How can a game with such a cool concept have gone SOOOO wrong?
I tried to approach this game as though it was like Splinter Cell, Stealth being the key over typical shoot em up gaming. For the first few levels I was able to actually convince myself that this was the case. Sneeking around and avoiding "Deathwalkers" was pretty cool...then it all came crashing down. The Vampires are almost unkillable.
I am fairly certain I could sneek up on one while he was sleeping and unload a clip into his head and then ran away I would be dead in a matter of seconds. Its not just the brutally hard Vampires, buts its the super intelligent AI that makes a game like XIII's AI seem like it was out of Killzone.
They know you are coming all the time they will chase you till you are dead and even on easy they NEVER make a mistake. The only advantage you can have on a Vampire is stealth, but its so rare unless their is a giant van blocking their line of sight that you will ever be afford this advantage and even when you are anything short of perfect leads to a brutal and quick death.
The graphics within the single player game are actually not bad, the whole concept of a game that needs to be played out at night is very well done, although its as though on the multiplayer maps this entire aspect was abandon in favor of meeting a deadline as you will find the maps available for multiplayer may as well have been called "Generic Shoot Map A"
Looking at stills of the game it looks quite cutting edge but all that melts away in the brutal frustration you will feel within a few hours of single player action. The story is actually not bad, but the problem is that in order to progress the story you need to play the game and THAT is a task that no story no matter how great is worth the brutality that is playing the game.
What is even more tragic is a game this bad should AT LEAST have some easy acheievements? But of course many are online and you can imagine how bare and empty the online servers are for this game.
For >20 bucks if its worth it for a laugh go ahead, just the weekend of sitting around with friends listing the unlikely situations where you could actually kill one of these deathwalkers was worth it to me. But if you want a game that you can play, walk away. Actually Run.