Vampyr

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  1. SuperkenGaming
    Jun 5, 2018
    7
    Vampyr
    It doesn’t suck
    Vampyr is a 3rd person action adventure rpg where you play as Dr Johnathan Reid. Youre dead. Well. Youre undead. Youre a vampire. Things happen that set you out to get answers and to save early 1900s London which is where this game is set… During the 1918 spanish flu… The game takes place in an open world with vampyr hunters crawling the streets, youre given    Vampyr
    It doesn’t suck
    Vampyr is a 3rd person action adventure rpg where you play as Dr Johnathan Reid.
    Youre dead. Well. Youre undead.
    Youre a vampire. Things happen that set you out to get answers and to save early 1900s London which is where this game is set…
    During the 1918 spanish flu…
    The game takes place in an open world with vampyr hunters crawling the streets, youre given tasks and markers on the map, and you spend the games 13 hour long campaign going from place to place, at first gathering materials for the hospital that takes you in.. in between all of these areas are of course enemies wanting you dead.. lucky for you youre a vampire… you have a skill tree that you dump your experience into that’s earned off of these enemies and that you get from completing quests and sidequests…
    and at the end of these missions theres usually a giant boss to take down, test out your skills, switching between one handed and two handed weapons, stunning enemies so you can bite them and drain their blood which allows you use the moves you’ve unlocked in your skill tree that not onlky need blood but run on a cool down as well.. and then the rest of the game youre investigating and gathering information..
    I guess you could say.. youre londons batman…
    this is when the game really starts to come to life.. you gather hints from characters that will unlock new dialog options of other charcters and you can go back and forther gathering info on the location of a person youre searching for…. But more importantly this is where the whole you being a vampire thing comes into play…
    you can play this game as a good vampire, controlling your thirst for blood.. or you caun be like me.. a naughty vampire.. sucking all that blood. If you see someone out there looking like a snack.. they can be..
    you can mesmerize characters, bring them into the shadows and drain them of their delicious blood, granting you a massive xp reward.. youre rewarded for being bad in that you can afford more skills, you become a more powerful vampire, thus the game is easier for you…
    but by doing so chaos will break loose in the territories t hat you take too much life from.. and this is where I had the most fun.. in the role playing of a vampire.. of getting my victims to invite me inside and little do they know im just a little thirsty…
    But now comes the tough love,
    Vampyr is essentially a mid life cycle ps3 game.
    There are so many mistakes made in this open world that just make this game painful.
    for starters there is no fast travel.
    there are hideouts spread all of this map where you can rest to spend your xp, refill your ammo, upgrade the weapons you find in the world.. but you cant travel to a single one of them…
    and its not like the game slowly moves you along the map, no.. these missions will have you running back and forth across this world constantly…
    this is made worse by the annoying decision to lock every single gate in the game.. you can just run from territory to territory, because theyre going to put a gat in the middle of the street that if you didn’t unlock from the otherside 7 hour ago, youre gonna have to run all the way around the map again.. dealing with other locked gates and paths…
    but a las it gets worse…
    its not as simple as running from one place to another there are enemies all over the place and you cant interact with unlocked gate while enemies are around.. forcing you to have to engage in combat before moving forward..
    but it somehow gets worse…
    the combat here is sluggish slow and unfun, special attacks use way too much blood for how little damage they do, and to get more blood you have to do enough stun damage for an enemy to be vulnerable to be bitten… fights just drag on forever.. im a vampire.. I want to feel like some untouchable god when im dealing with these hunters and vampire rejects in the streets…
    the only time the combat is fun is during boss battles.. boss battles are addictive and challenging.. forcing me to strategize.. its like the combat was made only with boss battles in mind and the street enemies weren’t balanced… fighting them isn’t fun.. theyre a nussiance.. it’s a chore
    BUT. IT. GETS. WORSE.
    youre not even rewarded for dealing with these garbage encounters
    These annoying enemies crawling all over the place only gain you 5 to 15 xp each.
    Higher level upgrades cost about 2000 xp each.
    That means you have to kill 130 to 400 for one single upgrade….
    I don’t know how this ridiculous unbalanced in risk reward was overlooked but it was..
    These enemies are far too much of a threat for you to need to kill 400 of them for an upgrade.
    Get out of here.
    That being said vampyr is still a good game.. I enjoyed the game, its currently one of my top 20 games of 2018 so far.
    Im just baffiled at the ps3 era mistakes made in a 2018 game
    thankfully The story, the world, and the roleplaying save this game..    … Expand
  2. Berrlett
    Nov 1, 2018
    7
    Studio and publisher made this game just announced solid profit and an unexpected revenue rate and I am very happy for them. The game is actually fun, the alternate set of London is very good, controls, gameplay and fighting mechanics are also very good and I like it even more for not putting a lot of the fighting emphases on guns although you do have them and upgrades are also avail.Studio and publisher made this game just announced solid profit and an unexpected revenue rate and I am very happy for them. The game is actually fun, the alternate set of London is very good, controls, gameplay and fighting mechanics are also very good and I like it even more for not putting a lot of the fighting emphases on guns although you do have them and upgrades are also avail. Story wise at times I thought it was a prolonged dialogues to get to the same conclusions but over all an enjoyable experience. Recommend it at a discounted price.… Expand
  3. bersi84
    Jan 12, 2020
    6
    This is one of these games that made me being torn between given it a 4/10 or 8/10. Because of that I chose 6/10 and will further explain why I think this game had so much more potential then it delivered due to some poor decisions and optimizations made by the developers.

