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Game News Blood Knights, Vampire ARPG announced

VentilatorOfDoom

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dtp Entertainment announced Blood Knights, a vampire Action-RPG thing developed by Deck13 (makers of Venetica). Release date is somewhere in Q3 2012. Here, let me shamelessly steal the press release + trailer from Gamebanshee.
Hamburg, 26. July 2012 - Today dtp entertainment announce their latest download game, Blood Knights – a full blooded Vampire-Action-RPG that features intense combat, tons of weapons, items as well as vampiric abilities that put players in total control over their enemies and let them feel the powers that vampires wield in the Blood Knights universe.

An exciting and entertaining story rounds off the picture of the unique download game. Blood Knights will be available on PC and Consoles this summer.

Blood Knights is developed by the renowned independent German studio Deck13 (Venetica, Jack Keane, Ankh) and features a plot focusing on Jeremy, a vampire hunter who was viciously attacked and bitten during on one of his dangerous missions and is now bound by blood to the sexy, but mysterious, 'vampiress', Alysa. The former arch-enemies have to work together to rid themselves of the binding.

Blood Knights’ vampire storyline comes to life through the heroes Jeremy and Alysa. As different as they are, they are bound by blood and have to fight together to survive. While Jeremy is a mighty warrior who is dual wielding increasingly powerful weapons and uses devastating attacks, Alysa uses crossbows, traps, bombs and special ammunition to eliminate her enemies from a distance. Both are able to use various vampiric abilities that become ever stronger and more and more impressive in the course of the game. Jeremy for example can pull huge groups of enemies towards him and unleash chaos upon them once they are in melee range.

Set in the mythical Middle Ages, the players will be able to control both Alysa and Jeremy in their cooperative quest for salvation, either in single player or co-op mode. The protagonists will encounter numerous enemies, avoid traps and fight and confront an impressive (and sometimes sexy) array of bosses - each one requiring a unique strategy in order to be defeated. Rich treasure and rewards await those who against all odds are able to fight their way through the wide variety of settings/scenes.

Blood Knights will be released in Q3 2012 for PC and consoles.

About dtp entertainment
dtp entertainment AG is one of Germany’s largest independent games publishers and has been in the industry since 1995. The company employs more than 150 people with headquarters in Hamburg/Germany and subsidiary in Singapore. dtp entertainment develops games for all entertainment platforms and publishes these internationally. In addition, the company is a well-established distributor for software, DVDs and Blu-rays in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. www.dtp-entertainment.com

 

Zed

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vampire TnA, xplosive xtion.
bestseller right here.

why do germans have no shame?
cheesiest metal, cheesiest games, cheesiest damn cheese.
 

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renowned independent German studio Deck13 (Venetica, Jack Keane, Ankh)
sexy, but mysterious, 'vampiress', Alysa
mythical Middle Ages
impressive (and sometimes sexy) array of bosses

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Mother Russia

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Looks better than Diablo III, and every shitty Torchlight game. Could be the best vampire game released since Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain.

However, the annoying and possibly game breaking thing is that there will be a tag along character with you, i.e. the sexy vampire bitch. That sucks.
 

SerratedBiz

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With spell-checkers being so prevalent nowadays, how in fuck can you manage to post something so ridled with spelling mistakes?

ETA:

Sexy vampiress said:
You're going to get us killed...! ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... AGAIN.

:yeah:
 

Pope Amole II

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Yeah, it's so generic and bland that I can't imagine anyone getting hyped about it - even morons and retards should have their standards.
 

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God the voice and dialogue in the trailer...How can anyone think it was a good idea to release that? Can not watch without cringing. Not much gameplay shown, not really sure what's going on there, plenty of VISCERAL blood splatter and AWESOME cleaves though.
 

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Doesn't look too bad. Sure, story looks cheesy as fuck, art design is horrendously ridiculous, but Venetica was fun and this looks like it could be, too.
 

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Combat system looks similar to that of the First Templar, and that game was not too bad either.
 

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Doesn't look too bad. Sure, story looks cheesy as fuck, art design is horrendously ridiculous, but Venetica was fun and this looks like it could be, too.

Yup. Same here.
Venetica was fun, despite all the valid points you could raise against it.

And this does look better than Venetica by far.
Also, I :love:non-gay* vampires and cheesy stories, so... ;)

*gay as in Twilight, not gay as in Russel & Talbert in True Blood, those were nice.
 

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Hopefully they use a different engine than Venetica. Performance was total crap no matter how good your rig. On consoles it was all but unplayable.
 

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It has a somewhat endearing B-movie feel to it. Could be worth checking out, but I would not expect much RP in this G.
 

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