Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2’s creators want the game to grow up — but stay weird

In the cult 2004 role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, vampires love to dance. Your protagonist can show up at a nightclub and jump into the center of the action, throwing their limbs wildly with an enthusiasm that’s not generally credited to the undead. And in a demo of Bloodlines upcoming sequel from Hardsuit Labs and Paradox Interactive, dancing is one of the first things you see, courtesy of a team member who did “extensive research” into the game’s original animations.

Developer Hardsuit Labs seems to be building a lot of these little, familiar details in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2. But in an interview at E3, its creators also talked about how to translate the original game’s tone and ideas into a new…

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