History VideoGame / VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines2

-> ''"This city will bleed you dry. You're young. You'll fight over scraps. Safety is bought with blood. Yours... Theirs... Ours. Make one mistake, and it's over. Here, no one's hands stay clean. You will come to despise it as much as I do... But I've waited so long to see it again."''

* ThePowerOfBlood: The teaser spells it out: "Safety is bought with blood. Yours... theirs... ours."

* PowerOfBlood: The teaser spells it out: "Safety is bought with blood. Yours... theirs... ours."

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PM0vb8UCzM&feature=youtu.be Announcement Trailer]]

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampires come in multiple varieties with different traits: Nosferatu are monsterous, with bat-like inhuman features, thin bloods start out with very few of the powers other vampires can manifest, like VoluntaryShapeshifting and MindOverMatter, and so on.

* CityOfAdventure: Like the previous game, the action takes mostly place in one city. Unlike the previous game, which featured Los Angeles, this one takes place in Seattle.

* MindOverMatter: One of the starting powers available to the PC is telekinesis, the ability to move objects or enemies in the enviroment with your thoughts.

* AuraVision: This game once again has an alternate vision mode that lets you to see others' emotional states as colorful auras floating around them.

* {{Masquerade}}: Unsurprisingly, being TropeNamer. The story is caused by multiple vampires doing a Mass Embrace in Seattle, an act which breaks vampire society's rules about not doing things that would allow normal humans know about their existence.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Available starting powers include the abillity to become a cloud of fog or a swarm of bats.

* AuraVision: Allowing you to see others' emotions.
* BloodyHorror: The announcement trailer has this in ''spades'', first showing a bathroom sink dripping blood before it erupts from the faucet and gushes down the hallway ala the elevator scene from ''Film/TheShining'', and one of the last shots of the trailer is a ''gigantic tidal wave of blood'' descending upon Seattle.
* CallBack: Several preorder items include Jeanette and Smiling Jack's outfits, a portrait of the Voerman family, Damsel's beret, a table made to resemble the Ankaran Sarcophagus, and a severed arm as a weapon skin.

* {{Masquerade}}: As expected from a game about the TropeNamer. The story is initiated by multiple vampires committing a Masquerade breach by doing a Mass Embrace in Seattle.
* MindOverMatter: One of the starting powers available to the PC is telekinesis.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Available starting powers include becoming a cloud of fog or a swarm of bats.

''Vampire: The Masquerade -- Bloodlines 2'' is the sequel to 2004's ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', currently in development by Creator/ParadoxInteractive and scheduled to release in 2020.

* ShoutOut: One preorder item is [[ComicBook/{{Blade}} Blade's]] outfit from the Creator/WesleySnipes [[Film/BladeTrilogy movies]].

''Vampire: the Masquerade -- Bloodlines 2'' is the sequel to 2004's ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', currently in development by Creator/ParadoxInteractive and scheduled to release in 2020.

''Vampire the Masquerade -- Bloodlines 2'' is the sequel to 2004's ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', currently in development by Creator/ParadoxInteractive and scheduled to release in 2020.

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 scene implodes as the council squabbles 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.

* CallBack: Several preorder items include Jeanette and Smiling Jack's outfits, a portrait of the Voerman sisters as children, Damsel's beret, a table made to resemble the Ankaran Sarcophagus, and a severed arm as a weapon skin.

* CallBack: Several preorder items include Jeannette and Smiling Jack's outfits, a portrait of the Voerman sisters as children, Damsel's beret, a table made to resemble the Ankaran Sarcophagus, and a severed arm as a weapon skin.

* BloodyHorror: The announcement trailer has this in ''spades'', first showing a bathroom sink dripping blood before it erupts from the faucet and gushes down the hallway ala the elevator scene from ''Film/TheShining'', and one of the last shots of the trailer is a ''gigantic tidal wave of blood'' descending upon Seattle.

BloodyHorror: The announcement trailer has this in ''spades'', first showing a bathroom sink dripping blood before it erupts from the faucet and gushes down the hallway ala the elevator scene from ''Film/TheShining'', and one of the last shots of the trailer is a ''gigantic tidal wave of blood'' descending upon Seattle.

BloodyHorror: The announcement trailer has this in ''spades'', first showing a bathroom sink dripping blood before it erupts from the faucet and gushes down the hallway ala the elevator scene from ''Film/TheShining'', and one of the last shots of the trailer is a ''gigantic'' tidal wave of blood descending upon Seattle.

BloodyHorror: The announcement trailer has this in ''spades'', first showing a bathroom sink dripping blood before it erupts from the sink and gushes down the hallway ala the elevator scene from ''Film/TheShining'', and one of the last shots of the trailer is a ''gigantic'' tidal wave of blood descending upon Seattle.

BloodyHorror: The announcement trailer has this in ''spades'': First showing a bathroom sink dripping blood before it erupts from the sink and gushes down the hallway ala the elevator scene from ''Film/TheShining'', and one of the last shots of the trailer is a ''gigantic'' tidal wave of blood descending upon Seattle.

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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 scene implodes as the council squabbles amongst themselves, and an unexplained fire breaks out and engulfs the room. You take the opportunity to flee into the night, there to try and uncover who did this to you, and why. If you’re lucky, you’ll survive long enough to find out.

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 scene implodes as the council squabbles among themselves, and an unexplained fire breaks out and engulfs the room. You take the opportunity to flee into the night, there to try and uncover who did this to you, and why. If you’re lucky, you’ll survive long enough to find out.

-> ''"The city will bleed you dry. You're young. You'll fight over scraps. Safety is bought with blood. Yours... Theirs... Ours. Make one mistake, and it's over. Here, no one's hands stay clean. You will come to despise it as much as I do... But I've waited so long to see it again."''

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* TechnologyMarchesOn: Due to the prevalence of smartphones, maintaining your cover can be much harder.

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