History VideoGame / BloodRayne

* GameMod: Besides the nude ones, there's a fan-made [[UsefulNotes/HighDefinition HD]] mod for the second game's PC version that enhances the textures with high-resolution ones, as well as allow the game to run on resolutions higher than the default ones. It also features a lot of pictures of Kristanna Loken as [[Film/BloodRayne Rayne]] replacing many photos and painting in the game, for some reason.

{{Updated Re|release}}-releases of ''[=BloodRayne=]'' and ''[=BloodRayne=] 2'' (allowing them to run on modern systems without requiring fan mods) were announced at the end of 2020 by Ziggurat Interactive, the franchises' current owners, and was released on November 20, 2020; these versions are called the "Terminal Cut". A [=PlayStation=] 4, Xbox One, and Switch port of the Terminal Cut re-release of the first two games, dubbed "[=ReVamped=]", will be released in Fall 2021. A 4K remastered version of ''[=BloodRayne=]: Betrayal'' was announced during UsefulNotes/{{E|lectronicEntertainmentExpo}}3 2021, featuring full voice-acting with the series' original cast reprising their role for this remaster, and a new rebalanced difficulty mode while keeping brutal challenge of the original as an option; this version, dubbed "Fresh Bites", was released on September 9, 2021 for [=PlayStation=] 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC through Steam and GOG.com.

The PC ports of the first two games in the series are also available through Platform/{{Steam}} and Website/GOGDotCom; both games were also available [=OnLive=] until the service was shut down in 2015. ''[=BloodRayne=]: Betrayal'' is also available on Steam and GOG.com. {{Updated Re|release}}-releases of ''[=BloodRayne=]'' and ''[=BloodRayne=] 2'' (allowing them to run on modern systems without requiring fan mods) were announced at the end of 2020 by Ziggurat Interactive, the franchises' current owners, and was released on November 20, 2020; these versions are called the "Terminal Cut". A [=PlayStation=] 4, Xbox One, and Switch port of the Terminal Cut re-release of the first two games, dubbed "[=ReVamped=]", will be released in Fall 2021. A 4K remastered version of ''[=BloodRayne=]: Betrayal'' was announced during UsefulNotes/{{E|lectronicEntertainmentExpo}}3 2021, featuring full voice-acting with the series' original cast reprising their role for this remaster, and a new rebalanced difficulty mode while keeping brutal challenge of the original as an option; this version, dubbed "Fresh Bites", was released on September 9, 2021 for [=PlayStation=] 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC through Steam and GOG.com.

* ''[[VideoGame/BloodRayne1 BloodRayne]]'' (2002, [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 PS2]][=/=]UsefulNotes/XBox[=/=][[UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube GCN]])

* ''VideoGame/BloodRayneBetrayal'' (2011, [[UsefulNotes/PlayStationNetwork PSN]]/[[UsefulNotes/XboxLiveArcade XBLA]]) -- The OddballInTheSeries being a [[NintendoHard tough-as-nails]] 2D action platformer developed by Creator/{{WayForward Technologies}}. To be released in Japan as ''[=BloodRayne=]: Crimson Slayer'', published by Creator/ArcSystemWorks.

The PC ports of the first two games in the series are also available through UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and Website/GOGDotCom; both games were also available [=OnLive=] until the service was shut down in 2015. ''[=BloodRayne=]: Betrayal'' is also available on Steam and GOG.com. {{Updated Re|release}}-releases of ''[=BloodRayne=]'' and ''[=BloodRayne=] 2'' (allowing them to run on modern systems without requiring fan mods) were announced at the end of 2020 by Ziggurat Interactive, the franchises' current owners, and was released on November 20, 2020; these versions are called the "Terminal Cut". A [=PlayStation=] 4, Xbox One, and Switch port of the Terminal Cut re-release of the first two games, dubbed "[=ReVamped=]", will be released in Fall 2021. A 4K remastered version of ''[=BloodRayne=]: Betrayal'' was announced during UsefulNotes/{{E|lectronicEntertainmentExpo}}3 2021, featuring full voice-acting with the series' original cast reprising their role for this remaster, and a new rebalanced difficulty mode while keeping brutal challenge of the original as an option; this version, dubbed "Fresh Bites", was released on September 9, 2021 for [=PlayStation=] 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC through Steam and GOG.com.

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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: In the first game, one of the levels in Germany has Rayne piloting a super mech invented by one of her main targets. Double points for killing said target by the very thing he invented.

