And be careful with that messed-up hotel level to this day, it's cited by many as one of the scariest playthroughs of all time.
Sharing gameplay elements with so many bona fide classics helped to make it a cult hit in its own era, and makes it a great surprise today for retro gamers looking for an experience they may have missed out on the first time around. For fans of immersive RPGs with similar character-building elements such as Deus Ex, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Fallout, or even similarly-engrossing RPGs that played differently, like Planescape: Torment, V:tM-B provided a rare and hard-to-replicate experience. A horror action-RPG played from both the first- and third-person perspectives, V:tM-B cast players as an unnamed human-turned-vampire negotiating a world of undead clans all competing for nocturnal influence. A fanbase that creates their own content for a game for ten years after the shutdown of the studio that made it? That speaks to something special, and Vampire: the Masquerade-Bloodlines is certainly a unique game. You can tell a lot about a game by the kind of fanbase it attracts.
