BloodNet

Bloodnet is one of those rather unique PC games to be released back in the 90's with its mixture of supernatural and cyberpunk elements. You play as the hacker Ransom Stark who at the start of the game is approached by a mysterious and beautiful women who offers him a huge amount of cash in exchange for him erasing some rather sensitive data on the women and her father. He does the job and comes to her apartment but he quickly discovers that he more or less stepped into a trap as the women and her father turn out to be vampires and Ransom ends up being bitten by the woman's father. However when Ransom wakes up, he discovers that he isn't the vampire's mindless slave and he escapes, but now he must try and find a way to cure himself of the vampire curse AND also stop the vampires from taking over the city and possibly the world. The game imposes a time limit on you in the form of a cybernetic implant that Ransom has that is doing its best to slow down the vampiric transformation, but its draining a lot of power in the process. But Ransom must still feed himself some blood or else he will die, that is something the implant couldn't get rid of. Ransom must try and recruit fellow hackers in order to combat the vampires and dregs that roam in New York while also getting better guns and armor for the team and himself while also searching through cyberspace for any glues on how to beat the vampires and perhaps gain more allies to aid him in the battles. One annoying thing however about this version of the game is that the text for any dialogue you might have isn't turned on unless you turn the speech off. Aside from that and the rather clunky controls and interface, it still is an interesting little gem of a game with its setting and foes you will be fighting.

Playing this game inspired me to read all of William Gibson's books. The game is clunky and difficult in the beginning but the climate is worth it. Once you get a bigger party going the combat gets easier. If you are stuck don't hesitate to look for clues online, there are some dead-ends.

OH YES! Now we are talking real Games this game screws with your Mind In a good way I played the demo over a decade ago at the Electronics boutique and It kicked ass! was pissed I did not have the funds or the PC back then to play it! Buy it It is Hard Harder then all the other games out there REAL HARD!