History VideoGame / BloodRayne

* NotSoDifferent: Dr. Bathory tries to pull this on Rayne. Rayne calls out Bathory's monstrosity.

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'' tweaked 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".

* 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.

* BanisterSlide: In the second game, Rayne can slide down banisters and any type of thin pipes. Friction with her shoes produces sparkles doing so, and she can [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe bisect]] the {{mooks}} that are unfortunate enough to stand in her way with her blades while sliding.

* BadGuysBar: The second mission of the second game starts in a bar filled with tattooed punks who attack Rayne with baseball bats, crowbars and whatnot.

** Rayne was one of the first video game characters to pose nude in ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}''. There are also a few fan mods to the PC version that make her nude.

* {{Gorn}}: A huge part of the game's appeal, and why it has the name it has. [=BloodRayne=] stands out as maybe the only franchise of it's time where dismemberment is not done solely through canned animations, or through bodies having specific points where they can be cut; enemies are dismembered ''exactly'' where you hit them. Even then, there are examples that stand out, such as the Blood Bomb weapon which causes enemies to shatter into blood and body parts, and a move Rayne can do in ''[=BloodRayne=] 2'' while feeding that leaves her foe as nothing but a torso. It's even a ''gameplay mechanic'' in ''[=BloodRayne=] 2''; the player frequently encounters sequences where they need to throw a number of enemies into something painful (a helicopter rotor, a vat of chemicals, etc.) to progress.

* LudicrousGibs: In third-person shooter games, even moreso in the second game.

''[=BloodRayne=]'' is an ActionAdventure ThirdPersonShooter developed by Terminal Reality and published by Majesco in 2002. The game got a sequel, a 2D action-platformer spin-off, a series of mostly one-shot comic books, and a [[Film/Bloodrayne movie]] with two direct-to-DVD sequels.

''[=BloodRayne=]'' is an ActionAdventure ThirdPersonShooter developed by Terminal Reality and published by Majesco. The game has spawned a sequel, a 2D action-platformer spin-off, a series of mostly one-shot comic books, and a movie with two direct-to-[=DVD=] sequels by Creator/UweBoll.

* AbsoluteCleavage: Believe it or not, her outfit from the first game and majority of the second is one of her more modest outfits. She wears an evening gown in the second games first mission (and there are a variety of them as unlockable outfits) which play it totally straight.

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 sequel takes place decades after the first game ends, set around modern times where Rayne must take down an evil cult formed by the offspring of her vampire father Kagan that has created a substance that's blocking out the sun, allowing vampires to roam free.

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'''''[=BloodRayne=]''''' is an ActionAdventure ThirdPersonShooter developed by Terminal Reality and published by Majesco. The game has spawned a sequel, a 2D action-platformer spin-off, a series of mostly one-shot comic books, and a movie with two direct-to-[=DVD=] sequels by Creator/UweBoll.

* BloodierAndGorier: ''[=BloodRayne=] 2'' had a freestyle combat system and so was this to the original. ''[=BloodRayne=]: Betrayal'' for the series overall, '''[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar and it's rated T]]'''!

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: ''[=BloodRayne=]: Betrayal'' is a 2D hack-and-slash that's even BloodierAndGorier than the first two games. Blood splatters everywhere, mooks are grinded up by blades, [[OffWithHisHead beheaded]], cut in half or worse. And it's a '''T-rated''' game.

!!The [=BloodRayne=] series features examples of:

* AbsoluteCleavage: Believe it or not, her outfit from the first game and majority of the second is one of her more modest outfits.

* AuraVision: It helps Rayne find her objective's location and conveniently shows how much health the non-boss enemies have (bosses have their own life meter).

** Averted really hard with the female minions in the second game - most of them are very {{Stripperiffic}} and just as attractive as the lead, but they are prone to dismemberment as the male minions are.

* CastFromHitPoints: In the second game, if Rayne fires her guns without sucking the blood of her enemies for ammo, then they suck out hers.

* DieChairDie: Oh ''yes''! Chairs, statues, and even pianos aren't safe from Rayne's armblades.

* JigglePhysics: There is a cheat code in both games that allows you to increase both Rayne's bust size and the jiggliness. Disturbingly, the jiggle physics in the first game tends to turn on and off quite routinely, leading to a case of [[UncannyValley uncanny cleavage]] when Rayne is speaking.

* MrFanservice: For someone with so little screentime and [[NonActionGuy absolutely no action scenes]], Severin has become this more handily than anyone else in the franchise. It's because of Severin that Kagan hasn't been [[DracoInLeatherPants fitted with leather pants]]. It's because of Severin that all other [[ShipSinking ships arrive presunk]].

* NintendoHard: ''[=BloodRayne=]: Betrayal'' is a very hard action-platformer. In fact, [[SurpriseDifficulty the difficulty came as a surprise]] to those not accustomed with Nintendo Hard games (or have been avoiding them).

