Some people – like the crabby criminals in Grand Theft Auto – are so unprincipled, even the vampires that yearn for the sour blood running through their necks really want nothing to do with them. Or, it seemed that way in an interview GamesRadar+ had with Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 developers during Gamescom 2025, where they told us their RPG may have enough violence to fill a millennium, but it's definitely not a Rockstar game.
"The story will always progress forward," narrative designer Ian Thomas says about how most players will spend their time in Bloodlines 2. It's ultimately "up to them" if they'd rather explore or focus on the primary questline, and "you could go and keep beating up people on top of buildings, couldn't you? Forever, actually," but current developer The Chinese Room is "not making GTA."
