If Halloween wish-lists were a thing, then news about Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 would likely have been what many of us wrote about in our letters to Santa Pumpkin. And even though I just made him up, maybe he really does exist after all, because that's exactly what we just got: a surprise stream granting a first-look at the narrative and RPG elements of one of gaming's most long-awaited sequels.
The 18 minute video, which you can watch below, is the first proper look we've had at the resurrected Bloodlines 2 since The Chinese Room — the indie studio behind Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs and Everybody's Gone To The Rapture — were announced as the game's new developers back in early September.
Bloodlines 2 is a sequel to the 2004 PC game Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, a cult classic which is still intensely popular after nearly two decades, despite its infamously troubled production and launch. It's a testament to the quality of the writing and world-building that many players — myself included — still count it among the all-time greatest video games, even though you famously need to mod the living hell out of the thing to get it to run smoothly.