"There's been no real innovation for years, and the genre's been in decline commercially, with no updates to the big brands like Baldur's Gate and Diablo in a couple of years. Sure, System Shock and Deus Ex introduced RPG elements to the first person shooter arena years ago, but Troika is firmly pitching this as a true revolution in the RPG space.
Troika, responsible for the excellent Fallout and Arcanum, were basically fed up with the lack of innovation in the RPG genre and decided to give it a kick up the arse by putting it in a first person setting.
Bloodline is not a sequel to the Nihilistic developed Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption, which slightly disappointed Tom almost exactly three years ago. A stake through the heart for the RPGīut let's get the confusing stuff out of the way first. What's more, Valve actually approached Troika to use the engine, which is why the team is in the privileged situation of having a head start on everyone else. We'll let Troika off this time, on the basis that it appears to have one of the few truly groundbreaking games currently in production, and, intriguingly, is the first external team to be allowed to use the effortlessly impressive Source engine, allowing the team to take the RPG into previously uncharted waters.
Obviously no one alerted Troika Games to this Vampiric contradiction, because it's only gone and set Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines there. Why do Vampires always hang around in sodding LA, and not, say, Nottingham? LA's permanently sunny and full of beach bums, while Nottingham's mainly damp, cold and grey and populated by three quarters of the world's Goth population.
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