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Summary: elegant destruction of all who oppose you
Comment: elegant destruction of all who oppose you, that is what the gameplay appears to be, great for bloodthirsty gamers
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Summary: Pretty fun game
Comment: Okay, I must admit that I made the mistake of seeing the movie first. In retrospect of how they had the movie tie in with the video game, I simply don't get it. Okay okay, let me explain. BloodRayne the video game is hugely better than the movie, so those movie goers who saw that first, don't let they shirk you from playing this game. That being said, I was very pleasantly surprised at how fun this game was to play!
Naturally you're playing as BloodRayne and she's more than just your average vampiric character. She's what they call a Dhampir, half human, half vampire. Naturally her character concept is incredibly alluring. Anyway the game starts with a video sequence of her being watched by the Brimstone society and her essentially getting recruited. Now this is all taking place a little before World War II era. Which obviously doesn't mesh with the movie, because in the movie she got involved with Brimstone in the Middle Ages, how you screw that one up is beyond me? Anyway, the game starts you off in Louisiana hunting down some anomalies. This is basically a training level so you can get used to using BloodRayne and your mentor Mynce is there to help you out. After you complete this section of the game your real mission begins, but five years has passed. The Nazis, on their rise to power, made a group called the Gegengheist Gruppe (Anti-Ghost Group) or GGG and Rayne's mission is to essentially bring this group to their knees. You get a list of targets to assassinate and you are sent through a large amount of harrowing missions!
I should forewarn any parents of how violent this game is, sorry just a good thing to throw out in a review. You do dismember limbs and heads from enemies. I was even surprised at all the harsh language in the script. To be honest the swearing seemed out of place and forced, so it had a fairly goofy quality, but that's from an adult perspective. So parents might want to know about these specifics because the target audience for this game is most certainly not young children, you've been forewarned.
I thought this was going to be a fairly quick game originally and I was pleasantly surprised it took me a lot more than six hours to beat, which is kind of what I was expecting. Unfortunately the story and missions get a little monotonous towards the end, because basically you have to assassinate the people on your target list. The only variation is the location you're in. Some of the areas are hard to navigate and you can get lost kind of easily because the way through isn't very obvious all the time. The worst part was jumping up to a certain level in the middle section of the game. Basically you had to jump upon a series of small ledges to a very high location in order to get out, which was a horrible area to play, but I will admit it was very different.
In terms of game controls, it does take some getting used to. Rayne can jump really high, which is a boon when you want to get somewhere tough! However, sometimes this can prove detrimental when you want to land someplace very specific, in flight she is sort of hard to control and you don't get much say. Rayne also has the ability to walk on something as thin as power lines (which is necessary in the Louisiana chapter). Like I mentioned above it's a boon, but it's not always easy to land on those power lines. Other than this general movement controls are fine and smooth. The camera can be rotated, which is a must for any newer game as far as I'm concerned!
In terms of combat this game can handle itself pretty well. I was surprised at the assortment of weapons I could choose from. Naturally Rayne has her arm blades (my preferred weapon in this game), but she can also pick up guns and you can use stuff ranging from pistols to rocket launchers. I wasn't expecting this, but I thought it was awesome. So if you have an enemy standing in water and you don't want to cross or get close you can shoot them from a distance. Rayne also executes automatic combos, which I suppose takes away from some of the challenging factor a game like this could use (however, I think it's challenging enough as is). However, your bloodlust can rise, in which case Rayne goes into a sort of berserker mode and she's nigh unstoppable! As you go further in the game she also levels up a bit and her attacks become stronger, but you have no control over that so it's not like a role playing game by any stretch of the imagination. I also like the way they handled the health/damage issue. If you get damaged all you need to do is suck some enemy's blood and your health meter will go up.
Added into this game is a whole series of different cheats you can enter to either help beat the game or make interesting things happen. Like you can get god mode or you can get one that adds extra dismemberment. I don't really like the way they made the interface for the cheat code section because it's fairly cumbersome to use and if you turn one on then have to stop playing the game, when you start your game up the next day you need to re-input all the cheat codes.