    First of all I ve been playing this game on my PS4 Pro SSD and I cant say that this game is well optimized. A lot    This is one of these games that made me being torn between given it a 4/10 or 8/10. Because of that I chose 6/10 and will further explain why I think this game had so much more potential then it delivered due to some poor decisions and optimizations made by the developers.

    First of all I ve been playing this game on my PS4 Pro SSD and I cant say that this game is well optimized. A lot of the graphics dont look detailed or crisp but still the game has frame drop issues. I also had mutliple freezes which made me nearly softlock because it happened on the same passages over and over so I had to take detours to prevent this. Also I had to re-do some boss fights which was highly annoying. Besides that I had bluescreen crashes in different chapters, gladly only a few in comparison to the freezes. The game has popup issues even on Pro SSD and also this game has so poorly loading optimizations that sometimes it needs even time to buffer when you want to talk to someone. In my personal opinion this is completely unacceptable and deserves 0 points.

    On the other hand the narrative, the story and the atmosphere created by the developers is very well made and deserves at least some praise. London looks vicious and deadly. Wandering through bloody halls and gloomy streets made an excellent basis on what the story plot tried to deliver. The devs put good efforts bringing storylines into each of the characters. The neighbourhood system is interesting but flawed. Even if you kill a side character it can happen that the whole borough gets wiped. If you kill a pillar in a bad borough situation at whole it can also wipe multiple boroughs. It is interesting because your decision do have consequences but it is bad design that this is not really clear to the player. You can manually save, so if you did something wrong by not knowing you have to re-play the game.

    The leveling system is not bad. I felt to not use a lot of the skills and concentrated on a few. The game has interesting balancing options. You level the most by killing but in a pacifist run you are not allowed to, but the weapon dmg remains static whereas the enemies scale making it a viable balance. You can find, buy and craft things but the variety is limited.

    It is really hard to summarize my feeling on this game. I would ve rated it 8/10 probaby if not for the various crashes, freezes and performance problems. Switching between 1080, 4k, supersampling etc. did not help me. To be fair these issues are random and do not happen to all of the players it is still unforgiveable to me because it ruins the gaming experience a lot. I still had fun with Vampyr. I might even be willing to suggest buying it but only at a large discount.    … Expand
  4. boris_out
    Nov 1, 2020
    6
    Неплохая игра с абсолютно ужасной технической реализацией. Даже спустя столько времени некоторые вещи на починили.
  5. danield80
    Jul 3, 2022
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Vampyr has an original concept of level up system. You either complete side quests or suck people's blood for xp. It's a decision between morality and faster xp gaining. The xp value of one's blood can be increased by finding clues about them and by doing the mission they give you. Although some of the personal stories are interesting, the only outcome of a character's development (there are 66 characters) is death by bloodsuck or death pending. There aren't really any other resolutions but the two mentioned earlier. The side characters are simply xp storages waiting to be claimed.

    Combat is clunky at first but can be mastered quickly and be then enjoyable and fair. However, most of the gameplay is hours of mostly boring dialogues presented with monotonous voice and little to none facial animations which are seen through fixated camera view. And no, you can't hammer x because it would skip all the lines of speaker A until speaker B says something and not just one line of subtitles.

    The game is 4 years old and optimization is abominable. The game regularly hardlocks and crashes.

    Between the two main characters, there is a romance which is so forced and therefore cringe. It goes from no indication at all (not even in optional dialogues) to "you're the only a woman I've ever loved" after one 20-minute long dialogue session. And then the romance revolves around the story until the end of it. I can't recall anything so fast-forward like this. Maybe "romances" in Mafia (2002) or Metro Last Light but those are rather for a sex scene and are more irrelevant to the story. Not such great effusions.

    On the top of that, the game is brimming with woke schütt. People using "independent woman" unironically, screaming feminist/marxist slogans at night. The game sometimes lets you pick one of three answers on a question but when you catch some gays doing gay things, the only thing you can say is "I support gays" or "I support gays very much" or "damn bigots!" Same with religion related questions, you can just hate Christianity but you can choose how much (not to mention every Christian is depicted as a molester or a complete lunatic).
    There were like just over a hundred Africans in London in the early 20th century, yet you meet 4 of them and all of them whine about oppression. Historically accurate.    … Expand
  6. DelvooD
    Jun 6, 2018
    6
    In the process of the game, the question arose - what for she is exist?
    Minuses:
    1. A simulator of a doctor, not a vampire. It is necessary to treat a lot of NPCs and run between them every new day = routine. 2. Most of the time you need to read / listen to quests. And they are cliched and uninteresting. A lot of water in the texts. 3. The characters are inexpressive. Do not cause a    In the process of the game, the question arose - what for she is exist?
    Minuses:
    1. A simulator of a doctor, not a vampire. It is necessary to treat a lot of NPCs and run between them every new day = routine.
    2. Most of the time you need to read / listen to quests. And they are cliched and uninteresting. A lot of water in the texts.
    3. The characters are inexpressive. Do not cause a desire to remember them and listen to their stories. How did this come about in the authors of the game "Life is Strange"? - a riddle.

