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How about the ‘island’? In Bloodhunt it’s not so much an island as a city in Prague, dingy, dark, gothic and cold, full of innocent humans ripe for the sucking to get yourself some bonus upgrades like the aforementioned extra lives, armour and weapon buffs.

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Combined with the match modifiers and your chosen weapons – should they be available to you on the field – and you’ll easily fall into your natural way of playing Royales, it may just take a little bit of trial and error to get there as no class particularly stands out just yet. The Toreador are the sexy mother suckers that will charm you to death with their smouldering good looks, the Brujah are effectively the brutes, battle worn fighters that have a thirst for war.

There are seven across the four clans linked to their familarial archetypes. If you’re familiar with the Masquerade series you’ll be all too familiar with the ‘archetypes’, otherwise known as the classes, enabling you to find a way of playing combining skills which are more in line with how you’d want to play. Being able to jump from building to building with quick jumps and huge leaps doesn’t ever really get old, leading to hectic rooftop chases as you’re battling it out across chimneys and rooftop bars. From the outset your vampiristic powers are available and they’re a hoot to learn. Being able to tear it up every single building you come across is huge fun, and as a means of escape can be essential in a gunfight. Traversal is excellent, as you might expect if you’ve played a Masquerade game before.

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On the plus side of being a vampire, you’re a vampire! And it’s here where Sharkmob’s experience and history come slapbang into play. The odds remain in your favour throughout because of this, so winning doesn’t feel anywhere near as rewarding as it should. It felt like I was almost cheating, getting to be a vampire in a royale. Even once your enemies can confirm your kill by draining your blood you’re still allowed to return for one more go, doubly so if you find lives around the cityscape. Being able to jump back up again – if you’re given the time – ensured I wasn’t really learning anything from being knocked. In a royale? It didn’t make a whole lot of sense and I felt like I could have additional efforts at winning a single match then it feels more like a level to complete rather than an all out rumble to the top.īeing able to regenerate (because, well, you’re a freakin’ vampire) nullifies your failures. The first match I won felt inconsequential purely because I had earned extra lives. Sure enough, at first it all felt somewhat underwhelming. I jumped on immediately on day one as I’m a huge fan of the genre, and I wanted to see what Sharkmob were bringing to the party. I’m writing this review after several more hours with the game across a few days. From the outset, it feels exciting, even if you still scoff at the idea of a vampire ever needing an AK47 to take down its victims.

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It’s visually impressive – even if I did have to whack the brightness up a little bit on both PC and PS5 – and it’s as atmospheric as you would expect a Masquerade title to be. The battle passes are chock full of items worth grinding for (even the free additions are dutifully designed), the combat is quick and utterly relentless and the ‘vampire’ of it all works well within the confines of the genre playbook. The boxes are continually ticked the further you find yourself exploring Bloodhunt. Sharkmob have thankfully thrown themselves at Bloodhunt, creating a royale that is worthy to stand up against the heavyweights. As cynical as you like, it felt like a cash-in idea, a novel if not wholly original way to bring in some new players to a franchise that was steady, if not quite dominating and looking for a pop culture twist to appeal to the masses. It’s questionable that Vampire: The Masquerade even needed a royale.

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