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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4/10

getting really tired of these ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ games i buy needing some stupid mod from a shady looking site. why the hell cant they just work? seems like they are just selling them without making sure the damn games even run, if we have to make it run ourselves then why the ♥♥♥♥ are we paying for em?

This is a bad game compared to the first Blood, which is a masterpiece. I like some of their ideas (for example seeing the city at night from the elevator in Chapter 1, and the feeling of being a fugitive walking in dark alleyways between buildings during the night, hearing police sirens, that sort of thing), but the execution was bad. This one has many faults, for example you can glitch through boxes, sounds are awful (weapon sounds, Caleb burn sound, the cultist saying Pestis Cruento in the Cathedral sounds like he's retarded etc), the choking hands were replaced (not entirely, they are still present but introducing the Bone Leech was not needed) (you meet them again in C2L9) with HL-like headcrabs called the Bone Leech (they even introduced vortigaunt-like monsters called Shikari), AI is stupid (you can just run past them if you want and if you're at 0HP they will ignore you until you use a healthpack, also if one of them is in the way while you're being shot at they will hit and kill each other), weapons feel so weak (if you want easy kills, preemptive shooting FTW in this game). Everything that was good, no more.
One thing that I must praise is the soundtrack though (look for Blood II: The Chosen OST - Ancient One Combat II on YouTube and tell me: isn't that awesome?). Then there's also the visual effects: when you shoot flare guns on enemies on a dark corridor and everything lights up red - that looks awesome (test it in C3L3: Temple of Poon when you get upstairs).
Also, elevators that go down to water? Enemies with crowbars? It's clear that they tried to copy Half-Life, and perhaps a few others as well, like Realms of the Haunting (Shikari looks and sounds so much like monsters from ROTH), Doom (keycards, seriously? Skull, dagger, etc keys were iconic in Blood; the flloating chasing heads are also copy-pasted from Doom) and Quake. Come to think of it, even the train areas look like that Duke Nukem 3D level (Metro Mayhem), but that may be a bit stretched (Caleb saying Groovy also reminds me of DN3D).. (maybe even Postal; especially the Nightmare loading screens) Do I need to continue?
However, what I liked was the Nightmare expansion levels (praised be the level designers), they are a nice throwback to the original maps, particularly C5L1 and C5L3, which resemble the original E2M3 (and E2M9 at the beginning) and E1M4, respectively. I absolutely love the Nightmare levels. Revisiting the ice mountains was so cool. C5L4 is E2M5. Also Ophelia in C5L2... (even the Cathedral in the main game resembles E1M6 The Great Temple from Blood 1, and part of Chapter 2 resembles E3M3: Raw Sewage. C2L3's bridge resembles the bridge and area from Blood's E1M6. Climbing on boxes in C2L4 reminded me of Blood 1's E2M2: The Lumber Mill), and the same level (C2L4) in the Processing Plant area also reminded me (because of the oven that you can go through and the 3 temperature readers nearby) of E1M1 and E1M3's ending (maybe even E3M5), and going through the red meat remains reminded me of E3M2 and perhaps some other original levels as well. Next up is C2L5 (this level gets the award for crashiest level), I like that they built a wrong way to go on the train tracks, reminescent of E1M2. C2L6 (I had to restart it because all the switches were already triggered therefore it was bugged) reminds me of E1M6, and maybe its water areas remind me a little bit of the dam reservoir/water areas from E3M6. I think C2L9 is meant to represent E2M8 at night, but it doesn't have the same feeling. C3L3: Temple of Poon is somewhat reminescent of E1M6 at first, that's probably the paintings and corridors, then becomes clear it's E1M6 with a strong hint of E2M7 - Bowels of the Earth. C3L4: Cabalco Enterprises looks like E3M4: The Sick Ward (closest), E4M9: Mall of the Dead or E2M4 The Overlooked Hotel's interior. C3L5: Power Station reminds me of E3M6's grey corridors. C4L1 is obviously meant to remind us of the Shial fight in E2M8; after the fight, during the chaos, it might resemble E4M5..
Still, not enough Blood 1 references and B1 style "secrets": no cracks in the walls to blow it up with TNT (replaced by fire extinguishers now)? No cash register secrets in shops? No creepy paintings that keep changing into evil faces? No creepy statues that move their eyes depending on where you are (I know why that happened in the first game, but it could've been done here as well). No scary ghosts (phantasms) (they could've worked perfectly in C3L7 instead of patients)? No bookcase secrets? No gargoyles disguised as statues? Seriously?
If you want to buy a Blood game but you're not sure which one to choose, my suggestion would be: buy the original one. It's worth it, trust me.
Btw, there is a widescreen patch, make sure you get it. Also you might want to get the Extra Crispy mod.
Every year (well almost) there's a Halloween MP event for this game, if you're interested head over to the Transfusion forums and ask around.

Must know: If you get poor performance, you need dgVoodoo.
Oh, and did I mention how much it crashes? Don't sneeze or the game will crash. SAVE often! (It even crashed during AGDQ 2018 haha)

"They just don't make them like they used to" - Caleb
My favorite level is C3L3: Temple of Poon. After C3L3 things start to get interesting (finally, after so many boring levels). I liked the Mad Scientist, he's funny.