Granted, everything looks like hell at four in the morning, but this is a decidedly darker Los Angeles than most. You start the game in a crappy walk-up apartment behind a pawn shop in Santa Monica, with a hundred bucks in your pocket and a simple errand to run.Īs befits a game set in White Wolf’s World of Darkness, you’ll spend most of your time in dingy surroundings. every other vampire wanting to kill you on sight.)īloodlines runs on the Half-Life 2 Source engine, with real-time combat in both first and third person.
Not only could it easily break the game, but it carries a host of unfortunate social consequences, i.e. According to Troika, this was deliberately left out, since diablerie opens up a serious can of worms. (You also can’t commit diablerie, the practice of drinking another vampire’s blood to gain his powers. Feel free to correct me on this, if I’m mistaken. The Gangrel are still part of the Camarilla here, but at the same time, Los Angeles actually has a prince the last thing I knew, and I may be wrong on this, California was one of the independentAnarch Free States.
(An aside for those who’re familiar with the tabletop game: Bloodlines is set in a pre-third edition Vampire setting with a couple of tweaks. Now, you’re a participant in the giant chess game that lies right under the surface of the ordinary world, a pawn in a larger struggle that involves the entire city and points beyond. However, in a show of the prince’s infinite mercy, you were allowed to live. Your sire created you without permission, and for that offense, was put to death by the local vampiric ruler, the secret prince of Los Angeles. In Bloodlines, you play the part of a new vampire.
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