I was too young to play this gem when I had opportunity. I've spent lot of time in Supreme Commander and here I think I can spent also same amount of time. The game utilizes everything what is good in RTS - it offers good strategic experience and offers good gameplay combined with great soundtrack. Thought this game don't have some core RTS functionalities, but I was wrong - they are just mapped different - I recommend to go though controls and learn new scheme.
Finished this game for the first time yesterday - can say one think - it's breathtaking. It's like classic Deus Ex with vampires instead of cyber-humans. The game scenario and gameplay design is on completely different level - the thing that hit me most - vampire races - they can affect whole gameplay e.g Nosferatu can't be seen by humans - you need to be stealth whole game and use canals 95% of the game. I was playing Malkavian - the Madness Ones - they are pure craziness - developers prepared whole separate dialogues only for this race - they are metaphorical in they senteces and some time NPC's have problems with telling "WTF you player want?". For me this game is pure blood.
Very good story (but still not worth it's full price at shop compared to a gameplay time). Game required around 2 hours to complete main story. Very good steering mechanism for moving and fight the "2D platformer" game. You are able to push/slice zombies with fireman axe and shooting them with two types of guns (main story). I enjoyed playing this game and would give 5 stars if it would not have technical bugs (some time the next part of level was not rendered and the game crashed at main plot twist :( ).
Gra jest dobra póki starujemy tylko jednym Dvarfem, przez co jest przyjemnym taktyczną izometryczną "mobą", jednaże dodanie drugiego i trzeciego bohatera sprawia, że trzeba cały czas ustawiać pauzę i ustawiać każde kolejne kliknięcie, co w tego typu grze, która na początku przypomina hack'n slasha jest męczące. Dodatkowym problemem są błedy techniczne - postać Forcera kilkukrotnie zawiesiła swoją animację i się glitchowała. Uzywanie umiejętności postaci jest często toporne np. strzał z AOE w kierunku przeciwnika nie trafia go bo ze względu na teren (a z rzutu izometrycznego tego tak nie widać) postać strzela w górę. Jeśli ktoś lubi zatrzymywać grę co 5s i męczyć się z błędami - zapraszam, reszcie odradzam ten tytuł.
After 1.5 h of playing I've getting tired of this game. It has a great scenario from the beginning, but they are few things that makes this game a bit irritating: - No auto attack after clicking on enemy - for RPG game with izometric view it's necessary feature, without this I have to mashing a LMB with marking cursor on the enemy or holding a key - No possibility to change a keybinding - and no, spacebar is not pausing a game - During a pause there's no possibility to activate some active skill - it's problematic to healing one character, when the other one gets beating in the same time - I'm not Starcraft pro player This score is low for this game only due to this points, in other case I would giva a 5/5 - any mods that are fixing this behaviour?
I'm not usually play a point'n click adventures, but now I decided as it's based on Lovecraft. This game is very climatic and gives you 1001 possibilities to die (by cultists, The Old Ones or simple traps). If you are not familiar with this kind of game I recommend a reading partially walkthrough when you stuck (and believe me - it's VERY easy). Despite the game has a great scenario and atmosphere it has a very diffucult controls and sometimes the usage of character skills is not triggering correctly (sometimes I couldn't look on the certain item/object because character stayed the one pixel from the border). I think that this game need to be remastered when the horrible controls will be fixed and music and graphic would be improved - then I could easily give a 5/5.
