Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption

Developer(s)	Nihilistic Software
Publisher(s)	Activision
Engine	Nod Engine
Release date(s)	June 7, 2000
Genre(s)	RPG
Mode(s)	Single player, Multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: M (Mature) USK: 12+ ELSPA: 15+ OFLC: M15+
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows, Macintosh
Media	CD-ROM
System requirements	233 MHz CPU, 64 MB RAM, 8 MB video card RAM, 4X CD-ROM drive, DirectX 7.0, 800 MB available hard disk space, Windows 95
Input	Keyboard, Mouse

Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption is a PC RPG released on June 7, 2000 by Activision. The game follows the adventures of a French crusader, Christof Romuald, through Prague and Vienna in the old world to London and New York City in the new.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

In the game's storyline, the protagonist Christof falls in love with a nun who tends his wounds after he falls in battle. In a move designed to torment Christof, the nun is kidnapped and turned into a ghoul. Christof is wracked with guilt as he feels his affection towards her led her down a path of sin, and swears to face the vampires who took her and restore her life. In his quest, he is ultimately embraced as a Vampire of the Brujah clan and must learn to conquer his new powers to fight against a world of darkness that unfolds before him, as he learns more about this new world he is now a part of, while struggling to maintain the faith he once had as a holy knight. Christof eventually finds the vampires responsible only to find the pure woman of God that he fell in love with is now a twisted, violated creature of the night who shuns him as an emotional weakling. In a climactic battle he is buried under tonnes of rubble, only to awaken centuries later in the modern world, uncovered by an archæological dig, and faced by a whole new series of challenge - including as a fearsome new enemy whose actions may well doom the entire world.

The game is based on the pen-and-paper game Vampire: The Masquerade. The game's graphics were considerably good for its time. Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption also includes an interesting multiplayer game mode, where one player takes the role of the storyteller. The game itself is divided in two parts, a medieval and a modern setting which play differently. Although generally hailed as a good and enjoyable game by most critics, its reception was tainted by a few lingering design flaws which were rectified by a series of patches, but not before reviews were released which incorporated the bugs into their rating of the game.