Van Helsing
Van Helsing is a third-person shooter for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Game Boy Advance and Mobile phone, which is based on the 2004 action/horror film of the same name by Stephen Sommers. Starting off with the…
Van Helsing is a shooter developed by Megatube, released 27 April 2004 on PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
What Van Helsing is
Van Helsing is a shooter game developed by Megatube and released in 2004. It was published by Vivendi Universal Games. It is available on PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Van Helsing is a third-person shooter for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Game Boy Advance and Mobile phone, which is based on the 2004 action/horror film of the same name by Stephen Sommers. Starting off with the killing of Mr. Hyde in Paris, one must use the character of Van Helsing to hunt down Dracula in Transylvania. The character of Carl is completely missing from the video game but to reasonable accuracy, the characters of Anna Valerious, Velkan Valerious, Igor, Dracula and his three brides are portrayed as in the movie.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, historical and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Van Helsing series
Van Helsing is the first of 6 entries we hold in the Van Helsing series. The next entry was Van Helsing in 2004. Its critic score of 52 is 5 points below the series average of 57. The highest-rated entry is The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II at 74.
How it was received
Van Helsing holds a critic score of 52 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 18 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Van Helsing launched on 27 April 2004, within three weeks of Pikmin 2, Painkiller, Rise of Nations: Thrones & Patriots and Hitman: Contracts. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Pikmin 2, Painkiller, Rise of Nations: Thrones & Patriots, Hitman: Contracts.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Dlc
Quick answers
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