History VideoGame / BloodRayne

* ThickerThanWater: ''Massively'' averted. Rayne absolutely ''hates'' her famaily, with good reason and she strongly emphasizes that Kagan's offspring that they are ''half'' siblings.

* FantasticRacism: Downplayed. Kagan has a bit of this towards dhampirs, referring to them as "mongrels", "tainted" and continually refers to Rayne as "it". [[{{Irony}} This doesn't stop him from raping human women]] [[{{Hypocrite}} and using his dhampir offspring in his army however...]]

* BloodIsThickerThanWater: ''Massively'' averted. Rayne absolutely ''hates'' her famaily, with good reason and she strongly emphasizes that Kagan's offspring that they are ''half'' siblings.

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Sort of. On the subject of Rayne's mother, Kagan is, [[{{Jerkass}} "terrible with names, but I trust she died painfully, like the rest of her family."]] He seems to be trying to anger Rayne, but it is also true that he raped many human women to sire dhampirs, and then killed them and their families afterwards as [[{{KickTheDog}}"policy"]].

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Sort of. On the subject of Rayne's mother, Kagan is, [[{{Jerkass}} "terrible with names, but I trust she died painfully, like the rest of her wretched family."]] He seems to be trying to anger Rayne, but it is also true that he raped many human women to sire dhampirs, and then killed them and their families afterwards as [[{{KickTheDog}}"policy".]]

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Sort of. On the subject of Rayne's mother, Kagan is, [[{{Jerkass}} "terrible with names, but I trust she died painfully, like the rest of her wretched family." He seems to be trying to anger Rayne, but it is also true that he raped many human women to sire dhampirs, and then killed them and their families afterwards as [[{{KickTheDog}}"policy".]]

* FantasticRacism: Downplayed. Kagan has a bit of this towards dhampirs, referring to them as "mongrels", "tainted" and continually refers to Rayne as "it". [[Irony This doesn't stop him from raping human women]] [[Hypocrite and using his dhampir offspring in his army however...]]

* FantasticRacism: Downplayed. Kagan has a bit of this towards dhampirs, referring to them as "mongrels", "tainted" and continually refers to Rayne as "it". [[Hyporite This doesn't stop him from raping human women and using his dhampir offspring in his army however...]]

* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Mother and her family]]: Why Rayne hates Kagan so much and what motivates him to kill him and the rest of ''his'' family.

* StatuesqueStunner: The very attractive Rayne stands 5-foot-11 barefeet, and wears 5-inch heels most of the time, making her 6-foot-4.

* AntiHero: Rayne, she doesn't particularly like humans, but she hates vampires.

* BornAgainImmortality: A Flower Child’s life cycle is a true cycle. They can die and be reborn a seemingly unlimited number of times, provided they aren’t killed before reaching physical maturity. Once they die, a large plant grows from their grave (that plant being whatever type of flower they’re based on). This plant bears a "fruit" which is basically a womb, in which the Flower Child’s new body develops. They are then "born" exactly one year after their death, in the form of a five-year-old child.

* NoOntologicalInertia: A funny subversion at the end of ''[=BloodRayne=] 2''. [[spoiler:After Rayne defeats the final boss, she observes that his primary work, an alchemical cloud covering the land that allows vampires to walk under the sun, has not dissipated. Rayne remarks off-handedly to her partner, “I half-expected everything to go back to normal once he was dead. I guess that wasn’t very realistic, huh?”]]

* ParentalFavoritism: Ephemera is Kagan's favorite daughter.

'''''[=BloodRayne=]''''' is an ActionAdventure ThirdPersonShooter developed by Terminal Reality and published by Majesco. The game has spawned a sequel, ''[=BloodRayne=] 2'', a series of one-shot comic books, and a movie with two direct-to-[=DVD=] sequels by Uwe Boil (unfortunately).

The first two games in the series on PC can are available through {{Steam}} and GoodOldGames (the latter is cheaper for the first game as well as {{DRM}}-free and optimized for Windows Vista and 7 for both games); they are also available via OnLive for cloud gaming.

* BornAgainImmortality: A Flower Child’s life cycle is a true cycle. They can die and be reborn a seemingly unlimited number of times, provided they aren’t killed before reaching physical maturity. Once they die, a large plant grows from their grave (that plant being whatever type of flower they’re based on). This plant bears a "fruit" which is basically a womb, in which the Flower Child’s new body develops. They are then "born" exactly one year after their death, in the form of a five-year-old child.

* NoOntologicalInertia: A funny subversion at the end of ''[=BloodRayne=] 2''. [[spoiler:After Rayne defeats the final boss, she observes that his primary work, an alchemical cloud covering the land that allows vampires to walk under the sun, has not dissipated. Rayne remarks off-handedly to her partner, “I half-expected everything to go back to normal once he was dead. I guess that wasn’t very realistic, huh?”]]

