Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption

The gameplay felt awful, the writing was bad, the graphics are dated, the navigation confusing (back when you needed IQ above cheese seeking rats). Seriously this is not a good game. It is amazing. It's one of the worst WoD games I ever played, the other game being VTMB which was straight amazing. I played this game--and beat it mind you, not a common thing for me or many others with backlogs these days--back in about 2017 so I have no nostalgia goggles. The AI is ATROCIOUS here, like hilariously so to the point it feels like one giant meme with half your party eating the other half and immediately panicking because your whole coterie just dumped their entire blood pools on...a single rat. The 5hp rat proceeds to eat the survivor. The level progression is the usual bad late 90s 1-2-3/boss fight stages and there is no map so you have to a complete map inside your head of each location to not get lost. Sadly, the most difficult to navigate is the very first one in Prague. OH. And the writing. Oh God the writing. Somehow whoever did the script decided that the best way to convey 14th century Prague would be to...write everyone with pseudo Shakespearrean dialogue. Because a turn of the 17th century English author is basically the same thing apparently. As for the story itself it is a pretty sappy love story minus the depth of Romeo and Juliet. I mean, it's bad enough that they even went so far as writing a fishmalk. All that being stated I actually enjoyed the game for some perverse reason. It has been pretty wellish received on here for a reason and it's not just because of nostalgia or something, or some misplaced love of VTMB--This Is Not VTMB. What you will find is an absolutely amazing soundtrack whose OST I listen to out of game sometimes, spoopy atmosphere, and just an otherwise really well crafted game in spite of its numerous glaring shortcomings, part of which I think is attributable to their faithfulness to the source material. Flawed but worth a play.

This game is one of the best Vampire games ever, the story is well written and compelling and truely gives a epic Vampire RPG Experience. From Medieval Europe to the Modern World, its spans time nicely. If you love Vampires and RPG Games, definatly try this one out.

The storyline is great and the player identify easily with the hero drama. Today this is rare with all the Diablo close an such. The saga goes on since the medieval times. I remember that the hero was from the sixth generation, I think. In the modern times he was a truly formidable vampire. The plot really makes you want to save the girl, once pure, now lost to the paradise, from the evil who captured her. The bad about the game is the AI from your followers, who sometimes attack the enemy for their own initiative, ruining almost all atempt to stealthing, and sometimes engaging in suicide combat. The enemy too seems to have a sixth sense and knows you are attacking him even before he can see you. But these are small defects in a otherwise great game.

Once upon a time 2D rpgs like Baldur's Gate and Planescape: Torment ruled the world, then darkness fell over PC Gamers and the golden age of western rpgs seemed lost. From the ashes of such games came Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption, sporting not only an awesome 3d engine that makes the graphics still nice and crisp to see (it uses a revamped version of Quake 2 engine) but fresh gameplay mechanics in part borrowed from the homonym tabletop rpg in part brand new. Redemption is a sort of gap filling game from modern rpgs such Neverwinter Nights 2 Dragon Age and old glories as Icewind Dale. You controls a party of vampires ables to suck blood, killing the enemy and healing themselves at the same time, this gimmick opens to you very cool combat tactics and there's no need to do a stupid camp to refill your HP in the middle of a dungeon. It's wicked plot and fascinating atmosphere will drive you along a lot of dark and well designed dungeons, from the medieval age to our present days ear future. An epic game about a lost love, a lost soul, and a whole lot of angry vampire clans!

This is by far the best and most in depth vampire game out there. It has a vivid storyline, Many hours of gameplay, and requires you to actually think. All vampire games being made now should look at this one and make theirs accordingly. much better than it's sequel bloodlines, even with the older graphics and third person top-down camera.