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'They were still a garage developer when so many studios were becoming factories, and they were making full-fledged RPGs,' he explains. The Source's engine's mighty animation system allowed for some very expressive characters, but building a game in an engine which still being built caused its own problems. Development of Torn was cancelled in 2001, and Mitsoda was attracted to Troika after hearing about what they were working on. Mitsoda joined Troika just under a year later, after a spell at Black Isle Studios working on Torn, an ambitious RPG running in Monolith's 3D Lithtech engine. Troika Games was founded in 1998 by Jason Anderson and Leonard Boyarsky, and work began on Bloodlines in November 2001. This is the story of two men who breathed life into the same game - one before it was born, the other after it died.

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Thanks to a German analytical chemist with a passion for fixing broken things, Bloodlines has received not six months of additional work, but nine full years. But the commercial death of Bloodlines wasn't the end for the game.

An unfinished game released prematurely by its publishers Activision, it didn't stand a chance on the shelves, especially alongside the hotly anticipated Half Life 2. 'It was dumped on the market at the worst possible time - most people didn't even know we were out,' says Brian Mitsoda, the former lead writer on Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 'Both fans and the Troika devs are always going to wonder what the game could have been like with another six months.'Д«loodlines was sent out to die. The second was largely ignored, resulting in the closure of its developer and the scattering of its designers to the winds.

The first was quickly heralded as a modern classic, leading to its creators becoming one of the most influential companies in the games industry. On November 16, 2004, two games powered by the Source engine were released for the PC. This article was originally published in July 2013. In the wake of World of Darkness's cancellation, and as - thanks to the modding community - the recent release of version 9.0, here's Rick Lane's look at Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines, the game that refuses to die.

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