* ''[=BloodRayne=]'' (2004, [=PlayStation=] 2 and Xbox)

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 Beliar]]. The sequel takes decades after the first game ends around modern times, where Rayne must take down an evil cult [[spoiler: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.

* BornAgainImmortality: A Flower Child’s life cycle is a true cycle. They can die and be reborn a seemingly unlimited number of times, provided they aren’t killed before reaching physical maturity. Once they die, a large plant grows from their grave (that plant being whatever type of flower they’re based on). This plant bears a "fruit" which is basically a womb, in which the Flower Child’s new body develops. They are then "born" exactly one year after their death, in the form of a five-year-old child.

* NoOntologicalInertia: A funny subversion at the end of ''[=BloodRayne=] 2''. [[spoiler:After Rayne defeats the final boss, she observes that his primary work, an alchemical cloud covering the land that allows vampires to walk under the sun, has not dissipated. Rayne remarks off-handedly to her partner, “I half-expected everything to go back to normal once he was dead. I guess that wasn’t very realistic, huh?”]]

* BottomlessPit: In ''[=BloodRayne=]: Betrayal''.

-->'''Minion:''' "Nice boots miss, after I've kicked your ass I may prance around in them."

* FamousNamedForeigner : So many but one name is really, really an embodiment of this trope -- Dr. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bathory Bathory]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele Mengele]].

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

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

* BornAgainImmortality: A Flower Child’s life cycle is a true cycle. They can die and be reborn a seemingly unlimited number of times, provided they aren’t killed before reaching physical maturity. Once they die, a large plant grows from their grave (that plant being whatever type of flower they’re based on). This plant bears a "fruit" which is basically a womb, in which the Flower Child’s new body develops. They are then "born" exactly one year after their death, in the form of a five-year-old child.

* ChainPain: Rayne's harpoon. In the first game; she uses it to pull humanoid foes towards her (which would make [[Franchise/MortalKombat Scorpion]] proud); in the second game, she can hurl foes like ragdolls with it.

-->'''Mook:''' "Nice boots miss, after I've kicked your ass I may prance around in them."

* DullSurprise: Rayne for most of the first game talks in a monotone, just displaying enough emotion that you know what's going through her mind. Nothing really seems to shake her (as she said at the start of the game, "I'm just confident in my abilities,") with few exceptions. Then Wulf [[KilledOffForReal kills Mynce for real]]. Then she flies into an UnstoppableRage. The sequel has much less of this, as Rayne does a lot more [[DeadpanSnarker cracking wise]] and occasionally expressing real horror when she realizes what [[BigBad the plan of the Kagan Cult]] is.

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

* GunsAkimbo: Rayne does virtually nothing ''but'' this in the first game, with the exception of some larger weapons. In the second game, one of the guns she gets are dual wielded, but they function as the whole [[StandardFPSGuns usual arsenal]]. In ''Betrayal'', Rayne only uses a handgun (albeit a [[HandCannon Magnum]]) and [[spoiler:a laser cannon]].

** Blood Stream = Automatic weapon

** LadyInRed: Rayne's red gown.
** RedheadInGreen: Rayne's green gown.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: In the mines, you may notice a few doors have been barricaded from the inside with a few Nazis hiding in them. Rayne will actively taunt these poor fellows who are just hiding from the Daemites, even though they offer no resistance, in fact they are out right cowering. They are free health should you need it, but damn. [=BloodRayne=] 2, meanwhile, has many, many different ways you can dismember the human body.
** Dismembering was very much possible in the first [=BloodRayne=], particularly with [[LudicrousGibs Insane Gibs Mode]] on. And how it felt... shaving off surplus limbs then watch the Nazi in question writhe in agony, or far away screaming, or try to get away? Blowing off heads? ''Mincing them into thin little body pieces?''

[[caption-width-right:204:Now here's a game [[{{Pun}} with teeth]].]]
'''''[=BloodRayne=]''''' is an ActionAdventure ThirdPersonShooter developed by Terminal Reality and published by Majesco. The game has spawned a sequel, ''[=BloodRayne=] 2'', a series of one-shot comic books, and a movie with two direct-to-[=DVD=] sequels by Uwe Boil (unfortunately). 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 Beliar]]. The sequel takes decades after the first game ends around modern times, where Rayne must take down an evil cult [[spoiler:formed by the offspring of her vampire father Kagan]] that has formed a substance that's blocking out the sun, allowing vampires to roam free.

* ''[=BloodRayne=]: Betrayal'' (2011, XboxLiveArcade and PlaystationNetwork) -- The OddballInTheSeries being a [[NintendoHard tough-as-nails]] 2D action platformer developed by Creator/WayForwardTechnologies.

