Vampires: Bloodline

Dear bloggie,

Been busy playing tis ancient RPG on my lappy. An awesome RPG that runs on Half Life 2 engine. The catch of this RPG is that ur are one of the creatures of darkness and undeath, a vampire. A blend of 3rd action shoot em and RPG stats (sorta like Elder Scroll 4: Oblivion), u can play it via a shoot em or 3rd person view. Somemore the vampire got bloodline which u can choose that will affect ur characters stats and abilities. I played as a Gangrel, vampires with animalistic tendency aka lone wolves (Suit me noes).

So far frankly speaking, despite being a vampire in the game, I'm scared shit with the dungeon crawls I had to endure through. I'm no so scared of the dungeons that got tones of zombies or monsters jumping to attack u (ur vampire if u boost correctly can easily hack n slash these fodders), but rather those dungeons where there is nothing but death silence, till... HEART ATTACK...!!!

So far the most scary part actually is the less combat part, where u need to retrieve a special item from a haunted hotel to get rid of the ghost haunting this hotel. Damn f*ckin scary... Imagine walking down a junction in a hallway in the dark, when suddenly a girl run across u... Then u turn at the junction to see the girl, already vanished. Also when entering a room, suddenly the lights all go out and the vases and painting starts flying at u, when light come back on, the word "GET OUT" is scratch upon the wall. Can really sweat man, especially when u playing tis part at the middle of 2-3am.

While most part of the game, u will engage against supernatural beings, there are some mission where u engage against plain old humans (Most are fodder except Vampire Hunters). One memorable one for me is where u had to steal a brief case from a gangster doing an exchange down in a parking lot. The parking lot was filled with gangster armed with guns, baseball bats and knifes. But being the creature of darkness, I stormed in and delivered a can of bite necks. Satisfying indeed... After soaking all the damaged dealt to me by these gangster I butcher (with a firemen axe) most of them except 1, where I sink my fangs on his neck and recover from all the damaged dealt.

Worth mentioning too is the cast of colorful NPC in the game. Most are vampire f*cked up in their own f*cked up way, ranging from psychopathic dual personality b*tch to nutcase pirate... These vampires live their immortal life just like most normal beings (except for the suck blood part) in their vampire society.

Also the storyline is very engaging, alot of politics throw into the world of vampires. Best is the level of realism, f*ckin good... Just think along the lines of foul language, hookers, strippers, mafias, morphine (even got peek show) and u get a rough idea of the contents in this game. The combat however abit not so challenging, using guns are usually less efficient than charging, hack n slash method, but it does sometimes have it used, especially when u wanna gun down a monster from a distance. As a vampire, u need to feed (or rather suck blood) from kine (human). Whenever u feed, u replenish ur health and ur bloodpool which is used to cast spells. U can practically feed upon anyone, but u must make sure u are not seen performing this act, else deduct 1 masquerade point. Deduct 5 masquerade point, game over. Think of masquerade as vampire trying to hide their existence from human, so they employ this rule (reason to hide from human, so they won't be hunted by them).