Skyrim whole conversion mod Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption Reawakened simply received an up to date take a look at its modern-day portion, with a 10-minute video showcasing London within the yr 2000, in addition to how the crew’s managed to get firearms working fairly nicely within the battered warhorse that’s Bethesda’s seminal 2011 RPG.
The unique Redemption preceded its a lot better-known (and extra beloved) CRPG sibling, VTM – Bloodlines, by a very good 4 years. It has a implausible premise and ambiance, with half the sport going down within the late center ages, whereas the second half sees vampire knight Christof as a fish out of water in flip of the millennium London and New York. Sadly, it falls sufferer to perhaps each one of many worst traits of late ’90s, early ’00s RPGs, like Sideshow Bob stepping right into a sea of rakes.
You had a full celebration with no tactical pausing or direct management of your companions, leading to that sort of janky, mushy RPG fight the place a myriad of obtuse stats are what actually decide the end result of fights—principally it is simply the kind of recreation the place a critical overhaul remaster could be very welcome.
We have beforehand reported on Redemption Reawakened’s medieval portion, however that is the primary good luck of the fashionable day we have gotten in a scorching minute. The primary little bit of the video reveals Christoff capturing his approach out of a vampire hunter facility—it isn’t essentially the most thrilling of dungeons, however the RR crew’s muddle recreation is actually on-point, populating this workplace with all the numerous physics bits and boobahs that I crave in a first-person RPG. No Skyrim conversion can ever absolutely eliminate the stink of Skyrim, however the crew nonetheless pulled off a plausible, tactile surroundings in a totally totally different artwork fashion to the bottom recreation.
And the gunplay appears fairly good too—it is onerous to inform with out feeling it within the hand, however the first particular person animations look higher and extra plausible to my eye than what we noticed in Skyrim’s modern first particular person RPGs like Fallout 3, New Vegas, or certainly, Vampire Bloodlines. I am curious to see the place the crew goes with the third particular person animations although—proper now the cops and vampire hunters Christof fights are holding their weapons kind of like swords.
The demo sequence actually comes alive when Christof goes topside although. Redemption Reawakened’s city zones have that very same noirish vibe that I cherish from Bloodlines, and that is one space of the venture that basically blew my expectations of a Skyrim mod out of the water: London appears like a contemporary metropolis, and never an absurd Skyrim approximation of 1. The showcase additionally encompasses a preview of a GTA-style police response system, with Christof shotgunning some beat cops, upsetting a SWAT tactical response, full with a helicopter dropping off riot shield-toting elites.
Progress continues apace on this severely spectacular mod, and I can not wait to play it, although it at the moment has no set launch window. To maintain up with progress on Redemption Reawakened, you may observe venture lead Galejro on Twitter or YouTube.