** Dhampyr, actually. Water, sunlight, healing by drinking blood and apparently having the grace of a Cirque de Soleil performer and [[MsFanservice the body of a lingerie model]].
** The full-blooded vampires are a varied bunch as well, with Ephemera being an [[IntangibleMan Intangible Girl]] who can teleport through shadows; Hedrox, a bestial creature with a DoppelgangerAttack; and Slezz, an ancient and monstrously inhuman "Babylonian Winged Shakkab" described as a "born vampire". The only two vampires who seem to match the usual profile are Zerenski and Kagan.

* ShoutOut: Rayne's harpoon bares more than a few similarities to [[Franchise/MortalKombat Scorpion's]] spear, such as being a "[[Franchise/YuGiOh kunai with chain]]" that's given the name of a completely different throwing weapon, and the first game even has Rayne using it in a similar fashion to pull enemies closer.

* {{Stripperific}}: Rayne's outfits in the second game. Her default outfit speaks for itself, of course.
** LittleBlackDress: Her evening gown, a SexyBacklessOutfit complete with AbsoluteCleavage.
*** RedheadInGreen: Rayne's green gown.
** DragonLady: Rayne's dragon-patterned gown.
** {{Cow|boy}}girl: Her cowgirl outfit.
** JapaneseSchoolUniform: Complete with too-small underwear under her skirt.
** EvilCostumeSwitch: Rayne's "{{dark|IsNotEvil}}" outfit, with black cargo pants, ash-white hair, tribal tattoos, and several wallet chains.
** TwentyFourHourArmor: Rayne's armor outfit. It's a full plate armor complete with halberds instead of blades.

* StatuesqueStunner: The very attractive Rayne stands 6-foot barefeet, and wears 6-inch heels most of the time, making her 6-foot-6.

** EvilCostumeSwitch: Rayne's "{{dark|IsNotEvil}}" outfit.

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'' tweaked 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.

* AbortedArc: ''[=BloodRayne=] 2'' ends on a cliffhanger. However ''Betrayal'' never picks up on this, and there hasn't been word of a follow-up since. With the series currently dead, it's unlikely to ever see resolution.

* AfterTheEnd[=/=]DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The end to the second game shows that Kagan's Vampire Apocalypse can't be reversed, despite his death, and that humanity is now a small Brimstone-led resistance movement living in underground bunkers while hordes of monsters rule the surface. Rayne and Severin are on the outs with Brimstone, and Rayne herself has to inherit her father's empire despite her distaste of everything related to vampires and humans in order to save the humans on the surface.]]

* BleakLevel: "Lurking Underground" in the first game, where you meet Daemites for the first time. At this point, the tone of the game suddenly shifts from plain action to genuine horror. Up until now, you've been fighting ordinary humans, but at the beginning of this level, you follow one of their officers to an underground supply depot only to find it completely devoid of life. Soldiers you've just seen a moment before suddenly vanish, and although you can see them screaming in horror and being attacked by ''something'', there are no bodies left. Even the music goes completely silent, and when it turns back on, it's suddenly [[HellIsThatNoise really creepy]]. Rayne, who's been pretty unflappable towards all weird and scary stuff happening in the game before, now is actually slightly, but visibly creeped out. And when Daemites finally make their entrance, they incite fear both by the way they appear (by ''popping off the heads'' of soldiers they possessed from inside) and by the fact that they are much, ''much'' harder to kill than enemies you fought before, staying alive even after their host body got hacked to pieces.

* BloodierAndGorier: ''[=BloodRayne=] 2'' was this to the original. ''[=BloodRayne=]: Betrayal'' for the series overall, '''[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar and it's rated T]]'''!
* BloodyMurder: The Carpathian Dragons fire alchemized blood.

* CastFromHitPoints: In the second game, if Rayne fires one of her guns without sucking the blood of her enemies for ammo, then they suck out hers.
* ChainPain: Rayne's harpoon. In the first game, she uses it to pull humanoid foes towards her (which would make [[Franchise/MortalKombat Scorpion]] proud) so she can feed off them; in the second game, she can hurl foes like ragdolls with it.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: During Ephemera's boss battle, if Rayne touches the water in the pond, she gets hurt. Ephemera on the other hand, despite being a full vampire, remains unaffected by it.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Rayne is born from her mother's rape, and her human side of her family is all killed by Kagan.

%%* DisposableVagrant: See above.

* {{Fanservice}}: Rayne was one of the first video game characters to pose nude in ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}''. There are also a few fan mods to the PC version that make her nude.

* {{Gainaxing}}: The games do try to tone it down, but entering the juggy mode cheat takes it to ridiculous levels.

* {{Gorn}}: A huge part of the game's appeal, and why it has the name it has. Bloodrayne stands out as maybe the only franchise of it's time where dismemberment is not done solely through canned animations, or through bodies having specific points where they can be cut; enemies are dismembered ''exactly'' where you hit them. Even then, there are examples that stand out, such as the Blood Bomb weapon which causes enemies to shatter into blood and body parts, and a move Rayne can do in [=BloodRayne=] 2 while feeding that leaves her foe as nothing but a torso.
** It's even a ''gameplay mechanic'' in [=BloodRayne=] 2; the player frequently encounters sequences where they need to throw a number of enemies into something painful (a helicopter rotor, a vat of chemicals, etc.) to progress.

