And yet, it could have been brilliant if it had all been put together right. What does come as a surprise is that the whole first section of the game is so awful and frustrating there's a good chance most of you won't get to the good bits. Well, the better bits at least. You start off in a foggy Louisiana swamp, fighting some unconvincing zombies with guns and some generic spidery monsters. And it goes on forever. To make things worse, coming into contact with water depletes your health and, because you can jump vast distances, it's almost impossible to judge jumps to avoid it.
Then there's the matter of not being able to save except in between minisections which, considering the hard bosses you have to encounter, is nigh on criminal. If I wasn't a professional I would have given up. Once you're through it though, the action jumps five years later to yes, that's right, the whole ordeal didn't even have anything to do with the story and things improve. The swamps give way to a Nazi complex in Argentina, where you have to hunt down an a series of high-ranking officers and uncover the obligatory secret experiments.
The lack of water is the first improvement, so you can concentrate on dispatching soldiers in the most gruesome ways imaginable, as well as topping up on health by having a good gnaw on their jugular. There's nothing better than sucking blood, especially when it's done as stylishly as this. It's action all the way, as you spin and hack with the blades on your arms or use the array of machine guns available.
When you reach a certain point you can activate your Blood Rage, which turns the screen red and you into a feral killing machine. You also unlock new movements as you progress as well as new modes of vision. There's one that acts as a sort of night vision and points the way helpfully to your next objective , the bullet-time mode not sure how that's a vision type and.
This is where BloodRayne shines, when you slow down time, start dodging the bullets carving through the air and throwing scissor kicks that send enemy limbs flying. It looks amazing. You never feel in control though, since aiming is automatic and the rest is pure button bashing. At least, unlike many of the recent multiplatform titles, the controls are spot on for the most part. Facing the right way can be a problem though, and the result is Rayne running backwards and sideways like an out-of-control vibrator.
A bigger problem is just how repetitive it all is. With no puzzles, no stealth and little variety to the surroundings, it gets tiresome fairly quickly.
Corridor, corridor, load of zombies. Repeat ad nauseam. The acting too is lifeless except for the guy who voiced the main character in Nocturne , who has a great James Eart Jones croak with dialogue to match. Somehow when a zombie Nazi growls: I'll wear you like lederhosen, you just know it wasn't meant to be funny. There is a certain B-movie charm to it all, though.
What do you get when you mix Nazis, mutants, the occult, parasitic monsters and throw in a sexy anti-heroine, half-vampire secret agent? You get the latest game developed by Terminal Reality and it rocks. It's a welcome relief for the Xbox gamer, looking for a decent game to buy. You control agent BloodRayne , a Dhampir offspring of a human and a vampire , working for the Brimestone Society to eliminate supernatural threats. The game starts you in Louisiana, but eventually you get on the trail of the Nazi's everyone's favorite occult hunting villains and travel to Argentina and Germany to systematically eliminate the threat.
The level of detail in this game is high, including a Nazi complex, where I broke open a box to reveal the Ark of the Covenant. I don't know how many gamers noticed this, but they included it. The developers had no qualms about borrowing concepts from games or movies, doing whatever it took to produce one hot game. I especially liked the ability to alter Rayne's perceptions.
Dilated Perception puts you into Matrix-like mode, allowing you to dodge bullets ala Max Payne only better and view gratuitous violence in slow motion. If that isn't enough for you, you increase the level of difficulty in the game or enter cheats to unlock modes like extreme decapitation.
The controls are easy to use and customize to fit your own style. Your range of attacks includes blades hinged to your wrists, a harpoon attack that allows you to impale and yank opponents, along with firearms and explosives that you pick up along the way. Need to heal yourself? Take a bite and suck down some blood'it kills them but heals you.
It's a safe bet that you haven't seen the last of Rayne. If you want a mature title that earns its rating and offers a great gaming experience, then this is the guilty pleasure that you've been looking for.
Nowadays, if you don't have a movie, TV show or vid coming out where no drop of blood goes unswallowed, like get with it already! Looks like Terminal Reality got with it just in time with their latest action title, Bloodrayne.
Not only does 'Rayne serve up every goth boy's dream girl, Nazis and a shady occult underworld, its ulndiana Jones meets gun-fu action rivals big names like Max Payne. Set sometime in the early s to s, Bloodrayne, a covert operative of an unnamed organization specializing in the paranormal, is the only one standing between Hitler and an artifact harboring tremendous power. But Hitler couldn't have asked for a more lethal blockade. Heightened touch, taste, smell and sight, as well as superhuman strength and agility come naturally to this half-vampire, thus allowing her to pounce off and up virtually anything that stands still for a second including a Nazi shooting right at her.
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