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Vampire: The Masquerade is spawning a battle royale?Coming in 2021, and WEIRD
Coming in 2021, and WEIRD
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“Choose your playstyle, go solo or together, battling rivals and the hostile Entity who’s hellbent on exterminating all vampires,” the devs sayon their site. “Use your supernatural powers, weapons and blood to become stronger in order to hunt, fight and survive the night.”
Weird. As a game it could be fun, mind. Ubisoft’sHyper Scapeisn’t great but shows a battle royale with high mobility in a city can be a right lark, bounding over buildings and zipping through streets. And vampires are basically just wizards, andSpellbreakis neat for battling royale with magical powers. I’m tentatively interested in tearing through moonlit Prague with wizard skills and a cool jacket.
The fact that it’s using the Vampire: The Masquerade name means nothing to me. I find no appeal in that. The opposite, if anything. But sure, whatever, I guess it’s a recognisable name.
Sharkmob plan to launch their VTM battle royale in 2021, sometime from July onwards. Inan interviewin 2018, before they said what they were working on, Sharkmob talked about planning a licensed live service game with content updates and that, which yeah, would be the way to do a battle royale.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2was recentlydelayed into 2021followingthe firing of narrative lead Brian Mitsoda, who was a lynchpin in its marketing (and claims of legacy) as a lead writer on the original Bloodlines.
Disclosure: Cara Ellison,a former RPS columnistand my former flatmate, was a narrative designer on Bloodlines 2.
