Later in the game, you can end up planting hidden cameras in the Nocturne on behalf of the Nosferatu hacker Mitnick. The Nocturne Theater in Downtown Los Angeles appears functional enough, but it's actually an official meeting ground for the local vampires and the decidedly unsympathetic Prince Sebastian LaCroix in the game's introduction, he has your sire executed on stage and is only prevented from doing the same to you because of public outcry.Not entirely abandoned, as some unfortunate ghost hunters find out.

Abandoned Hospital: The decrepit building in the Downtown area.

So much so that the games community is still active to this day, and is always embracing new players who display an interest in the game. ĭespite the Obvious Beta aspects, many consider the game to be an incredibly fun, deeply rewarding experience that any fan of PC-RPG's like Deus Ex would enjoy. Luckily, a small dedicated modding community around the game has fixed most of these over the years through Unofficial Patches.

Thanks to a very Troubled Production, the game had the makings of an Obvious Beta when it was released, suffering from numerous critical bugs and other problems, and although quite a few were fixed by patches, Troika went under shortly after the release, resulting in many of them remaining unaddressed (though some employees did stay on, unpaid, to put out a single official patch to squash some of them). They become embroiled in local vampire politics and meet a wide cast of characters in their quest to track down an ancient sarcophagus.īloodlines was also the first game to make use of the licensed Source engine from Valve Software and was technically the first Source engine game completed, but part of their licensing agreement prohibited the game from being released before Half-Life 2. After their sire gets offed for Embracing a mortal without the permission of LaCroix, the newly instated Camarilla Prince of Los Angeles, the PC finds themselves trying to prove their worth by becoming LaCroix's errand runner. and it would seem an illicitly-embraced one, as well. In the Anarch-controlled city of Los Angeles, the player character is a newly-Embraced vampire. The game takes place in the Old World of Darkness. A World of Darkness MMO was being developed by Crowd Control Productions based on the Old World of Darkness which was to start out exclusively focused on Vampire: The Masquerade, but this was, sadly, eventually cancelled. An FPS/RPG hybrid, many consider it the worthiest successor to Deus Ex.

It was released on November 16th, 2004, the same day as Half-Life 2. Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines is the final game made by Troika Games, composed of the Black Isle exiles responsible for Fallout and Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura.

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