Vampire Hunters - New Indie Release

Blue's points out the site for Vampire Hunters - a "full 3D role-playing game with adventure-like elements that will charm the player with its dark atmosphere of old docks where a mysterious clan of vampires rages free". The exact gameplay details are slim beyond the 3rd person view and "ATBS" combat and even the manual basically only reveals the presence of a standard set of primary stats, although the mini-walkthrough looks a lot like a classic adventure game. There doesn't appear to be a demo but the game is available via the site for $16.99. A feature list:

- Catchy storyline underlined by a thrilling dark atmosphere. The overall impression is augmented by an original game soundtrack creating a slightly horror mood.
- Advancement of the main character including level-ups, enhancements of skills and abilities.
- The possibility to create your own spells using the rune system
- ATBS (active time battle system, commonly used in many Asian RPG games including Final Fantasy series) adding dynamics to turn based combat as well as the possibility to use a lot of hits, blows, weapons and special combos
- A lot of adventure-like items and non-linear dialogue branching
- With a starting price of 16.99 USD the game offers an outstanding price / quality ratio

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The developer is listed as Mayhem Studios, who may be the same as studio as a number of "B" RPG efforts, such as Shadow Vault, but it isn't clear.


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Mayhem Studios is quite known. I have a number of their efforts like Shadow vault, Neverend and Empire of Magic.
Looking at the mobygames database - they already released a vampire themed RPG back in 2007 called Vampire World: Port of Death

http://www.mobygames.com/game/vampire-world-port-of-death

No English release as it seems but Vampire Hunters might be some sort of sequel perhaps.

edit: there is even a video for Vampire World: Port of Death on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7adit5rc3tA

I never heard of this. Cool, thanks DH.

Even though Neverend was a little odd, I liked it. I didn't like Shadow Vault, though. This one doesn't look half bad and the price is great 16.99. I'll give this one a go a little later on.

Looks good. They should really release a demo.

Thanks Dhruin, this does look very interesting and an almost certain purchase. But being in the midst of Risen, with Dragon Age around the corner, and Div Div 2 around the next corner this game could sit on my shelf for a while.

OTH, a contemporary RPG might get played a lot sooner than I think in order to break up the continious High Fantasy concept RPGs.