Publishers: Activision Blizzard
Developers: Troika Games
Genres: Action, RPG
Platforms: PC
Released: 2004-11-15
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines is a story-driven action-RPG based on table-top role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade, the part of the World of Darkness franchise. The game is setting a gothic urban fantasy where vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural beings live secretly by humans. The story follows the player character that gets turned into the vampire and becomes a member of Camarilla – a considerable vampire organization that tries to keep vampires’ existence in secret from ordinary people. It confronts Sabbat, an organization whose member believe that Vampires should let their inner beasts go wild no matter of people’s awareness.
The gameplay’s primary emphasis is variety in player’s action. The same goals can be achieved in several ways. Depending on the character’s abilities and clan affiliation, it can intimidate, seduce or convince NPC’s with words, use brute force or sneak in the shadows without being noticed. There are seven unique vampire clans from which player creates his character. They have different skills, supernatural powers, appearance, characteristics. Some of them affect gameplay in its unique way, e.g., vampires from Nosferatu clan are so deformed that they cannot be seen by ordinary people, forcing the player to rely on stealth and brute force rather than communication.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines System Requirements:
Minimum System Requirements:
Minimum System Requirements for PC
Required:
- 3D hardware accelerator card required - 100% DirectX® 9.0c-compatible 64MB video card and drivers
- 1.2 GHz Athlon™ or 1.2 GHz Pentium® III processor or higher
- 384MB of RAM (512MB of RAM recommended)
- Microsoft® Windows® 98/ME/2000/XP*
- 3.3 GB of uncompressed hard disk space for game files and saved games (plus 1.4 GB for Windows® swap file)
- 100% DirectX® 9.0-compatible 16-bit sound card and drivers
- 100% Windows® 98/ME/2000/XP-compatible mouse, keyboard, and drivers
- DirectX® 9.0c
Supported Chipsets for 98/ME/200/XP:
- All ATI® Radeon® Chipsets
- All NVIDIA® GeForce(tm) Chipsets
- Matrox® Parhelia(tm) Chipset