Developer Hardsuit Games is no longer in charge of crafting Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, as that duty is being outsourced to a different studio entirely.
Several delays, major shake-ups in the creative department, and an effort to get the game ready for next-gen have resulted in Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 having an unsteady release date.
Choose your playstyle, go solo or together, battling rivals and the hostile Entity who’s hellbent on exterminating all vampires. Use your supernatural powers, weapons and blood to become stronger in order to hunt, fight and survive the night.
Brian Mitsoda, narrative lead on Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, has been future endeavoured by publisher Paradox Interactive and developer Hardsuit Labs. The company announced that it had given marching orders to Mitsoda and creative director Ka’ai Cluney, replacing them with Alexandre Mandryka.
The end of 2020 is already stacked with a whole bunch of heavyweight games, and as per usual, it looks like there’s going to be a few release date casualties along the way. That first victim of a stacked timeline of games? Vampire: The Masquareade – Bloodlines 2, which is shifting to gears and will now release a little bit later.
If there’s one game I’m hungry for this decade, it’s a new chapter in The Elder Scrolls. 2011’s Skyrim still stands as one of my absolute favourite sandboxes, a glorious Nordic adventure filled with swords, sorcery and ye Daedric gods so many damn loading screens. A sixth Elder Scrolls game is on the way, but as usual Bethesda is keeping …
I’m usually the sort of person who’s happy with a delay – especially if it means that a game ends up being more polished, and delivers a better experience to those who play it. They don’t really hit me, because I usually have lots to play anyway. I was, however, looking quite forward to playing Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 in March next year. That won’t be happening though, as the developers explained in a statement.
Paradox Interactive always told us that the fifth and final faction in Vampire: the Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 would be unseen. They weren’t joking, as that’s really the name of the last gang on the list of neck-biters who roam the streets at night. If they’re allowed to that is. Amidst the beautiful tribes of nightwalkers and immortals, there exist the Nosferatu of the Unseen.
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