Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption

Maybe some of the bugs have been fixed, but I bought this new and it was incredibly frustrating. It strays pretty far from the source material, the NPC's get stuck going through doors, the AI is so remarkably bad that often bad guys just a few feet away will watch you kill their friends. Really...NOT A GOOD GAME! if you want a good one, check out VAMPIRE THE MASQUERADE: BLOODLINES. that's a fun game!

If you played a master- piece called Bloodlines and wanted to taste some more Masquerade delight... skip this ...thing ... Read the story on Wikipedia and watch the cutscenes on Youtube, but dont waste your money on this pile of wasted bits... The story is a win and the idea of implementing two completely different settings is brilliant... but the gameplay... oh, the gameplay. The controls, the camera, the combat system... there are no words that can describe how bad the gameplay is... I know that most RPGs have mediocre gameplay which serves as an engine for the progresion of a usually good story... but this game is simply unplayable... Do your self a favor and stick to the Bloodlines. :)

Maps don't work or don't exist. Lumination in first quest is ZERO. Spent 1,5 hours trying to find the way in absolute darkness despite I had a freaking torch.

The brightness controls do not work in this game, so the first dungeon is too dark to progress. The movement in this game is very poor, requiring clicking on precise areas, so without being able to see, it is impossible to progress.

I really dislike this game, above all for Masquerade setting adaptation. For an example, during game you will meet a Toreador woman (clan of art-loving, gentle vampires) and she'll join your party. Are you looking forward to some dialogues and stuff? You can forget about that, just don't forget to buy her a shotgun ammo, because she will be eager to help you kill some enemy bastards! I mean it - take an interesting and very attractive setting, strip down whole RPG idea to some combat skills, replace dialogues by boring and never-ending dungeons, add bad controls and you get Redemption. And comparison with Bloodlines - are you kidding me?