About This Game London, 1918. You are newly-turned Vampyr Dr. Jonathan Reid. As a doctor, you must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens. As a Vampyr, you are cursed to feed on those you vowed to heal. Will you embrace the monster within? Survive and fight against Vampyr hunters, undead skals, and other supernatural creatures. Use your unholy powers to manipulate and delve into the lives of those around you, to decide who will be your next victim. Struggle to live with your decisions… your actions will save or doom London. BE THE VAMPYR – Fight and manipulate with supernatural abilitiesFEED TO SURVIVE – Be the savior and the stalkerSHAPE LONDON – A web of interconnected citizens reacts to your decisions a09c17d780 Title: VampyrGenre: Action, RPGDeveloper:DONTNOD EntertainmentPublisher:Focus Home InteractiveRelease Date: 4 Jun, 2018 Vampyr FULL Its a great concept. A doctor has been turned into a vampire and has to walk a line between healer and killer. That's pretty interesting. But it ended up being pretty boring. There are areas where you engage in the story elements of the game but that ends up being just you talking to everyone in an area until you exhaust all the dialogue options. Between these storied parts are areas where you engage in the combat elements which are no more interesting than playing the old Streets of Rage. You run around, beating up mindless zombies with your single left-click attack and two or three special abilities. Its like they tried to fuse a beat-em-up with a serious, story-driven RPG and I don't think it worked out very well.I couldn't bring myself to get through the second chapter because its just not a fun activity, its a chore. And the story is not interesting enough to propel me forward to hear more of it. That said, I love what they were trying for and I wish it had turned out more to my liking cuz I love vampire stuff.. 9\/10I tried to be a good guy, but this game turned me into a monster.Overall, I found this game to be fantastic. The story is really, really good, the characters are interesting, and the main character, Dr. Jonathan Reid, is very well done to the point that I felt I had seen him grow, develop and change by the end of the game based on my decisions throughout. You play as a recently bit vampire who is trying to figure out what has happened to him while also working on solving the epidemic of the spanish flu in London during the early 1900s. Upon release, this game received mediocre reviews, with the main complaint being the combat mechanics. Combat is definitely the worst part of this game, but I really do think that most people who were quick to judge this game did not finish it. I was also initially frustrated with the combat when I started playing, as there is a steep learning curve and enemies tend to be much stronger than you, especially the boss battles. However, as you level up and become stronger, combat becomes relatively easier and much more enjoyable as you are able to take on several guys at once, versus being worked at the beginning of the game.This is where the brilliance of the game comes in. Much like Bioshock with the Little Sisters, you will level up significantly more if you are eating people than if you are not. The more you get to know a person, the more XP you will receive. While Bioshock was very doable without harvesting a single Little Sister, this game really punishes you for being a good guy. I wanted to be a good guy, but I ended up with one of the "bad" endings so that I could progress and move on in the game by eating a handful of people. Not a ton, just enough to survive, and I was always careful about who I picked and why I picked them. If you want to be a good guy, get ready for a difficult experience.However, there are still aspects of combat that are far from perfect, namely locking onto an enemy. This is the most broken feature, as it is very sensitive to mouse movement, making you lock onto someone else right before an attack, or even occasionally locking onto an enemy that is far away, on the other side of a building, and overall not involved in the fight at all. During some boss battles this was a big issues when there are several enemies attacking. This would probably not be as big of an issue on a controller I assume, but be aware of this when using a mouse.The environment of this game is awesome. Foggy, gaslit cobblestone streets of London, with creepy cellos and violins playing in the soundtrack, I loved it.Graphics are very good for the most part, although facial animation was just ok. For some reason the mouths look weird to me.Frame rate is not great. In game it is capped at 62, with no in game option to increase it. There are work arounds to this in the game's files, but I was not bothered by it that much. Although it was common for my frame rate to drop into the 30s at times in the city.For some reason, my game crashed every time I clicked on the investigations quests tab. Tried this twice, couldn't find anything online, so I just never clicked on it again. Weird.There are lots and lots of dialogue to go through in this game, so get ready to listen. I play most of my games without subtitles as I enjoy a cinematic experience, but