BloodNet

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BloodNet
Developer(s) MicroProse
Publisher(s) MicroProse
Designer(s) John Antinori
Laura Kambo
Platform(s) Amiga, DOS
Release date 1993
Genre(s) Adventure game, RPG
Mode(s) Single player
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BloodNet is a cyberpunk RPG / Adventure game published by MicroProse in 1993.

A mix of future tech and gothic vampire story, in the cyberpunk style, BloodNet puts the player into the role of a man named Ransom Stark, who must battle a vampire named Abraham Van Helsing who is attempting world domination and save both humanity and the cybernet. Ransom Stark was bitten by the aforementioned vampire -- but is able to fight off the infection with the help of a computer grafted onto his brain stem.

The game's perspective was similar to Sierra's Quest series of games. The game featured a great deal of written dialog, an open-ended travel system, random encounters, and puzzles, some of which are very difficult. An alternate 'cyberspace universe' was also part of the gameplay, where codewords are needed to travel to different 'wells' (cyberspace locations). Role-playing elements were also present in Bloodnet: the player character and other recruitable characters for the player's party had number-based stats (such as (Perception, Hacking, etc), and combat was based on the player character's attributes and stats.

[edit] Trivia

  • In the foreground at Transtech's Nanomachines Lab, and you'll see a box of Microprose's F-117A game.
  • One of the possible side quests in the game allows you to find Elvis, The King, in Cyberspace and download his mind to your Cyberdeck. Elvis's body has died ages ago, but you can look for Cyborg body parts, if you can jury rig a full Cyborg body and find the right people, Elvis can be uploaded to the body, and join your team... And he is strong!

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