You'll quickly become involved in the continual power struggle between the different clans, and you may not want to trust even your own clan, since different characters and groups within your faction may try to use you for their own ends.īloodlines takes place in Los Angeles, but as Leonard Boyarsky-the game's project leader at Troika-told us, it's not a Los Angeles we would recognize. You can choose which of the seven clans you wish to join, and this decision will determine what abilities and powers you can develop. Troika's Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines starts you off as a fledgling vampire, recently turned from being human. This pact of silence, the "masquerade," is enforced by the authoritarian rule of seven clans. In White Wolf's dark world, vampires long ago realized that the best way to maintain power over humans was to fade into the background and avoid discovery.
This exclusive first screenshot of the game depicts the sort of detailed 3D environments we can expect in this Half-Life 2-powered game. The new game is based on the Half-Life 2 engine and promises to create the excitement of controlling a powerful supernatural being in a new way, by combining the fast-paced combat of a first-person action game with the robust story and character interaction of a role-playing game. Troika's upcoming first-person game will be Activision's second game based on the White Wolf license and will be quite different from Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption from 2000. White Wolf's popular pen-and-paper role-playing game, Vampire: The Masquerade, took author Anne Rice's recasting of vampires as highly intelligent beings who align themselves into different factions a step further, collecting a handful of vampire classes, the clans, in a detailed game system with a rich back story that explains the coexistence of vampires and humans in the modern day. Vampires have risen to a special place in the pantheon of pop culture antiheroes.
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