Blood Suckers: Vampire Gaming

Game genre: Action Shooter / Role-Playing hybrid

Plot: Set in modern-day Los Angeles, you wake up one morning to realize you are undead, a vampire. An unlawful act among vampires, the one who bit you is exterminated but Prince LaCroix, head of the Camarilla clan, spares your life and takes you under his wing, assigning tasks for you to complete for his organization. A full blown RPG, you select one of seven vampire clans, each with unique traits and stats, from the hideous but powerful Nosferatu who must use stealth to hide from the public, to the Ventrue, the aristocratic and influential vampires that control the city. Each clan offers different paths thru which the story unfolds.

Also available on PC

Genre: Third-person Action-Adventure

Plot: Following the events in Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, Raziel discovers a way back through time and encounters one of the Circle of the Nine, Mobius the timestreamer. Mobius urges Raziel to continue his quest for revenge and destroy the vampiric Kain. Raziel reluctantly agrees and heads off to discover the knowledge and weapons that will allow him to achieve his goal.

Also available on Dreamcast and PC

Genre: Third-person Action-Adventure

Plot: 1500 years after Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, the vampire Kain has finally defeated the human kingdoms and brought the world of Nosgoth under his control, ruled by six vampire clans each led by one of his sons. Raziel, one of his Kain's son, gets banished and killed because Kain feared he would surpass him in power. But the Elder God recovers Raziel's soul and rebuilds his body as a strange new supernatural 'Soul Reaver' who goes on to bring revenge onto Kain and his empire.

Genre: Third-person Action-Adventure

Plot: Step into the shoes of Buffy Summers, a high school student by day, and destroyer of the undead by night. Based on the hit TV show, at your disposal are a variety of weapons and over 60 fighting moves and combos.

Game genre: Action Role-Playing Game

Plot: Set in 12th Century Prague, you play as Christof, a French crusader who kills one vampire and then gets enslaved by a rival clan for their own ends. Gameplay revolves around use of magic spells and gathering resources, as well as hack'n'slash RPG action.

Also available on PS2 and GameCube

Genre: Third-person Action-Adventure

Plot: Set as a 'missing episode' from the TV series' fifth season, the powerful vampire Kakistos and The First are ready for war, and the only ones standing in their way is Buffy the Vampire Slayer and her friends Willow, Faith, Spike and Xander, all of which are playable in the game.

Also available on Xbox, GameCube, and PC

Game genre: Third-person Action-Adventure

Plot: Blood Omen 2 is about Kain, an arrogant nobleman-turned-vampire who first appeared in Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain. Kain awakens hundreds of years after the events of the first Blood Omen, in a world occupied by both magic and technology. He reluctantly joins a vampire resistance to restore rule to the vampires. The grim, shadowy world is very similar to the pseudomedieval setting of the Thief games.

Also available on PS2 and Windows

Genre: Third-person Action-Adventure

Plot: The story in this sequel is not a direct continuation from BloodRyane; rather, it take 60 to 70 years later, in modern 2000s setting. Rayne is now a full time member of Brimstone society, and has spend the last decades hunting down all half-siblings the were created by Kagan, her evil vampire father. The remainder of them have banded together to form the Cult of Kagan in order to defeat Rayne.

Also available on PC

Genre: Top-down Action RPG

Plot: As a vampire, Kain is able to withstand sunlight, but is harmed by water. However, he is able to obtain several cursed abilities and spells such as being able to transform into a bat, wolf and even a cloud mist. As the enemies are slain in front of him, Kain may drink their blood to restore his health and to satisfy his insatiable craving.

Also available on PlayStation 2

Game genre: First-Person Shooter

Plot: Darkwatch is a secret organization that seeks to destroy evil from the world. Set in the Wild West, you play an outlaw, Jericho Cross, who is bitten by Lazarus, the vampire lord. You gain vampire abilities and are enlisted by Darkwatch to hunt down and destroy Lazarus, before you yourself become a full-blown vampire. You must choose good or evil vampire attributes as the story progresses.

Also available on Xbox and PC

Genre: Third-person Action-Adventure

Plot: Following the events of Soul Reaver 2, Defiance splits the story into two interconnected plots, one of the evil vampiric lord Kain, and the other of Raziel, the Soul Reaver, as they both try to escape their predicaments and fight back against those who seek to use them as manipulators in a grander plot.

Also available on PS2, GameCube, and Windows

Genre: Third-Person Action-Adventure

Plot: You control Rayne, a Dhampir (child of vampire father and human mother), who has all the benefits of being a vampire with none of its weaknesses. Set in the 1930s, Rayne is on a quest to find her father, killing all vampires she encounters. Members of Brimstone, a secret society determined to eliminate all vampires, decide to recruit Rayne.

Game genre: Graphical Adventure

Plot: Explore the origins of Dracula, a man who lost his faith in God after losing his one true love and made a pact with the Prince of Darkness to become a vampire. As Professor Van Helsing, you embark on a quest to destroy Dracula, traveling to London, Egypt, Austria, and Transylvania.

