History VideoGame / VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines2

The game is due to be released on UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows, UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS, and UsefulNotes/PlayStation5 in 2024.

->''"Can you hear it? My blood is singing."''
-->-- '''Lou Grand'''


''Vampire: The Masquerade -- Bloodlines 2'' is the upcoming sequel to 2004's ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', originally in development by Hardsuits Labs and published by Creator/ParadoxInteractive. Quite a few of the developers on the original game, most prominently designer and writer Brian Mitsoda and composer Rik Schaffer, were set to return for this game. The game additionally featured Cara Ellison as writer.

Fifteen years after the events in Los Angeles, on a foggy night in Seattle, vampires swoop down from the rooftops in Pioneer Square and conduct a mass embrace, converting a group of humans into so-called "Thin-Bloods." It's a dangerous and illegal act, forbidden by vampire society under threat of death -- for both the sire and the victim. Abandoned to the world, these bewildered and naïve Thin-Bloods threaten the Masquerade, the elaborate social pact that prevents humans from finding out about vampires.

As one of these Thin-Bloods yourself, you're captured and brought to trial. Wheeled before a council of the governing vampire clans, you're asked to recall the events of that night in Pioneer Square, and thus expose the culprits behind this terrible deed. Your reward for cooperating? [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Execution.]] Except it all goes wrong. The trial implodes as the council members squabble amongst themselves, and an unexplained fire breaks out and engulfs the room. You take the opportunity to flee into the night, resolving to try and uncover who did this to you, and why. If you're lucky, you'll survive long enough to find out.

At least, this was the original pitch. In the game as re-revealed in September 2023, you are an elder vampire who has awoken from torpor after a few centuries and must deal with a power vacuum in Seattle's vampire court.

Originally announced for release in March 2020, the game was delayed early that year, with a new release window sometime in 2021. In February 2021 it was announced that the game was being delayed again, with the only confirmed information being that it ''wouldn't'' release in 2021. In the same announcement, it was revealed that Hardsuit Labs are no longer heading up the project, and that the remaining work will be headed by another (as yet unnamed) developer. As late as July 2022, Paradox Interactive CEO, Fredrik Wester, publicly confirmed that the game is still in development. At Pax in September 2023 it was revealed that the game was being worked on by Creator/TheChineseRoom with an expected release date of Fall 2024.

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYvWfDxhm_s&feature=youtu.be Announcement Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xELjqNZjmaM Thinblood Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU6LwptKvYg Brujah Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFKGdJiF_2s Tremere Trailer]], [[https://youtu.be/aAoFUt-RW-c Toreador Trailer]], [[https://youtu.be/ceYjCOOVyUk Ventrue Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s7O0OWohvE Malkavian Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WwiMU2l9j8 Extended Gameplay Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MzIbWbMFi0 Xbox Series X Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6b6LGubq6I new Official Announcement Trailer]].

* TakeThat: During the announcement stream, the lead developer snarked that, unlike the first game[[note]]the original game used the Source engine, and Valve forced it to be delayed so ''Half-Life 2'' would be the first released game to use that engine; they were released on the same day[[/note]], the release of this game wouldn't be overshadowed by a new ''VideoGame/HalfLife''. (Perhaps this was TemptingFate, because if they had stuck to the original release date, it ''[[VideoGame/HalfLifeAlyx might have been]]''.)

As one of these Thin-Bloods yourself, you're captured and brought to trial. Wheeled before a council of the governing vampire clans, you're asked to recall the events of that night in Pioneer Square, and thus expose the culprits behind this terrible deed. Your reward for cooperating? [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Execution.]] Except it all goes wrong. The trial implodes as the council members squabble amongst themselves, and an unexplained fire breaks out and engulfs the room. You take the opportunity to flee into the night, resolving to try and uncover who did this to you, and why. If you’re lucky, you’ll survive long enough to find out.

The game is due to be released on UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows, UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS, and UsefulNotes/PlayStation5.

The game is due to be released on UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS, and UsefulNotes/PlayStation5.

At least, this was the original pitch. In the game as re-revealed in September 2023, you are an elder vampire who has avoken from torpor after a few centuries and must deal with a power vacuum in Seattle's vampire court.

At least, this was the original pitch. In the game as re-revealead in September 2023, you are an elder vampire who has avoken from torpor after a few centuries and must deal with a power vacuum in Seattle's vampire court.

At least, this was the original pitch. In the game as re-revealead in September 2023, you are an elder vampire who has avoken from torpor after a few centuries and must deal a power vacuum in Seattle's vampire court.

At least, this was the original pitch. In the game as re-revealead in September 2023, you are an elder vampire who has avoken from thorpor after a few centuries and must deal a power vacuum in Seattle's vampire court.

At least, this was the original pitch. In the version re-revealead in September 2023, you are an elder vampire who has avoken from thorpor after a few centuries and must deal a power vacuum in Seattle's vampire court.

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Fifteen years after the events in Los Angeles, on a foggy night in Seattle, vampires swoop down from the rooftops in Pioneer Square and conduct a mass embrace, converting a group of humans into so-called "Thin-Bloods." It's a dangerous and illegal act, forbidden by vampire society under threat of death-for both the sire and the victim. Abandoned to the world, these bewildered and naïve Thin-Bloods threaten the Masquerade, the elaborate social pact that prevents humans from finding out about vampires.