A treasure trove of games features blood-thirsty nosferatu; some are dark lords seeking to rule the world, others are renegade warriors who resent what they’ve become and decide to exterminate others of their kind. One aspect that remains constant is their bloodlust. A Vampire will turn an unsuspecting town into nothing to fulfill their thirst and arrogantly take on any foe for the thrill. Here are the most vicious vampires in video games.
8 Jericho Cross: Darkwatch
Darkwatch is a classic Playstation 2 FPS video game that features Jericho Cross; an outlaw-turned vampire on a journey to eradicate a vampire lord by aiding a secret organization called Darkwatch. Jericho was an outlaw on the run for train robbing until he picked the wrong score and unleashed a vampire lord, getting bit in the process. Darkwatch takes Jacob on a moral journey allowing players the freedom to choose which road Jericho walks down, the monster or the man. Jericho struggles with his thirst throughout the game and is constantly tested by the power that comes from being a vampire.
7 Rayne: BloodRayne
Rayne serves as the main protagonist of the Bloodrayne franchise; in the story, she is a crossbreed of a vampire and a human female. Her upbringing was tragic; her vampire father murdered her entire family so that she would, in turn, become loyal to him along with all his other children. Rayne is an intelligent yet snarky individual who disarms with her charm and then beheads with her twin ar blades.
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She prides herself on the ability to slaughter endless amounts of vampires to deal with her hatred for her kind and her father. Rayne joined a secret society called the Brimstone society which hunts all manner of supernatural beings; Rayne found this to be the perfect fit to get revenge on her maker.
6 Therese and Jeanette Voerman: Vampire: The Masquerade
In Vampire the Masquerade, Therese and Jeanette Voerman are the same entity, two personalities in the same body. They are vampire royalty in their clan and show up separately throughout the game’s campaign.
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Jeanette is the childish, bratty superficial personality that only wants to have fun and thinks of herself as the “Prettier face” compared to her other-self. Therese is a cold, cunning, and ruthless personality that embraces her true vampire superiority and sees human beings as weaklings. Therese is the polar opposite of Jeanette, a prude by nature and a powerful Vampire baron that controls Santa Monica.
5 Demitri Maximoff: Darkstalkers
Demitri Maximoff first appeared in Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors. Over the years, he has appeared in a fair share of Capcom titles, mostly fighting games. Demitri is an arrogant yet gentleman-like vampire that gorges on the blood of beautiful women. His thirst for blood is second only to his desire for power as he constantly searches for a way to eradicate the human race, seeing them as nothing more than a food source and attempting to shroud the world in darkness. Demitri is a powerful agent of the night and a brilliant tactician that all who know of him respect.
4 Bloody Mary: Infamous: Festival Of Blood
Bloody Mary was the main antagonist in the Infamous spin-off game “Festival of Blood”. She is a cold and calculating vampire who was a Governess in her past life; after she was turned, she wandered the world, leaving a trail of bodies in her wake. She was revitalized by Cole’s conduit blood and restored to her prime age, and instantly began scattering chaos all across New Marais. She sought to enforce her dominance on the city and then the world, and with her incredible power from being nearly a century old, she had gathered a large following of cultists to do her bidding.
3 Kain: Legacy Of Kain: Soul Reaver
Kain is a character from the Blood Omen franchise who stood as a pillar of importance throughout the main game’s story and the several iterations that spawned after it, such as comics and novels. Kain was the guardian of the Nosgoth, an interdimensional world in the Blood Omen franchise; he took a very anti-hero role in the game and was an all-powerful elder vampire that was charged as a scion of the balance.
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Being a brilliant tactician, a master swordsman, and able to utilize the powers of his vampiracy perfectly without excess, There were not many who could stand against him. His journey in the Blood Omen games is long and complex, taking him from advisory of the game’s main protagonist to ally in a multifaceted arc.
2 The Red Queen: Vampyr
The Red Queen is the embodiment of the Vampirism plague in the videogame, Vampyr. She is the source of all vampires and is centuries old, returning every so often to spread her plague through the world.
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In all her wickedness and evil, she is the thirst that vampires suffer that increases when she awakens from her slumber, pushing low-level vampires mad and others into a frenzied rage from needing to feed. The Red Queen was worshiped as a blood god that spawned a cult of druids who protect her and saw that her will was done, and her legend carried on.
1 Dracula: Castlevania
Dracula Vlad Țepeș is the main and ultimate immortal protagonist of Castlevania through its many iterations. Having many names, known mainly as the father of vampires, Dracula is a plight of the human race, having sought their extinction on numerous occasions. Dracula has slaughtered an insurmountable number of humans for no other reason than they annoy him. While his hatred and venom for humans knows no equal, it was not always so. Dracula’s descent into madness occurred when his human bride was burned at the stake for simply loving him. After, He washed his hands of mortals and now found them to be a sickness he was meant to cure by eradicating them from the earth.
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