23rd August
Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve been playing. This week, our away team returns from Gamescom and our home team recovers from Gamescom. What a week! Have you had your head turned by anything?
More importantly, what have you been playing?
Catch up with the older editions of this column in our What We’ve Been Playing archive.
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, PCTurns Out Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 Isn’t Much of An RPG – We’ve Played It Watch on YouTube
I’ve been waiting for this for years and now that I’ve finally played it – a few hours of it in a preview – I’m disappointed. It’s not so much that the concept has been narrowed to fit an action game template, because that can work really well – though it’s a shame not to use the outrageous wealth of RPG depth in the existing tabletop RPG game – but being narrower means there’s more pressure on the content that remains. Having less to do means the things you actually do need to stand out more.