前作「Blood（1997）」の続編。

デュークニューケム風の３Dから完全３Dに移換したことにより、なめらかな表現が可能となっており、限定された空間だった前作とは異なったゲーム展開が売りである。

惜しむらくは前作のおどろおどろしいゴシック風の内容が、本作ではダークヒーローものに変更されているため、前作のテイストを好む方にはお勧めできない。だが、人間の死骸がつまった洗濯機など狂った世界観は再現されている。

初期のFPSなので、３Dが稚拙なこと、バグが多いことに目をつぶれば、面白いだろう。

Windows8.1ではゲームが起動しないっス。
（起動するようになったら評価変えます。）

「お前に選択肢をやろう。そこをどくか、ここで死ぬかだ」
「ここは通さん！」
「じゃあ死ね」

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ゴシックホラーからSFアクションへと転換した続編。前作で邪神を滅ぼしたあと、100年ばかり無為な殺戮を繰り返していた主人公ケイレブが、宿敵たるカルト組織が暗黒メガコーポへと姿を変えて存続していたことを知り、ウッキウキで滅ぼしに行くお話。前作で死亡した仲間たち（Chosen＝チョーズン、選ばれし者。朝鮮ではない）も復活したが、嫁がビッチ化していたり、なぜか女体化してるやつがいたりで、ファンからの評判はいまいち芳しくない。
3DFPS黎明期の作品とあって、現代環境で動かすのが難しいゲームである。というか本作に使われているLithtech 1.0というやつは、当時からして非常に問題の多いエンジンだった。パッチで起動不可能になるような致命的な不具合が追加されたり、最新版が初期版より安定しているとも言い難いという残念な点もある。OSや環境に依存するところも大きく、一概に「これをやっておけば大丈夫」と言い切れないのが難点だ。
いちおうリテール版（ソースネクスト発日本語マニュアル版）も所持しているが、いままでも何の問題もなくスムーズにプレイできた試しがない。今回Steam版をプレイして、本作にBGMがあったことをはじめて知ったくらいだ。（環境によってBGMが再生されないのは数多くの不具合のなかでも割と代表的な例）
自分の環境（Win 10、GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER）ではdgVoodooを使うことで快適なプレイが可能になった。がただ導入すればいいわけではなく、設定によってはまともに動作しなかったり、ゲーム内オプションでの設定解像度が高いとメニュー画面表示やローディング時にスタックするためdgVoodoo側の設定で解像度を強制変更したりといった工夫が必要だった。あとはautoexec.cfgを直接編集してキーバインドを書き換えたり、有志のワイドスクリーン修正アドオンを導入する等、なにかと準備が必要である。ともかく、普通に起動してまともにプレイできると思わないほうがいい。（ビデオドライバ側の設定をいじるくらいではまともに動かない）

巷ではガッカリ続編の典型のような扱いだが、それでも見るべき点のある作品ではあり、個人的にはかなり気に入っている。しかし購入にあたっては、レトロゲームの起動を工夫できる最低限の予備知識が必要になる点を考慮しておくべきだ。

Well, I played this game, as I was young and I loved it.
It gave me scary nights and fear moments. I still own the original CD but I never could make it run proper on Win 7.
So I´m real happy that you can buy it now from steam and it run good on win 7 but only in 1024 x 768 like that.
Highly recommended. To bad that is not remastered in HD.

Update : I play the game now with the "extra grisby mod" and this is a lot of improvement in sound, graphic & bug fixes just check this out.
http://www.moddb.com/mods/blood-2-the-chosen-extra-crispy

First of all, when Blood2 was released in 1998, it was one of my favorite shooter right away. It had a good gunplay, varied weapons and enemies, as well as a good level design. Overall, I had a lot of fun with it.

So why the negative rating?
Because the game is almost unplayable on a current PC with a current operating system. I tried every guide, but in the end the game always remained very unstable and crashes on average every 5 minutes.
Without a lot of mods / patches the game is not playable at all.

It is time for Steam to introduce a quality control to prevent games being offered at Steam that can not be played on current computers. Please Steam, do something against it!

Initially, I thought that Blood 2 was just an unfortunate sequel that came out sometime in 2000's and was lazily made by a different studio – a story similar to Deus Ex and its Invisible War sequel. However, when I saw the actual release date and googled the whole story behind the game's development, I felt really bad for the developers and even didn't want to critisize Blood 2 harshly. Nevertheless, the problem is that at the end of the day those tragic events do not improve the quality of the final product from the player's point of view.

For those who don’t know, in short, the publisher of Blood was close to bankruptcy and they demanded Monolith Productions to make a sequel "here and now". And you already can guess the rest: the game quality turned out to be very mediocre and GT Interactive was bought by Atari anyway. Now I could start writing a long review with detailed analysis of every game's aspect, however, I won't do it. Not only because I personally feel bad for the developers but because just the idea of making a full-fledged 3D game with sufficient plot and unique features in 11 months back in 1997 sounds ridiculous enough by itself. From that point of view, I'm surprised that Blood 2 came out as a playable-ish product and not just a laggy-buggy piece of code. However, as I've already stated, the development story doesn't justify the game's quality for the consumer, so I will just give you a list of problems the game has. Let's go!

Mostly cramped linear levels
Instant-reacting hitscan enemies
Weird animations
Totally unbalanced difficulties
Odd drops from destroying objects
Censored swearing
OP facejumpers in the water
Clumsy transition between levels
Flare gun looks like shotgun
Repetitive voice lines from enemies
Voodoo doll happy particles
Stupid AI
Weird hitboxes
No sniper aiming animation
Knife has a bullet-hitting sound
Locked and decorative doors look the same
No convenient way to bind weapons
Enemy damage goes through walls
Mouse wheel does not work
The game crashes regularly
Explosive weapons have insanely low damage
Idiotic damage RNG
Character speed breaks in the nightmares add-on
Initially, it seems fine but the father you go the more miserable it becomes

And I could easily finish my review at this point, but the game actually had decent ideas, like 4 playable characters, semi-open world and detailed plot. Some of them even made it to the final game: there are about 20 weapons you can find and use, magic weapons have regenerating ammo, Life Leech heals you, each character has different stats and plays a bit differently. However, those few good ideas just drown in the sea of bugs, poor level design, unbalanced AI, etc.

Should you play this game? Well, if you liked the first title and just want to know what Blood 2 is – maybe. If you are looking for a good retro shooter – no. If you like to explore unfinished and quirky games – probably. My only recommendation will be to play it on the lowest difficulty – genocide. Do not waste your nerves and time with the higher ones, it isn't worth it at all.

If Blood II's screen flickers between the game and an empty window during gameplay, here are a couple of things to try:

1. Turn off any programs in the System Tray with animated icons (e.g. Process Explorer, Speedfan).

2. In the Blood II Launcher, go to Advanced Options, type "+maxfps 60" (without quotes) into the Command-Line field, and check "Always specify these command-line parameters"

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Oh boy! I can't wait to play the sequel to my favorite classic shooter, Blood! I hope it's finished, polished, and good!

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http://www.moddb.com/mods/blood-2-the-chosen-extra-crispy

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