Favorite Vampire Game EVER!
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Ever since the first time I played this game it was the best vampire game I've ever played and now in 2011, it STILL is the best! I love how it immerses you in the story and what a great story it is. I love being able to play a good vampire or bad. I sure wish they would come out with more games like this now, either for PC, PS3, or Xbox 360. They need to make more vampire games like this one!
1268304
I can't believe that local game stores are not carrying this game!!! My group is filled with BIG gamers: Board - Card - RPG - Dice - etc. I brought this one out to play while we were waiting for others to show up and we loved it so much that we played it 7 times before switching games! (We usually have over 20 game choices any giver night. Top of those are Settlers of Catan, Formula DE, Thunderstone, MTG, Betrayal at House on the Hill, Shadows Over Camelot, Boom-O, Quarriors, D&D, and others...)

You have victory conditions depending on the random character card you get. You are either Hunter, Shadow, or Neutral character. Mainly Hunters are trying to get rid of the Shadows, and Shadows the Hunters.

A six player game will end up with two of each type. So you pull a Hunter card and think 'Ok I just need to take out the Shadows with the help of my partner no problem...' The problem is that no one knows who anyone else is! So you pull 'Hermit' cards that you can use to force a player to give you a clue. Something like: "I think you are either a Shadow or a Neutral. If you are take 1 damage or give me an equipment card." If they take damage you know a little more about them. Once you have enough clues you can safely start attacking that player. Wait! if the hunters goal is to take out the Shadows and the Shadows the Hunters what about the Neutrals?!? Every Neutral has a different win condition! From `Be alive when someone else wins' to `Take out any player with at least 15 max life.'

Oh I forgot to mention that each character card has a revel yourself affect. Like reset you life total, or the Neutral that has a win condition of the person on your right wins is now the person on your left.

Turn sequence is 3 stages. 1 Roll dice and move to location on the board. 2 May use special ability of the location (i.e. draw a Hermit card). 3. Attack a player in your location or the location next to you. That's it! It took us one round to understand how to play and we had hours of enjoyment.

Other reviews may do more justice to helping you understand the game, but I hope this one entices you because I think every game group should have a copy of this game in their collection!
2916498
I haven't had this game for that long but what I have seen so far is wicked awesome! the graphics are crisp and fast and the environments are very detailed. Personally IU like the arsenal of weapon that you recieve and what they do to you enemies. Try the artifical sunlight gun on a vampire (they burst into flames). Your character, the Stranger, is a great character that seems to have come straight out of film noir from the 30's. The only thing, so far, I haven't liked about the game is it's 3rd person format, I'm more  of a 1st person type. However, after playing the game for about an hour or so you start to get the hang of it. Despite the control problem this game is truly one of the better games of its type that I have ever played.
3892959
(I love the amazon reviews to see if products are yea/nay)  Didn't get the game here but I'll leave a note about it.  Such a fun game!  Was given to me as a copy from a steam friend and I am amazed I let it sit in there uninstalled for so long.  Now it's my favorite games.  The artwork is what drew me in finally and I still love it.  Other games I play are Sims 3 and Minecraft.  I like that each time you play it's never the same.  Great art. Great style.  Plenty of fun.
3452224
One of my absolute favorite games!  This game doesn't feel like it drags - it actually feels a bit rushed at the end (which is a good thing - adds pressure to up your strategy!)

A must have for 4 or 5 players.
1208183
I absolutely love this game! This was definitely worth getting.
4929858
Our favorite team fun! We used to play the other werewolf game that takes rounds and rounds and spent the whole night only playing like... 5 games. This one brings a new fun for its face pace and new characters. Love it! the more the merrier
3331859
Finally played this today as a 2 player game and am in love! It has its own spins on the classic game and every piece of the game along with the pieces and rules truly makes a Supernatural fan happy. Can't wait to try out the full rules for a 3+ player game!
3476999
I somewhat of a board game novice, but this is by far my favorite board game. I've played Settlers, Archipelago, Agricola, and the like, but this game is the easiest to pick up on and the most entertaining. Can be especially fun if you play with others that enjoy it and can use their imaginations to get into the game as well. The way the game is designed there are 50 different story lines the haunted house theme can take! And the board itself will be different each time you play, along with characters and players. So really, the game play is different every single time. If you like board games at all you can play this game, and you will enjoy it!
435455
I've been dying (no pun intended) to read this book ever since the second left me with a MAJOR cliffhanger.  The Davenport Manor series is easily one of my favorites, and the fact that it features powerful vampires, cute actors that look like Tom Wisdom, and hot Scotsmen makes it even better.