    Pros:
    1. I really liked the atmosphere.
    2. The game is beautifully drawn. Good color scale and overall style.    … Expand
  7. GamerJosh0137
    Jun 8, 2018
    7
    For the first time in a long time Vampyr is almost exactly what I expected. A good enough RPG that does just the bare minimum to keep you chugging along until the next big release. Vampyr does nothing fantastic but it doesn't do anything horribly wrong. Vampyr's ultimate weak point, imo is the combat. Seeing gameplay previews before release, the combat looked relatively precise andFor the first time in a long time Vampyr is almost exactly what I expected. A good enough RPG that does just the bare minimum to keep you chugging along until the next big release. Vampyr does nothing fantastic but it doesn't do anything horribly wrong. Vampyr's ultimate weak point, imo is the combat. Seeing gameplay previews before release, the combat looked relatively precise and deliberate. After playing though I found it not so precise and not at all deliberate. I felt like someone with a severe lack of depth perception. Being mostly melee, most of the combat is close up and personal, but whenever Jonathan (the protagonist) seems close enough to attack he actually isn't at all which leads to a lot of misses. The same can be said for enemies though. It seems the NPCs have the same lack of depth perception than you. When I found myself making mistakes that left me wide open for an attack the enemy would get within striking distance and miss completely. The good news is it makes the game easier. The bad news is it makes the game easier. Imo, this is what turns what could be great combat into very sloppy combat. When enemies miss more than half the time it makes combat feel more tedious and boring. Don't get me wrong, I kinda make that sound worse than it is because its not awful by any stretch, it's just not great. That is probably what I found to be the worst part of the game. Everything else though, the feeding mechanic, looting and dialogue are all good enough to pick up the lack of exciting combat pretty well. I would go more in depth with the feeding mechanic but I don't think I can articulate without giving too much away. All in all I did enjoy my time with Vampyr but if I were speaking to a friend I would suggest waiting for a used copy or a price drop.… Expand
  8. mrvertigo89
    Jun 7, 2018
    7
    This is a game I really, really wanted to like, and I decided to buy it even after the mediocre reviews. i don't regret that decision, but it is a game with great ideas that are often poorly executed, or just under-resourced.

    Vampyr delivers a really atmospheric world, albeit with a fairly predictable mission of discovering the cause of your vampirism and what it means. London is    This is a game I really, really wanted to like, and I decided to buy it even after the mediocre reviews. i don't regret that decision, but it is a game with great ideas that are often poorly executed, or just under-resourced.

    Vampyr delivers a really atmospheric world, albeit with a fairly predictable mission of discovering the cause of your vampirism and what it means. London is rendered in a fantastic macabre way and the ravages of the Spanish Flu have left it sparse, making interactions with individuals feel fairly weighty and meaningful. The real issue undermining the world itself is the incredible amount of locked doors and the lack of intuition. Although I'm not expecting BoTW levels of freedom, if I can teleport 20 feet in the air I expect to be able to climb over a crate half my height.

    Where the game really shines is in the conversations, which are interesting and it's fun to explore the depths of each character. They can be a touch immersion breaking when you don't follow the most natural order - for example, after a character reacts to you in fear, you can ask some generic questions about the location and their job, exploring all the dialogue fully before saying 'don't be afraid'.

    The only other thing I'd mention, and this is more for the developers than anyone else, is that it's really not great if you don't have perfect eyesight, or in my case, if you play on a 30" TV. While there is an option to make the subtitles as big as 'medium' (why no large I have no idea), the flavour text in notes is near illegible, while the names of ingredients in recipes is so small I have to either walk up to my tv or google it on my phone. A minor complaint maybe, but a bit of a microcosm for how the game has good ideas but fails to follow.

    7/10 wouldn't play again but enjoyed completing it.    … Expand
  9. zouali
    Nov 1, 2018
    7
    very nice game and interesting game, good game over all, combat not the best but i can get past it, it have a good
  10. jcolin
    Jun 14, 2018
    7
    This game was really fun. The characters are really interesting and learning about them through various means was a blast. The atmosphere was great and the guilty vampire theme worked great with the main character and the story. I'd give it an 8 if it weren't for the terrible performance issues on the ps4. I don't know if it runs better on a more powerful PC, but the loading screens areThis game was really fun. The characters are really interesting and learning about them through various means was a blast. The atmosphere was great and the guilty vampire theme worked great with the main character and the story. I'd give it an 8 if it weren't for the terrible performance issues on the ps4. I don't know if it runs better on a more powerful PC, but the loading screens are hideously long and if you sprint across the map a loading message pops up because it couldn't load the textures of the next area fast enough. Aside from that, several things keep this from being a legendary game. If every idea and mechanic just had one additional layer of complexity it would have been amazing. Combat would have benefit from a greater variety of weapons and upgrades as well as skill upgrades. The ability to influence a civilian is the most obvious thing lacking. You learn all about their problems but you cannot convince them to do anything about it. If they hate london, you can't convince them to leave. If they're a hopeless drunk, you can't inspire them to get their life together. All you can do is either eat them, or not eat them. Similarly, they are missing from any sort of epilogue. The ability to sire one or a couple of citizens would have been badass, even if they could just do simple things, like go out and gather you ingredients or they could be given medicine to heal the sick people in a district. In any case, Vampyr is a pretty fun ride with some unique ideas, I would totally recommend it.… Expand
  11. jinkoku
    Jun 12, 2018
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Excellent Story, bad delivery.
    I won't bore you with all the mundane details that my surrounding colleagues have laid out for you. I will assume by the time you read this little blurb that you already know the premise of the game.
    set in 1918 -
    Jonathan Reid --
    Vampire / Doctor --

    Got it... good. Let's continue.

    I will simply explain what happened to me.
    I bought the game with high expectations of a good bit of entertainment coming my way.
    I started to play, and found my self perplexed and puzzled. The main character has just realized he cannot die and is trying to wrap his head around what he possibly is, but somehow, without any instruction, explanation, or assistance he is able to evolve his vampiric abilities. As I went a little further in the game to the first of many stiff and horrible combat situations, I found that this was not the game for me.
    So like some other colleagues, I tried to take the game back. i soon found that gamestop's return policy was lacking, and sorely I was stuck with a game that did not have the polish i needed in most of the games I have played. This is not something I would have wanted to pay full price for.