* GunsAreWorthless: Despite the wide variety of firearms available in the first game, guns are only really effective against common {{Mooks}} (and even then, it takes a good 10 or so SMG rounds to put down a single basic Nazi soldier). Some tougher enemies and bosses take very little (if any) damage from bullets, or are difficult to hit in the first place (especially Daemites). Compounding this problem is the fact that guns don't hold much ammo and can't be reloaded; Rayne [[ThrowawayGuns discards a weapon upon emptying the magazine]], and must pick up another to replace it. On top of all this, Rayne's blades and harpoon are generally more efficient weapons, and it's entirely possible to play through most of the game without firing a shot.
** In ''Betrayal'' however, Rayne's magnum is quite powerful, able to knock most mooks off their feet.

* IHateYouVampireDad: Rayne feels this way towards her father Kagan, who [[spoiler:raped her mother and drove her mad]]. ''All'' his daughters hate him, in fact.
* JigglePhysics: There is a cheat code in both games that allows you to increase both Rayne's bust size and the jiggliness.
** Disturbingly, the jiggle physics in the first game tends to turn on and off quite routinely, leading to a case of [[UncannyValley uncanny cleavage]] when Rayne is speaking.

* LargeHam: [[EvilIsHammy Jurgen Wulf in the first game]], [[spoiler:and Kagan in the second]].

* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Kagan has sired many offspring with many women, sometimes without consent.

** In the final levels of ''BR 2'', Rayne must fight her way to the top of [[spoiler:Kagan's]] downtown highrise, which is already under siege by Ferril's forces with all factions attacking the others on sight.

* MookHorrorShow: Two mooks in Xerx's tower lock themselves up in an office to wait out Rayne's passing. These are the ones with the cockiest sounding voice-sets, the ones taunt Rayne as provocatively as possible, yet when you knock on their door, they wet themselves.
** The Nazi's meanwhile, even at the start of the game, are nothing more then walking blood bags.

* NoOSHACompliance: The first game has several Nazi's taking shelter under a car lift, which Rayne can lower on them and then mock them over. The second game has several fans and jet turbines with no covers.
* NoSwastikas: The PC and PAL Xbox versions removed all swastikas and other Third Reich symbolism.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Dhampyr, actually. Water, sunlight, healing by drinking blood and apparently having the grace of a Cirque de Soleil performer and [[MsFanservice the body of a lingerie model]].

** DragonLady: Rayne's dragon gown.

** JapaneseSchoolUniform: Complete with too-small undergarments under her skirt.

* ThrowawayGuns: In the first game. Once the magazine for the weapon Rayne's holding are emptied, she tosses them out of her inventory.

* WeaksauceWeakness: Rayne's sunlight weakness is kind of expected, being half-vampire, but ''water''? Seriously? In ''[=BloodRayne=] 2'', you can get killed by the sprinkler system.

* WorthyOpponent: Ephemera seems to consider Rayne this after fighting her for the first time. She remarks that Rayne is "more... interesting" than she expected, and is eager to "meet" (read: fight) her again.

** The leaders of the G.G.G. in the first game have all been "experimentally enhanced", with the bosses all quite capable of matching a half-vampire like Rayne in a fight. Even the non-boss MookLieutenant assassination targets are considerably tougher than regular soldiers, having about 4 to 5 times as much health and even having a few unique and fairly strong melee attacks.

* GunsAreWorthless: Despite the wide variety of firearms available in the first game, guns are only really effective against common {{Mooks}}. Some tougher enemies and bosses take very little (if any) damage from bullets, or are difficult to hit in the first place (especially Daemites). Compounding this problem is the fact that guns don't hold much ammo and can't be reloaded; Rayne [[ThrowawayGuns discards a weapon upon emptying the magazine]], and must pick up another to replace it. On top of all this, Rayne's blades and harpoon are generally more efficient weapons, and it's entirely possible to play through most of the game without firing a shot.

* ContinuityNod: The 3rd Act of the first game has several continuity nod references to the first act of ''VideoGame/{{Nocturne}}'', the survival horror game from which ''[=BloodRayne=]'' was spun-off from.

* 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.

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.

[[UpdatedReRelease Updated Re-Releases]] of ''Bloodrayne'' and ''Bloodrayne 2'' tweaked to run on modern systems without requiring fan mods were announced towards the end of 2020 by Ziggurat Interactive, the franchises' current owners, and released on November 20, 2020.

* UnwinnableByMistake: There's a glitch in [=BloodRayne=] 2 if you don't use your harpoon to open the path before killing some {{mooks}}.

* BulletTime: One of Rayne's powers and part of gameplay of the first two games is the option to use this technique, representing her heightened reaction times and senses.

[[UpdatedReRelease Updated Re-Releases]] of ''Bloodrayne'' and ''Bloodrayne 2'' were announced towards the end of 2020 by Ziggurat Interactive, the franchises' current owners, scheduled to be released November 20, 2020.

[[UpdatedReRelease Updated Re-Releases]] of ''Bloodrayne'' and ''Bloodrayne 2'' were announced towards the end of 2020 by Ziggurat Interactive, the franchises' current owners, scheduled to be released in the near future.