Blood 2: The Blood Group

the game is very fun but you will be a lot of time fixing it. i loved it but it is worth buying on sale and if you are going to fix the game with mods

You all know the story. This game was released in 98 rushed and unfinished due to corporate greed. Not much has changed since. However, when playing it becomes obvious how this game could've been a masterpiece like NOLF if given the proper development time. It required a lot of tinkering to get it working properly and I recomend using Redux Cruo, The Second Cut or Extra Crispy mods for better enjoyment.

I don't know what happened. This game is very similar to Shogo: MAD in the version of the LithTech game engine it uses. But Shogo was smooth, it was bug free, it was pretty. This game is much newer, only maybe 10% prettier, and buggy as all get out, and took way more system resources. It's our protagonist Caleb, from Blood, but in the future, up against a dystopian evil biotech corporation. Yeah, swallow that. Anyway, it has some cool weapons, the dual wield M-10's are fun, dual wield double barrel sawed off shotguns are fun, but I remember hitting a lot of game walls, confusing cut scenes, and lots and lots of crashes. One cool weapon, directly out of the Phantasm movie series, is "the ball" which I used in the boss battles to great effect, but even then the graphic engine bugs made it impossible to know what was going on and then suddenly I had won. If you loved Blood, and finished all its add-on packs, and you still need your Caleb fix, as I did, go for it, otherwise skip it and go play Shogo: MAD, or Lo Wang: Shadow Warrior, or AvP, or Clive Barker's Undying, or anything else.

Very cool creature design. Pretty good animations. Crappy unimaginative levels, with a couple of mediocre exceptions. Annoying "humorous" quips that repeat far too often. Weapons are either unbalanced or lame. Sound design and music were pretty good. The story is stupid. Characters are one dimensional. It's always winking at the player, thinking it's so ironic. Ugh. What a disappointment of a sequel after the classic first game.

The game looks fine, the music is fine, the gore is nice and it has the potential, unfortunately, it's a mess, I remember the first blood was really punishing, specially starting a new game, but the more you progressed the more badass you felt, that doesn't happen here,the enemies get always the upper hand, tehy know where you are even if you haven't seen them, they shoot fast and with almost perfect accuracy using hit-skin weapons, it's incredibly easy to die even in comparison with the first game. But what really frustrated me was that the game runs too fast, when I first started I chose the caleb campaign ajnd in teh first room i was killed in a second, barely able to move, I tried using the nvidia configuration to force 60fps, i tried changing the autoexec file, even tried dgvoodoo2, but nothing helps except opening the in-game console and typing maxfps 60, the problem is I have to do it every time i start the game, load a save or change to another level, and when you die every 2 minutes (at best) it gets tiresome, really fast. I really wanted to enjoy this game, but I just can't, maybe if they fixed the framerate issues so I could spam quicksave/load to my heart's content