I cannot say enough how much I love this game. Right off the bat though, let me say YOU HAVE TO PATCH THIS GAME. Don't let the fact that you need to go to Wesp5's Unofficial Patch (or the other one I don't use, I hear it works fine though, make your own choice) to make the game playable dissuade you though. Seriously, this game is immersive. The sounds of the city, of the wind, of the TV and radios that play different things depending on how you play the game, the unforgettable characters. What's your relationship with Heather like? How hard do you laugh at Fat Larry, how do you feel about Nines and Tung and those Sisters in the club? Do you want to demolish puny mortals with your spells? Do you want a game where the number of people you kill doesn't effect your experience points so you can actually just Obfuscate (magical stealth) past a dozen guards before killing their leader from behind with a fire ax while laughing like a lunatic? Do you just want to rage through moving ten times as fast as any mortal, his bullets whizzing through the space you were what seems like minutes before? My God, I've played through this game a dozen times and it never really gets old. Yes, the end is a bit of a grind with a bunch of combat, but by then you are invested as hell at seeing the ending. Play each clan... a couple times. Just play and immerse yourself (preferably at night with the lights off). Once you've beaten it a couple times you'll put it down... until someone mentions it on reddit or something and you'll play again. Even writing this review means that I'm going to play this again. Tonight! Maybe a Malkavian playthrough again (maybe not a good first time playthrough, FYI, but do what you want). This game is worth $20. Hell, it's worth $50, IMO. I'm buying it from GOG even though I originally bought it on Steam. Because DRM free might not normally be worth it to me. But for this game? Hell to the yes.
