It'd be pretty cool to be a vampire. You are super-hard, you can do magic tricks to impress your mates, you may get to meet Buffy and you have a medical reason to wear your Oakleys all the time. Okay, so the drinking blood, garlic and running water bits may be a drag, but on the whole it would be a pretty cool life.

So I was looking forward to Redemption.

The game is huge, (as it should be with a 1.2 gig install) with different cities and time zones to explore. You play Christoph, a French knight who speaks fluent "olde-world Englysh"* and kicks butt on a regular basis. You also get to play other characters who join your team.

You can cast sorted spells (once you become a vampire) and you even have a nun who fancies you. Rock on!

The graphics are fantastic, but unless you have some serious technology, you'll have to turn all the fancy bits off and the detail down to make the game move.

This is going to be quite a small review, as it's 1:30am and I'm knackered.

You buy or find weapons and armor, you do quests and generally follow a nice, linear path (go meet this guy, find him some stuff, go through his secret passage, kick someone in, etc.)

It's pretty good.

But it crashes. Regularly. Boo!  

Vampire, The Masquerade: Redemption

+ Fabby graphics

+ Cool spells

+ Loads of weapons

+ Loads of different enemies

+ Fit nuns

+ If you cheat and get a minigun in old world France, people look very shocked when you shoot them.

- Slow, slow, sloooow

- The constant crashing

- Paths are too linear

- Iffy multiplayer mode.

DJ Ess

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