The Vampire-Hunters of the future run DOS!
GRAPHICS
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Some effects in this game look somewhat good. For example; the thermal vision effect and the screen blur are very well done, but others, are just plain bland. For this day and age, you would expect a console of this caliber to not only be able to map textures onto walls, but add some detail to them; however Vampire Rain does not do that: When you are walking down a street, all you see for a building (or a representation of a building) is a tall block with just a flat texture, no bump mapping, in other words, boring.
Furthermore, this game manages to bring it's graphic appeal lower by introducing great skyboxes! A completely black sky with no stars, clouds, moon, anything. This feels like the MGS simulator. In essence all this game is, is a low (very low I might add) polygon game that was first meant to run on a P2-400. Enough said about the bad graphics, I believe you get it already, time for the good graphics! The good graphics in this game are spread thin, like delicious jam on moldy bread: The rain and the "wetness" detail look very well done, you could actually argue that it is lifelike. Also there is occasionally some good lighting, occasionally.
GAMEPLAY
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Bad. This game is very poorly done, it has limited fun factor - due to the fact that all the darn Vampire's keep on biting me and its a near-insta-kill. But one thing I liked was the ability to turn into one of them, that's what I thought was really interesting about this game. The gunning gameplay is very poorly done, all the guns feel like you are shooting a BB gun and really have no "satisfaction". Also, This game feels incredibly like MGS, without most of its good qualities, a very poor adaptation.
VALUE
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"Value - what's that???" when it comes to this game. For $60.00 you get a very shallow game, with all the mentioned shortcomings, plus a tacked on multiplayer, Plus you can beat this game (if you manage to not die every ten bloody seconds!) in about 8 hours, and with a tacked on multiplayer, it feels like you are playing a constant insta-gib match anywhere and everywhere. Finishing comments.
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Don't buy this game. Or if you like Vampires, ateast give it a rent, don't just go to the store and buy it, I warned you.
(*) SIDE NOTE (*)
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What the heck is up with the green DOS-based interface??? It is messed up! Not to mention that pretty much all of your team mates are baled! In addition to that, why is this such a poor ripoff of MGS?