The first Blood remains my favorite 1st person shooter of all time, but this unworthy sequel deserves only to be flushed down the sewer with the rest of the crap. The first and biggest problem is that the game needs to be played in a room where the PC is the only source of light. Otherwise, it's a pitch-black waste. Enemies are damn near invincible, and freakin' annoying. Gameplay is boring and formulaic. Take Blood, remove the creepy and sometimes hilarious atmosphere, unique weapons, entertaining story and every ounce of fun, and you have Blood 2. I hope someone lost their job over this train wreck.
I played this when it was new, beginning with a demo disc from PC Magazine. It is so zany, derogatory and politically incorrect that you have to love it. The only problems I have are that it's pretty buggy, always has been. Lots of clipping problems, aiming problems and questionable physics when tossing dynamite. The humor and generally forlorn look of the game's atmosphere have kept me coming back over the years, and now that I can actually play it on my current PC, I'll probably still do so in years to come.
Yeah, ti looks nice, but this game is an exercise in pointless frustration. Not enough health, monsters that appear from nowhere, monsters teleporting in EVERY time you pick up an item, monsters that do 50% damage in one hit, monsters teleporting behind you every time you walk down a passage... I'm looking for what's supposed to be fun in this game and I just can't find it. The entire thing seems to be designed to piss off the player with its unfairness.
