Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption

This game does very little well. It has mindless hack and slash combat vs the same 3 - 4 enemies over and over and over. The companion AI is some of the worst I've ever seen in a video game. If you insist on buying this and playing it, leave your party at the door and go solo. The story offers no chance at actually roleplaying, except for the end of the game. However, the music and atmosphere of the game is good for the era it was created in. That's the only nice thing I have to say about this game.

I've played this a few years ago, and overall I really enjoyed it. However, it was very buggy! Most of the bugs are easy to ignore. The game does get a bit boring towards the end, though.

Redemption is a very polarizing title. At one hand it is not mentioned on the same level with the great classics (Baldur's Gate, Torment, Ultimas) and a lot of people has negative memories with it, on the other hand the game still has a cult following and mods are still recently made for it. It's a love or hate game, but why it's just not simply great? Well the game has absolutely phenomenal non-gameplay elements. The story is intriguing and interesting, the characters are well written, and have their own personality, and the writing is excellent. The writing is the strongest aspect of the game, and literally one of the best I have experienced in a video game in general. The setting is also spot on. I felt it more desperate and vampiery than Bloodlines. So where the game went wrong? Sadly the gameplay is pure garbage. It plays like Diablo basically. The game is linear, no side quests, very limited npc interaction, no choices, no optional non lethal paths. Every objective is dungeon based. You go down into a 3-4 level dungeon, kill the boss and the story moves forward. Yes it is as bad as it sounds especially if you don't like Diablo style games. At the end of the day the game falls flat on its face yet I give 4 stars because the story and the writing is one of the best you can get in this genre. If the gameplay is more similar to KOTOR with side quests, exploration, choices and not just combat related quests, Redemption would be considered a timeless classic on par with Planescape Torment. Sadly it is not the case yet I had fun with the game and if you are into story in video games I suggest you to give it a try.

I got a thing for nuns so I can relate

The title of my review is because I'd like to point out one of the glaring bugs that this game had: some of the worst hit detection I had ever seen. I almost eschewed any long range weapons, merely because of the fear of running out of ammo before my enemies would be dead. Even melee combat took far longer than it should have, just because the game was saying "you arn't hitting that target standing right next to you". I played the game once un-patched, then replayed with a patch that fixed the hit detection and other things such as the abysmal follower NPC AI. The game took about half the time it had before, all because enemies were dying quicker since they were actually being hit. The story is decent if not predictable, the atmosphere and feeling of being damned kind of lessen once you get to the modern era, and the characterization is not that strong. Being unable to play as any of the clans in story mode was kind of an annoyance, as it stuck you with powers that you may or may not be happy with. The online aspect was ok, it's very hard to get the same feeling you have of playing a pen and paper RPG, though the designers did their best with what they had. 4/10 before the patch, 6/10 after the patch. I recommend this to the fans of VtM (with the patching of course), but to most gamers and those who don't know the WoD (World of Darkness), I wouldn't really bother.