** The armament of German soldiers both in Argentina and in Castle Gaustadt includes firearms that actually did exist, but haven't even entered production in year 1938. The most jarring examples are Panzerfaust and Panzerschrek -- which were not introduced until 1942 and 1943 respectively -- and goddamn ''Sturmgewehr'', which entered production in 1944 and was actually a complete novelty at the time (nobody even thought about guns which we currently know as "assault rifles" before). Moreover, the majority of Nazi soldiers are armed with rapid fire weapons such as submachine guns and only a few use traditional repeating rifles -- quite opposite to real life, where rapid fire weaponry was still quite rare at the beginning of the war.

* BlackAndGreyMorality: Rayne is a vicious and sadistic vampire who slaughters her enemies without mercy, but the nazis and her father are far worse then she ever could be.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Rayne. Although she's a half-vampire with unpleasant personality and vampires are considered evil in the games' universe, Rayne hunts down and kills monsters on a regular basis as well as killing many Nazi soldiers and her twisted family members. Compared to the opposition, especially against her father and her half-siblings, she makes her humanity clear from time to time.
* DieChairDie: Oh ''yes''! Chairs, statues, and even pianos aren't safe from Rayne's armblades or superhumanly powerful kicks.

* WhiteSheep: Rayne is the only (relatively) decent individual among a family of monsters. It helps that she wasn't raised by Kagan. Kagan alludes that Trumain raised other offspring of his in addition to Rayne, but they do not appear in the story. In the first game, Mynce also alludes to a half-sister of Rayne's who also works with Brimstone, likely a reference to Svetlana from ''VideoGame/Nocturne1999''.

* UpdatedRerelease: ''[=BloodRayne=]'' and its sequel received a ''Terminal Cut'' re-release in 2020 on GOG.com and Steam, which features improved rendering and 4K resolutions, upscaled [=FMVs=], higher resolution uncompressed textures, and native [=XInput=] controller support.

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: The first game is a fixed-camera, ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' / ''[[VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga Jedi Outcast]]'' style third-person shooter which incorporates melee combat. The second game is a free-floating-camera, ''VideoGame/FinalFight''-style beat 'em up which incorporates platforming and auto-lock shooting. It's a moderate but significant shift. The third game is a 2D hybrid of ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' platforming and ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' combat. Compared to the first two, it's a ''REALLY'' significant shift.

''[=BloodRayne=]'' is an ActionAdventure video game series initially developed by Terminal Reality and published by Majesco in 2002.

** Later ported to Windows PC on April 30, 2014 by Abstraction Games.

The protagonist Rayne is a [[HalfHumanHybrid half human]]-[[OurVampiresAreDifferent half vampire]] known as a {{dhampyr}}, who works under the Brimstone Society, an organization seeking to rid the world of vampires (besides Rayne since she also hates vampires). The first game, set in [[TheGreatDepression the 1930s]] in the years between the World War I and World War II, has Rayne fighting off monsters invading Louisiana and eventually hunting down Nazis looking for [[ArtifactOfDoom the skull of Beliar]].

The franchise also spawned a 2D action-platformer spin-off, a series of mostly one-shot comic books, and a [[Film/BloodRayne movie]] with [[Film/BloodrayneIIDeliverance two]] [[Film/BloodrayneTheThirdReich sequels]] which went DirectToDVD.

The PC ports of the first two games in the series are also available through UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and Website/GOGDotCom; both games were also available [=OnLive=] until the service was shut down in 2015. ''[=BloodRayne=]: Betrayal'' is also available on Steam and GOG.com. {{Updated Re|release}}-releases of ''[=BloodRayne=]'' and ''[=BloodRayne=] 2'' updated to run on modern systems without requiring fan mods were announced towards the end of 2020 by Ziggurat Interactive, the franchises' current owners, and was released on November 20, 2020; these versions are called the "Terminal Cut". A [=PlayStation=] 4, Xbox One, and Switch port of the Terminal Cut re-release of the first two games, dubbed "[=ReVamped=]", will be released in Fall 2021. A 4K remastered version of ''[=BloodRayne=]: Betrayal'' was announced during UsefulNotes/{{E|lectronicEntertainmentExpo}}3 2021, featuring full voice-acting with the series' original cast reprising their role for this remaster, and a new rebalanced difficulty mode while keeping brutal challenge of the original as an option; this version, dubbed "Fresh Bites", was released on September 9, 2021 for [=PlayStation=] 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC through Steam and GOG.com.