Shortly after the Embrace, both the player and his or her Sire are captured by the Los Angeles Camarilla for what is revealed to have been an unauthorized act, violating the organization's strict rules on vampire creation. Once a character has been created, the introductory sequence begins with an in-game cinematic of a lascivious vampire Sire 'Embracing' the player's character draining the character of blood, and beginning the player's transformation into a vampire. Players can choose to manually pick the clan their character will join and their character's stats, or they can answer a series of questions to be assigned stats. The game begins with the creation of a male or female vampire character of one of seven Camarilla clans. It is also Troika Games' third title and the last to be made before Troika closed down in February 2005.

It is also notable for being the first game along with Half-Life 2 to use Valve's Source engine, which allows the game to be played from either the first-person or third-person shooter perspective.

The game allows the player to choose one of several different vampire clans and progress through the game according to the different strengths and weaknesses of the player's character, as in its paper and pencil role playing origins.Īlthough Bloodlines divided critics at the time of release, it retains a popular cult following. Like Activision's Vampire: The Masquerade – Redemption, Bloodlines is set in White Wolf, Inc.'s pen-and-paper roleplaying game Vampire: The Masquerade inside his universe known as the World of Darkness (WoD), but it is not a sequel to the earlier game. Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, abbreviated as Bloodlines or VTMB, is a computer role-playing game for Windows developed by Troika Games in 2004.

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