7. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 - bloodsuckers return to life. The best upcoming games of 2021
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- Why worth the wait: we need more first-person RPGs
- Release date: 2021
- Genre: action RPG
- Platforms: PC, PS5, PS4, XSX/S, XONE
RPGs are usually associated with some epic, medieval fantasy worlds or futuristic dystopias, with the recently Cyberpunk 2077 at the forefront. There is little widely understood modernity in this gaming role play, not to mention any realism. However, an interesting compromise was reached by Blizzard, releasing two games from the Vampire: The Masquerade series in the first years of the 21st century, in which - as the title already reveals - we play as vampires. Vampires living in modern America, let us as.
And although these works lacked technical refinement, their engaging storyline was enough to truly enjoy them (all thanks to the fact that they were based on a really popular and recognized RPG system). Now, after a dozen or so years of break, during which we amused ourselves with pretty decent graphic novels set in the same universe, we get a third full-fledged Vampire: The Masquerade, which promises to be a truly atmospheric immersive sim.
Based on all sorts of trailer, you can see how ingeniously the developers play with the convention, combining dark, quasi-gothic locations with cemeteries and castles packed somewhere within the boundaries of sleepless Seattle with grotesque, the manifestations of which can be seen in the slightly exaggerated brutality and morbid sense of humor of the main characters (they dance over the bodies of gutted mortals to the rhythm of music from the 60s.). Tarantino would be proud, period.
