Vampire the masquerade werewolf series#

These aggressive, wild themesВ necessitate a more action-packed style of RPG gameplay: a third-person perspective that lets players brawl and smash their way through armies of foes.

Their battlefield is where industrial civilization encroaches on nature, their goal to tear the throats from the 'Wyrm-spawn' seeking to destroy Gaia. In contrast, the werewolves of Werewolf: The Apocalypse вЂ“Earthblood have a much different set of priorities. The gameplay of BloodlinesВ offers mechanics and powers that facilitate this specific challenge. To dodge theВ torch-and-pitchfork mobs, they must drink blood from isolated victims,В talk their way through challenges, and avoid revealing their true nature to others. The 2004 Vampire: The Masquerade вЂ“ BloodlinesВ and its upcoming sequel, Bloodlines 2В take place in urban environments where players must tread carefully in the first-person perspective. The Nature of Vampires and Werewolves Influences Gameplay Its werewolf protagonists, the Garou, embodied the activist anger of youth, furious at the destruction of the earth and theВ human race that wasn't doing anythingВ to stop it.В Just as Troika Studios drew on Gothic-Punk themes when making Vampire: The Masquerade вЂ“ Bloodlines, so has Cyanide Studios invoked these themes ofВ frustrated anger when creatingВ the action-focused gameplay of Werewolf: The Apocalypse вЂ“ Earthblood. Werewolf: The Apocalypse, in contrast, tapped into grungy punk themes. Related: The Vampire Diaries Universe: Top 10 Love Triangles Vampire: The Masquerade, unsurprisingly, had themes tied toВ Goth subculture, with musings on the omnipresence of death and the moral compromises people make to survive. Both games innovated by putting players in the shoes of monsters rather than the heroes who slew them and both tapped intoВ strong cultural zeitgeists. While the gameplay of VtM - BВ deals withВ vampires navigating murky urban politics and manipulating societies, Werewolf: The Apocalypse вЂ“ EarthbloodВ will be a more primal, angry story about the shapeshifting champions of Gaia and theirВ bloody war against the spiritual and material forces polluting the planet.Д«oth the Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse franchises started out as tabletop roleplaying games released by White Wolf Studios in the early nineties.

Vampire the masquerade werewolf series#

Set in the same universe as the upcoming Vampire: The Masquerade вЂ“ Bloodlines 2, the under-development Werewolf: The Apocalypse вЂ“ EarthbloodВ will explore similar themes to its sister series whileВ focusing on more aggressive, action-focused gameplay.