    So now I am stuck with a game that no longer want. Someone has to pay!

    I made up in my mind that would play the game, but I would give 'no quarter' to any and all NPC's in my path. I was on a mission to kill and suck dry all humans and vampires alike, and I held true to that statement.

    But something started to happen. I found that I was actually being drawn into the story and wanted to see how it unfolded. However, the game play was the factor that kept taking me out of the immersion I sought.

    Here were some of the issues:
    -Bad targeting.

    -Stiff; repetitive combat.

    -Collision detection issues.

    -Repetitive NPC use (gets pretty bad when you have chaos level districts ) - Same Monster in 1 new skin, and possibly a slightly higher level, but no real difference in the end.

    -Poor Game mechanics - FINGER POINTING -The game seemed to continually remind you when you did something bad, like kill a human character, and it got pretty annoying to see the message every time you made the choice to suck someone dry, But there was NEVER a message to specify letting them live, or helping them out would better help the surrounding area. They give you a choice, but point the finger at you telling you that you have done something bad (and that there would be consequences for what you did), without saying your a bad guy!

    -Poor Item crafting mechanics - Make 3rd to 4th level weapons and never worry - The powers and RPG elements are pretty cut and dry. Since I went on a killing spree, I eventually made it to level 48, and I was pretty powerful with a limited set of powers selected. The item customization was pretty broken. Like the old game RAGE..level up that one weapon (Shotgun w/ explosive rounds in Rage, or the CLUB in Vampyr) and you pretty much WRECK the enemies for the rest of the game. I did not have to rely on my powers, and enemy levels were not a factor as I was pretty OP.

    This, in turn, took away from the story. I was breezing through situations, not giving a care in the world to my very existence. I was the master and didn't care. When you find a loop hole like this in games you tend to not fear death, and thus further disconnect yourself from the true purpose of the game.

    Story wise, I was hooked. The characters in game are nice and complex. They have depth, and that is what the developers hoped you would see and feel. Thus, it would have made it hard for you to suck them dry. I, on the other hand, harbored ill will at both the game, and gamestop, so it was easy to kill every last one of them, though you will need a little strategy to do that task as you could put yourself in a bind if you kill a whole district too fast and you do not have the correct level weapons or powers.

    The ending was confusing, the last boss, was easy to read, and sadly a few more levels than myself, but I had no idea why they were the end boss, and there was no real mention of them until literally at the very end in a cryptic conversation with your maker.
    WHO?
    WHAT?
    HOW?
    These questions come out, but are not answered. It seemed severely rushed and left me scratching my head.
    So we just add a random new boss at the very end with no context? Fine.....

    The epilogue was a kind change. This really intrigued me as I was not ready for a detailed ending such as that.

    I am happy for the story, and sad at the effort it took for me to learn of it. I would have had a better time watching the whole thing play out on someone Youtube channel and saved my $60.00.

    The game is a bargin if you get it used after waiting a month... trust me, that would be the adequate price for it. I have completed my mission and I encourage all to try and kill all the people, you will find some cool twist and turns.    … Expand
  12. MaxDBlack
    Jun 20, 2018
    6
    To be honest, the game just didn't live up to expectations.
    The story and characters are good. I like small half-open world games and Vampyr's world is one of such. But several mechanics and how they are included in game are ruining it.
    First of all it's a combat system. It is no interesting or entertaining in any aspect. And there's much stuff in game that revolves around it. The whole    To be honest, the game just didn't live up to expectations.
    The story and characters are good. I like small half-open world games and Vampyr's world is one of such. But several mechanics and how they are included in game are ruining it.
    First of all it's a combat system. It is no interesting or entertaining in any aspect. And there's much stuff in game that revolves around it. The whole character level up system is made for combat. The beautiful world is inhabited in such manner, that you have to fight ton of monsters every time you travel from one NPC domain to another. It would've been ok if it helped level up, but no! Most of experience you get for completing quests or sucking blood from NPC. Fast travel would've helped, but hey, guess what? No fast travel, well it wouldn't be needed if you could reach NPC locations without having to kill respawning monsters. Oh yeah, and the level up too as you progress. Look at Deus Ex, there's no need to traverse hostile environments to reach certain NPC. The mechanic of characters becoming ill is awesome (although a little repetitive closer to the end of the game), you have to keep them healthy. But every time you have to run through enemy lines. So annoying.
    The other sad thing but no so annoying thing are a lot of empty environment. Sometimes you go into room, or place where you find just few cons, even though place is decorated like there could be something important.
    The game just feels like very cheap indi of 10 years ago, except for the graphics. Animations, controls, combat. It's just not an AAA game at all.    … Expand
  13. Risax
    Jun 19, 2018
    7
    I first got interested in this game when I heard this was a vampire RPG. Sure, the graphics didn't look that great from trailers and all that considering how it is a Double A Game, but Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines is one of my favourite RPGs and its graphics aren't exactly great either.

    Anyway, you start the game being dragged by a pit filled with bodies while a bunch of grave    I first got interested in this game when I heard this was a vampire RPG. Sure, the graphics didn't look that great from trailers and all that considering how it is a Double A Game, but Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines is one of my favourite RPGs and its graphics aren't exactly great either.

