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Posted by Orpheus on Mon Nov 22nd at 11:43pm 2004

Son acquired this game today.

tis supposed to use the HL2 engine.. perhaps it can contribute to some quality maps.

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Posted by SWATSiLeNt on Tue Nov 23rd at 12:18am 2004

Yea cool



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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Tue Nov 23rd at 12:23am 2004

Apparently it's very, very buggy. I should be borrowing it soon, I've heard pretty good stuff about it.
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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Tue Nov 23rd at 12:24am 2004

Can you say 'thanks for the textures'?




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Posted by Spartan on Tue Nov 23rd at 12:27am 2004

Vampires are gay. Werewolves are much much cooler.



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Posted by ReNo on Tue Nov 23rd at 2:05am 2004

My flatmate bought it and says it has some really cool scenes in it, well scripted and directed. Unforunately he says the action is pretty lame and it doesn't take advantage of the source engine like HL2 does. He is a fan of the V:TM role playing thing, so I think it appeals more to him than me.
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Posted by Adam Hawkins on Tue Nov 23rd at 12:09pm 2004

I've got it but not played yet as i'm still working through HL2 (finally got to the Nova Prospekt place last night...). [addsig]



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Posted by OtZman on Tue Nov 23rd at 12:57pm 2004

Will give this a try sometimes...
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Posted by Orpheus on Tue Nov 23rd at 1:03pm 2004

took 3 days to get but he seems to like the game. to me it seems sluggish, like it takes a bit more power to run than HL2 does.. plus its not my genre of choice so i doubt i'll play it.

2.2 gig downloads are not something i wanna do often either.

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Posted by Jinx on Tue Nov 23rd at 2:33pm 2004

Leave it to Orph to complain that warez'ed games should be easier to download

I've seen a lot of demos and it looked cool. I'll probably get it in a couple months since HL2 is keeping me busy now anyway.





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Posted by Orpheus on Tue Nov 23rd at 2:43pm 2004

? quoting Jinx
Leave it to Orph to complain that warez'ed games should be easier to download

hold up a second poop chute. i download 100's of gigs a year, you think i'm gonna complain about size?

all i said was, dedicating so much time/bandwidth takes away from my more important download choices.. this was my son's idea. i did mention that its not my choice of genre though, so i suppose that could be a complaint of a sort but by no means size in or of itself.

and 3 days on a 2.2 gig download is pretty snazzy considering.

so you just roll those baby blues at someone else big guy

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Posted by Adam Hawkins on Sat Nov 27th at 10:29pm 2004

The game is pretty cool so far - though it doesn't feel like its using the Source engine at all - maybe it's just me but it feels more like the Quake II engine. It has that same chunkiness about it - and the same lame shiny surfaces that Soldier Of Fortune had

Also, the performance of the game is shocking - any of the outdoor areas slow my computer down badly, while indoors it's as smooth as silk.

The consistency of level design seems off too - some parts are really well done, while others feel a little cobbled together.

Like I said though, the game plays well enough, just a shame the graphics couldn't match up.

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Posted by Spartan on Sat Nov 27th at 10:39pm 2004

The game doesn't look like it was made with the source engine at all.



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Posted by Crono on Sun Nov 28th at 12:35am 2004

? quoting Spartan 34
The game doesn't look like it was made with the source engine at all.


That's because it isn't It has the Havok 2 physics engine. That's all they said was in the game at E3 when they had all those screen shots and movies. [addsig]



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Posted by KungFuSquirrel on Sun Nov 28th at 12:40am 2004

err... buh?

Vampire is built on the Source Engine. Troika has connections to Valve and thus were able to get the engine licensed before any other third party developers some time ago. Havok is -only- a physics engine, which was also licensed for HL2/Source. [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Sun Nov 28th at 12:42am 2004

? quoting KungFuSquirrel
err... buh?

Vampire is built on the Source Engine. Troika has connections to Valve and thus were able to get the engine licensed before any other third party developers some time ago. Havok is -only- a physics engine, which was also licensed for HL2/Source.


I know the difference, I just remember them saying it had the havok engine for physics. But they probably used the entire source engine. [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Nov 28th at 12:44am 2004

crono, did you not read the link i posted at all?

i even heard that this game was put on hold until after HL2's release.

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Posted by Crono on Sun Nov 28th at 12:46am 2004

? quoting Orpheus
crono, did you not read the link i posted at all?

i even heard that this game was put on hold until after HL2's release.


Nope. I heard it a long time ago. About when HL2 was suppose to come out. Maybe I only heard half the story. [addsig]



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Posted by KungFuSquirrel on Sun Nov 28th at 12:52am 2004

Yep, it got held up for a while while HL2 was in limbo. Bad situation to be in. Hold it off longer and get people upset, or release it in the midst of the holiday season and probably lose sales.

Gotta snag that one from the company store here next order I make... probably monday. Hooray! [addsig]



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Posted by diablo on Sun Nov 28th at 5:49am 2004

I purchesed it 2 days ago, been playing it since. It's a bit choppy and buggy, yet I would say it's one of the best rpg/fps i've played. =] Runs fine on my pc but does need a better pc than hl2 would.




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