So much promise, too many flaws
Graphically, it's a joy. It looked amazing (even when I had to play it on low-res, due to my low-powered PC at the time). Movements were solid, action acted exactly as you would expect in a game, and mastering your newly acquired vampire skills was a challenge. New problems like drinking blood and not getting lynched also was probably unintentionally funny. Sound quality was good, and the voice work was solid. The music was well-executed, filling out the mood where the graphics and gameplay could not. The story also held great promise, and it allowed me to overlook the fact that no matter what I did - save cheating outright - the game was stacked impossibly against me (this is before I found out they released a patch which apparently leveled the playing field a bit).
Where everything fell off the tracks was in your coterie (team). Never before have I seen AI this bad. When they weren't busy attacking enemies by themselves that they didn't have a hope in winning against, they would get stuck in corners, and attack bad guys THROUGH the rest of the team (and God help you if you even think of giving one of these idiots a flamethrower or grenade launcher). And the bosses of each level got so incredibly powerful that by the time I reached the final boss, there was no way in hell I could beat him, no matter what weapons or powers I or the stupid AI used. This just became exausting and I admit I cheated to see if it was possible at all. The answer was no: he STILL was too powerful to overcome. Let me tell you, when you have maxed every power and gotten every weapon and made yourself godlike, and you still can't beat the boss, then something is very, very wrong with the design.
I never even bothered trying to play this online - what was the point in that?
So what held great promise ended up being terrible. Oh well, at least it was pretty to look at.