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Vampyr

“It’s a great idea, but in practice it feels more like you’re simply checking details off a list.”

DEVELOPER DONTNOD ENTERTAINMENT • PUBLISHER FOCUS HOME INTERACTIVE • PRICE $US49.99 • AVAILABLE AT STEAM www.vampyr-game.com

The older I get, the more I suspect I’m going to be saying this quite a lot about games:

“I really wanted to like X, but…”

So, let’s get this out of the way now, shall we? I really wanted to like Vampyr, but all it really made me think as I was playing it was that I’d much rather be playing Dishonored instead.

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