The Queen of Vampires emerges from the ashes of history, seeking to destroy the world of humans and rule over its ruins! No one, human or vampire, will stand in her way!
Count Dracula awakens, weakened and stripped of his powers after years of healing from his last battle with Dr. Van Helsing. He ca...
The Queen of Vampires emerges from the ashes of history, seeking to destroy the world of humans and rule over its ruins! No one, human or vampire, will stand in her way!
Count Dracula awakens, weakened and stripped of his powers after years of healing from his last battle with Dr. Van Helsing. He cannot face his evil rival, the Queen, on his own…
To save the world, an uneasy alliance must be formed between the Prince of Darkness and his eternal enemy, Van Helsing. Will they overcome their hatred and stop the Queen? Or will this fragile alliance fail, condemning humanity to destruction? Only you can decide…
Join the legendary vampire count and his faithful servant Igor as they join forces with Dr. Van Helsing in a horrific adventure inspired by the work of Bram Stoker. Travel the world in search of the Knights of the Order of the Dragon and attempt to thwart the terrible plans of the dark Queen!
Game Features:
Stunning artwork
Dark atmosphere
Incredible gameplay
Beautiful Hidden Object scenes
Multiple challenging puzzles
Over 40 locations to explore
Influence the gameplay and choose your own game ending
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GOG doesn´t have the full version of the game. Which means, this version lacks a whole area to visit, a true ending (2 to be more precise) and several puzzles. Plus lots of extras like the chance to repeat the puzzles after the game has been beaten or repeat the videos.
The ingame achievements the game has, name things related to the missing area, which means, the GOG version is heavily chopped. Which is a shame.
Unlike Hound of the Baskervilles, Love Kills seems to have been beefed up so much, you almost forget it's just a collection of puzzles.
It features so much dialog and so many jokes, as well as the occasional animated segment, that the plot begins to eclipse the puzzles, which, compared to "The Baskervilles", are subpar.
There are more interesting puzzles here than in the Sherlock game, but they rarely seem to rely on anything but trial and error. Puzzles also seem to only be either fairly easy or fairly hard, with nothing much inbetween.
They also get repeated far too often, with many puzzles having three segments you need to solve - meaning you get to solve the same puzzle on varying difficulties, before you can advance.
Luckily there are enough different puzzles that this game feels like a proper challenge, and feels fairly long.
There's still an over reliance on hidden object segments, which are the cheapest part of the game, and only serve to bring the plot to a screeching halt.
Especially since those segments feel extra cheap due to the weird viewing angles chosen, the weird angles items are in, sometimes even showing you their back, or being almost completely hidden by other objects.
At times objects don't seem to match their word completely, and sometimes two objects seem to fit the description, with only one being the right one.
Objects are also mapped in a weird manner, causing clicking on them to register as clicking on another object at times, possibly because of how close they are to other objects.
But the strength of the game is its plot, which is fairly campy with everyone hamming it up, and Dracula being accompanied by a comic-relief Igor.
You start by trying to revive Dracula's former glory, only to come across a vampire that's trying to take over the world, causing you to join Van Helsing in an effort to defeat her.
Sadly, Helsing is dubbed so poorly, he might as well have not been included. But the game's ties to the book are its weakest points.
Enjoyable campy fun, ~5 hours for a single play-through. Recommended on a sale if you like hidden object games.
A more interesting plot than I'd originally expected. It was like playing through a wonderfully terrible B movie.
The game has all the standards of the hidden object games + you do little puzzles regularly, all different so the game has enough variety to keep it entertaining and you can up the challenge by playing harder difficulty. What is also entertaining is the sort of hilarious story. I mean the story isn't comedic, although there are some jokes here and there, but it's the delivery of the lines and the somewhat silly plot. The game is apparently a sequel to Dracula: Origins but I guess you don't really need to know that game to play this. There are different endings based on what you do with the adversary ladies.
However, the information that this GOG release doesn't include the bonus chapter is true. You should be able to access the bonus chapter through the main menu, but the button is not there. The bonus chapter follows up on the ending of the main game, slightly differently depending on what that ending was, and then there is another variety in the ending to the bonus chapter depending how you played it. But you can't get it with this release. There were two releases of this game. The original and the "collector's edition" that included the bonus chapter. That one has "collector's edition" written in the main menu too, GOG's release doesn't, so it's no mistake or a bug and GOG's releas is just that standard original release.
That's sort of a shame, but you get enough game with the main game too, for that 1 money definitely. On easy difficulty it's like 4 or so hours on one playthrough. If you're a die hard Dracula fan and really want that extra chapter then you have to look elsewhere though.
It got stuck so many times on me, I had to play again from the last save. Still don't know what caused it. The story is okay, fun puzzles but sometimes too many. Probably the reason why I didn't connect much to the story, it felt hasty and superficial.
