If you are anything like me, Troika Games' upcoming title Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines has filled you with excitement and dread at what is to come to our PCs next month. Back in 1999, Nihilistic Software created the first Vampire: The Masquerade game. It was a promising, yet overall disappointing game. Now, in 2004, we return to the World of Darkness, and from the creators of such games as Fallout 1 and 2, as well as Arcanum: Of Steamwork and Magick Obscura, we should expect little less then greatness from their newest game surrounding the dark world of vampires.