Vampire the masquerade bloodlines histories

#Vampire the masquerade bloodlines histories series#

The games are developed by Choice of Games in collaboration with Paradox Interactive, the owner of the World of Darkness series, and are based on the fifth edition of the tabletop role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade. The games are based on the fifth edition of the tabletop role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade.

Sins of the Sires follows a vampire in Athens, Greece, where the ancient vampire Aristovoros is rumored to have plans to subjugate humans and rule over them as a god.

Parliament of Knives follows a vampire in Ottawa, Canada following a coup that has destabilized local vampire politics: the Ottawa Camarilla's prince is missing, and his second-in-command, the protagonist's sire, is suspected.

Out for Blood follows a suburban vampire hunter, who tries to protect their town from the hundred-year-old vampire Chastain, and gets drawn into a feud between her and younger vampires.

The courier is based in Tucson, Arizona, and visits cities including Fort Worth, Dallas, and Phoenix, as well as desert ruins and an abandoned research facility used by the vampire clan Tremere in the 1970s.

Night Road follows an elite Camarilla courier driving across the Southwestern United States to deliver vampire elders' secrets, meeting several vampires of different clan and social status in the process.

In Parliament of Knives, the player has to watch out for other vampires who are trying to gain power in doing so they can choose to support or betray their character's sire, ally with another vampire faction, work independently, or sabotage local politics.

Depending on player choices, the protagonist can become a vampire. In Out for Blood, the player can choose to ally with one vampiric side, try to play the sides against each other, or fight against both. As the player completes jobs, they gain money, which can be used to buy cars with different speed, acceleration, and handling statistics the player can also tune their car throughout the game. The protagonist has affinities for different disciplines depending on which of the five vampire clans Ventrue, Toreador, Brujah, Gangrel, and Banu Haqim the player chooses to belong to disciplines include magical, mental, and physical ones. In Night Road, the player uses their vampiric powers ('disciplines') with the goal of staying ahead of pursuers. The player characters are created and customized by the player, including choosing their attributes, gender (non-binary, male, or female), and sexuality (bi, gay, or straight) Sins of the Sires additionally lets the player choose to be asexual, and to choose between androgyny, femininity, and masculinity. Vampire: The Masquerade вЂ“ Night Road, Out for Blood, Parliament of Knives, and Sins of the Sires are text-based interactive fiction video games where the player makes choices that affect the direction of the plot, resulting in one of several endings these include both main endings and failure states. The player makes choices in text-based gameplay, affecting the direction of the plot. The writers differed in how they chose to adapt the tabletop game: Marquis adhered closely to the source material, while Dean adapted game mechanics more loosely.

#Vampire the masquerade bloodlines histories series#

In Night Road, the player takes the role of a courier delivering secrets for vampire elders in the Southwestern United States in Out for Blood, a vampire hunter who protects their town in Parliament of Knives, a vampire navigating vampire politics following a coup in Ottawa, Canada and in Sins of the Sires, a vampire in Athens, Greece, where an ancient vampire is rumored to plan to rule over humans as a god.Д¬hoice of Games approached Paradox Interactive, the owner of the World of Darkness series, to pitch a video game adaptation as they considered the series and its Storyteller System foundation to match up well with Choice of Games' design philosophies of game mechanics used to support rather than dominate stories. The games are text-based, and involve the player creating and customizing a character, and making choices that affect the direction of the plot. They are developed by Choice of Games for Android, iOS, Linux, MacOS, Microsoft Windows, and web browsers, and include Night Road (2020) by Kyle Marquis, Out for Blood (2021) by Jim Dattilo, Parliament of Knives (2021) by Jeffrey Dean, and the upcoming Sins of the Sires (2022) by Natalia Theodoridou. Vampire: The Masquerade is a line of interactive fiction video games based on the tabletop game of the same name, and is part of the World of Darkness series.