Posted on: November 1, 2017
CLBrown
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I'd give this 5 stars if it worked... but sadly, no.
I got this game quite some time ago, in CD form. I have since tried several other versions, but none work on any modern system I've seen. The problem is with the Lithtech engine (coded by a company called, itself, Lithtech, but in partnership with Microsoft, who did a large part of the coding). The Lithtech engine looked great for its time, but has been abandoned for years, and used "special tricks" allowing it access to the OS in ways that other programs were denied... and which are now no longer available (due to security vulnerabilities, etc). Several Lithtech games have since received fan-produced fixes... TRON 2.0, for example, and the F.E.A.R. series. Others remain unplayable on any modern system (Blood 2, No One Lives Forever, etc). These are GREAT games... a lot of fun... but sadly, they fail, repeatedly, with a common error. No amount of "compatibility fixes" or the like have been able to get past these issues, for those who experience them. TRON 2.0 required an entirely new EXE to run properly, but does so flawlessly now. F.E.A.R, by contrast, would "sort of" run, but would slow to a total standstill in mere minutes if you had more than one or two USB devices in your chain... but a fix involving a replacement DLL created by a particularly ingenious guy managed to turn F.E.A.R. into a perfectly playable game again. Now... Blood 2 is a fun game. Not GREAT, not "landmark," by any stretch of the imagination... but fun. Like a couple of other vampire games out there, you recover heath in multiple ways, but feeding on humans is the most effective way in general... which adds a somewhat twistedly "fun" element to the game. The humor throughout the game is very up-front... it's not a SERIOUS game (for example, early on, you get a phone call in a laundrymat where you're given a survey about violence in video games). The gameplay is challenging, but not too difficult. The characters are entertaining, while not really being totally engrossing. You get plenty of "one-liners" as so many 1st-person games of the era provided, of course. The gameplay involves plenty of gunplay, knife-play, and direct hand (or tooth?) combat... The overall design is not a standout, but it's a fun game. It doesn't really feel all that much like its predecessor, which explains most of the negative reviews, of course. But I actually prefer this one to the first game in the series (as this gives me more of a "really there, really doing this" vibe). I know, I'm atypical in that way, but it's the truth. I really, REALLY wish I could get this to run on my modern, 64-bit operating system machine. But... I can't. I always get the same pop-up error, after the launcher screen, no matter what "tweaks" I try. I really hope someday someone who knows the Lithtech engine(s) better than I do comes up with an actual fix for this (and, PLEASE!!!! ... for "No One Lives Forever!")
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