Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

Vampire®: The Masquerade-Bloodlines™ delivers a new type of RPG experience-one that blends all the core elements of a traditional RPG with the graphical richness, immediacy and brutal combat of a first-person action game. The game plunges players into the dark and gritty vampire underworld of modern-day L.A. as a creature of the night.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines is a rpg, vampire and cult classic game developed by Troika Games and published by Activision.
Released on March 22nd 2007 is available only on Windows in 3 languages: English, French and German.

It has received 13,479 reviews of which 12,776 were positive and 703 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.2 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam and has a 50% discount.

The Steam community has classified Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines into these genres:

RPG Vampire Cult Classic Singleplayer Supernatural Horror Action Dark Atmospheric Story Rich Classic Action RPG Gothic Great Soundtrack First-Person Immersive Female Protagonist Third Person Stealth Adventure

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Requirements

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Windows

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

* Does not support Windows XP 64
Supported Chipsets for 98/ME/200/XP:

All ATI® Radeon® Chipsets
All NVIDIA® GeForce(tm) Chipsets
Matrox® Parhelia(tm) Chipset

Reviews

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Nov. 2024

There is only one kind of people that won't like VTMB after it is properly patched with the Unofficial Patch: people who skip all the dialogues in games and just want to fight. If that's your case, sure. This is not for you, play Bayonetta, Devil May Cry or a more modern RPG instead. If you're not that person, however... oh, boy, are you in for a treat! The story, the characters, the ambiance, the music, the choices, Bloodlines is simply amazing at storytelling. You'll feel there and feel that the you're interacting with believable and complex people with all the NPCs. Most missions can also be completed by multiple means, be it fighting, sneaking, or talking your way through, which gives it a lot of flexibility, and the few ones that didn't give you much choice at launch have alternative fan-made shortcuts if you go for the "Plus" version of the patch that work perfectly well. That also gives the game A LOT of replay value. After completing it and falling in love with it with your first vampire clan, you'll be curious about how things could've been if you made different choices and played in a different style and you'll certainly want to go for another run with a different clan. Malkavian and Nosferatu clans also make the game completely different by themselves, giving you fresh and unique experiences. Just to give you an example of all that, I have played VTMB for 130 hours and there's STILL things I haven't done in it. To put it simply, then, this game is awesome and you SHOULD give it a try. Just make sure you use the Unofficial Patch. It's free, very easy to install and the only thing you really need to get to be able to experience this so called "flawed masterpiece". Enjoy!

Aug. 2024

This is the worst good game ever made. If you ask literally any fan of the game they will talk your ear off about at least five parts of the game that makes them cringe. If you push the game in any direction it falls apart. Every mod has an option to skip the Warrens because it's the worst dungeon ever put in an RPG. There's at least three parts of the game where you're railroaded into making stupid idiot choices no sane person would ever pick. I will love this game forever.

March 2024

You should know that this game doesn't start without a community made patch. It's easy to download and completely safe, and takes no more than ten minutes to install. You can find that here: https://www.moddb.com/mods/vtmb-unofficial-patch Now, even this patch doesn't iron out every technical issue this game has. To my understanding, this game's... special-ness has less to do with it being a shitty Steam port (and that may also be part of the issue) but more to do with the game having always been pretty broken, even at release back in 2004. I guess it had a pretty rough development, and that shows pretty clearly through playing it. As an example, in your "haven", or what is basically your apartment room for most of the game, there is a bathroom in the corner, behind a door. Well, supposedly there's a door; I never actually saw the door, just the handle floating in midair. And the handle didn't do anything, either. I could walk into the bathroom without even using the handle. So that's kind of what you're getting into when you play this. Further, this game is pretty unfinished. There are many parts of the game that clearly didn't get much time in the oven, most notably the ending (which the game is pretty infamous for). The storyline, while very good, is not developed enough such that it becomes something of substance. Things are never explored enough, many details are straight-up forgotten. My two favorite characters in this game get a small questline each and then disappear off the map right after (Gary and Jeanette/Therese Voerman). The combat is also pretty bad. I thought Risen had poor combat but this might honestly be kinda worse. Melee, which is heavily favored over ranged, doesn't even feel that good to play. And for some reason unarmed and weapons get different stats tied to them? I don't entirely understand that, but maybe that's the DND roots coming through. Ranged, which is what I used, is pretty good and there's a fair selection of decent guns. Your accuracy is tied to your stats and at first you can't hit much of anything, and later in the game bosses and enemies become sponges, making even the strongest weapons take 5 or more bullets to kill something at best. You could go on. This game is mired in technical and mechanical issues. But it isn't super fair to rag on it. It's gone through enough. However, if you can get past the start menu and deal with some of the less great mechanics (which isn't too hard to do, honestly), this game is pretty good. I didn't know what WoD was before playing this but honestly I'm really into the world of vampires and monsters that White Wolf Publishing has created. Vampires have never really been my thing, and outside of The Witcher 3 they've never interested me. But the vampires here feel more like average people (and sometimes they basically are), and there is a whole culture and set of customs vampires follow. It's all very interesting and neat stuff. The characters are all well-written and the story is pretty good, even though it is pitifully undercooked in places. The world design is clever and makes use of its limited space fairly well, though I wish there were more smaller areas to explore like in Thief. The character creator is pretty cool, and there are a lot of builds you can make for your character, between choosing their unique vampire clan and allocating their stats to tune the game to an experience you'd enjoy. And there are certainly many ways to play this, but while all builds are favored equally early on, that becomes less and less the case as the game progresses, with bosses becoming harder, tankier, more lethal, etc. Some of them are straight up bullshit, I think, and non-combat characters will have a rough go of dealing with some of the later game fights. But all in all, build variety is pretty extensive. This game has more than its fair share of issues, but when you look deeper this game has really earned its reputation as a cult classic. Of course, it will never be more than that. It is simply too underdeveloped to have a place among the greats, hence why we even call things cult classics to begin with. I'd give this one a fair 6.5/10, mostly due to how lackluster the endgame was. Besides that, it's a solid 7. Definitely give it a try if you have the patience to get through the technical issues.

Jan. 2024

This game is 20 years old. it was rushed, cut short, forced to release early, and had to be shelved for a month after it was completed until the experimental engine it ran on was finished. it released in the shadow of Half life 2, was marred with bugs, and the company that developed it went out of business. It is still the best RPG game of all time. The writing is exquisite, the voice acting is Oscar quality, every character leaps to life, and it's filled with real people with real motivations dealing with real concerns, social, financial, and ethical. it deals with mature content and themes in a truly mature way, and it's leagues smarter then it's contemporaries or most anything released since. it's a perfect showcase of it's pen and paper tabletop setting, faithfully inhabiting the world of darkness, and it contains dialog, scenes, quests, environments, and an overarching plot that are all as good as any example in any genera since. If you've never played it: Buy It Now and block off a few dark nights to truly soak in it. Make sure you get the unofficial patch (which is still being maintained!) to fix both original bugs and old code on modern hardware headaches.

Dec. 2023

Great game, for the love of god, install the patch for this game, otherwise you will struggle.

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Developer

Troika Games

Publisher

Activision

Release 22 Mar 2007

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