PS3 Announcing New Game - Vampire Rain: Altered Species

[7eVEn]

this game is absolutely to avoid
http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=52004

'Vampire Rain' (X360) Coming to PS3
Posted on Thursday, May 08 @ 13:03:18 PDT
As a member of a black ops unit, your mission in Vampire Rain is to secretly eliminate a growing population of deadly vampires known as Nightwalkers. Vampire Rain: Altered Species features extra bonus levels, revamped animations, character interactions, and multiplayer.
"We are very excited to bring Vampire Rain: Altered Species to the PS3," said Artoon President Naoto Oshima. "The incredible power of the PS3, will allow us to give gamers a fully immersive experience. This will include: 5.1 channel audio, over 50 hours of gameplay, extra bonus levels, a lot of completely revamped animations, character interactions and much more."

Vampire Rain: Altered Species is an intense game that takes place during a dreary night in a suburban, west coast city in the US. For some time now, mankind has been battling the ferocious and terrifying Nightwalkers, a race of superhuman vampires who crave human blood. 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. 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.

Aside from featuring a blood-chilling, story driven single player campaign, Vampire Rain: Altered Species will also feature a robust multiplayer mode.

AQ Interactive is an stealth action game developed by Artoon, which has developed such blockbuster titles as Blue Dragon, Blinx: The Time Sweeper, Yoshi's Island DS and many more.

[Heart_Collector]

Originally Posted by 7eVEn

this game is absolutely to avoid

That's what I've heard, but it's awesome to hear someone admit that utilizing PS3 hardware will make it a lot better. Now, for Bioshock....

[Icemage]

Are we talking about the same Vampire Rain that has a composite 38% score on metacritic?

http://www.metacritic.com/games/plat...0/vampiresrain

Originally Posted by Worth Playing - 40%

It failed in every aspect. The gameplay is frustrating and tedious, the graphics are bland and boring and the plotline is simply incoherent.

Originally Posted by GameTrailers - 36%

There's an overwhelming number of issues with Vampire Rain. While we'd like to go into detail about how obviously this game rips off Splinter Cell or how later missions send you through earlier levels backwards, there isn't enough time for all the complaints. Vampire Rain just sucks.

...and the best one...

Originally Posted by GamerNode - 25%

Attempting to combine survival horror with stealth-action gameplay straight from the bargain bin, Vampire Rain frustrates constantly, and often times you'll be glad you die, because it affords you a chance to turn your console off.

[Ascended_Saiyan]

Are you saying that because a game didn't review well means the next one won't either?

[Blu Jacket]

Originally Posted by Ascended_Saiyan

Are you saying that because a game didn't review well means the next one won't either?

I thought it was just a port with some extra stuff thrown in.

[Icemage]

Originally Posted by Ascended_Saiyan

Are you saying that because a game didn't review well means the next one won't either?

It's not a sequel. It's a "revamped" (intentional pun!) edition of the original horribly reviewed game.

[Rabidhunter]

Hmm, if they can pull it off well, it might be good. Otherwise, I'm going to have to put out garlic and all my crosses to protect myself from this game.

[davidxiphoid]

So has anyone actually played this? I saw it at BB for $40 and it sounded and looked kinda cool. Just wondering if it's worth the price.

[jkwest]

Originally Posted by davidxiphoid

So has anyone actually played this? I saw it at BB for $40 and it sounded and looked kinda cool. Just wondering if it's worth the price.

NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[JamesShrews]

I love this game its like mgs4 stealthy but with vampires, if your into vampires get it if not get other games first

[jkwest]

IGN Review-3.0

Last year, Vampire Rain was released on the Xbox 360. It didn't do so well -- in fact, it's netting a 3.7 press average over on GameStats. Now, more than 13 months after its debut on the console that Gates built, Vampire Rain: Altered Species has arrived on the PlayStation 3.

Don't let the name fool you; this is a port of the 360 version with a few bells and whistles tacked on. Vampire Rain still stinks.

Don't do it....

[owa]

Originally Posted by davidxiphoid

So has anyone actually played this? I saw it at BB for $40 and it sounded and looked kinda cool. Just wondering if it's worth the price.

I wanted something horror-like and got it. It starts out pretty good and I like it so far (looks promising). I got sidetracked with other games though and haven't gotten back to it yet. So, I'm very early on in the game and I guess just haven't gotten to the "frustrating" parts yet.

[davidxiphoid]

ok JK!!! haha. seriously, it sounded so cool on the back of the box. But I haven't read one positive review of it Guess i'll pick up Bioshock or Prince Of Persia instead.

[Chocolatejas]

Did you play the demo?