Longtime fans shouldn't expect Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 to be a direct sequel to the 2004 original, according to publisher Paradox Interactive's deputy chief executive officer Mattias Lilja.
Speaking in a recent interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Lilja explains that the developers didn't look to the first action RPG for too much inspiration but drew from it rather cautiously as, despite it being "a good game," it's also "an old game" with an air of nostalgia surrounding it. "It's about setting the right expectations," he says. "The first Bloodlines game […] it's a game from 2004, that is now patched so that it works."
