Focus Home Interactive is a French publisher that usually has a large presence at E3. This year was no different. We managed to sit in on a closed-doors demo of Dontnod Entertainment?s upcoming supernatural action game, Vampyr, and if you’re interested in the game, you’ll want to read our preview of the upcoming vampire-themed action RPG.
Meet Jon
In Vampyr, you play as doctor Jonathan Reid. While in the human world he has taken the Hippocratic Oath and sworn to only help people, as a newly-afflicted vampire, he now has a nearly insatiable thirst for blood. This has given him a terrible duality in his life: does he kill people to satisfy his need, or suffer dearly to save his humanity"
The setting for Vampyr is 1918 London, England. The Spanish flu is currently ravaging four districts of the city. It is your job to help the citizens, though whether you pursue that goal is ultimately up to you. The actions and decisions you make will affect other citizens? lives, in ways both subtle and obvious. We were shown just a few minutes of the game, but Vampyr does have a skill tree and several RPG elements, as well as featuring action-oriented combat. Jonathan is a fairly skilled combatant, utilizing a variety of weapons, from melee on through firearms, alongside vampiric abilities. While we didn?t see too many of his abilities during the demo, one of the more useful ones on display was called ?Spring,? whereby he nearly instantly travels forward to surprise his e...