The book opens where the last one left off, with Daniel Davenport hanging onto life and his friends and family (most of whom are vampires) struggling to decide what to do next.  As always, I don't want to give away too many of the books secrets because I want others to enjoy reading it as much as I did, but I will say I enjoyed this one even better than the second.  It kept me interested and intrigued, and as desperate as Emma and her friends to discover the secrets behind Living Weapons And the newly discovered Lazarus.  I'm also a sucker for romance and Todd and Emma are my OTP in this fandom.  Sorry, Kelly, but I never liked you.

My favorite thing about this series, however, is that reading the newest installment is like reconnecting with old friends.  I love the characters.  That's what makes a world real to me.  And these characters are all just so much fun.  And fascinating.  And (for the most part) very human.

Well done, Ms. Zaroski!  I am eagerly anticipating the fourth book!
3645381
this is the best castlevania i have ever played and prehaps one of the best games i have ever played. i would buy this game a second time if i had to. Because there are new modes to play in such as playing with different characters the game is very replayable. my girlfriend is getting annoyed with me because i cant put it down. Awesome game!
4904726
Way back when, I played Black and White and adored the game.  My only complaint about the first one was how much "babysitting" you had to do with your creature. They have totally improved the game with this one!  I love how it's so much different than the first!  You can actually see what your creature is thinking and you can better control what you do and don't want them to do. For example, your creature may think about pooing in the fields.. when you select your creature, you can either pet it to encourage it do poo there more often, or slap it to let him know never to do it.

Also, you aren't stuck in only two worlds, there are seven worlds for you to play through, each advancing you into more difficult gameplay, so to say.  You start out in "perfect world" so you can get the gameplay and controls down.  Then you go to the second world where you practice building a town and whether you want to be good, neutral, or evil. You have to either influence the surrounding towns to join you or take them by force. Then next worlds build from that, and you don't have the leave the world until you're ready.

Overall, awesome game and I adore playing it.
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I have to admit that I hesitated a good while before buying Bloodlines, because of all of the reviews that mentioned bugs. However, I liked the screenshots and the vampire theme and decided to give it a chance. At least with the patch installed, I really enjoyed the game and found no significant or show-stopping bugs. It looks great, the NPC are very interesting and well developed, and the quests can be funny, dark, and quite elaborate. The game, even with the patch, does have a few technical problems as well as some other flaws.  However, if you like vampire stories and role-playing games, then Bloodlines is definitely worth a try.

Gameplay: Character creation (you can be 1 of 7 types of vampires) is interesting, allowing you to customize a male or female vampire that has been recently sired.  You have several choices of abilities and skills, but character creation is not as deep as in some RPGs like Morrowind.  During the game, you earn experience points that you can use to increase certain skills, attributes, or disciplines (your vampiric powers).  This system generally works well, but don't expect to max out many of these areas by the end of the game (thus, choose your character-development path wisely).

The game is rather linear in progression, although there are a number of side quests and your character is allowed to solve some quests in 2 or 3 different ways.  Movement and combat are much like typical first-person shooters, and melee weapons are much more powerful than guns (a good sword will take you through about the whole game--I like the shotgun, though). There are a few good scares in the game (such as a haunted hotel and an encounter at a park), but the developers missed a lot of great opportunities to really scare players. Overall, the story is a very good one, and you'll meet some fascinating characters (like VV, Gary, Jack) who have great dialogue.  The quests are well done and often multi-layered, but there are a few areas where things get bogged down, such as when you are trying to reach certain bosses.  You often have to go through an hour or two of encounters with their minions in order to reach them.  I have only played the game through once as a male Toreador, but I think I did about all of the side quests, in addition to the main quests.  There was only one quest in a graveyard that I found too frustrating to complete, but thankfully it was an optional side quest.