    Anyway, you start the game being dragged by a pit filled with bodies while a bunch of grave robbers relieve you of your possessions. This is after hearing a creepy nursery-rhyme from a mysterious voice. As you flee from them, the world is tinged in grey but in the distance you see a human walking around. Or, to be more specific, you see their red blood-filled veins and pumping heart. Acting on instinct Johnathan Reid, our hero, sinks his fangs into the neck of this person and sucks them dry...only too realize too late that it was his sister.

    After this, he gets chased through the streets of London and searches for a place to hide. Especially because the sun is coming up and he feels it burn him. Eventually, he does find a suitable location where he finds a gun, takes it and places it against his chest as he lies down on the bed. But even as he pulls the trigger, he still awakens the next morning.

    As you probably could have guessed, even before actually starting the game, Johnathan is now a Vampire.

    What follows is an interesting tale of Johnathan learning more about his condition, and others like him, as well as trying to figure out WHO exactly made him this way. Not only that, but there is an epidemic raging through London as well. The Spanish Flu. Only, it isn't like any flu anyone's heard of before.

    Personally, I thought Vampyr had a strong and interesting main storyline and their spin on Vampire lore was a lot of fun as well. Another strong point, which I hope more games will use from now on, was learning more about the NPCs. In Vampyr, you need to learn certain hints about NPCs as it strengthens their blood and thus give you more EXP when you finally decide to suck them dry. You can learn these hints through conversing with them, conversing with other NPCS, eavesdropping on them during certain events or by reading journals or letters. Barring the last options, I don't think I've seen a lot of games handling acquiring information this way. In a lot of cases you just find written or recorded journals were you'll get an info dump about the world or a character, or you have to build up a characters trust or whatever by speaking to them multiple times or selecting the correct dialogue option. (That is still a thing, by the way. You can lose a Hint by not picking the correct one.)

    But as much as I might have liked Vampyr's main story, their lore, the way you aquire information and even the atmosphere in London. It is not a perfect game, even if you keep in mind that it is a Double A Game.

    On PS4 loading screens would pop up randomly as you move through the city, which could be quite immersion breaking. Fighting is...kind of dull. Some of the boss fights were cool, but fighting the same mobs over and over as you walk through the city gets boring FAST. Not only that, but I think I went with the same strategy for most of the game. Use a combination of blood powers and melee attacks, stun with stake to suck blood. Rinse and repeat. There is also no fast travel, which is a minor annoyance because you CAN unlock gates and stuff for shortcuts. But like I said, you have to go through a fight in nearly every street. Although intentional, the fact that you can only use one save slot which saves automatically can be pretty annoying if you just want to save and check all the options you get during certain parts of the game. Though I guess it will encourage multiple playthroughs. Finally, although there are loads of important NPCS that all look unique. When it comes to their models and voice acting, you can tell that the most effort has been put in the main characters, the villains and the pillars.

    My final verdict for the game would be a 7/7.5. Definitely a game to check out sometime. But it would probably be best to wait for a sale.    … Expand
  14. Professorfett
    Jun 24, 2018
    7
    Have you ever wanted to be a creature of the night? How about stalking your prey before you much on their sweet neck juice? Maybe you've wanted to be a immortal badass who can kill without remorse because not only is it easy, but it's fun? If you answered yes to any of these you need help, and Vampyr is the game for you. Vampyr you play Dr. Jonathan Reid a recently turned Vampyr who isHave you ever wanted to be a creature of the night? How about stalking your prey before you much on their sweet neck juice? Maybe you've wanted to be a immortal badass who can kill without remorse because not only is it easy, but it's fun? If you answered yes to any of these you need help, and Vampyr is the game for you. Vampyr you play Dr. Jonathan Reid a recently turned Vampyr who is trying to find his maker.
    The story may sound simple, and it is, but for this game I didn't need something super gothic or Shakespearean. The games story lets you follow the type of characters you'd expect to see. They have a man of science trying to cure vampirism, the femme fatale who your character falls in love with even though they barely even speak, and the old vampire club that have been around for centuries that pull the cities strings. The game story has you make choices on certain characters that for the most part don't seem to matter. I was so evil in this game, but everytime he is in a cutscene Jon acts like I didn't just kill 7 innocent people. He acts all righteous and then I murder the hell out of whoever I am talking to. Unfortunately the games ending is a bit lack luster, and I had me thinking that's it?
    The gameplay is rather interesting. Unlike other choiced based games that punish you for going evil Vampyr will reward your dickhole ways. The game gets easier the more innocents you murder. Me personally I loved the way you can seduce your prey into following you then having a late night snack. The game plays very similar to the Witcher series with how combat is concerned. Special abilities are on a cooldown, and require blood. You can stun foes with certain attack. It has a minimal crafting and upgrade system that will reward your combat skills and make the game easier. The enemies vary enough so you don't get tired of hitting the same four types over and over. The boss fights are very much patterned based with how you must time and dodge their attacks and wait for the right moment to get your licks in. The game will be easier if you kill people because you can level up more which means you can brute force your way through the fights. So if you want a hard game be the nicest vampire you can be and resist the temptation. What did annoy me is the setting. While Victorian England is nice it is so easy to get turned around when everything looks the same. Soooooo many doors where locked from the otherside it got annoying after awhile.
    Overall I liked the game and see myself going back to it a while from now to do more side quest, and maybe get the stories ending a bit better. I liked the kills and combat, but thought the character should fit the choices a bit more especially if you go full on villain. The game isn't perfect but well worth owning at a discount. I definitely think one should BARGAIN BIN this game.    … Expand
  15. pixelpassion
    Jun 5, 2018
    5
    (Verdict) :Wait for a sale, flawed execution, combat is flawed, technical problems ( PS4 Pro) graphics can pass as 360-PS3. One thing I though over and over is I wish a more talented developer had the chance to make this game...not a good sign...
  16. NightbreakerEX
    Jun 6, 2018
    5
    1.I play for about 20 hours and i have to say the truth the game has to many glitches Loading screen evey 10 to 5 min and sometimes just crash so u have to resart ur ps4 and xbox one and pc it runs well on 1050 ti and i core 5 precessor but the same happens it dies randomly at some parts and

