Dark Angel: Vampire Apocalypse

by METRO 3D

Product Features

• Find out who, or what, is causing this plague
• guide Anna on her action-packed quest; find a cure for this terrible disease
• encounter a wide variety of undead and mutated creatures

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004YKI6
• Item Weight: 5 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: September 6, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 1.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,887 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #80 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Role-Playing

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

All is not right in Gothos. Anna, a young woman of uncommon vigor, has taken it upon herself to find out why some residents of her village are falling to a plague that's turning humans into enlarged, grotesque monsters. Her resulting investigation puts her between a cadre of politically powerful vampires and the masters of science who seek their elimination.

Dark Angel: Vampire Apocalypse is an action/role-playing game that's set in a world of gothic horror. Anna will have to battle a variety of horrible monsters to get the answers that she needs. Everything that she does--every decision that she makes--will affect the world of Gothos and determine her future alliances. The villagers will judge her actions, and they'll either fight by her side or try their best to thwart her.

Product Description

Dark Angel is an action/RPG/simulation game that tells the story of a beautiful young woman named Anna, whose village has been ravaged by a deadly plague. All her friends and neighbors have been transformed from peaceful farmers and merchants into blue-colored, flesh-eating, multi-limbed creatures of the night... there goes the neighborhood unless you as Anna can find out why these strange incidents have begun.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

54 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Oops! Made a mistake buying this one., July 11, 2001

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Bee (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dark Angel: Vampire Apocalypse (Video Game)

Every once in a while you just go ahead and buy a game without knowing anything about it and you are sorry you did. I have had this happen to me once before with a bad game called Deathtrap Dungeon. Well I referred to this game as Deathtrap Dungeon 2 because it's another mistake on my part.

And believe me, I am not all that hard on games. I want to like games and I want to have fun, but there isn't much good about this game. First off, as the other review noted there is no story. You start the game off right in battle, and you expect the story to pick up after that right? Wrong. Think a story is going to show itself at the beginning? Wrong. I have yet to see any story. The only story you will get is from reading the book.

The game kind of reminds me of a Diabalo/Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen, except both of those games were good, and Dark Angel is not. If they would have just thrown in some good voice acting like in Legacy of Kain then the game would be so much better, but they didn't.

The graphics are definately subpar. The menu screen looks like something that could have easily been done on the PS1. Actually, the whole game looks like it could have been on the PS1. The only part that seems above par is the sounds and music. But there is only so many times you can hear a monster grunt, or one say "You'll regret that" after you wax him before that gets old.

They say this game is an Adventure/RPG. I don't see much RPG about it. There really isn't much freedom to wonder around. Guess my idea of a RPG is Phantasy Star, Summoner or Final Fantasy. On Dark Angel you point a silver cursor to one of the areas on the map then it shows brown dots go to that location. There is no getting attacked on your way to anything. Then all you do is crawl around level after level of some dungeon killing lots of monsters, picking up weapons or stuff, hitting switches, and sometimes killing some monster that gives you some item to fullfill a quest you got from one of the towns. Then you take the item back to the town and they give you some money. You also can collect items to take to these shrine things in the towns and they can raise your strength or one of your other attributes.

The towns are pretty bad too. There is very few people in each town, and probably only two of them are of any use to you. Meaning, there are probably only two of them that you can get a quest from and buy and sell items.

I see nothing original or good about the game (besides the sound). And unless you really like just mind numbing dungeon crawling, then I can't really recommend this game to anyone. I can see this game coming down in price real quick because once some people get the word out about how bad it is, people probably won't be buying it too much.

Please rent this game if you really feel the need to play it. Then decide whether or not to buy it, I have a feeling that after a few hours of playing it, you won't want to waste your money on it.

Believe me, I wanted to like this game. I really wanted it to be good, but it just isn't. Please don't make the mistake I did and buy this game because you think it's going to be good, it just isn't.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars EverQuest Meets Diablo...sorta, July 8, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Dark Angel: Vampire Apocalypse (Video Game)

Meet Anna..thats about all there is to say about a game that was originally hyped as great looking 3rd person survival horror game, suddenly turned into a rather dull Diablo rip-off. Character interaction isn't what the reviews claim it to be (oh sure, the villagers talk to you, but its nothing that you need to go out of the way for) and for a game titled Vampire Apocalpyse, it has nothing to do with vampires! For that matter, the endless questing and hacking of monsters (the hack and slash is the ONLY fun part) gets dull after an hour, and there's STILL no hint anywhere of a storyline or even a minor plot! If you need something to do to just occupy some time, get this game, but if you're looking for a good plot/story related action RPG (if you can really call this game an RPG) then I'd try to steer clear of Dark Angel.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I almost went back to the PS1 after playing this one..., October 16, 2002

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Wanderlust (California mostly) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dark Angel: Vampire Apocalypse (Video Game)

It's too bad that you can't rate below one star... this was the first I bought after I bought a PS2 and I can say that it is the main reason that I NEVER buy a game without renting it first. The story line is non-existant. There are no cut-scenes. It made me down right angry that they actually released this game. I played it for about a week hoping it would get better... it didn't. I finally gave up, and packed this game, along with my PS2 back in the box, and stuck them in my closet for about a month until my friend convinced me that there were good games out there. Good god... if you still feel that you must have this game, contact me, and I will give you my copy for free... (yes it is that bad)