So I Tried... Bloodrayne

It’s my turn to take on the So I Tried... series, and I think you all know the score by now. I’ll take a game that I have never tried before and play it for a solid half-hour, no matter how much I hate it, or how poorly I perform. Maybe I’ll find a new game to lose myself in; maybe I’ll find one to gather dust on my shelf. Either way, I decided to give the PC version of BloodRayne a go.

What I thought it was

I know it’s a vampire themed hack and slasher revolving around Nazis and a red-haired Serana, and I cannot think of a better combination. I also know that, considering the amount of time it took for me to actually get this thing running, I’m going to be absurdly excited regardless of how piss-poor the game turns out to be. There are no breaks on the hype train, and when you’ve spent almost a year at the station, it doesn’t matter how few tunnels there are on the journey.

What it actually is

Exactly what I imagined, and so far I’m loving it. The best way I can think to describe it is Underworld in videogame form, complete with guns, neck-biting and an impractically sexy protagonist. I do feel as though I’m missing parts of the story though – I couldn’t get the cutscenes to work without crashing my game and, up to now, I’ve done nothing but traipse through a swamp populated by non-Nazi zombies. Perhaps I’ll have a plot summary open while I wait on the loading screens, because the gameplay alone is exciting enough to see me through to the end.

Will I keep playing?

Oh right, kinda answered that in the previous section… Yes! I’ll be playing BloodRayne for as long as it runs on my laptop (which, admittedly, might not be that long). The game is really showing its age, not only in its visuals, but in its clunky gameplay and sub-par voice acting; however, it feels like one of those titles that lets you just sit back and enjoy the unholy power that it provides. After all, it isn’t every day you’re given a jump button that flings you thirty foot in the air.