Blood 2: The Blood Group

Game is probably good, but you need some retro PC for playing it. I have RTX 2070 Super and Win 10 and game doesn't work, when I switch to software rendering, it works somehow, but it's crashing. They should inform customers clearly that game is not for modern PC. I know it takes many time to test all games, but they should test it before they publish it on gog. I would say more than half of games here doesn't work on GOG, why that publishers can't do something with that when they want our money even after 20 or more years after game was published? With DOS games, it's not big problem, you just run it thru DOS Box, but old real 3D games around year 2000 year sometimes really hard to make it operable.

To run on win11, - download dgVoodoo, - copy 4 required files to blood folder, - launch dgVoodo, - force resolution to your monitor's native (1920x1080 in my case) - launch game - disable - in display options set resolution to 640x480 You might need to add few options (steamcommunity has short article on how to run it with dgVoodoo - just google it) Runs very well, silky smooth 60 fps (or more if you like)

One of the biggest travesties to ever kill a franchise. This game was broken in 1998, and modern systems just exacerbate it's problems. Perhaps you've heard of a mod called Blood 2: Extra Crispy? The mod seeks out to fix the games myriad of problems like: it's broken damage system, guns do seemingly random amounts of damage; it's broken enemy AI, who either swarm you to death or stand there and get killed without a fight. All among so many countless other problems that have existed for 2 decades now. Noble cause...they failed. Even the launcher for this game is broken. For some GODAWFUL reason, you are only allowed to access one feature of the launcher PER LAUNCH! Want to load mods? You won't be able to fix the resolution using the widescreen fix. Want to fix the resolution? Can't run Extra Crispy now! Figure you're really clever? Just going to adjust one, then close and restart and adjust the other? Sorry, it forgot all of your previous settings in between launches. It's pure BS. This game wasn't meant to be played. Interplay released unfinished. Nothing short of a full remake in a brand new engine is going to fix this disaster, and I seriously doubt even Night Dive Studios would be up the task. It doesn't want to be played. It doesn't want to be enjoyed. Only masochists would like this; and then probably only as an ironic joke for a crappy youtube let's play show. Just leave it to rot in shame and obscurity. That's what it has earned.

This package contains Blood 2: The Chosen and its expansion pack The Nightmare Levels. I've actually played this game the time when it was released and while I did not enjoy it as much as Blood I, I thought that it was an OK game. Now I've replayed both Blood I and its extensions and Blood 2 with its extension and I was surprised that it is much worse than I remembered - the original Blood aged much better. The science fiction setting coud work well, but the combination of bad level design, confusing story kills the atmosphere almost completely. Sometimes I were hopelessly stuck and I had no idea where to proceed - in this sense this game is the spiritual successor of Redneck Rampage, not Blood. The interesting thing is that the expansion pack has two levels which is very Blood like, which shows how good this game could have been - instead of the huge disappointment as it is. TLDR: - The Lithtech Engine is buggy - Enemy AI is terrible - Level design is bad

I bought Blood 2 the week it was released back in the day. I really loved the first Blood and was excited to play this game. However this game ran like complete crap on my old PC, and it also would crash pretty frequently, so I decided I would hold off starting this game until it was patched up and ran better. I've gone through several system upgrades since that time and while performance became a non issue this game always had problems or would frequently crash when changing settings or trying to play. This game remained on my backlog until about last year when I finally beat this game. I had several issues trying to get this game to run properly at my resolution and had to take certain steps to get it to work (can't remember exactly what at this time) but I finally managed to cross this one off my list. Having said all of that I don't think it is fair to blame GOG for issues this game may have. It is by far the buggiest game I have ever played. As far as the game itself it is very much average. I would give it 3 stars if it were not for all of the bugs. This game did bring me back to the days when FPS games were simple shooting games unlike nowadays where most games try to be cinematic and often have RPG elements and all kinds of extra mechanics and additonal gameplay elements beyond just shooting enemies. The shooting mechanics of this game really aren't great at all and shooting enemies doesnt even feel that great. I made it through this game mostly because it made me like a kid again as it reminded me of how old FPS games used to be.