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BloodRayne 2


7.4

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BloodRayne

Born from the unnatural union of vampire and human, BloodRayne is blessed with the powers of a vampire but cursed with the unquenchable thirst for blood and a weakness to sunlight. BloodRayne 2 challenges the supernatural anti-heroine with her most personal battle yet as she hunts down each of her wicked siblings who are carrying on the legacy of their dead father, Kagan. They have created "The Shroud," a mysterious substance which, when released, renders the suns lethal rays harmless to vampires. Now only BloodRayne stands between an unsuspecting humanity and a horrifying vampire dawn. Expanding upon the distinctive features that were the hallmark of its predecessor fast-paced acrobatic combat and supernatural powers BloodRayne 2 includes new in-game dynamics such as pole combat, rail sliding and advanced melee fighting with fatality moves. Built upon a modified version of the Infernal Engine, BloodRayne 2 introduces threatening new bosses, all new environments set within a huge modern day city, a range of new supernatural powers and new motion-captured movements complete with soft-body physics. [Majesco]

PUBLISHER:	Majesco Sales Inc.
DEVELOPER:	Terminal Reality
GENRE(S):	Third-Person Action
PLAYERS:	1
ESRB RATING:	M (Mature)
RELEASE DATE:	August 2, 2005

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BonusStage

Whether she’s harpoon-tossing enemies into a crusher on a garbage truck or a downed helicopter’s whirring blades, or rail sliding 40 feet and slicing through a bunch of enemies taking shots at her, Rayne has the gaming world by the throat.

ActionTrip

It's easy on your hardware (mid-range rigs will run it without a hitch) and it offers a sufficient number of gameplay hours. Providing, however, you play it with the right frame of mind.

Computer and Video Games

A hugely enjoyable, polished action-adventure with buckets and buckets of OTT gore. If you thought "Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines" too cerebral, its slasher B-movie blood relative could HAVE MORE BITE.

PC Format

Misses a few crucial tricks which could have given it greater mass appeal. [Mar 2006, p.97]

Boomtown

If you’re after a simple and enjoyable hack and slash game, with lots of violence and blood, Blood Rayne 2 will be ideal, and yes, it’s worth playing, if only via a rental.

Jolt Online Gaming UK

As great as it is to be sliding down a banister firing off both guns before holding out your blades to slice into two anyone unlucky enough to be standing near the bottom as you pass, the sloppy controls and quirks in the design do prevent BR2 from being anything more than a reasonably-decent third-person action-slasher.

PC Gamer

It doesn't have much depth, but BloodRayne 2 delivers on its simple promise of offering non-stop carnage. If that sets your blood a-boil, give it a shot. [Oct 2005, p.65]

Game Chronicles

BloodRayne 2 could have been great if the gamepad support wasn’t so quirky, but the PC version is just too clunky to recommend unless this is your only alternative.

Computer Games Online RO

It just has such a bad story that you won't play it after a while.

IGN

If you didn't like BR2 on the consoles, its awkward controls and dated visuals on the PC won't change your mind. In the time between the console and PC releases, several titles have come out that nearly eliminate BR2's fun factor. At this point, it's just a competent port of a passably fun game.

GameSpot

BloodRayne 2 was perfectly fine on consoles, despite the game's problems, but a significant amount of time has passed, and the notion of the exact same game from last year coming out--now on the PC, with serious control issues and graphical hangups--is kind of an offensive one.

Computer Gaming World

You'll sleep through most of the challenges, though, as your vampiric superpowers are so unbalanced that you'll cut a bloody path through the action in no time...even if you suck at these kinds of games. [Oct 2005, p.80]

GamerFeed

While Terminal Reality attempts to break up the monotony of this fighting game by including some jumping and leaping "puzzles," turning Rayne into a wannabe Olympic gymnast, it's simply not enough to give this any real depth. It's a good game... for what it is.