* BloodBath: The final boss chamber in the second game has a fountain full of blood in which both Rayne and Kagan (her vampire father) can heal themselves.
* BloodierAndGorier: ''[=BloodRayne=] 2'' was this to the original. ''[=BloodRayne=]: Betrayal'' for the series overall. [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar And it's rated T!]]

* BornAgainImmortality: A Flower Child’s life cycle is a true cycle. They can die and be reborn a seemingly unlimited number of times, provided they aren’t killed before reaching physical maturity. Once they die, a large plant grows from their grave (that plant being whatever type of flower they’re based on). This plant bears a ‘fruit’ which is basically a womb, in which the Flower Child’s new body develops. They are then ‘born’ exactly one year after their death, in the form of a five-year-old child.
* BulletproofHumanShield: One of the heroine's special moves is to grasp an enemy goon, bite down on his neck, and while wrapped around him, spin him around to block enemy shots, using him as a BulletproofHumanShield ''and'' gaining health at the same time.
* BulletTime: One of Rayne's powers/a part of gameplay in both games is the option to use this technique, representing her heightened reaction times and senses.

* {{Cutscene}}: The game uses FMV sequences in some parts of the game.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler: Ephemera. Together with her sister Ferril, she plotted to kill their father and take over. Then, she (literally and figuratively) backstabbed and threw Ferril off a tower. When Rayne meets her for the final battle, Ephemera calmly tells her that she is waiting for the right moment to do Kagan in.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: Rayne, particularly in the second game, has more snark than even Series/{{Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}}.

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

* DualBoss: The twins, Simon and Sigmund, while [[spoiler:Wulf and Beliar]] are more of a subversion -you fight both at once, but they attack each other, too.

* {{Expy}}: Originally, Rayne was supposed to be Svetlana Lupescu of Nocturne fame, but this was scrapped.
* FamousNamedForeigner : So many but one name is really, really an embodiment of this trope - Dr. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bathory Bathory]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele Mengele]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The latest game in the series, [=BloodRayne=]: Betrayal is a 2D Hack-n-Slash that's quite frankly BloodierAndGorier than the first two games. Blood splatters everywhere, mooks are grinded up by blades, beheaded, cut in half or worse. And it's a T-rated game.

* GrievousHarmWithABody: Most of the killing puzzles involve throwing minions at something until it breaks.
* GunsAkimbo: Rayne does virtually nothing ''but'' this in the first game, with the exception of some larger weapons. In the second game, the only guns she gets are dual wielded, but they function as the whole [[StandardFPSGuns usual arsenal]]. In ''Betrayal'', Rayne only uses a handgun (albeit a [[HandCannon Magnum]]) and [[spoiler:a laser cannon]].

* HealThyself: Rayne drinks the blood of her enemies to restore her life bar.

** Feral has a lot of fun with her villainy as well.

* NoOntologicalInertia: A funny subversion at the end of ''[=BloodRayne=] 2''. [[spoiler:After Rayne defeats the final boss, she observes that his primary work, an alchemical cloud covering the land that allows vampires to walk under the sun, has not dissipated. Rayne remarks off-handedly to her partner, “I half-expected everything to go back to normal once he was dead. I guess that wasn’t very realistic, huh?”]]

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

* PaintedOnPants

** Blood Flame = Flamethrower

* 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 fighting game which incorporates platforming and auto-lock shooting. It's a moderate but significant shift. The third game is a 2D hybrid of {{Castlevania}} platforming and DevilMayCry combat. Compared to the first two, it's a REALLY significant shift.

* VaporWear: Ferril is mostly nude, if you took [[MarkOfTheBeast her markings]] away from her.

'''''[=BloodRayne=]''''' is an ActionAdventure ThirdPersonShooter developed by Terminal Reality and published by Majesco. The game has spawned a sequel, ''[=BloodRayne=] 2'', a series of one-shot comic books, and a movie with two direct-to-[=DVD=] sequels by Uwe Boil (unfortunately). 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]], has Rayne fighting off monsters invading Louisiana and eventually hunting down Nazis looking for [[ArtifactOfDoom the skull Beliar]]. The sequel takes decades after the first game ends around modern times, where Rayne must take down an evil cult [[spoiler:formed by the offspring of her vampire father Kagan]] that has formed a substance that's blocking out the sun, allowing vampires to roam free.

The [[http://www.gog.com/gamecard/bloodrayne first]] [[http://www.gog.com/gamecard/bloodrayne_2 two]] games in the series on PC can now be found at GoodOldGames for a fairly inexpensive price and optimized for Windows XP, Vista, and 7; both games are also available via OnLive for cloud gaming.

