BloodRayne

"BloodRayne is one of the best games I've ever played...."

INTRODUCTION
BloodRayne was first created by Terminal Reality in the year 2002. It has captured many gamers to look far between horror and adventure.

GAMEPLAY 10/10
Ok, you’ll definitely understand what I mean when you discover the uniqueness of the game play style. You’ll start as female vampire in search of your own goals, which requires fighting skills and strategy.
To tell you the truth, this game is not 100% based on the adventure and horror itself only, but it also blended with strategy, mind challenges, and lots more. There are tons of challenging levels, and many different environments as well. Many enemies that looked like humans, spiders, zombies and other type of creatures polishes the game, making it look very interesting.

The controls have different options. If you’re not suitable with the first option, you may change the controls with other options, and all of them are not different from each other. Managing the character is nothing to be worried about, because the character actually moves fairly fast, and you should like that to make the game more simple and easy to manage.

The game itself is not hard, but I would recommend that you play it without stopping because once you’ve done this, you’ll definitely get mixed up with other games and can’t keep up on the game. It also depends on the player if he/she is quick enough to familiarize with the game and catch up the pace of the game.

GRAPHICS 10/10
How I wish I could show you the graphics. It is very good for an Xbox game because the graphics appear to be excellent in its on perspective. It also features a 3D looking style graphics like the Matrix style and makes the game better to be played. The look on the faces of the enemies when they got hit looks real and of course, you’ll definitely like the intro. Even though the scenes looked real and very neat, I wouldn’t say that it is 100% excellent because sometimes the game itself happens to do mistakes, like sometimes walls and boxes appeared hollow and other stuffs.

I also like the way the programmers did the main menu of the game. It happens to be really professional looking-type! It’s very simple but then again, it’s like an expert handwork.

SOUND 9/10
The sounds are good especially when opening doors, in short scenes, and when fighting enemies. They really have good sound effects, and when the characters have a chat, they give out clear information for players to understand deeper and sometimes the words they use are also very real. It’s like when they fight, they talk like a fighting scene conversation. It is very real indeed.

REPLAYABILITY 5/10
Well, do you have patience? If you do, then you can afford to play again and again. But based on my experience, I wouldn’t recommend it. This is because the game, as I mentioned earlier, have tons of levels, and the only main reason for you to play it again only if don’t understand the story.

FINAL RECOMMENDATION 9/10
I think this game is not worth renting, but worth buying! You should try this game out quickly, because the next sequel is coming out real soon. So, based on my own experience, I recommend this game a hundred percent.

Reviewer's Score: 9/10, Originally Posted: 11/11/03