![]() Even at the budget price of $40, there is no reason to purchase this game. There is so little that this game does right that it's a wonder the original title ever made it to the market on the Xbox 360, and it's mind-boggling that a PS3 port was given the go-ahead. ![]() For every stealth game that tries to tell a rich and complex story, such as the Metal Gear series, there must an affront to storytelling such as this. To make up for the stories with fantastic stealth gameplay like Splinter Cell, we must have … this. Stay away.After playing Vampire Rain: Altered Species, I decided that karma must be real. There should be a restraining order against this game: it is not to come within 1 mile of any PS3 system. About 90% of PS2 games look better than this, I heard much better music and sound effects on the NES, and the gameplay is so slow and unbalanced I actually have more fun vacuuming my house. But I am going to stop this review here because I do not want it to receive any more recognition. The thing is, I could go on and on about how bad this game is. I was always waiting for this game to “start.” There is no action, no satisfaction in this game. Even the later stages in the game are atrocious, making you jump on dumpsters to reach a rooftop, to walk to the other side, to jump back down again. Just look at games like God of Water or the intro movie to any Final Fantasy game. A game’s intro level should grab the player by the balls to grab their attention. I mean, I didn’t even use my gun until for over an hour since the game first entered my PS3 hardware. Why does this game have to install into my PS3 harddrive when it has graphics worse than early PS2 games? Then the player has to wait through a bunch of initial loading screens, sit through the game’s intro cutscene, then play through the hand holding first tutorial level. And speaking of animated gifs, the water/rain effects are a laughable two frames of animation.Įven before you are able to play the game, you have to wait for a painful 25 minute install. I have seen amateur made gifs on the web that look 100 times better than the animation in this game. To make matters even more awkward, the vampire running animation is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen. There is no way to survive a vampire attack. But why are there just guns laying around? I mean, this is a city where people live and there are just random munitions just lying all over the place? Using guns as a breadcrumb trail, the player must jump and climb from rooftop to rooftop without being seen. From this first impression, it seems like the player is free to roam in a large city, killing vampires at will. The first stage acts as a basic tutorial. The game’s balancing is entirely thrown off in every department. ![]() Even using the “vampire vision,” a kind of night vision feature that determines who is a vampire and who is human, does not work well because you have about 10 seconds of battery life and it takes like 8 seconds to register the vampire. The handgun is absolutely worthless as there is no way to take down an enemy. But unless there is a mile long hallway between you and a vampire, there is no way to kill them. Like any action/stealth game, there are a few firearms available. The word “rain” is used in the title because supposedly rain weakens vampire’s senses, making it easier to attack them, however, I did not see any difference because no matter what you do, you will die if you are spotted. Once the host dies, all other vampires that stemmed from it will perish. Using a third person perspective, players sneak around a vampire infested city targeting host vampires. You play as Lloyd, a bland Solid Snake/Sam Fisher rip-off. It is hard to see what is entertaining about this game when there are so many things wrong. After spending a few hours with this game, I asked myself the question, “what does this game do right?” I couldn’t answer my own question. Vampire Rain is one nightmare of the game. ![]()
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