In most games, even though your character is supposed to be a bad*ss, they always make your foes difficult enough that you really can't enjoy being a bad*ss. Not Bloodrayne, at least not for the first Nazi level in Argentina!!
That first Argentina level, Bloodrayne is obviously overpowered compared to the hapless Nazi soldiers. You get to easily slaughter an entire base full of Nazi scum, and there's pretty much nothing they can do to stop you. Even machine gun fire isn't enough to stop Rayne (with her bullet-time ability, she can actually dodge machine gun fire). You're like the big, bad wolf in a house full of defenseless sheep.
And these sheep don't suffer easy deaths, oh no!! You have the ability to chop off limbs and heads. You can even completely flash dismember entire groups of Nazis in a rain of body parts and gore!!
And the Nazis scream and scream and scream!! You can even prolong their screams if you use Rayne's bullet-time ability.
And if you want to prolong their suffering and/or watch them flee in terror of you, just take a little bite or cut off a single limb. Once that happens, the Nazi soldiers lose their composure, drop their weapons, and run away screaming (crawl away, if you've chopped off a leg). And they take a while to die, leaving a bloody trail and screaming up a storm all the while. It's so satisfying chasing down terrified Nazis!!
Once I got to that first Argentina level, I was totally enthralled, and just kept replaying it again and again! For once in a video game, you actually get to enjoy being a total bad*ss, and since your foes are all Nazi scum, you don't feel bad about it.
The rest of the game is great, too. Rayne's voice actor was spot on, playing a sarcastic, but charming smart*ss. Like another reviewer said, she's like a female Hellboy, plus she's totally gorgeous!! I also LOVED the cut-scene before Germany, where you get to see Rayne put the fear into a Nazi general. "Are you scared, yet?" LOL!!
That first Argentina level, Bloodrayne is obviously overpowered compared to the hapless Nazi soldiers. You get to easily slaughter an entire base full of Nazi scum, and there's pretty much nothing they can do to stop you. Even machine gun fire isn't enough to stop Rayne (with her bullet-time ability, she can actually dodge machine gun fire). You're like the big, bad wolf in a house full of defenseless sheep.
And these sheep don't suffer easy deaths, oh no!! You have the ability to chop off limbs and heads. You can even completely flash dismember entire groups of Nazis in a rain of body parts and gore!!
And the Nazis scream and scream and scream!! You can even prolong their screams if you use Rayne's bullet-time ability.
And if you want to prolong their suffering and/or watch them flee in terror of you, just take a little bite or cut off a single limb. Once that happens, the Nazi soldiers lose their composure, drop their weapons, and run away screaming (crawl away, if you've chopped off a leg). And they take a while to die, leaving a bloody trail and screaming up a storm all the while. It's so satisfying chasing down terrified Nazis!!
Once I got to that first Argentina level, I was totally enthralled, and just kept replaying it again and again! For once in a video game, you actually get to enjoy being a total bad*ss, and since your foes are all Nazi scum, you don't feel bad about it.
The rest of the game is great, too. Rayne's voice actor was spot on, playing a sarcastic, but charming smart*ss. Like another reviewer said, she's like a female Hellboy, plus she's totally gorgeous!! I also LOVED the cut-scene before Germany, where you get to see Rayne put the fear into a Nazi general. "Are you scared, yet?" LOL!!