Skyrim complete conversion mod Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption Reawakened simply acquired an up to date have a look at its modern-day portion, with a 10-minute video showcasing London within the yr 2000, in addition to how the group’s managed to get firearms working fairly effectively within the battered warhorse that’s Bethesda’s seminal 2011 RPG.
The unique Redemption preceded its a lot better-known (and extra beloved) CRPG sibling, VTM – Bloodlines, by a superb 4 years. It has a implausible premise and environment, with half the sport happening within the late center ages, whereas the second half sees vampire knight Christof as a fish out of water in flip of the millennium London and New York. Sadly, it falls sufferer to possibly each one of many worst developments of late ’90s, early ’00s RPGs, like Sideshow Bob stepping right into a sea of rakes.
You had a full occasion with no tactical pausing or direct management of your companions, leading to that sort of janky, mushy RPG fight the place a myriad of obtuse stats are what actually decide the result of fights—mainly it is simply the type of recreation the place a severe overhaul remaster may be very welcome.
We have beforehand reported on Redemption Reawakened’s medieval portion, however that is the primary good luck of the trendy day we have gotten in a scorching minute. The primary little bit of the video reveals Christoff taking pictures his means out of a vampire hunter facility—it is not probably the most thrilling of dungeons, however the RR group’s litter recreation is actually on-point, populating this workplace with all the various physics bits and boobahs that I crave in a first-person RPG. No Skyrim conversion can ever absolutely eliminate the stink of Skyrim, however the group nonetheless pulled off a plausible, tactile surroundings in a totally completely different artwork type to the bottom recreation.
And the gunplay appears to be like fairly good too—it is arduous to inform with out feeling it within the hand, however the first-person animations look higher and extra plausible to my eye than what we noticed in Skyrim’s modern first-person RPGs like Fallout 3, New Vegas, or certainly, Vampire Bloodlines. I am curious to see the place the group goes with the third particular person animations although—proper now the cops and vampire hunters Christof fights are holding their weapons roughly like swords.
The demo sequence actually comes alive when Christof goes topside although. Redemption Reawakened’s city zones have that very same noirish vibe that I cherish from Bloodlines, and that is one space of the venture that actually blew my expectations of a Skyrim mod out of the water: London appears to be like like a contemporary metropolis, and never an absurd Skyrim approximation of 1. The showcase additionally incorporates a preview of a GTA-style police response system, with Christof shotgunning some beat cops, scary a SWAT tactical response, full with a helicopter dropping off riot shield-toting elites.
Progress continues apace on this severely spectacular mod, and I am unable to wait to play it, although it presently has no set launch window. To maintain up with progress on Redemption Reawakened, you may comply with venture lead Galejro on Twitter or YouTube.
