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A potentially great game marred by some major flaws
This is a game that has a lot of potential. The sexy but deadly heroine is very well done, and is well positioned to build a story/game around. Her fighting style, which consists of two 3-foot blades which can be used simultaneously with a wide range of guns and explosives as well as acrobatic moves, makes for enjoyable and great-looking combat sequences. And there's something sadistically fun about having her jump onto an enemy, wrap her legs around him, and start draining him of blood, or simply gradually dismembering him with the blades. Other highlights include the various vision modes and the brief mid-game sequence where you gain control of a primitive mech.

However, the game has some major flaws that prevent it from living up to its full potential. These include a clichéd storyline (it's definitely not the first game to pit you against Nazis dabbling in the occult), short playtime (I finished in about 10 hours), low replay appeal, and drab environments. The inability to save anywhere other than the beginning of levels was frustrating, especially because on some of the larger levels it's really easy to die just before the completion of the level. Thankfully most of the levels were fairly short.

The biggest problem though is the lack of variety. The number of different enemy types is fairly small, there's little discernable difference between the various guns (other than the special weapons), combat boils down to little more than button-mashing, and there's really no character progression (you can increase your attack levels as you advance, but they make almost no difference to the gameplay). Even with only 10 hours of total game time, playing it started to become tedious.

I'd give this a 3 star rating if not for the fact that it's really cheap now, and it's probably worth playing just to lay the groundwork for the sequel. I played a beta of BloodRayne 2 at E3 last week, and I was quite impressed with it. Terminal Reality seems to have kept the good parts of the original and fixed almost everything else, so I'm looking forward to playing the full game later this year. It would seem that they have a very strong franchise on their hands.

Fast paced and lots of fun
This game is extremely enjoyable in its short lived, 7-10 hour, single player campaign.

The guns and blade moves all look terrific, especially her blood lust and slo-mo vision. The game is very gory and some of the slow motion death scenes are so over the top theyll make you laugh.

However, what keeps this game from 5 stars is its repetitive gameplay, 3 settings and each level on the same setting is very similar, and its short gameplay. The game will take you 2-4 days to beat and sadly there isnt much replay value.

But for its cheap price the game cannot be beat in terms of its quick and satisfying play.