History VideoGame / VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines2

The game is being released on PC, UsefulNotes/XBoxOne, UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesX, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, and UsefulNotes/PlayStation5 in late 2020.

The game is being released on PC, UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesX, and UsefulNotes/PlayStation5 in late 2020.

* SoundtrackDissonance: The "Come Dance On Your Grave" trailer features various vampires dancing to "Danke Schoen" (performed by Music/WayneNewton), while or after they've been mauling their victims.[[note]]Mr. Damp dances with four of his victims' corpses, strung up around a Christmas tree and facially mutilated into a GlasgowGrin with no eyelids. The second one dances in a luxurious apartment but stops to wipe a bloodstain off his window. Elif lures an unfortunate sucker in so she can add a bite to her dance party.[[/note]]

''Vampire: The Masquerade -- Bloodlines 2'' is the upcoming sequel to 2004's ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', currently in development by Hardsuits Labs and published by Creator/ParadoxInteractive, scheduled to release in late 2020. Quite a few of the developers on the original game, most prominently designer and writer Brian Mitsoda and composer Rik Schaffer, have returned for this game. The game additionally features Cara Ellison and Creator/ChrisAvellone as writers.

* TheCameo: [[spoiler: Damsel from the original game is confirmed to feature in-game in this one.]]

* TheCameo: [[spoiler: Damsel from the original game is confirmed to feature in this one to some capacity.]]

''Vampire: The Masquerade -- Bloodlines 2'' is the sequel to 2004's ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', currently in development by Hardsuits Labs and published by Creator/ParadoxInteractive, scheduled to release in late 2020. Quite a few of the developers on the original game, most prominently designer and writer Brian Mitsoda and composer Rik Schaffer, have returned for this game. The game additionally features Cara Ellison and Creator/ChrisAvellone as writers.

%%* BulletTime: The most powerful skill of the Celerity discpline for Toreadors is Accelerate, in which the vampire is so fast everything else slows down.

%%** 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. ''There’s even a stop sign item!''

* SoundtrackDissonance: The "Come Dance On Your Grave" trailer features various vampires dancing to "Danke Schoen" (performed by Music/WayneNewton), while or after they've been mauling their victims[[note]]Mr. Damp dances with four of his victims' corpses, strung up around a Christmas tree and facially mutilated into a GlasgowGrin with no eyelids. The second guy dances in a luxurious apartment but stops to wipe a bloodstain off his window. The third gal lures an unfortunate sucker in so she can add a bite to her dance party[[/note]].

* SoundtrackDissonance: The "Come Dance On Your Grave" trailer features various vampires dancing to "Danke Schoen", while or after they've been mauling their victims[[note]]Mr. Damp dances with four of his victims' corpses, strung up around a Christmas tree and facially mutilated into a GlasgowGrin with no eyelids. The second guy dances in a luxurious apartment but stops to wipe a bloodstain off his window. The third gal lures an unfortunate sucker in so she can add a bite to her dance party[[/note]].

* SoundtrackDissonance: The "Come Dance On Your Grave" trailer features various vampires dancing to 'Danke Shoein'... while or after they've been mauling their victims[[note]]The first guy dances with four of his victims' corpses, strung up around a Christmas tree and facially mutilated into a GlasgowGrin with no eyelids. The second guy dances in a luxurious apartment but stops to wipe a bloodstain off his window. The third gal lures an unfortunate sucker in so she can add a bite to her dance party[[/note]].

* SoundtrackDissonance: The "Come Dance On Your Grave" trailer features various vampires dancing to 'Danke Shoein'... while or after they've been mutilating their victims[[note:The first guy dances with four of his victims' corpses, strung up around a Christmas tree and facially mutilated into a GlasgowGrin with no eyelids. The second guy dances in a luxurious apartment but stops to wipe a bloodstain off his window. The third gal lures an unfortunate sucker in so she can add a bite to her dance party]].

[[caption-width-right:350:[[TagLine Come dance on your ''grave''.]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[TagLine A city run on blood.]]]]

[[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]].

* AintTooProudToBeg: If the PC defeats Slugg and his ambush to try and Shanghai the PC for their money, then he begs for his life. The player can murder him or spare him. (And Slugg promises to owe them one if they should choose the latter)

* PetTheDog: A minor example, but Slugg tries to screw over the PC if they give him the money before finding out where he's stashed the data. But if the PC tells him they are leaving Seattle, (like he apparently plans to) and just need to run this errand first before getting out, then he tells them that this is a wise decision and admits he was planning to have you killed, but won't go through with it now. Instead he simply sells you the data and allows you to leave in peace.

* AlternateRealityGame: The game's existence was revealed at the climax of a particularly elaborate one, based around ''Tender'', a surprisingly interactive fictional dating app with a suspicious interest in its participants' blood. Fans following it were greatly divided on what the trickle of information and suggestive ''VTMB''-themed imagery meant, theories ranging from [[AntiClimax absolutely nothing]], to a ''Bloodlines'' remake or remaster, a brand new IP, a mobile game, an MMO... The few who steadfastly believed it spelled a proper sequel to ''Bloodlines'' were definitely in the minority, so unlikely it was after ''[[SequelGap fourteen years]]''.

* AlternateRealityGame: The game's existence was revealed at the climax of a particularly elaborate one, based around ''Tender'', a surprisingly interactive fictional dating app with a suspicious interest in its participants' blood. Fans following it were greatly divided on what the trickle of information and suggestive ''VTMB''-themed imagery meant, theories ranging from [[AntiClimax absolutely nothing]], to a ''Bloodlines'' remake or remaster, a brand new IP, a mobile game, an MMO... The few who steadfastly believed it spelled a proper sequel to ''Bloodlines'' were definitely in the minority, so unlikely it was after ''fourteen years''.

* 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''.

%%* HelloNurse: Leave it to the Toreador clan to ''weaponize'' this trope -- the "Awe" skill makes all [=NPCs=] stop and freeze at the vampire's sheer ''beauty''.

* EarlyBirdCameo: It has been confirmed that the five vampires who narrate the clan introduction videos are in fact actual NPC's who can be encountered in game.