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New Vampire Title Uses Half-Life 2 Engine

Posted by simoniker on from the i-want-to-bite-your-trackball dept.

According to Gamespot, who have exclusive details and a single piece of concept art up, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines has been announced for PC, courtesy of publisher Activision and developer Troika Games (of Arcanum and former Fallout-involvement fame.) Quite apart from the excellent RPG pedigree of the team working on it, this is an FPS blend which is the first announced third-party title to utilise Valve's Source Engine, as being used in the gorgeous-looking Half-Life 2.

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  1. Also check out the other game Troika doing ... by tdelaney · · Score: 2, Informative

    Greyhawk: The Temple of Elemental Evil.

    Lots of gaming goodness coming from Troika!

  2. I want to suck your blood! by th3walrus · · Score: 2, Informative

    Any word on multiplayer capabilities yet? Nihilistic's V:tM game had excellent multiplayer, along with the ability to script add-ons in Java. So anything they didn't put in the game could easily be scripted in by us fans.

    There were only two problems with Redemption's multiplayer. 1) Finding players who didn't want to powergame and then get mad and leave when you won't let them. 2) Finding storytellers that didn't just throw a bunch of NPC's in a room and let you beat on them.

    Just another classic case of the player base ruining the online aspect of an RPG.

    I actually got to play in one game run by some marketing guy at White Wolf. It was proof of how great the multiplayer portion of Redemption actually was.

    Troika's not known for doing any multiplayer really, so is there any hope?