With the exception of some bad pathfinding and a slightly less enjoyable clickfest experience compared to Diablo 2, the game is actually pretty awesome. The story is very engaging and has some pretty good characters, the visuals were well ahead of their time for the genre, the music is a masterpiece and the party twist on the point and click Diabloesque action RPG differentiates it from other games that came out at the time. I think it has actually aged better than its successor - Bloodlines.

I love this game and have played it many times when it first came out and I even got into the multiplayer at that time, which is unlike anything I've played since, shame no servers are running for that anymore. The music on this game is excellent and I used to have the OST somewhere... This game did win awards for it's music and is also the reason I went on holiday to Prague years ago, that's how much it inspired me (I live in England). Playing through it now makes realise how much I missed this game. However it does make me appreciate the good AI in new games that we have now but don't let that put you off as it's still immensely fun to play even though group AI can be clunky at times. I would recommend this game to any gamer and tell those that are younger and a little less patient to stick it out to the end as it's worth it. I'm really glad I bought this game, thanks GOG for making it available and with all the bonus content. This game would be complete if you could add the OST to the bonus content also.