Vampire: Bloodlines Review

FiringSquad has posted their review of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, giving the first person RPG an overall score of 75%. Their final thoughts:

Where the developers chose to, they pulled off a great first-person RPG complete with sneaking, combat, dialogue, an interesting story and of course role-playing elements. Vampire: Bloodlines also features some creative levels like the haunted mansion and the abandoned hospital. On the other hand, its combat is not that strong and yet for some reason someone at Troika or Activision saw fit to include multiple prolonged sequences of it. Furthermore, the balance of the game is really thrown off by those fights – it swings it in favor of a Brujah or Gangrel than Ventrue or Malkavian. There are also times where some side-quests seem impossible without the proper stats, and a few of the main quests make me wonder if the “wrong” kind of character could ever get past it – and I mean the puzzles, not the combat.

At least though, there’s Jack. Gotta love him.