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Players will get to choose a clan later in the game. Kipling adds that starting as a non-clan vampire gives players a chance to вЂњunderstand what a clan means so they can make more informed choices, rather than making a decision up-front and getting 30 minutes into the game and going, вЂDamn I wish IвЂ™d chosen something elseвЂ™вЂќ. ThatвЂ™s a good place to start in an RPG,вЂќ Mitsoda explains. вЂњThereвЂ™s a lot of political problems with thin-bloods and being a thin-blood is gonna make it more of a challenge to exist in the World of Darkness. Hardsuit explains that this was a practical choice both narratively and mechanically.

Instead, all players start-out as a вЂњthin-bloodвЂќ, a weaker type of vampire with a unique set of powers. Unlike the first Bloodlines, you donвЂ™t pick your clan during character creation. The escape from the burning courthouse doubles as the tutorial. Instead, all players start-out as a вЂњthin-bloodвЂќ, a weaker type of vampire with a unique set of powers.Д«loodlines 2 is built in Unreal 4, and plays mostly from a first-person perspective.

After recounting events from your perspective, however, a fire rages through the building, enabling your escape.

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Representatives from multiple factions, including the Camarilla, are present to watch your trial and execution. It transpires youвЂ™re both a witness to and a suspect of a Mass Embrace-a supernatural terror attack in which a group of humans, including you, were assaulted on the street and illegally turned into vampires. Your character-whose appearance and backstory can be customised before the game starts-awakens on the floor of what appears to be a courthouse.

Bloody backstoryД«loodlines 2 opens with a direct call-back to the original. ItвЂ™s the first time Paradox has shown the game to anyone outside the company or Hardsuit Labs, and the production team is still uncomfortable saying the gameвЂ™s name out loud, often referring to Bloodlines 2 by its codename-Project Frasier. At the companyвЂ™s HQ in Stockholm, IвЂ™m presented a 30-minute in-game demo, controlled by Bloodlines 2вЂ™s lead producer Christian SchlГјtter. ItвЂ™s a risk Paradox is confident has paid off. вЂњThis was very much Hardsuit Labs taking a tremendous risk and getting us to the point where we made a decision for them. Instead, Schwarzer was thrilled by the presentation, to the point where they immediately began discussing pre-production. вЂњI into that first Skype meeting with them expecting to watch a burial,вЂќ Schwarzer says. Unsurprisingly, Paradox was sceptical about HardsuitвЂ™s plans. What if Troika had been given another six months to sharpen BloodlinesвЂ™ fangs? What if the game hadnвЂ™t launched on the same day as Half-Life 2? What if the likes of Leonard Boyarsky and Tim Cain and Brian Mitsoda had been given a shot at a sequel, to capitalise on all the lessons theyвЂ™d learned?

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After years of community support, it is still a challenging game to grapple with.Д«loodlines is one of the great вЂwhat ifsвЂ™ of PC gaming. But BloodlinesвЂ™ premature launch also meant it was riddled with bugs. Bloodlines remains one of the most stylish and intricate first-person RPGs ever made, with a truly remarkable amount of depth and dynamism baked into its dark and seedy Los Angeles. ItвЂ™s been almost 15 years since Troika GamesвЂ™ vampire RPG first launched, winning and breaking hearts in equal measure. Here are three words I never thought IвЂ™d write: Bloodlines is back. For more quality articles about all things PC gaming, you can subscribe now in the UK and the US. This feature originally ran in issue 330 of PC Gamer UK.

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