Blood II: The Chosen - Review

Author: Nanaki_Xii Date: Mar 08 2005 - 21:49 Score: 45 points

When the original Blood came out in 1997 or so, it was quite a cult classic, not only that but it produced the B movie equivalent of Ash from Evil Dead, Caleb. Armed with a strong lead character the game led you through a gory adventure to destroy the evil cult CABAL, a basic "kill foozle story"

Caleb is back in Blood 2, faced with the same adversaries. Fans of the original, I can tell right off the bat, will be pleased with the sequel, the game has the same twisted sense of humor, the strange weapons, and the same gruesome deaths you could cause in the original, but better.

Level design is much better than the original, instead of the dreary Graveyard/Warehouse type feeling of the first game, you'll go through various environments, from a musuem to a huge science facility. The sequel inherited the same deviously hidden secrets as the original, except this time, much more clever.

Caleb is not alone this time, a few allies named "the Chosen" accompany him, each is skillfull with different weapons and include their own personalized taunts. Although only Caleb recieves hints and the little movies you get along the road.

The protagonist's funny one-liners are back, and this time there's a even better soundtrack to the game. The graphics have, of course, improved quite a bit over the first's blurry Build Engine graphics, this time smooth 3D models will dazzle your eye as you ruin them with the blood of your enemies.

Even with all it's improvements, the game just doesn't deliver like the first did, although it's much better a game, it's not up to snuff with the games that came out at it's time. All in all, it doesn't deliver as much as the fun as the original did, but it's still a worthy trip down a very, very, bloody road.

	Title / Type	Submitter	Date
	Pretty damned good!	Josephf	Jul 15 2006
	Before its time	Trevbork	Feb 04 2006
	Review	Nanaki_Xii	Mar 08 2005

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