![]() ![]() ![]() PS3 Announcing New Game - Vampire Rain: Alt.Vampire Rain: Altered Species, Forum Discussions Gamers take the role of John Lloyd, a member of a US special government unit created to defeat the Nightwalkers, and the only human to ever survive a physical encounter with them. People have been disappearing at night the lucky ones are found dead, but those less fortunate are reborn as Nightwalkers, and are bound by instinct to forcefully recruit unwitting victims into the Nightwalker army. For some time now, mankind has been battling the ferocious and terrifying Nightwalkers, a race of superhuman vampires who crave human blood. Vampire Rain: Altered Species is an intense game that takes place during a dreary night in a suburban, west coast city in the US. Vampire Rain is serviceable, sort of, but it’s at the bottom of the pile of the stealth genre.Summary Specifications User reviews (0) Collections (21) News Forum Despite the title, they don’t even call them vampires… they’re Nightwalkers, ok? How can a stealth espionage game about vampires be this bland? This game is so ashamed to be about vampires (it was before the first Twilight movie, you know). There’s a PS3 port which improves nothing but tries very hard to hide the vampires with new box art and a new subtitle: “Altered Species”. Console : Song Playstation PS3 Title : Vampire Rain : Altered Species Year release. ![]() The hero, whose name is not worth remembering, is a generic spy dude that nonetheless looks quite a bit like the classic Solid Snake (he does have a night vision goggle eye thingy, which is not at all reminiscent of Splinter Cell). Buy PS3 : Vampire Rain : Altered Species (game) in Kuching,Malaysia. Vampire Rain‘s biggest sin is that it has absolutely no personality, but it does try pretty hard to steal Metal Gear Solid‘s: green monochrome HUD, LIFE bar, vision cone mini-map… even the frickin’ CALL display. The scriptwriters, the animators, the voice actors, no one puts much heart into it, though. The game is long, very slow and has more than a full game’s worth of cutscenes, one for every minute detail, in a constant stream of spy-babble: HQ requires recon on the rendezvous point to get intel for a route before eliminating contacts at the coordinate positions… The game tries to go through the usual motions: a tragic past, the wiped out advance team, the ally that betrays you for reasons that make no sense and the bad guy with an incomprehensible motive. Once spotted, you might as well lie down and close your eyes. On top of that, the game never gives you the option to evade your pursuers. You do get better weapons eventually, but they just highlight the fact that vampires have only one battle plan: turn into nasty monsters and charge straight at you. Invincible opposition is not unheard of or even unwarranted in stealth games, but way to make a terrible first impression Vampire Rain! That must be why they tell you to scare birds with that gun. Then said vampire runs up to you at blazing speed and kills you in two hits, sending your body careening through the air in an amusing display of bad ragdoll physics. The average experience goes something like this: you try it on a vampire and it barely dents his health bar. At the beginning, the game hands you a pistol supposedly modified to kill vampires. If the game is known for one thing, it is the brutality of the enemies. There’s usually only one right solution to every situation and Vampire Rain does none of the things his betters do, like larger areas with multiple sneak paths, optional objectives, the choice to incapacitate or kill, hacking/lockpicking or the option to just go guns blazing (usually suicide here). Many areas are reused (always raining, always at night). You go through bland cityscapes, sewers, dilapidated buildings and empty factories. Otherwise, the mechanics are fine, but the game has no interesting features or situations. The only original mechanics are goggles that can differentiate humans from vampires and “alpha” vampires that when killed also cause the death of all their lesser minions. Come face to face with the ultimate, most intense. You are a part of a Special Forces team tasked with removing the Nightwalkers in all their gore and supernatural strength before they overrun the world - and before the public finds out about them. Vampire Rain is as basic a stealth shooter as there is. Come face to face with the ultimate, most intense enemies ever seen on the Xbox 360. That’s just the setup, though, rain doesn’t actually do anything in the game. At least the premise is interesting vampires are taking over the world! They’re lightning fast and have superhuman senses, but those are dulled by the rain, so it makes sense for your elite team of puny humans to wait for a storm to strike. ![]()
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