Ultimately I thought this game was a lot of fun. I have to take off a star because after a while the Nazi story-line, regardless of how interesting, does get rather mundane. I think the writers should've made a series of missions of the length of the Louisiana game, but with slightly different objectives each time. Rather than having a short introductory section with Louisiana and then having an incredibly lengthy assassin mission with the same objectives/concepts for the rest of the game. I think this would have split the game up a bit more and gave it a less monotonous feel. The writers did try to break it up fairly well, especially when you ended up going to the castle stronghold, that part was actually really fun, but again, the mission objectives were the same as the prior level. The game is definitely challenging and I will admit I had to turn on god mode a few times to get through certain sections because I simply couldn't find my way out! If you can beat this game with ease not on god mode, you are a better gamer than I and I salute you.
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Summary: A FUN, SIMPLE, ACTION GAME THAT'S VERY BLOODY 8 OUT OF 10
Comment: I usually hate vampires in games, especially after playing Castlevania and Buffy the Vampire Slayer in which they're pretty big d***s to kill, but Bloodrayne is a surprisingly cool action game that at the same time is gleefully blood and gore saturated with its constant bullet-spraying and slicing and dicing gameplay, and you're a vampire!. Bloodrayne may be a bit undercooked around the edges but it's a game that is well worth an investment and of your time.
WHAT THE GAME IS: You are a half human, half vampire girl named Rayne. The time is the 1930's and you are a part of a secret organization called the Brimstone Society; an organization that hunts the supernatural. You must stop the Nazis from releasing horrific creatures using a powerful relic. So you kill ugly insect creatures, Nazis, and other abominations while hunting for Rayne's biological father who was a vampire. You must you various guns and the blades on your arms to accomplish your goals.
GRAPHICS: Its age shows. Lip movements are off, animations are stiff, and the textures and environments are dated, but still work.
MUSIC: Sets the mood, but feels a bit too quiet.
SOUND: Bullet-spraying, slicing and dicing, screams of enemies, and fairly good voice-acting.
GAMEPLAY: The gameplay is quite simple, yet quite fun. I love all the guns I can get, and I love blood rage mode when everything goes slow-motion and slicing Nazis to pieces and hearing them scream while I do it. The puzzles are interesting, but what damages this game in particular is the fact you will wander for long periods of time figuring out what to do next. This problem is a minor flaw to this wonderful gory experience. The controls work great, though there are minor camera problems. Beware of water, it will hurt you. And here's a tip so you don't get stuck at the beginning of the game: power lines are basically a walkway to the next location at the beginning of the game.
OVERALL: A fun, yet surprisingly simple action game that is very gory and very entertaining, it's an adventure that's difficult to put down the controller for.
THE GOOD: Very bloody gameplay, cool female protagonist, lots of weapons, interesting puzzles, okay graphics, interesting story.
THE BAD: You will wander for long periods of time figuring out what to do next, music and graphics are a bit dated.
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Summary: Very enjoyable game. Recommended!
Comment: The graphics are nice. Not spectacular though, as some say it is. But they are adequate, at least indoor environments are. Outdoors aren't that good due to the dullness of everything.
The control system.... must heavily recommend using the "1st person" controls. You get different moves as you progress in the game, but you aren't much in control of them... they execute as the computer sees fit in the moment.
The game is fast paced and there's a lot of freedom of movement... although you don't progress unless you complete certain checkpoints, and exploring isn't very rewarding.
You get weapons, but IMHO they are not very useful. Sure they do quite a bit of damage, but what's a machine gun good for if you only get 15 rounds along with it? A grenade launcher with only 2 grenades? A 3 bullet loaded pistol?
The music isn't very varied, but it works well jumping up the pace of the game. Sound effects are ok..
All in all, it's an entertaining game indeed.
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Summary: blood rayne
Comment: thank you for speedy shipment and great service. oh also thank you for helping me recover my refund for the xbox game grand theft auto (san andreas) which i never recieved.
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