Graphics: The graphics look realistic (based on the Source engine), but I didn't get good framerates walking around the 4 cities. There are some long load times between levels, which improve drastically depending on how much RAM you have (I would suggest at least 768MB).  The four cities are all very well rendered, but a bit small.  Character models look good, as do most animations, but many models are repeated.  Overall, you'll need a good video card to enjoy the game thoroughly.

Sound: There is a lot of good atmosphere in this game, thanks to some good music, great voice acting, and ambient sounds.  I am not into heavy metal music, but it just seemed to fit well in this game's gothic scenes.  However, even with the patch, there are still some sound issues, especially occasional studdering (increasing my RAM seemed to improve this a bit for me). Also, the game crashed to desktop about 8 times.

Replayability/Value: Overall, I am very pleased with this game. The game will last about 40 solid hours the first time through.  In my view, there is not much replay value here. While it might be interesting to try another vampire clan or the other gender, there's not much difference in how the story unfolds.  There are at least two alternate endings, but the difference is only about twenty seconds of cutscenes.  Still, if you like role-playing games, first-person shooters, and vampire stories, then I highly recommend Bloodlines.  I hope there's a sequel.
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This game is pretty cool if you're a fan of vampires. I'm one of them, OBSEST with them almost. This game is really cool, Rayne kicks butt! All the variety of weapons and moves. It's one game you definattly don't want to play at night in a dark room if you're weak at heart and scare easily. Hehe i can be at times. This game has a gothic look too it which makes it so cool. Love the voices, specially since two are the voice actors of my favorite anime Dragonball Z. It's a definite buy as i've said if you're into vampires and blood and gore and all that good stuff in video games. I rated it three stars for the moment cause I just got it and haven't got used to the controls and way of moving just yet. This game kicks [butt]!!
1583073
This game is by far my favorite ps3 game. It has a great single player with a lot of different things to do, and the online multiplayer is great too!  The undead nightmare add-on is well worth it too!
3373353
I had Vol's 1+2, so when i saw #3 come out, i had to have it! i LOVE these expansion packs.

Word of advice - BUY DIRECT FROM VAMPIRE SQUID GAMES! They add such a personal touch to the order, it's totally worth it! AND! you're supporting a small business when you order through them. i Bought Vol's 1+2 through them and didn't for Vol 3. I wish i had!!!
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I first purchased this game in 2002 when it came out. I paid around $49 for the thing. And I don't regret one dime I spent!

This was not my first Final Fantasy, but I had had a hard time getting into some of the PS1 installments of the series for the simple fact that...you had to READ TONS AND TONS OF DIALOGUE! (ugh!)

So the first cool thing about this game is the fact that...yay! They talk!

While a few reviews have said that it is laughable at times...and it is true, but It's more of how the audio was placed into the game and the timing of what is said. Not the actually acting itself.

I read another review that said that the FMV's are SOOO LOONNNGGGG and take up SOOO MUCH time. Yeah...if all you do is follow the story line scene after scene! The WHOLE POINT of ALL the Final Fantasy series is to go beyond the story and level up,do the side quests, and find special items and what not. Which can be difficult and annoying...and CHALLENGING. (But isn't that why we play video games in the first place?)

Anyway, this game is incredibly detailed. Can last forever with literally thousands of secrets to unveil, items &weapons to find, and new creatures to see!

The characters and story line are engaging and by the time you've finished the game....you've spent a good amount of time with those guys and find yourself crying at the end when it's over!

This is such an enjoyable game and I'm not sure how many times I've taken it out to replay certain parts or the whole thing over again.

The FMV scenes are beautiful, but regular gameplay is still incredible detailed!

As far as the soundtrack goes there are only two songs that I absolutely despise in the and that's the Chocobo song and 'Victorious' song they play at the end of a battle. (they use higher notes so it drives me nuts!) But I love the game and often find myself humming along to the beats as I'm going along...haha.

I LOVE this game and I'm so happy that they made a sequel to it (a more lighthearted, but just as fun sequel!)

I highly recommend you try it out, and now that it's a Greatest Hit and less than half the price I paid for....it's well worth it.