Two new Bloodlines Reviews

First up is <a href="http://www.gameindustry.com/">Game Industry News</a>, <a href="http://www.gameindustry.com/review/item.asp?id=498">which had this to say</a>:
<br><blockquote>Very few if any games leave me thinking "man, I can’t be playing this before bed cause I will never sleep" but Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines did just that. The game is haunting and disturbing, and really stretches the RPG genre.
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<br>... It’s rare to say a game sucks, and then give it a good rating, but since we are talking about vampires it’s a pun I can afford to make. I took a little bit from the gameplay score because the load times between levels is atrocious – sometimes lasting as much as a minute or more – even on a high end system. Even so, it earns a full 5 GiN Gems for showing us a dark and foreboding world, and then challenging you to survive it with your humanity intact. If you like in-depth role-playing in an adult world with plenty of moral dilemmas, then Vampire is the game for you.</blockquote>
<br>Next up is <a href="http://www.homelanfed.com/">HomeLAN Fed's</a> <a href="http://www.homelanfed.com/index.php?id=28549">Review</a>:
<br><blockquote>Bloodlines got some notice early on via its use of the Source Engine, created by Valve Software and used by Valve for its best selling first person shooter sequel Half-Life 2 (which shipped the same week Bloodlines did). While the game’s graphics are quite good, they don’t match the near photo-realistic looks that Valve accomplished with Half-Life 2. Character models and especially the lip-syncing of the actor’s voices are handled well. Unfortunately, it’s clear that the game was rushed to stores without a lot of quality assurance as the game is noticeably buggy; We experienced a couple of crashes that sent us back to the desktop and there were some noticeable clipping issues, along with some long level load times. (Trokia and Activision released a patch a month after the game was released that deals with a number of the game’s issues).</blockquote>
<br>In short, it's a bit buggy (come on <a href="http://www.troikagames.com">Troika</a>, lift your game guys) but you should <a href="http://www.terra-arcanum.com/phpBB/dload.php?action=category&cat_id=15">download the patch</a>.
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<br>Spotted @ <a href="http://www.bluesnews.com/">Blues News</a> & <a href="http://www.rpgcodex.com">RPG Codex</a>