    2.The Game is pretty Linear it may look like its big but 35 hours on pc and its still not that    1.I play for about 20 hours and i have to say the truth the game has to many glitches Loading screen evey 10 to 5 min and sometimes just crash so u have to resart ur ps4 and xbox one and pc it runs well on 1050 ti and i core 5 precessor but the same happens it dies randomly at some parts and

    2.The Game is pretty Linear it may look like its big but 35 hours on pc and its still not that much to explore .There is no armor for u character and only thing that can be upgraded is weapons and skills as u evolve and the only good thing is the skill tree but even that is pretty much low becuse ther like 8 skills that u used and 6 or so passives that u upgrade so no much building a powerful character when u can just max it all.

    3.Voice acting is no just bad the mouth dont even move when he talks and the acting is like watching a b movie pretty sad as i was pretty hype for this game and even pre orderd it 4 month ago pretty sad seeing a good genre that is not used much to be this bad.

    and my last if u wanna play a good vampire game i got 4 here Blood Rayne and Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines and soul reaver and Legacy of Kain get any of these over vampyr    … Expand
  17. Damocles
    Jun 10, 2018
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game is mediocre. Combat is clunky. The dialogue is ok then trends towards SJW commentary and becomes unbearably painful. You end up just clicking through it to get it over with as fast as possible. Its too bad really. You end up really not caring about characters because their story about their "gay lover" and life was hard in trench warfare...... but man those bigots are worse. Or I just murdered this guy cause he was actually "racist" so its not that bad, or I was sexually abused by a priest... Cheap cliche SWJ writing ultimately detracts from a chance for compelling original story... A wasted opportunity wait for it to be on sale.… Expand
  18. SWERY_51
    Jun 11, 2018
    6
    Pros :
    + London with it's awesome dark atmosphere
    + About 60 unique NPCs with their own stories and quests + Wonderful soundtrack by Olivier Derrivière + You are a vampire (and a physician), you decide who is gonna live or not + Appealing story with interesting dialogues + Combat system is nice with a lot of cool skills to unlock + At least 30 hours long if you want to see    Pros :
    + London with it's awesome dark atmosphere
    + About 60 unique NPCs with their own stories and quests
    + Wonderful soundtrack by Olivier Derrivière
    + You are a vampire (and a physician), you decide who is gonna live or not
    + Appealing story with interesting dialogues
    + Combat system is nice with a lot of cool skills to unlock
    + At least 30 hours long if you want to see everything

    Cons :
    - Frame rate on PS4 Pro is a shame
    - Jonathan Reid's face looks like crap
    - Animations are 2 generations late
    - Level design is good, but it's hell to navigate between the different districts
    - Seriously, the frame rate is so terrible that the game is barely playable...

