BloodRayne
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3.09 average rating based on 359 ratings
- Developers
- Terminal Reality
- Publishers
- Majesco Entertainment
- Series
- BloodRayne
- Event
- Nintendo E3 2002 Press Conference
- Platforms
- Mac, Nintendo GameCube, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 2, Xbox
- Genres
- Adventure, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
- Themes
- Action, Horror
- Steam
- View on Steam
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Doesn't age well, but great in its day
This review is for the Xbox version
Definitely one of the best action games at the time it came out. The mix of shooting and melee was pretty new, and gotta love killing nazis.
Edit: Gave the terminal cut a shot. Really just a compatibility update, doesn't add anything to the dated gameplay.
i pirated this game
FINISHED: 3/4/23
TIME: 8:30:43
a game that, although is very poorly researched, has a surface level plot after the first 2 levels, and is kinda janky, was a very fun experience.
Anemic
This review is for the PC (Microsoft Windows) version
Intro
BloodRayne: Terminal Cut is an updated version of the 2002 third-person action game. You play a dhampir (vampire/human hybrid like Blade) who kills stuff with sword, guns and fangs.
The Good
- Unlike the original version this runs in Windows 10.
- The goofy harpoon is amusing.
- Laura Bailey is great as Rayne. She also voiced Serana, the vampire NPC in Dawnguard (Skyrim DLC).
The Bad
- Boring, repetitive gameplay.
- It looks terrible. If they updated the visual aspect it doesn't show.
- You want to play this with a Mouse but the buttons don't work for some reason.
- The static default camera is awful. It should switch to "follow" when enabling a gamepad. Took me a while to figure out that was an option.
- Checkpoints.
- Utterly forgettable story and dialogue.
- Rayne moans when she drinks blood... ಠ_ಠ
Conclusion
This is the kind of embarassing trash that has given video games a bad name in the past. Even the prospect of murdering nazis wasn't enough to make me sit through this snoozefest.
killerstar's review of BloodRayne
Dismembering nazis never gets old, does it? Well, kind of, but this game is short enough (about 6 hours) and with plenty of variety of enemies and bosses that it doesn't overstate it's welcome. Cutting and slicing people it's fun and the gameplay is up to the task. That said, most other aspects of this game are pretty sub-par. The music is forgettable if almost nonexistent, the plot is paper-thin, the voice acting is terrible and the main character is not likable at all. But, again, it's pretty fun to run through hordes of enemies and see their limbs flying all over.
A time capsule
This review is for the PC (Microsoft Windows) version
The most 2002 game I've ever played. Janky in a way that no other era can recreate, and edgy in that post-matrix style that would be dated in a year. It's kinda cool for its day but it's kind of a chore to play these days. Unresponsive controls are the most frustrating part. The fighting felt like button-mashing with no thought involved, and I never really had a firm grasp on whether I was winning or losing a fight. The jumping was always a crapshoot too. Who knows if I would make it to the place I was aiming!
Navigating the levels was a disaster too. I got lost so many times wandering around corridors that all looked the same. Tiny doors that are easy to miss don't help things and sometimes needing to find cracks on walls to smash through was a nightmare. When the game was firing on the right cylinders, it was a blast but often quickly devolved into an incomprehensible mess. Does the story even make any sense? I couldn't really figure out what the deal with that was either.
Nice time capsule game though. I can't think of anything more representative of the era.
YntoCCabile's review of BloodRayne
In this 3rd person action game you are playing as a hot, red headed, half-vampire chick. If u like blood, action and vampires, and don't like nazis, this game is for you. I'm not really into vampiric games, but I really enjoyed the whole playthrough.
Apropos of nothing, there's a windows emulator for Android. Gog games seem to work pretty well.
Playing Revamped and it is amazing. Get past the swamp and the game gets very good.
It's something amazing to see a game so poorly researched. Rayne is sent to a nazi base in Argentina during WWII (wait, but nazis scaped here after the war had ended to avoid being captured!). There, the nazis not only had uncover this nasty buggers that "the locals" called Daemites (The locals? You mean, argentinians who speak Spanish) but also had a massive concentration camp filled with prisoners (In Argentina? They sent them all the way from Germany?).
After playing BloodRayne: Betrayal and being so disappointed, I decided to give this old one a try. A couple of hours into it, it's felling quite nice.