Computer Games Magazine

Everything about BloodRayne 2 - save some of the snazzy 3D effects - screams "1998." [Nov 2005, p.72]

The average user rating for this game is 7.4 (out of 10) based on 66 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Josh R. gave it a3:
You know I find it rather odd, while there was nothing spectacular about the original Bloodrayne I couldn't help but hope that one day they'd release a sequel that would rework, and improve on the problems of the first. Sadly, though, it seems the developers had other ideas. One of which was tossing the idea of using enemy weapons as your own, and just using guns that suck you dry (literally). This among many other really bad ideas made this game unplayable to me as it really just felt like a great idea lost it's soul. Not only all that but sadly they blatantly, super obviously wanted to try and lamely use sex appeal to sell this game as for some reason Rayne got alot of cosmetic surgery and now looks like a super model from hell. Not really why i liked the original, to be frank i rather liked the fact that she wasnt super hot or rather distracting in her beauty in the first game. Anyway, there was alot of things done way better in the first (which had many flaws) and rather then fix them they thought theyd change the idea comepletely and go for Tomb Raider with a bad plot and rediculously aggravating gameplay... try another vampire game this one stinks.

Mark C. gave it a9:
I know a lot of people hate the PC version of this game because of the controller issues, but I'm using a PS2 Dualshock controller on a USB adaptor and the game works just fine. I think it's unreasonable to expect this game to work well on a mouse and keyboard because there are so many elaborate moves available. It's just the wrong tool for the job -- like using a keyboard for a flight sim. You need a gamepad for this game, so stop whining! Anyways it's a marked improvement over the first game, and I'm glad to see that they implemented SOME amount of acrobatic skill elements. Sheesh, Rayne is SUPPOSED to be part vampire so this game wouldn't do well without the jumping/swinging/rail sliding puzzles. Considering all the movements possible, the controls are worked out fairly well. It takes some time, learning one skill at a time, but it pays off. Not something for every player, but I suppose I just fall into the niche. Camera is worked out as good as I can think of. Yes, there are some claustrophobic situations that make working the camera just a little tricky. Working the camera is a skill in itself, but I'm glad that Rayne's facing direction is independent of the camera direction because in the last one I was often being attacked from behind, so this is handy. Graphics are very nice. I can't help ogling Rayne now and then and the outfits are a cute touch. Effects are decent, but not groundbreaking, but that's OK considering that the system requirements are low. It runs rather well on my 5 year old system. Animations are pretty good, too although there are a few times where some of the fighting moves have a follow through that looks very nice when she holds a pose theatrically, but it really leaves her open to counterattack. I really would have liked to have had the ability to hit additional buttons to link other combo attacks while she's in the theatric poses. Saving is checkpoint based and I'm only past the first chapter and I've died a few times but I'm making steady progress, so the difficulty level is about right. The checkpoints seem close enough together, but it would be nice if you could save the game at a particular checkpoint rather than having to finish the chapter, but the chapters seem to be divided into small enough bites so as not to be too inconvenient. All in all, very enjoyable game, a bit challenging to get started, and not for impatient brats who can't handle a half-vampire woman.

ShadowHawk 81 gave it a6:
If it weren't for the goofy controls and crazy camera I might give it an 8. I mean, Tomb Raider Legend and Anniversary are games that show well thought 3rd person control. I think the hack and slash and graphics and animation all look nice and there is a story. But, the Hack-and-Slash just feels hollow to me. AI barely a challenge. But when a boss, it basically takes no coordination at all. Just rapidly hitting the right buttons at the right time. Too much a console game, shouldnt have made it to the PC like a few other. Tomb Raider Legend and Anniversary however, do much better. And Lara Croft is a more realistic character type to feel somewhat connected to the gameplay and story. I dont connect well with playing as monsters and villians.

Peter B. gave it a3:
So apparently the idea here was to take everything fun about the original Bloodrayne: interesting locations, villains, intuitive controls, and fun gameplay and just throw it out the window, hoping that gothyness and boobs would pick up the slack. Don't waste your time.

[Anonymous] gave it a7:
Pro's: Graphics are great, Awesome animations & moves Con's: Some enemies such as bosses are too damn hard, No direct saving instead you have to reach a specific checkpoint to save the game, Confusing puzzle games some can't even be solved without a walkthrough.

Nick A. gave it a5:
The controls ruined the game. It was fun to hack people up, but it became frustrating trying to use the mouse, which for some reason had an inverted x axis so when you moved it right it would go left. the up and down was fine though.... the puzzles where you had to jump on poles were frustrating, and not fun at all. it could have been a good game, if the controls hadnt been so bad.

Dr. Seudberg gave it a3:
Very strange game. Old graphics. Bad control. Boring with longer time.