'''''[=BloodRayne=]''''' is an ThirdPersonShooter ActionAdventure developed by Terminal Reality and published by Majesco. The game has spawned a sequel, ''[=BloodRayne=] 2'', a series of one-shot comic books, and a movie with two direct-to-[=DVD=] sequels by Uwe Boil (unfortunately). 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]], has Rayne fighting off monsters invading Louisiana and eventually hunting down Nazis looking for [[ArtifactOfDoom the skull Beliar]]. The sequel takes decades after the first game ends around modern times, where Rayne must take down an evil cult [[spoiler:formed by the offspring of her vampire father Kagan]] that has formed a substance that's blocking out the sun, allowing vampires to roam free.

* BloodierAndGorier: ''[=BloodRayne=] 2'' was this to the original. [=BloodRayne=]: Betrayal for the series overall. [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar And it's rated T!]]

[[caption-width-right:204:Now here's a game [[IncrediblyLamePun with teeth]].]]

''[=BloodRayne=]'' is an ActionAdventure ThirdPersonShooter developed by Terminal Reality and published by Majesco. The game has spawned a sequel, ''[=BloodRayne=] 2'', a series of one-shot comic books, and a movie with two direct-to-[=DVD=] sequels. The protagonist, Rayne, is a [[HalfHumanHybrid half human/half vampire]], known as a {{Dhampir}}.

The third installment, ''[=BloodRayne=]: Betrayal'' (developed by {{WayForward Technologies}}), was released early September on XboxLiveArcade and PlaystationNetwork.

* ArtificialStupidity : Mooks getting stuck in corners and vampires slowly dying by standing in daylight.

* BigScrewedUpFamily: Kagan's.

* BloodierAndGorier: [=BloodRayne=] 2 was this to the original. [=BloodRayne=]: Betrayal for the series overall. And it's rated T!

* TheCameo: [[ABoyAndHisBlob The Boy and His Blob]] show up in Chapter 15 in Betrayal.

* ConspicuousCG: In [=BloodRayne=]: Betrayal, most of the blood splatters, explosions and slime splatters are this. It mildly clashes with the game's otherwise 2D-art style.
* 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 a spinoff of.

* {{Cutscene}}

* CreepyCrossdresser: Implied in Bloodrayne 2
--> ''Mook:''Nice boots miss, after I've kicked your ass I may prance around in them.

** "You saw the blades, what did you ''think'' was gonna happen?"
* DieChairDie
* DisposableSexWorker: Well, more like recyclable, [[spoiler: street people are drained of blood to create the Shroud]].

* {{Dhampyr}}: The title character.
* DualBoss: The twins, Simon and Sigmund, while [[spoiler: Wulf and Beliar]] are more of a subversion -you fight both at once, but they attack each other, too.

** BigBad: [[spoiler: Kagan]]

* FlippingTheBird: Rayne does this enough to make one think she's channeling StoneColdSteveAustin: she does it at least four times during the first game's ending, before flipping off her handler at the start of the second game.

* {{Gorn}}: One of the few games where you can cut someone in half...''vertically''.

--> '''Parasite''': I'll wear you like ''lederhosen''.

* GunsAkimbo: Rayne does virtually nothing ''but'' this in the first game, with the exception of some larger weapons. In the second game, the only guns she gets are dual wielded, but they function as the whole [[StandardFPSGuns usual arsenal]]. In Betrayal, Rayne only uses a handgun (albeit a [[HandCannon Magnum]]) and [[spoiler:a laser cannon]].

** In Betrayal however, Rayne's Magnum is actually quite powerful, able to knock most mooks off their feet.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Rayne and other Dhampir's

* HighPressureBlood: Oh lordy.

* NoOntologicalInertia: A funny subversion at the end of Blood Rayne 2. [[spoiler: After Rayne defeats the final boss, she observes that his primary work, an alchemical cloud covering the land that allows vampires to walk under the sun, has not dissipated. Rayne remarks off-handedly to her partner, “I half-expected everything to go back to normal once he was dead. I guess that wasn’t very realistic, huh?”]]

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

* StandardFPSGuns: In [=BloodRayne=] 2 the 'blood guns' mimic the effect of several weapons
** Blood shot = Pistol
** Blood stream = Automatic weapon
** Blood flame = Flamethrower
** Blood hammer = rocket launcher
** Blood bomb = time bomb (blows up enemies after a short period)

* ThirdPersonSeductress
* ThrowawayGuns

* VaporWear: Ferril is mostly nude, if you took her markings away from her.

** Dismembering was very much possible in Bloodrayne 1, particularly with Insane Gibs Mode on. And how it felt... shaving off surplus limbs then watch the Nazi in question writhe in agony/far away screaming/try to get away? Blowing off heads? ''Mincing them into thin little body pieces?''

* 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.

* DeadpanSnarker: Rayne, particularly in the second game, has more snark than even {{Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}}.