Vampire Rain: Altered Species is a shooter developed by Artoon, released 21 August 2008 on PlayStation 3.
What Vampire Rain: Altered Species is
Vampire Rain: Altered Species is a shooter game developed by Artoon and released in 2008. It was published by Ignition Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Vampire Rain: Altered Species is a Playstation 3 port of Vampire Rain. Gameplay is in the third person, and involves a lot stealth play, similar to the Splinter Cell and Metal Gear Solid series, with some platform, exploration and combat-style elements too. Players often need to take advantage of the darkness to stay undetected for an entire mission. This is further encouraged to exceptionally strong enemies and the lack of effective close-combat weapons for a large part of the game. The arsenal includes a handgun, sub-machine gun, assault rifle, shotgun, sniper rifle, anti-armor rifle and a UV Knife. Traps are more effective and large groups of Nightwalkers can be taken out all at once by…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Vampire Rain: Altered Species holds a critic score of 36 out of 100. That places it above 4% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 29 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Vampire Rain: Altered Species launched on 21 August 2008, within three weeks of Braid, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, Spore and Castle Crashers. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Braid, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, Spore, Castle Crashers.
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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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