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Story
Before your fall, you led a crusade against evil. Now you've become one of the undead creatures you once battled--a Vampire. Inhabiting the World of Darkness, you must face a series of brutal confrontation with your vampire, Vukodlak, a powerful vampire lord. Your unholy showdown begins in medieval Europe and rages on into the modern day, as you track a soulless enemy in an eternal struggle to destroy him. For this is the only hope of vengeance for your tortured immortality.
Christof Romuald, a twelfth century knight from the religious order of Swordbrethren is the central character that the story revolves around. Christof is a proud and arrogant man with a black and white view of the world. As the story begins, Christof is injured while campaigning against the heathens and monsters of hell, as he would put it. While recovering from his injuries, this religiously devout knight falls in love with the Anezka, a nun at a Prague convent. Unable to resolve the conflict between his love for Anezka and his religious obligations, Christof wallows in despair.
Unfortunately for Christof matters are taken out of his hands when he is embraced (made into a vampire) by a female Brujah (one of several vampire clans). This experience of becoming what he has hunted and despised, truly tests his faith. Christof fails miserably, and comes to believe he is the lowliest and most wretched of all beings. His strict and narrow minded world view is unable to cope. Christof feels that he is a soulless creature undeserving of God's grace, with no place in the world. However the world does not sit still while Christof feels sorry for himself. Events are set in motion that will affect all, especially Anezka who has come searching to find a way to save Christof from his fate. Guilty when she goes missing, Christof desperately begins to search for and rescue her.
With a story line that covers a span of 800 years, players will travel within medieval Prague and Vienna and then later modern-day (1999) London and New York City for a finale that takes place on the eve of the millennium. The game is composed of four hubs of levels, each representing one of the four cities that will be explored and revealed through the course of the story. Your characters will move between two hubs in the dark ages, and two hubs in modern times as discoveries are made, and events unfold.
Players will be exposed to a variety of different environments in each time period. In medieval Prague and Vienna, characters will explore such things as main city areas, cathedrals, monasteries, synagogues, underground catacombs, graveyards, and forested outdoor areas. Within modern day London and New York, some areas will include dockyards, secret underground clubs, hidden vampire lairs, sewers, inner-city slums, and uptown urban areas.
Unlike most traditional role playing games (RPGs), in which the goal is to acquire more and more power until you defeat the "ultimate bad guy". V:tM Redemption is as much about internal character development as statistic development. In order to survive, players must work at holding on to the last strands of what made them human, but must also come to accept their condition. Your decisions during both gameplay and conversations will determine the final outcome of the story. The story is experienced in different ways, through conversations, gameplay, in-game cut scenes and pre-rendered cinematics. Even during the action-oriented gameplay, you are furthering the story and feel that everything has a purpose. You never have to hunt for the main storyline, but you are provided freedom to advance at your own pace.
The game itself will be composed of sixteen different 'core' missions that will take place, with subgoals sprinkled here and there. The game should not feel segmented, but rather you'll find yourself driven by the story. The continuity of the levels will help lend to aid this feeling, as all the cities are joined by interconnected pieces of geometry (maps) that you can travel through.
Links:
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire:_The_Masquerade
White-Wolf
http://www.white-wolf.com/
Planet Vampire – all Vampire Masquerade games
http://www.planetvampire.com/
IGN
http://pc.ign.com/objects/011/011636.html
Game Rankings – multiple rankings of the game
http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/914408.asp |
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