Game genre: Graphical Adventure

Plot: You play as Mona, a former french opera singer who was transformed into a vampire by Baron Shrowdy von Kiefer, himself a vampire, and kept in his isolated castle. Several years have passed, and Mona seeks to return to Paris and be free from the Baron, so she decides to try and escape the castle.

Genre: Light Gun Shooter

Plot: Albert and Michel, two Dhampyr-blooded vampire hunters, rescue a 12-year old girl named Caroline who witnessed a couple of villagers held hostage by the vampire Sarcoma, and proceed into the castle to destroy the remaining forces of dark.

Also available on Xbox

Genre: Movie-licensed Third-Person Shooter

Plot: Following similar events from the 2004 movie Van Helsing, you play as the famous monster hunting professor as he travels to Transylvania to destroy Count Dracula. Gameplay is very similar to the Devil May Cry series.

Genre: Horror Action-Adventure

Plot: As a member of a black ops unit, you are tasked with infiltrating a society of vampires in Los Angeles knows as the Nightstalkers. But beware, this game has been give horrible ratings across most game magazines, some calling it a trainwreck, and others saying the terrible level design make it a pain in the neck (pun intended). Developer revamped it (pun intended) for the PS3 as Altered Species.

Also available on PlayStation 2

Genre: Movie-licensed Hack-n-Slash

Plot: Loosely based on the movie of the same name, this is hack'n'slash action game that follows Blade, the half-vampire 'daywalker' as he hunts down vampires.

Also available on PlayStation

Genre: Graphical Adventure

Plot: You are Jonathan Harker. You are in search of the Count himself... to save your wife Mina. Follow his trail from London all the way to Transylvania, decipher the scant clues available, and see if you can hunt down Dracula... or be hunted. This game is a sequel to Dracula: The Resurrection.

Genre: Survival Horror

Plot: Based on a Japanese novel and a cult-classic anime series, the game takes place is 12,000 AD, some 10,000 years after vampires have won control of the planet from the humans. You play as Vampire Hunter D, a half-human half-vampire, as you are hired to rescue a kidnapped child.

Also available on Windows

Genre: Graphical Adventure

Plot: You're a young man and Dracula has just done his deed on your girl. You travel to Transylvania, and scour the countryside to find a way into his castle and to destroy the evil vampire count.

Genre: Graphical Adventure

Plot: Part three of the Dracula: The Resurrection series, this PC-only release focuses on an investigation of a Transylvanian saint, which leads to a sinister world of dark powers and vampires.

Also available on SNES, Game Boy, Sega MegaCD, and NES

Genre: Side-Scrolling Platformer

Plot: Based on the 1992 movie of the the same name, you control a young lawyer named Jonathan Harker. Harker must free himself from Dracula's capture, follow him to London, and end his reign of terror.

Genre: Survival Horror Adventure

Plot: This survival horror game set in the late 1920s and early 1930s, starring the player as The Stranger, an operative of a fictional American Government secret organization known as "Spookhouse", created by President Theodore Roosevelt to fight monsters. He goes on missions to investigate four strange cases and save people from classical monsters, such as werewolves, zombies, vampires and others.

This game was developed by Terminal Reality, who went on to BloodRayne fame.

This PAL-exclusive PS2 release was based on the movie Underworld.

Genre: Horror Action-Adventure

Plot: A year after the much-criticized crapfest that was Vampire Rain, its developer re-issued PS3 under a slightly different title with new features, yet according to GameSpot and its 3.5 out of 10 score, this new release is still a pain in the neck.

Genre: First-Person Shooter

Plot: Drawing heavily on Bram Stoker's Dracula as well as F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, you play as the protagonist who travels to Transylvania to a castle where your sister's wedding is going to take place. Upon your arrival, you learn that your future brother-in-law is a vampire and you must do all in you power to stop him.

Game Genre: Adventure / RPG

Plot: In this classic Sierra-style DOS adventure game, you take on the role of Ransom Stark, a former employee of an evil megacorporation. You become a freelancer mercanary, until one day you your new employer turns out to be a head vampire named Abraham Van Helsing and tries to recruit you with a bite. Your brain implant kicks in and saves your humanity, and you must expose and stop a sinister plot by an evil corporation to take over Manhattan and CyberSpace.

Released only in Europe

Genre: Role-Playing Game

Plot: This RPG with Adventure-like elements is set in a dark atmosphere of old docks where a mysterious clan of vampires rages free. You play as an adventurer who has been living in the company of the undead for a while, and you investigate a murder that none of the Nosferatu clan claim they did. Then strange things start happening.

Genre: First-Person Adventure

Plot: Based on the 1992 movie of the the same name, you control a young lawyer named Jonathan Harker. Harker must free himself from Dracula's capture, follow him to London, and end his reign of terror. The console versions were side-scrolling action games, while this DOS version was a first-person adventure.

This classic SNES title follows the adventures of a young vampire called Spike McFang as he sets out the battle the evil zombie general Von Hessler. He attacks primarily with his cape as well as his hat, which acts like a boomerang. It is a sequel to a Japanese TurboGrafx-16 title.

Licensed around the classic film Nosferature the Vampyre, this ancient Commodore 64 has a isometric-style gameplay.