Blood 2: The Blood Group

I played a bunch of it years ago when i first bought it, put it down because other stuff came out and then i tried returning to it without a doubt, the only game i have ever had so much trouble just trying to get to run. one time i installed it and it worked perfectly out the box and then months later i tried to return to it and it wouldn't it boot. I have tried every fix possible on PCGAMINGWIKI, i have trawled every forum, dgvoodoo - everything. can get it in game in software mode but will eventually crash, if it actually boots in hardware mode it runs atrociously i watched youtube videos where i followed their settings to the letter and it still doesn't work the only reason i never refunded it is because it did actually work once upon a time but two pcs later and no cigar with the amount of problems im disappointed GOG allows the sale of this product

Never played Blood 1 back then, so its an advantage (many Blood 1 players were disapointent by the sequel) - i loved (and still do) Blood 2 ! Epic music and relaxing gameplay

Kind of remember playing with this game. Some of the text joke are eventually annoying over time (e.g. your shoe is untied). The game was pretty good at that time and fun to play!

I loved original Blood II game (was one of my 1st games when I got my 1st PC), but this just simply does not run. Too bad.

This game was made during the golden FPS year of PC gaming, when technology finally was adequate enough to give us smooth and polished FPS games. Released a mere month before Half-Life, it hadn't been influenced like many other games would be months later. It was still a standard FPS with virtually no scripted sequences, a very sparse story to tell and no real sense of reality. To get the bad bits out of the way: Blood II is far from perfect. The maps are made in such a way that you'll be scratching your head more than once. Moving from one area to the next without any reason at all, feels very odd now - from an ancient cathedral to a railway station for example. The game also doesn't really have any logic to it. You enter a house, end up on the roof only to fail finding an exit so the only thing left to do is go back to the first floor and leave the building ... which reveals that a way previously blocked has become unblocked. Why did I enter the house then? Or how about the game starting with you fighting your way through a moving train which then crashes. Cool, certainly, but when the EXACT SAME sequence happens again later in the game but with different enemies on-board, it makes you wonder what is going on. Despite this, the game gets nearly everything else right: the levels themselves are very well made for its age. A city is my favorite kind of setting so gets bonus marks, the enemies are interesting (except for the water slugs and odd spider things which are just annoying) and the weapons ... Oh the weapons... Blood II gets those right more than anything else. Every single gun is highly satisfying to use and you have a LOAD of them. From dual pistols to an assault rifle to a sniping rifle to a rail gun, to a light flare gun, to double shotguns - rarely have I played a game where each gun was deeply enjoyable and switching to another weapon due to lack of ammo never feels like a punishment the way it does in most games (yes, even Half-Life. In the end, Blood II is a simple classic FPS game at heart: lots of good fun shooting, great and interesting settings, enemies that are fun to kill and a good strong atmosphere. This game is in my top 5 of favorite late-90s shooters (along with Half-Life, Kingpin, Hexen II, Shogo & Deus Ex).