A site called Overidon has a review on Vampire: Redemption.  It's blog-level stuff but it's always fun to take a trip down memory lane:

The story for this game is great and what really makes it hit home is the amazing voice acting. All the dialogue in the game including notes and papers you find on your journey are voice acted with amazing skill. You really feel like Christof loves Anezka and he is willing to travel to the ends of the Earth to find her again. At it heart, Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption is a love story. As a man, I wasn’t exactly sure that I wanted to play a game about a romantic love story. But after listening to the characters talk to each other I immediately got emotionally involved in the story. I felt like I was playing the part of Christof and being able to choose dialogue options at specific points in the game deepened the immersion. The story is also about redemption and the struggle to maintain someone’s humanity while in a perilous situation. Christof has to choose whether or not if he wants to embrace his vampire ways or else labor to become human again. Christof also teams up with other women that fight in his coterie (that’s like a vampire team) and they share their sympathies for Christof and sometimes offer themselves discreetly to him. But Christof stays focused on being with his true love, Anezka.

Michael Anderson(txa1265) pens another one of his netbook reviews for GearDiary, this one on the 2000 cRPG from Activision, Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption.

Here's a snip:

... I am not suggesting that every RPG should offer unimpeded freedom in all areas. In many role-playing games you either have a predetermined character who gets loads of flexibility and freedom in terms of story and development (e.g. the Gothic series), or get to create your own character but have a fairly narrow set of choices leading to subtle flavors on the same basic game (e.g. the Mass Effect games).

But VtM: Redemption forces you into a tightly defined role (Paladin turned Vampire with Nun for a love interest), and then railroads you into a story-centric mission structure that take you straight through until the end of the game. As you proceed you gain party members who will fight alongside you as you make your way through the story, each with specific skills that will aid in advancing through combat.

"Retrospective" is probably a bit grand for this short article (despite being spread over five pages) but it's always interesting to read about these games:

Character development for Vampire Redemption is vastly different from most RPGs. Rather than having levels that you gain, you spend experience points as a form of currency to upgrade your character's disciplines and attributes. As the attributes get higher, the cost of raising them grows as well. The game keeps track of the total number of experience points you have gained, while the actual number you have available is right underneath that. Attributes fall into three categories, each of which has three attributes: physical (such as strength), mental (such as intelligence), and personality (such as charisma). Certain disciplines use certain attributes, and specializing is incredibly important if you want to finish the game.

Cool news from GoG.com's "Month of Activision"!  The 2000 RPG Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption is now available at GoG.com for $5.99!

Vampire The Masquerade: Redemption is a role-playing game closely based upon the acclaimed pen-and-paper RPG system Vampire: The Masquerade. It tells the story of a French crusader, Christof Romuald, whose perilous quest will see him traveling across the world in both the Dark Ages and modern times. You can choose between a path of good or evil and the choices you make throughout the game will determine which of the many endings will come to fruition. Last but not least it offers a multiplayer narrative mode, which essentially allows you to play an RPG session on-line, with one of the players being the GM.

The game is an 808MB download, and extras include the manual, hi-res wallpapers, artwork and avatars.