Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (2004)
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines is a 2004 role-playing (rpg) video game made by Troika Games and Activision.
Newly turned and barely briefed on the rules, you wake into the vampire politics of Los Angeles as a fledgling pawn of Prince LaCroix. From the neon squalor of Santa Monica to downtown high-rises, you navigate seven clans, each with its own powers and prejudices, while a mystery about a stolen relic pulls the city's factions toward open war. Dialogue bends to your clan and your stats, letting you seduce, intimidate, or con a path through. A gothic-punk cult RPG, rough at the edges and unmatched in atmosphere, built on the World of Darkness tabletop setting.
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What is Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines about?
Newly turned and barely briefed on the rules, you wake into the vampire politics of Los Angeles as a fledgling pawn of Prince LaCroix. From the neon squalor of Santa Monica to downtown high-rises, you navigate seven clans, each with its own powers and prejudices, while a mystery about a stolen relic pulls the city's factions toward open war. Dialogue bends to your clan and your stats, letting you seduce, intimidate, or con a path through. A gothic-punk cult RPG, rough at the edges and unmatched in atmosphere, built on the World of Darkness tabletop setting.
When was Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines released?
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines was released on 16 November 2004.
Who made Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines?
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines was made by Troika Games, Activision and Electronic Arts.
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A few thoughts on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
The Vangelis score of Blade Runner conjures the same rain-slick, neon-noir dread that hangs over LaCroix's city, so play it while you prowl. For the predator wearing a human face, American Psycho dissects the same appetite under a designer suit. Then queue Interview with the Vampire for the politics of the damned.
Gothic vampires who seduce as easily as they kill
Bloodlines drops you into LA's vampire underworld as a fledgling nobody fully trusts, clan politics and seduction working as real weapons. Interview with the Vampire and The Lost Boys built the same gothic-punk template of vampires who charm before they bite, Tomie turns that same lethal allure into body horror, and Supernatural keeps its own vampire hunters circling similar monsters in the dark.
Charming your way past people who should know better
Bloodlines lets you seduce, intimidate or con nearly every conversation, and that same manipulative charm drives Patrick Bateman's double life in American Psycho. The Witcher 3 and Skyrim both reward talking a situation into your favor as much as fighting it, and Grand Theft Auto V's Los Santos runs on the same kind of hustlers and hidden agendas.
Dark, heavy soundtracks for a gothic-punk night
Bloodlines soaks every club and back alley in a gothic-punk soundtrack of its own, and these albums share that same heavy, nocturnal edge. Rust in Peace and Leprosy bring the same thrash-and-death aggression, IX Equilibrium and The Spectre Within lean into gothic and progressive dread, and Leather Teeth wears its horror-rock theatrics just as openly.