Vampire®: The Masquerade - Bloodlines™

With the latest unofficial patch this game is now remarkably stable. The gameplay reminds me quite a bit of the first Deus Ex. The story is complex, characters are mostly well fleshed out, there are often multiple ways of completing quests, each with different rewards and sometimes different consequences. Voice actors are mostly good and I actually wanna hear them narate their dialog instead of skipping through it. The graphics are holding up surprisingly well. This is the first iteration of the Source Engine, texture resolution and polygon count are a bit low, but lighting and sound are atmospheric and character's faces are well done. The game includes the basic unofficial patch. The plus patch can be downloaded here for instance: http://www.patches-scrolls.de/patch/4647/7/ (you may have to open the download link in a new tab for it to work)

If you're not blinded by nostalgia, no amount of hype will live past what this game does wrong. It's still a good piece of entertainment, I'd say, just not worth the flawless 5-star status it enjoys on GOG. Then again, this is GOG, so reviewing games based on rose-tinted glasses is to be expected.

Amazing game. Great story, great characters. Great game even for people who never heard about vampire the masquerade tabletop RPG. REcommended

I have played this game over and over again. I literally have the T-shirt, has Jeanette on the fron and scares children. Has The game is beautiful and ghothic and poetic in bloody depravity. Art somehow still holds up. Completely different playstyles written for, different approaches for everything. Want to be a emo goody 2 shoes like every other game? good. Want to be a nilistic bastard laying bodies in every dark ally? let LA burn. Someone needs to hunt down everyone who ever worked for Troika and force them to make a sequal.

This game is an outstanding expirience on so many levels. The story starts in a pretty unusuall way, when your protagonsit get turned into a vampire. You will be almoust immideatly thrown into the wild swirl of underworld politics and intrigues. I will not spoil any further, because in this game story is really full of suprises and twists. Depending on what clan you'll pick for your hero, different characters will treat you a bit diffrently, some times the entire game can change because of your new nature - either in terms of dialogue or gameplay. Speaking of gameplay - VtMB offers a specter of different weapons and supernatural powers wich you can combine in order to achieve your goal. Game truly gives you different ways to complite your task. Characters and dialogs are astonishing, writing is clever and voice acting is superb - seriously, I can count the games with such fleshed-out characters using one hand. There is always a down side - on release game was full of bugs and many of them are still in the game, despite of the comunity efforts, some of them are game-breaking. Balance in the game is also quite weird and really leans towards the combat approach (that's fine because it's still an action-rpg, but some people can find it a bit dissapointing). But everything I've said before doesn't really matter. You can't judge games like this using standart approach, every part of it is working on atmosphere. Graphics can be a bit dated and locations are small, but it still gives you such a feeling of presence in urban jungles, that puts to shame some games dedicated to wast open cities (hello, deus ex: md and watch dogs). The game that makes you feel like a part of nocturnal brotherhood in city of angels. The game that changed my mind on how cool vampires can be. The outstanding masterpiece.