Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has been a really, very very long time coming. In actual fact, it has been so lengthy, the person who helped get the sport greenlit and is now main Helldivers 2 has been ready for the bloodsucking sequel to hit a homerun for nearly a decade.
2004’s authentic Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines was a superb, generally technically compromised RPG that did not promote wherever close to sufficient upon launch to justify a sequel. It really led to developer Troika Video games’ unlucky shutdown. Nevertheless it was so attention-grabbing and so distinctive that it will definitely grew right into a cult basic.
No shock, then, when writer Paradox Interactive greenlit a sequel round 2016. What’s stunning is how turbulent the sequel’s improvement has been – a lot in order that it is solely attributable to come out this October after a number of delays.
Arrowhead Video games Studios’ (of Helldivers 2 fame) CEO Shams Jorjani was really concerned in signing the sequel, as he mentioned in a latest message to the shooter’s Discord channel. “Let’s hope Bloodlines 2 sticks the touchdown (…) I signed the sport once I was at Paradox again in 2016.”
What occurred between then and now? Bloodlines 2 was initially in improvement at Hardsuit Labs, however 5 years and three delays later, Paradox introduced that the staff had been changed with The Chinese language Room, the builders behind Expensive Esther and Nonetheless Wakes the Deep, with manufacturing basically having restarted.
As you possibly can think about, that set the challenge again by years. So, right here we are actually. A minimum of all that work and pent-up pleasure hasn’t gone to waste. The RPG is on observe to really launch later this yr, and it seems to be fairly goodtoo.