    (If one day a patch fix this horrible framerate issue, then add 2 points to this review)    … Expand
  19. Spaguetti
    Jun 7, 2018
    5
    In my opinion the game has a very poor gameplay, with a boring and repetitive combat system, the graphics are well-worn after uncharted 4 or final fantasy XV. History is the end point of the game, I have not finished yet to see if is good or bad.
  20. xeis
    Aug 27, 2019
    6
    Just a bit slow, combat is nice, skills are nice, but load times and the amount of talking required is a little off putting. Got it on sale for £25 and feel I got value, but so much talking I didn't finish it.
  21. Reed618
    Aug 7, 2018
    7
    I really went in hoping to love this game and for most of it I did. My two main issues though were first of all, the sense that my choices didn't really matter. Sometimes the dialogue wheel would offer me three options which were essentially the same because the game was funnelling me in a certain direction. My second main issue was with the combat system and the difficulty. I didn't enjoyI really went in hoping to love this game and for most of it I did. My two main issues though were first of all, the sense that my choices didn't really matter. Sometimes the dialogue wheel would offer me three options which were essentially the same because the game was funnelling me in a certain direction. My second main issue was with the combat system and the difficulty. I didn't enjoy the combat very much especially in the later stages of the game when the difficulty starts to ramp up but I did like being overpowered. So I decided to devour everyone and roleplay as an evil vampire. It was going great until the final boss... who is more difficult the higher your level... so at my stage it's next to impossible for me to win. If the combat system was better I'd stick with it and beat the game but it's not enjoyable enough for that. Also i'm quite annoyed that the promised 'you decide the difficulty' line turns out to be highly misleading.
    There are really fantastic things about this game. I loved the art style, the layout of the city, the npcs who have really excellent and well written dialogues. The initial sense of guilt for even considering drinking someone's blood. It was all going so well until I reached the later stages of the game and all of that promise came to naught. I really respect the developer's for taking a risk and introducing such an innovative gameplay idea in the form of drinking blood to level up while risking the safety of other inhabitants but these missteps left a real sour taste so it has to be a 7 from me.    … Expand
  22. nandika
    Sep 7, 2018
    6
    Almost-good atmosphere, middle tier graphics (considering the age of XoneX and PS4 Pro). The very bad voice acting and the all-too-familar story made me ditch it after a couple of levels/hours.
  23. StyxWitcher
    Apr 21, 2019
    7
    #Vampyr #RPG #action
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    Отправился в поход на четыре дня в "Vampyr" , разработчики даровали мне карту, каждый уголочек известен, полезная информация. Обнаружен мною игровой нюанс заключающий в себе закрытые районы... для исчезновения нюанса потребуется лишь выполнять основные задания обозначающие красным цветом буквой "Y". Я отыгрывал роль аморального    #Vampyr #RPG #action
    https://vk.com/adventurestocollapse
    Отправился в поход на четыре дня в "Vampyr" , разработчики даровали мне карту, каждый уголочек известен, полезная информация. Обнаружен мною игровой нюанс заключающий в себе закрытые районы... для исчезновения нюанса потребуется лишь выполнять основные задания обозначающие красным цветом буквой "Y".
    Я отыгрывал роль аморального вампира доктора, пытаясь досконально найти все подсказки которые выдаются через общения а так же через нахождения предметов, писем, записок... далее в моем случае изготавливаем лекарства для людей и вручаем заболевшему, потом гипнотизируем , отводим закоулок и вкушаем кровную амброзию для получения большего опыта. Убивая людей вы так же открываете подсказки, но не все, я не раскрыл некоторых людей досконально, но мне хватило опыта до максимального уровня ПЯТИДЕСЯТОГО, и еще осталось пять тысяч опыта. Сила Гипноза повышается после выполнения основных заданий, c помощью него можно объять людей которые не поддаются начальному гипнозу. Аморальность зашкаливает, последствия в действии и результат печальный... спас Англию от Алой королевы, ценой объятия в которой остались лишь Джеффри Маккаллум, Лорд Рейдгрев, Старая Бриджет, Шон Хэмптон, Доктор Эдгар Суонси, двоих я обратил в вампиров, священника-нежить исцелил с помощью своей крови которого изнасиловали те кем он стал и вера в Бога не угасла, стала еще крепче, остальные убиты мною, ибо так игру пройти проще и имеем иную концовку в которой моя любовь Элизабет Эшбери сожгла себя дабы предотвратить эпидемию, ее кровь разнесла инфекцию по всем районам, так как Доктор Эдгар Суонси перелил кровь Элизабет Эшбери вампира в пациента ... а Доктор Эдгар Суонси и Элизабет Эшбери знакомы друг c другом. Кровь Элизабет Эшбери породила мутировавших женских скалей , низший тип вампиров. Эпидемия разрослась а я ее усилил путем объятия, районы не пригодны для жизни людей. Убита Алая Королева ... детей рожденную тьмой... "До следующей встречи" ... оттянул время до коллапса, ибо голод ее вечен и она снова пробудиться.

    - Я советую пройти данную игру.
    - Покупать иль нет? Решать вам.
    - Я ищущий путь пиратский, во мне нет потребностей покупать то что могу использовать бесплатно.
    Оценка: 7 из 10.
    Жанр: Action/RPG
    Платформы: Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4
    Режим: Однопользовательская игра
    Разработчик: Dontnod Entertainment
    Музыка: Оливье Деривьер    … Expand
  24. bhelix
    Mar 19, 2019
    6
    Ok, so whether you are going to like this game or not will depend in the expectations and the idea you have around it. This is not a vampire action RPG, this is a heavily story driven RPG, where combat is one of the least important aspects of the game, one of the worst as well. However, the story and the atmosphere are super good, really, the eerie and creepy feeling all around the game,Ok, so whether you are going to like this game or not will depend in the expectations and the idea you have around it. This is not a vampire action RPG, this is a heavily story driven RPG, where combat is one of the least important aspects of the game, one of the worst as well. However, the story and the atmosphere are super good, really, the eerie and creepy feeling all around the game, sometimes even scary, is amazing and perfectly built and you never get tired of investigating and knowing more about the NPCs because the stories are very well written.
    You also have basic looting and crafting and a bunch of abilities you can unlock as a part of the character’s progression. Some are cool, some others are useless and completely forgettable, but all in all it is an average towards good progression system.
    Kind of a mixed bag so far, right?
    When this game really shines is in terms of choices and consequences, and atmosphere as I mentioned before. You are going to have some tough time making some of the decisions here (if you care about that stuff of course). There will be even times when your intentions are good, and some very nasty unexpected things happen after some of your choices (sometimes I found a bit of unfairness there). But that is really the soul of this game, you need to choose very carefully how you proceed with every NPC as they have their own lives and will impact others if something may happen to them.
    The game is definitely worth it, just know what you are getting in to, the pace is slow and is not action driven. But if you are into this type of games, you are going to like it.
    I am 8 to 10 hours into it and I am really enjoying the time spent so far.
    Also, there is a great and original concept behind it and that is something I always appreciate.

    [Edit after finishing the game]: The end is really boring and long and the final boos fight is lazy, absurdly simple and generic. I would have really appreciate a fast travel in the game, as you spend way too much time walking around the map. Also, the enemies respawning in the same corners every time just gets really annoying.
    Overall downgrading it to a 6.    … Expand
  25. Kaden101
    Sep 9, 2018
    5
    I really wanted to like this game. I did actually like this game, up to a point. The setting, the story, & the characters are all good.

    It's the game mechanics & bugs that let it down (on PS4 Pro v 1.06). It ran okay at the beginning, but the longer I played it, the more the little quality of life (or lack thereof) bugged the hell out me. Long load times & random loading pauses while    I really wanted to like this game. I did actually like this game, up to a point. The setting, the story, & the characters are all good.

    It's the game mechanics & bugs that let it down (on PS4 Pro v 1.06). It ran okay at the beginning, but the longer I played it, the more the little quality of life (or lack thereof) bugged the hell out me.

