[quote name='Umair56']How does that game hold up? Its one I've always wanted to play but never got around to and I haven't seen it get a proper discount.[/QUOTE]
Be warned, it's been cheaper before.
GameFly had it for $3.75 once; it's been $5 on Steam before. Wouldn't surprise me if Steam puts this on sale during Halloween...
Or that it just does not go on sale there on Steam, since that game doesn't really go on sale too often there, BTW...
...Just so you know...
One of my favorite games of all time.
My Most Uninstalled/Reinstalled Game Of All Time. It's the game on my older PC when I was always fighting my PC for HDD space, every year I'd up uninstalling (to get space back) and eventually reinstalling it (when Halloween came around). Won't happen nowadays - since I have 2 nice big HDD's for this Win 7 PC.
Be warned - it's a Troika game and their games were always quite buggy.
You DO & WILL need to mod it up - especially if you want to run on Win 7 (or above).
While Final Patch 1.20 was in a stable state, modders have improved the game immensely (bug-fixing and engine fixing so it runs on modern OS's; some versions of Wesp's Patch restore unused content).
Make sure you put in either Wesp's Patch or Tess's True Patch - depending on what Unofficial Patch you'd rather use.
And use the Widescreen Patcher Mod (this comes w/ Wesp's Mod, BTW) - so you can boot it up to higher-res's.
For more info - go
here for lots of info on how to mod the game & where to get mods - especially even more so true if you do wind up getting a Steam version of it.
Of course, you may also want to look at the
Steam Forums for V:TM-BL for anything else you might need w/ the game.
I'm not sure if GameStop PC App's version uses Steam or not. Not sure what the DRM is there. Maybe someone else can speak on that? I don't know.
Retail Version (on 3 CD's) DID NOT; it only had a simple disc-check - that's the version I have.
DotEmu had a DRM-FREE version up for a while.
I think GameFly's version was Non-Steam - not sure. Maybe someone who has that version can speak on that?
The game is fantastic. If you liked the original Deus Ex, combat is similar to that - yeah, it's a little clunky (especially w/ guns), when compared to combat in many RPG's, these days; but that stuff was kind of par for the course back then when the blending of RPG's and First-Person Action and Third-Person action games were first going on. And yes, there are dice rolls based on your stats.
But the amount of choice the games gives you; number of different endings (7 - The Godly number); the story; the characters; the dialogue; the voice-acting; the licensed music (from Chiasm, Daniel Ash, Tiamat, etc); & the original score soundtrack (from Womb Music) is absolutely fantastic.
