Blood 2: The Blood Group

Kind of remember playing with this game. Some of the text joke are eventually annoying over time (e.g. your shoe is untied). The game was pretty good at that time and fun to play!

I loved original Blood II game (was one of my 1st games when I got my 1st PC), but this just simply does not run. Too bad.

This game was made during the golden FPS year of PC gaming, when technology finally was adequate enough to give us smooth and polished FPS games. Released a mere month before Half-Life, it hadn't been influenced like many other games would be months later. It was still a standard FPS with virtually no scripted sequences, a very sparse story to tell and no real sense of reality. To get the bad bits out of the way: Blood II is far from perfect. The maps are made in such a way that you'll be scratching your head more than once. Moving from one area to the next without any reason at all, feels very odd now - from an ancient cathedral to a railway station for example. The game also doesn't really have any logic to it. You enter a house, end up on the roof only to fail finding an exit so the only thing left to do is go back to the first floor and leave the building ... which reveals that a way previously blocked has become unblocked. Why did I enter the house then? Or how about the game starting with you fighting your way through a moving train which then crashes. Cool, certainly, but when the EXACT SAME sequence happens again later in the game but with different enemies on-board, it makes you wonder what is going on. Despite this, the game gets nearly everything else right: the levels themselves are very well made for its age. A city is my favorite kind of setting so gets bonus marks, the enemies are interesting (except for the water slugs and odd spider things which are just annoying) and the weapons ... Oh the weapons... Blood II gets those right more than anything else. Every single gun is highly satisfying to use and you have a LOAD of them. From dual pistols to an assault rifle to a sniping rifle to a rail gun, to a light flare gun, to double shotguns - rarely have I played a game where each gun was deeply enjoyable and switching to another weapon due to lack of ammo never feels like a punishment the way it does in most games (yes, even Half-Life. In the end, Blood II is a simple classic FPS game at heart: lots of good fun shooting, great and interesting settings, enemies that are fun to kill and a good strong atmosphere. This game is in my top 5 of favorite late-90s shooters (along with Half-Life, Kingpin, Hexen II, Shogo & Deus Ex).

NOTE: Playing on Windows 10 with a fan-made patch acquired through github. The first Blood is a master piece, both the original 'One Unit Whole Blood' and the re-release 'Blood: Fresh Supply' with its updated engine... and I would say the poetry which youtuber Civvie-11 spewed out his mouth-hole pertaining to Blood is very true and would agree with him that Blood (in it's own right) is the best Build Engine games (including Ion Fury). Unfortunately for Blood... this sequel was bad enough that it ended up not being worthy of carrying on... the blood-line... yeah... I went there... But there is still plenty to enjoy for a hard-core Blood fan from aspects of the game's atmosphere, its sound-track, and voice acting. Some of Blood's charm and quirk is there and the game-play falls into decently playable jank territory with some hilarious glitches and corners-cut to have a giggle at. There also seems to be a mod or two worth checking out for this game (though I haven't personally tried any as of yet). All-in-all it is pretty terrible that this game doesn't work at all on Windows 10 without mods and/or fan-patches... And I really do wish that some day there will be a proper Blood sequel... But if you like Blood and you like 90's FPS jank... well this game is like playing Postal 2 with a Blood mod... running on a rip-off of the Unreal 1 engine... in early-access... And in that weird corny, janky, 90's, modder way... I recommend this game... But don't be surprised if you hate this game instead.

• A simple comedic action FPS with a goofy and grim atmosphere. • Doesn't take itself too seriously so you shouldn't either. • Great voice acting from Caleb once again. • Quite challenging on medium difficulty setting. • Has bugs but easily ignored after a while. NOTE: You will most likely need a fix which you can find a solution to on PCGamingWiki. I found only one to work best though. Lookup: elishacloud dxwrapper Blood II The Chosen.