Blood Rayne 3 a game that may never be!

Morbid violence and a dark, twisted reality to play in gave the original first Blood Rayne a horror fantasy to play in that was both a play off of history and a dynamic play ground that was unique. That being said the second Blood Rayne or Blood Rayne 2 was quite possibly the biggest blunder in all of video game sequel history. So what should they do and not do in order to create an awesome and redeemable Blood Rayne 3, lets review and rant shall we.

Blood Rayne 2 not only took everything you liked about the first one and shat on it, it also did everything in it's power to make every possible mistake it could in it's construction. So where to begin? Well lets start with some basics, basics being the gameplay. Apart from the slice your enemies being for the most part the same, the ridged movements of Rayne swinging her blades around is both frustrating due to lack of range but also lack of effectiveness. In the original you sliced enemies with easy and of coarse later on it became harder but more on that later.

Blood sucking to be blunt is far less fun as you always jump on enemies rather than sitting on top of them and really getting into the mood of that your a vampire not some weird monkey, the simple fact that enemies dont really sound all that stressed out that your drinking there blood and cry out for help, except with the occasional "hey get her off me" really detracts from the mood.

Yet another thing that is frustrating is that fact that your guns are some strange blood draining guns that turn blood into bullets!? Though you do get to see them, the simple fact is that when you get a shotgun or grenade launcher you want to see a fucking huge kick ass weapon not some dinky little handguns.

In the original BR if you used a cheat you could see her covered from head to toe in weapons you picked up all in logical to carry places. Of coarse you got to see her use all the giant kick ass weapons, but alas no more thanks to so stupid weird and often useless, yes useless handguns. Since your enemies seem to be super natural in nature with abundant health it really does not make sense to have them. This is especially true when most of the time they are immune to your guns.

The next point I would like to make it that your enemies for being all powerful vampires seem to be incredibly stupid, wanna be punk, wanna be biker idiots that have no real characteristics of vampires. To make a point of how stupid this is you have clown face paint wearing vampires in a giant mansion that have handguns, not machine guns, or body armor or super powers of any kind except for being able to get hit a lot and you expect the player to except all of this?

Apart for your, clown/biker/masochist/bondage/goth stupid as fuck vampire squads you are given a small taste of what could actually be considered enemies. You have bulls and crushers or bigger monster like vampires that look like a bull or have a giant hammer they swing at you. Then there are dampires or half vampires like you, who dress rather plainly compared to everyone else and have none of your powers.

Next is the trained vampires that are really, really old use shotguns/powerful machine guns and sword, these guys are actually a little tough to kill and can fight back. Last we have some bosses, they are either so stupid and easy to kill they should be considered mini-bosses at best or they require some gimick to either weaken them or cause a cut scene.

The final boss, their are no real spoilers is extremely cheap and vastly more powerful than you are, luckily to make it so you can actually win there is a large fountain of blood that will continuously heal you and the boss. So keep him out and you win? Wow that wasn't the most anticlimactic boss fight in the entire series.

Well apart from the bad game and horribly boring music and corridor driven level design, which be the way was not at all like the original for the most part the game still sucks. The unlockables you get them all the instant you win the game. Oh and be the way there are no difficulty settings congratulations you just beat a horrible game with lame costumes and no challenge. So in short just ignore the entire second game and try again using as many ideas as you can from the first game.

Sources, Blood Rayne and Blood Rayne 2, the actual games, or check them on youtube.