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Darkwatch
Game Platform: X-Box
Tala Sammy Studios has released the provocative image of Tala, created exclusively for a pictorial in the October issue of Playboy Magazine. A pivotal character in Darkwatch, the upcoming Vampire-Western first-person shooter (FPS) video game, Tala bares more than her fangs in the men's magazine spread dedicated to sexy video game leading ladies. The revealing image, capturing her dangerous sensuality as a half-vampire seductress of Native American descent, is the work of Sammy Studios' in-house team of artists working in conjunction with Brain Zoo Studios of Van Nuys, California. The image appears in a pictorial accompanying the article "Gaming Grows Up" in Playboy's upcoming issue, hitting newsstands this month. Tala plays an important role in Darkwatch as a femme fatale with equal lusts for blood and power. In Darkwatch, gamers play as Jericho Cross, an outlaw gunslinger pulled into the ranks of a vampire-hunting secret society when he is inadvertently bitten by a vampire lord. Sensuous and dangerous, Tala becomes Jericho's evil muse after luring him into a moment of passion where she urges him to bite her, making her into a powerful half-vampire like himself. Darkwatch is slated for release on the Xbox video game system from Microsoft and PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system in spring 2005. The game is not yet rated.
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Shadowbane: Throne of Oblivion
An expansion pack to the MMORPG Shadowbane. In addition to the new strategic systems, Shadowbane: Throne of Oblivion will feature extensive new player options centered around an invasion from the Lands of the Dead. This expansion also allows players for the first time to take on the role of characters from the Vampire race, whose unique powers, strengths, and weakness will add new layers and tactics to the Shadowbane PvP landscape. New classes, including the Nightstalker, Necromancer, and disciplines including Vampire bloodlines and four new siege disciplines also debut here.

Blade II

Platform: PlayStation 2
Publisher: Activision
Developer: Mucky Foot Productions
Genre: Action
Release Date: Q4 2001

No details have been announced regarding the sequel to Activision's action game based on the popular vampire movie, although the game will most likely be based on the rumored movie sequel to Blade.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Platform: PC
Publisher: Fox Interactive
Developer: The Collective
Genre: Action
Release Date: Q4 2001

Fox Interactive's Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a third-person action game based on the hit television show. In the game, you play as Buffy Summers, a teenager who attends high school by day and leads the secret life of a vampire hunter by night. The game will feature all of Buffy's friends from the TV show: Angel, Xander, Cordelia, Willow, Oz, and Giles. These friends will help Buffy in her quest to destroy the evil vampires that plague the city as she runs, jumps, and fights her way through the game's many levels.
The game itself will take place in fully 3D environments. Buffy must explore and find items and power-ups to make her stronger, run faster, and heal damage. She'll also have to solve challenging puzzles in order to pass through the game's levels and advance to new areas. And of course, Buffy will be forced to fight against the many evil creatures that block her path - vampires, demons, and worse. Fortunately, Buffy isn't helpless. Not only is she equipped with her inherent ability to slay vampires, but she also has expert martial-arts knowledge, she possesses heightened senses and perception, and she has natural healing abilities to help counteract the onslaught of the undead.

Castlevania Chronicles

Platform: PlayStation
Publisher: Konami
Developer: Konami
Genre: Adventure
Release Date: 2001 (Japan)

Based on the X68000 version of Castlevania, Chronicles will include both the original game and a new arranged mode.

Horizons: Empires of Istaria

Platform: PC
Developer: Artifact Entertainment
Release Date: 2002

Horizons: Empires of Istaria is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game that's currently in development by Artifact Entertainment, the developers of Demise: Rise of the Ku'Tan. Horizons will take place in the expansive world of Istaria, a fantasy world populated by a great variety of races that walk, fly, and swim. In Horizons, you'll be able to create a character by choosing from among 15 different player races; these include standard high-fantasy role-playing races like dwarves, elves, goblins, humans, and orcs. You'll also be able to play as more exotic races, like angels, demons, dragons, dryads, giants, and vampires; and as completely original races, like the catlike saris, the reptilian ssslik, the aquatic lamurian, and the evil ku'lak.

Hunter: The Reckoning

Platform: Xbox
Publisher: Interplay
Developer: High Voltage
Genre: Action
Release: Q1 2002

Hunter: The Reckoning is based on White Wolf's RPG of the same name, which is part of its World of Darkness series--a world where vampires, wraiths, werewolves, and faeries live among regular humans. Against all these creatures are hunters--humans who have been chosen, for one reason or another, to battle the creatures of the night.

Kingdom Under Fire

Platform: Xbox
Developer: Phantagram
Genre: Strategy
Release: ??

Phantagram's fantasy-themed real-time strategy game originally appeared on the PC; now it's headed for the Xbox.

Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2

Platform: PlayStation 2
Publisher: Eidos Interactive
Developer: Crystal Dynamics
Genre: Adventure
Release Date: Q4 2001

Blood Omen 2 will focus heavily on combat. A lot of work has obviously gone into the game's weapon-based combat system, and its effects are readily apparent, even at this early stage. Throughout the game--scattered on the ground as well as equipped by enemies--will be a variety of weapons, including swords, axes, staves, and daggers. Kain can pick up these weapons, each of which has its own combat characteristics; for instance, axes are powerful but slow, while daggers are weak and swift. He'll also animate differently depending on which weapon he's using, rather than relying on a single canned sequence for each. Kain can also grab enemies when he gets close enough to them and assault them with his weapon while they're defenseless. Again, the animations used for the grapple attacks will be particular to the weapon Kain's using. If he's holding a dagger, he'll stab his foes repeatedly; if he's armed with an axe, he'll brutally cleave their groins.

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2

Platform: PlayStation 2
Publisher: Eidos Interactive
Developer: Crystal Dynamics
Genre: Adventure
Release Date: 08/01/2001

Raziel returns yet again, to uncover the mysteries behind the world of Nosgoth and his nemesis Kain. Taking place before the time of the original Soul Reaver, Eidos' sequel answers a lot of questions as it takes players on another gothic journey.

Vampire Night

Platform: PlayStation 2
Publisher: Namco
Developer: Namco
Genre: Action
Release Date: 2001

Anyone yearning for another entry in the House of the Dead series, your answer is here. Namco and Sega developer WOW are working together on Vampire Night, the spiritual successor to the House of the Dead series. Vampire Night is exactly like a House of the Dead game in every way but name, but the game's setting is much more gothic, having a sort of dark medieval European look.
The story takes place in the medieval time, where you must use your gun to defend yourself from the attacks of the deadly vampires, zombies, and monsters. In this game you can get bonus scores from saving the survivors from the attacks of the vampires and parasites, if you failed, the victims will turn into zombies and monsters, and backfire at you.

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