How many Nazis must a vampiress slay before you can call her a… clichéd mess?
It makes you wonder what was going on in the offices of ‘Majesco Games ‘at the time. ‘Ok guys, what’s in at the moment?’ ‘Err, vampires, chicks and blood’. ‘Great, let’s be innovative and original and put it all in the game!’
The story sounds like one of those funny movies which spoof every other movie, except in Blood Rayne’s case, the only people who are laughing are the developers, all the way to the bank. The game pits you in the leather boots of Rayne, a half human, half vampire anti hero who is in a war against the emerging powers of…wait for it…Nazi vampires! I’m surprised the games tagline wasn’t ‘this time…its personal’.
Improvements over the cult prequel are numerous, which shows you just how bad last years game actually was. For one there is more blood. Yay. With the new decapitation feature you can lop of arms, legs, heads etc and in the most unrealistic way imaginable, blood will spurt out of the orifice like a fleshy fire hydrant and then suddenly cease.
At least the developers know their roots however. They were even kind enough to bring back memories of 10 year old games such as Goldeneye by putting in the ‘vanishing body trick’ when enemies die, or the magical physics trick from many of the, what I like to call ‘look, we have realistic physics!’ games where shooting a cardboard box will send it bouncing of every surface like a possessed pinball.
Whew that’s a lot of sarcasm. Cold ‘wit’ aside, I can’t think of any reason to buy this game. Bloodrayne 2 is just a huge contradicting paradox. There are a good number of missions but why play them when the gameplay is repetition city? The cutscenes are actually well put together, but why bother trawling through the game to get to them? If you buy this nonsense, please stay in your crypt. Summers a commin’.
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