With the recent hype and euphoria surrounding the release of Half-Life 2, it's been all too easy to overlook the 'other' game which uses Valve's sparkling new Source engine. That game is of course Bloodlines, a free-form RPG based on the White Wolf rule set. And while it may not quite be up to Half-Life 2's standards, it still proves to be a hugely impressive game.

Set in a fictional version of LA that's packed full of dark, sinister locales and imaginative yet clearly psychologically unstable characters, you play a newly sired Vampire who must somehow get to grips with their new, undead way of life. However, it's not long before you become entangled in a complex web of intrigue and conspiracy that sees your kind's very way of life put at risk.