Gaming News - May 2003
Santa Monica, CA (May 6, 2003) - Activision, Inc. today announced
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines for the PC, a game that will place players
into the dark and gritty vampire underworld of modern Los Angeles.
From Activision:
Seamlessly combining role playing with intense first-person action combat,
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines allows players to become a dangerous
creature of the night as they assume the role of a recently embraced fledgling
vampire in the service of the city's dark prince. Vampire: The Masquerade-
Bloodlines is being developed by Troika Games, whose founding members' credits
include the award-winning Fallout, and is based on White Wolf's renowned
pen-and-paper Vampire: The Masquerade RPG series. Built using Valve's Source(tm)
Technology - the same game technology used to power Half-Life 2®, Vampire: The
Masquerade - Bloodlines has not yet been rated by the ESRB and is expected to
ship in 2004.
"Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines blends the best parts of an RPG and a
first person action game, allowing players to explore a sophisticated character
development system in an open non-linear realm while experiencing intense action
sequences," states Larry Goldberg, executive vice president, Activision
Worldwide Studios. "We are going to take full advantage of Valve's Source
Technology to send you deep into a dark and intriguing Vampire underworld filled
with haunting images."
"With Vampire, Troika is proving Source can reach beyond the world of FPS
games," said Gabe Newell, managing director and co-founder of Valve. "The
character system, rendering abilities, and contextual AI features of Source
combined with the veteran RPG design talent at Troika is a great representation
of the innovation we hope to enable with this technology."
"We are very excited to have Activision and Troika producing Vampire: The
Masquerade--Bloodlines," said Chris McDonough of White Wolf Games. "They are
among the elite few companies capable of taking our property into the world of
first person action gaming while still maintaining the story, setting,
characters and role-playing aspects of the game."
Players begin their journey into darkness by choosing to play as any of seven
different vampire clans. Each clan in the game offers a distinctive set of
skills, traits and abilities including: supernatural speed, stealth,
invisibility, mind control, inhuman strength, combat, and stamina, each of which
will be further refined as players progress through the game. Players will earn
and apply experience points to increase their powers and skills, allowing them
to create their ultimate creature of the night, from stealthy hunter to
seductive charmer to a feral, brutal killing machine.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines' combat will be instantly familiar to
players of first-person action games. In addition to vampire skills and powers,
gamers will be able to call upon a devastating arsenal of weapons including
stake guns, shotguns, flamethrowers, submachine guns and sniper rifles, to name
a few. Once players arm themselves to the teeth they will be ready to tackle the
host of human vampire hunters, ghouls, werewolves, and enemy vampires that
inhabit the City of Angels after nightfall.
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