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| From: Activision
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy Used: $11.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  103 reviews
Sales Rank: 2488
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95
ESRB: Mature
Media: CD-ROM
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 95
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.9 x 1.6
Model: 1000907
UPC: 047875109070
EAN: 0047875109070
ASIN: B00002SU5A
Release Date: June 7, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: PLEASE READ ENTIRE DESCRIPTION: Good-Very Good Condt! Ships W/ White Double Disc Case, Both Discs & Booklet. No Front or Back Cover is included or other materials if there was some. BEST DEAL BY FAR!
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| Features:
| • | Live as the Undead: As Christof, a vampire of the Brujah Clan, you must fight and feed on the blood of mortals, while hiding your vampiric powers and controlling the urges of the beast within you. Along the way, you are joined by other vampires who will fight by your side as you solve a series of quests surrounding a deep story. | | • | Powerful 3-D Engine: Your World of Darkness is created by the Nod Engine, developed by Nihilistic. Dramatic lighting, fog effects and gorgeous textures bring the medieval cities of Prague and Vienna to life, and twist the modern landscape of London and New York into a gothic nightmare. | | • | Innovative Multiplayer Design: Vampire: The Masquerade-Redemption will change the way computer RPGs are played online with its Storyteller mode, which allows one player to create and run an adventure of their own. Multiplayer features include co-op play, and the option to play as the hunter or the hu | | • | nted. |
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Amazon.com Review
Want to live forever? Get a taste for what it's like with Vampire: The Masquerade Redemption, the first computer role-playing game based on the tremendously popular dice-and-paper and live-action RPG from White Wolf Game Studio. Die-hard fans will grumble a bit at some of the translation concessions from book to hard drive. The vampiric disciplines in particular are less flexible and occasionally more hassle than they're worth--sure, you can turn into a wolf, but you can't return to your natural form until the time limit expires. Still, these limitations don't interfere with the gameplay, which is fast moving, challenging, and genuinely creepy. Graphics and sounds are well designed, and along with the plot they evoke the mood of gothic horror that has made Vampire so popular. The single-player mode locks you into the story line of Christof, a medieval crusader who blunders into immortality at the fangs of an ancient Brujah vampire. Christof's damnation and search for redemption lead him from the Prague of the Dark Ages to modern New York City. Multiplayer options include local area network and Internet play as well as the ability to create and run your own stories for other players. The manual is beautiful and helpful, a rare combination. Clearly, the designers took their cue from White Wolf, as evidenced by the clarity of text and carefully chosen illustrations. Though Redemption is well worth playing, gamers should be warned that the save-game feature is irritating and often beyond the player's control and that the installation requires at least 720 MB (and up to 1.3 GB!). Despite these flaws, the game is still wicked fun and merits plenty of praise. --Rob Lightner Pros: - Fantastic graphics and sound
- Rich online storytelling options
- Perfectly captures the mood and settings of Vampire: The Masquerade and Vampire: The Dark Ages
Cons: - Enormous installation size
- Irritating save-game feature
- Not strictly faithful to original White Wolf rules
Amazon.com Product Description
Before your fall, you led a crusade against evil. Now you've become one of the undead creatures you once battled--a vampire. Inhabiting the World of Darkness, you must face a series of brutal confrontations with your nemesis, Vukodiak, a powerful vampire lord. Your unholy showdown begins in medieval Europe and rages on into the modern day as you track a soulless enemy in an eternal struggle to destroy him. For this is the only hope of vengeance for your tortured immortality.
Product Description
Feel what it is to be immortal. Before your fall, you led a crusade against evil. Now you've become one of the undead creatures you once battled - a Vampire. Inhabiting the World of Darkness you must face a series of brutal confrontations with your nemesis, Vukodlak, a powerful vampire lord. Your unholy showdown begins in medieval Europe and rages on into the modern day, as you track a soulless enemy in an eternal struggle to destroy him. For this is the only hope of vengeance for your tortured
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| Customer Reviews: Read 98 more reviews...
 severly lacking, even considering its old age November 5, 2007
this game is old, ill give it that, but its still no where near as entertaining as its followup game, bloodlines, which is actually very fun and has a decent replay factor. This game engine, along with dynamics and over all suckage makes for a waste of money. even for a walking down video game memory lane.
 Take off the Goth fanboy goggles October 28, 2007
I'm not terribly sure what drives people ga-ga over the gameplay in Vampire: The Maquerade Redemption. I assume the game's popularity has more to do with atmosphere and subject matter than anything. I didn't enjoy the actual play very much.
The box art and cutscenes might mislead unsuspecting players into thinking Vampire is an epic RPG or even a first-person adventure. It's neither. While the story, conversations, and character development are engaging, the game itself is an old-style isometric hack and slash. Which is fine, when that particular system is implemented competently. Here it only occasionally works. Too much of Vampire's environments consist of narrow hallways and blind corridors where enemies and allies alike jam themselves into environmental wedges, run headlong into adversaries, and generally act in manners directly against common sense. Level design is pretty, well detailed, and enhances the mood of the game, but it is amateurish in terms of interactivity. This would be a minor flaw if, again, the meat of the game weren't the combat itself. Yes, there are many RPG elements like character leveling and the often fun experiments with trinkets and baubles picked up at the local shops, but the fun bits devolve into frustration whenever a member of your crew runs headfirst into a gaggle of bloodsuckers, despite your commands.
The story nearly makes the gameplay endurable. I didn't know much about Vampire's universe, and was intrigued by the "vampire mafioso" storyline. Rather than preying on innocent damsels in distress, Vampire's protagonists are a human-sympathetic clan at war with other more sinister vampire families. The story unfolds through fairly taut and convincing (for a video game) dialogue, and the occasional cutscene. I was never bored with the story progression, and my curiosity about the next winding turn kept me playing for a good while. Eventually the infuriatingly clumsy and often poorly balanced gameplay soured the experience for me though.
If you're a huge fan of this game's particular universe, and simply MUST know how the story goes, then Vampire: The Masquerade Redemption may be worth the effort. Just be prepared for the headaches.
vtm:r April 2, 2007
well the game its self is good but old
the gameplay is restricting wich gives it a chalange the ai is not very smart but it is old and over all its worth playing for the story line and multiple endings
 the game is awesome but volcano games stinks March 9, 2007
Vampire is a great game, bridging several hundred years and some great elements from the role play version. Volcano games was a nightmare though, after I posted my negative feedback they refused to send a working version until Amazon got involved. All in all, buy the game, but not from volcano games.
 Disturbing, Dark and terrible language March 3, 2007
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
You know a game is "bad" when your teenage son voluntarily removes it from the computer and describes it as "disturbing and dark". If video games were "returnable", this one would definitely be returned. My son said the game was not very much fun and that it was a "sad failure of a game".
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