

I’m eager to see just how different the game is with an entire community’s fourteen years of hard work all installed at once, as this is effectively a combined mod bundle. With a little luck I’ll even be able to play it by Halloween. The opportunity to defect, explore a whole new chunk of LA and fang it up with the bad guys is tempting, so I’ve got this gigabyte-sized transfusion of fangorious fun downloading now. I admit that I’ve not played Bloodlines in ages, and for some reason I’ve always passed on the Clan Quest Mod until now. Chewing the scenery a bit, but that’s what the Sabbat do. The Clan Quest Mod installer also lets you pick and choose from a bundle of other community projects to install, most of which seem recommended. There’s a bundle of new characters with new jobs for you to do for them and three new endings.

The new Sabbat-focused version has all that, plus the chance to switch sides once you’re up to speed and building up a reputation as an undead badass. The mod’s ‘Clan Quest’ title refers to what it previously added – a new quest for each of the vampire clans, plus some additional side-adventures and new solutions to old problems. There’s a new humanity system that lets you do some awful things and deal with the consequences later, plus the chance to diablerize (cannibalise, vampire-style) your rivals. It adds a whole new quest hub, a cast of fully voiced characters and the chance to join the murderous Sabbat. While the mod has been around for a while, today’s release – version 4.0 – is the biggest yet by far.

You could be pretty naughty in cult RPG favourite Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines before, but now you can be downright evil in the Clan Quest Mod, a massive fan-made expansion.