depending on how long I had been playing I found myself skipping what people said more and more. Overall I really liked this part of the game as it was interesting to get to know the people, and it really made the city feel alive, but at times I just got tired of listening.Get ready for some long boss battles, especially if you're not eating a lot of people. You will have to take a bit of a Dark Souls approach in many cases, namely being patient, dodging, get a hit or two in, then retreat and repeat. One boss fight took me about 10-15 minutes to complete probably, but as you level up they will get easier. The last few I was able to beat in 1-2 tries.In addition to deciding who to eat and not to eat, the game is split into four separate districts that you need to take care of. Another brilliant part of this game is the lack of manual saves, using only a checkpoint system. The game begins by saying "Take responsibility for your actions." You may regret something right away, or a decision you made may wipe out an entire district. I lost two of the four districts in my playthrough, and there is nothing you can do to go back and fix it, they are gone, so take care of your districts as best you can if you're going for that. If not, eat away.All in all, I found this game to be excellent in story telling and atmosphere, and I would love to give this a second playthrough at some point and see what other decisions have an affect on the city. While combat starts out rough, I really do recommend pushing through it, leveling up and finishing this game, as I really did enjoy very much.. I bought this game for 20$ which was a great deal for that price IMO. $50 is kinda steep for a few reasons. I'm just gonna break this down PRO\/CON style.PROs--Great dialogue and story telling. All the NPCs are amazing and even when feeding upon the villainous of villains you still kinda felt bad devouring them.-In depth level up system with lots of fun vampire abilities which puts you in the zone. Using blood and shadow arts while biting foolish humans is both fun and entertaining while shadow dodging around.-Game time: Easily got more than 15 Hours of time which is good for the price I paid for it.-Graphics: Amazing, people felt real and lively. London felt like the hell hole it was back in the 1910's.CONS--LOADING SCREENS LOADING SCREENS LOADING SCREENS. FFS it's 2019 (18 when it released I think). Hide your loading screens or make them interactive. Getting pulled from the immersion is no fun.-Dumb (IMO) healing system of the citizens. Took way too long to keep healing everyone and making sure your medicine supplies are good.- No fast travel. Not such a big deal, but with NO mini map you get lost, confused and then enemies swarm you while you have to constantly hit TAB to see where you are. (this one is my personal hang up).-Lack of variety in enemies: 5 types of enemies total, and some can really put the hurt on if you lvl up incorrectly.Overall score: 7\/10. I'm not gonna 100% this one, but it's fun for what it was.. Really enjoyable game. Good story with multiple endings. I have done 2 different endings, but only have 26 hours on the game. I wish I had bought on sale, and I recommend buying this game on sale. I don't believe there is enough content to justify the price.. There are a lot of other reviews here bemoaning the combat. I just wanted to add that if you're thinking of playing on easy (called "story mode" in this case) to mitigate this issue, don't bother. It's still really hard & annoying even on story mode.. Just start to finish this game is a chore to play.The story-line is decent but it's impossible to actually enjoy it just with how many time wasting grinds the game has.The controls, camera and collision detection is horrible.Worse the actual scope of choice doesn't seem to be that great. Most of the time amounting to gaining or losing only a few lines of dialogue.. Very interesting gameplay then level up is depended on how much chaos you bring to world. Completing the game without killing an innocent turned into true challenge.. While a very fun game, i cannot recommend it at all.When it lets the game be played, it is fun. full of intrigue, mystery, and thinking.Unfortunately the biggest weakness of the game is by far the largest part of it: combat.I have played a lot of bad combat systems, but this one takes the cake. When the game is not fighting you over control of your actions, its leaving you stuck unable to do anything as hoards of enemies annihilate you. This is only exacerbated by the reached scaling that occurs, something that makes the "good" playthrough nearly impossible without spending a stupid amount of time just farming microscopic levels of xp just to have enough health to not be one shot! This wouldn't be a major problem, except combat happens every 5 seconds, and then it randomly throws even more overpowered bosses at you, sometimes without warning and the only way forward is through them.Considering how much the game does right, its sad how this one piece severely dampens the playability of the whole.
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Vampyr FULL
Updated: Mar 29, 2020
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