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Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption

Vampire: The Masquerade – Redemption is a 2000 role-playing video game based on White Wolf's game Vampire: The Masquerade and follows the adventures of Christof Romuald, a 12th-century French crusader who is…

60 7 June 2000

Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption is an adventure developed by Nihilistic Software, released 7 June 2000 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption is

Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption is an adventure game developed by Nihilistic Software and released in 2000. It was published by Activision. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Nod Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Before your fall, you led a crusade against evil. Now you've become one of the undead creatures you once battled - a Vampire. Inhabiting the World of Darkness, you must face a series of brutal confrontations with your nemesis Vukodlak, a powerful vampire lord. Your unholy showdown begins in medieval Europe and rages on into the modern day, as you track a soulless enemy in an eternal struggle to destroy him. For this is the only hope of vengeance for your tortured immortality.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the World of Darkness series

Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption is the first of 47 entries we hold in the World of Darkness series. The next entry was Hunter: The Reckoning in 2002. Its critic score of 60 is 10 points below the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Hunter: The Reckoning Wayward at 80.

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How it was received

Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 12 points below the year average. Players rate it 69, 9 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1.0 GHz, 256 MB RAM and DirectX 7 Compatible 3D Card. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption launched on 7 June 2000, within three weeks of Deus Ex, Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition, Shogun: Total War and Perfect Dark. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Deus Ex, Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition, Shogun: Total War, Perfect Dark.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Quick answers

Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption — frequently asked questions

When did Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption come out?
Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption was released on 7 June 2000 for Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption?
At minimum, Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption needs 1.0 GHz, 256 MB RAM, DirectX 7 Compatible 3D Card graphics, 800 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption?
The PC version needs about 0.8 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("800 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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