    Long load times & random loading pauses while just wandering around, especially if you decide to change direction quickly. The random ones aren't too bad as they're short, but there's doors that load into new areas that have long loading screens. Unfortunately, they are marked exactly the same as the doors that don't lead to a new area & have no loading times, so if you click on the wrong door, you have to watch a red bar on a black screen doing nothing, & then again to get back where you were.

    Controls don't react for a while after un-pausing the game. If you paused it in the middle of a fight, hope you get lucky.

    Controls in a fight don't always work at all. The main 2 attacks & dodge always work, but the specials are a bit hit & miss. I've sat hammering L1 for heal 10 times, & nothing happens. If it was the cooldown timer that would be fine, but it's not. Multiple event one shot cheap deaths immediately after a long loading screen because the controls aren't responding is not cool.

    If you get a trophy & press the PS button to see it, when you go back to the game, it's quite often frozen up, especially on cutscenes which can turn into a 1 frame per minute slideshow.

    It sometimes crashes on the loading screens, but as the red bar takes so long to initally move, you can't always tell for a while.

    If the mechanics were solid, I would really like this game, but the frustration by the beginning of the final chapter have made me put it down, & I won't finish it. Pity    … Expand
  26. otakon17
    Jul 15, 2018
    7
    First the good: Presentation and characterization with consequences for your actions are very well done. The voice work and NPCs are pretty fleshed out and the explorable parts of London you have access to are nice and gritty. The story and take on vampire lore in game is also a good twist..
    Now, the bad: The combat is mediocre at best. It uses a semi-Dark Souls like system of locking on    First the good: Presentation and characterization with consequences for your actions are very well done. The voice work and NPCs are pretty fleshed out and the explorable parts of London you have access to are nice and gritty. The story and take on vampire lore in game is also a good twist..
    Now, the bad: The combat is mediocre at best. It uses a semi-Dark Souls like system of locking on and a stamina meter for keeping you from spamming attacks on enemies. You have a limited amount of Vampire powers to use against a fairly small amount of enemies but the biggest issue comes from if you want to NOT use the games touted feature of feeding on NPCs to give yourself XP. The XP amounts you get from combat and even quest is a piddling amount compared to what you get if you drain an NPC you got to know and did a sidequest for, but the consequences for draining NPCs can be unknown at the time you make them, and usually blow up in your face without fail at a later time in the game no matter how scummy the NPC you drain.
    Still there hasn't been an RPG vampire centric game in ages so it's still good in that regard.    … Expand
  27. actionist83
    Jun 16, 2020
    7
    PROS:
    Story, concept, enemies, tough choices, dialogue, upgrades, blood!

    MIXED:
    Combat, character movement, graphics.

    CONS:
    The worlds design, graphics, sewers!

    I enjoyed my time with Vampyr; despite it feeling outdated and not quite finished. It “sucked” me in.

    7.5/10.
  28. Steyraus
    Sep 26, 2019
    5
    This Game is BOORRRIING.. really boring, walk around talk to bored sounding people figuring out uninteresting things, following a boring story full off boring characters. Occasionally fight with the stiff copy paste Soulslike combat, leveling a pointless skill tree, or skill branch!, it that limited. The game runs choppy , the visuals are bland and ugly, I know they are going for anThis Game is BOORRRIING.. really boring, walk around talk to bored sounding people figuring out uninteresting things, following a boring story full off boring characters. Occasionally fight with the stiff copy paste Soulslike combat, leveling a pointless skill tree, or skill branch!, it that limited. The game runs choppy , the visuals are bland and ugly, I know they are going for an atmosphere but they failed, the world is just lifeless and muddy. NPCs facial animations and stuck in last gen.. Its just a slog to play,, if your brain is on life support and dosent need any sort of stimulation, you might like this game.. I am sure there are some hardcore Vamp freaks out there that will love anything vampire themed. But if you a normal person pass on this.… Expand
  29. rdonoso
    Jul 23, 2019
    5
    Bugs. A lot of bugs. It’s very rare to see a game crashing the ps4 but this game does it A LOT. This comes alongside outdated graphics and shadows, a shame that such a good story looks like a ps3 game.
  30. jimmylittle007
    Jun 20, 2020
    6
    Great storyline and the world design is convincing. The combat isn't great, and seems unresponsive at times, but once you get the hang of it it does the job well enough. Desperately needs a fast travel system and a better map design, getting around is both long and difficult. At times the game is a chore to play, which is a shame as it has some great characters and stories. Worth gettingGreat storyline and the world design is convincing. The combat isn't great, and seems unresponsive at times, but once you get the hang of it it does the job well enough. Desperately needs a fast travel system and a better map design, getting around is both long and difficult. At times the game is a chore to play, which is a shame as it has some great characters and stories. Worth getting at a discount for sure, but lacks the polish of a AAA title.… Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 67 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 67
  2. Mixed: 29 out of 67
  3. Negative: 4 out of 67
  1. Gamers Heroes
    Aug 26, 2018
    60
    Vampyr is a collection of wonderful ideas held back by a limited budget and a dated engine.
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  2. RPGamer
    Aug 17, 2018
    70
    For those looking for a unique, dread-filled experience in the RPG realm, Vampyr offers a type of game seldom seen. But much like the streets of 1918 London, expect a few bumps along the way.
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  3. CD-Action
    Aug 2, 2018
    85
    Vampyr is unique. It’s not beautiful, its combat leaves much to be desired and its limited budget shows, but if you choose to turn a blind eye to these flaws, it will captivate you with its mature, morally ambiguous story and a series of dilemmas that usually lack a “right” answer. [07/2018, p.60]
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