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After having pushed several deadlines, Activision intervenes and assigns all available assets to Troika in order to finish on time.

Troika starts to exceed their budgets and timelines.

Rightfully so, they intended to avoid clashing with the titan that was Half Life 2, and also the hectic Christmas period release windows of competitors.

In February 2004 it was announced the game would have a release window roughly during the spring of 2005.

The game started to suffer under the weight of its own ambition, having to cut several gameplay and story elements (which would later become restored through fan made patches and managed to polish up the game immensely, to the point of near perfection).

The team had no real producer until after a year in development.The game was revealed in May 2003, not much later hackers effectively breached Valve and the Source code ended up being stolen, pushing back development for both games.How this all came to be was attributed to several factors: Part of the terms with Valve stated that game developer Troika could not release their title before the release of the critically acclaimed shooter Half Life 2, which actually ended up releasing on the exact same day. The game used the infamous Source engine, which was under software company Valve‘s strict control. Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines (Troika Games 2004) Personally I could not agree more, but more in depth about that later. The critics largely called it “ an unfinished masterpiece“, praising it for its intriguing dialogue system, engaging story, atmosphere, wonderfully imaginative missions and excellent characters. It featured a flawed combat system, unbalanced gameplay and various technical issues.

The game’s initial vanilla version was an absolute bugfest (even including a game-breaking bug that anyone who bought it, including yours truly, had to deal with). The first Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines‘ videogame however, released back in 2004, was a bit of a tragic story. Rapidly gaining in popularity, we saw a first videogame appear in 2000 called Vampire The Masquerade: Redemption (actually really good) and even a short lived Tori Spelling television show called “ Kindred: The Embraced” (not very good). It uses the established lore of the World of Darkness, released in part as a rulebook back in 1991. Vampire: The Masquerade in essence used to be an old pen and paper RPG by White Wolf Publishing using the Storyteller System.