0 BloodRayne 2 When it Raynes, it pours. By David Smith, 12/09/2004 at 00:00 I can't aggregate out why my adolescent reviewers didn't wind up apathetic to tears with BloodRayne 2. Sure, it looks nice, and sure, it's fun to amputate goth kids for a while, but the activity controls are a masher's contentment (bosses go down with basal adapted effort), and the puzzles, such as they are, echo themselves abundant too often. The chuck-guys-in-the-trash-compactor gag shows up three times in the aboriginal two levels alone. That affliction to be a assurance to the akin designers??”come up with accession gimmick. Read the abounding BloodRayne 2 0 BloodRayne 2 I'm Alone Blessed If It Raynes. By Chris Baker, 12/09/2004 at 00:00 Now that we've apparent Rayne singing for Evanescence on MTV2 and bold off her agenda annoying $.25 in Playboy, it's simple to overlook that, oh yeah, she's aswell a videogame character. And out of nowhere, BloodRayne 2 ranks a allotment of PS2's best hack-n-slash titles. To anyone accustomed with the aboriginal BloodRayne??”which was a accomplished bold on its own??”classifying this aftereffect as "hack-n-slash" may acquire a bit odd. Endure time was abundant added of a run-n-gun affair, with Rayne's patented arm blades advancing into play alone every now and then. However, the close-quarters activity sucked??”something Terminal Reality accomplished and has remedied to the point that it's the capital gameplay basal this time around. At the aloft time, the developer created a artifice as absorbing as any Brand cine (vampire backroom and all), while giving its own dhampir both an absorbing beheld analysis and a complete agreeable personality ("I acquire bowel in my hair," Rayne complains afterwards traveling central a behemothic barbarian to annihilate it). BloodRayne 2's stylish, animating activity comes abounding of options. You can drudge and bang abroad with lots of automatic combos up close, bang abroad with your blood-fueled biogun from afar, allotment foes in two as you bullwork down a rail, or chaw them to cesspool their activity antecedent (and add to yours). And now added than a Scorpion-like "get over here" device, Rayne's august wrist harpoon can bandy enemies in any direction, about to abort altar in "killing puzzles" (ending others' lives via the brand of a copse alert and a columnist press are the barometer in this complete agitated game). There's aswell the simple fun of whipping anyone off a ledge, afresh watching the camera chase as he deflects off a beam, through some glass, and assimilate the attic with a big splat. It never grows old. Read the abounding BloodRayne 2