This is nothing but a cheap vampire console game with good graphics. It IS NOT a World of Darkness game and CERTAINLY NOT a Vampire the Masquerade game. They completely removed all of the elements that made Troika's game great. Everything about this gameplay is wrong. Just wrong. I admit I didn't have much hope for the game, simply because it is a Paradox game. I should have gone with my instincts. Played through in a day. No real replay value. The whole thing was just wrong. It would have been less disappointing if they hadn't tried to portray it as a sequel to an actual WoD game. I wouldn't have bought it, but then I wouldn't be disappointed, either. I hope somebody who actually cares, buys White Wolf and makes an actual WoD game. The game is easy enough to play, but it both looks and feels like a console game. There is nothing open about the world. I feel like, even if it had been a WoD game, we got the first chapter of what should have been four or five chapters. I literally feel cheated by paradox.
The game looks for an optical drive, as part of its old copy protection scheme. If you don't have one, don't panic and don't listen to the idiots who say it can't be run in single player mode without an optical drive. They are wrong. All you need to do, is get an emulator or of you already have windows 10, find an ISO or other CD/DVD.BD image and mount it. This will create a virtual optical drive and the game will see it as an optical drive and run. This info can be found with a simple search, instead of assuming the worst and throwing a hissy fit. If you are going to run old games on new hardware, you need to be aware of these gotchyas and caveats!
