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Watch New Trailer For Code Vein, The Vampire RPG From Dark Souls Publisher

The trailer sets up the world and story and also shows off some of the companion mechanic.

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Following the game's official announcement last week, Bandai Namco today released a new trailer for the vampire RPG Code Vein. This newest trailer shows off the game's world and its art style. We also see combat and a brief look at how the companion mechanic will work.

Players can select a companion from the game world of Vein. There is an element of strategy to this, as choosing a companion who works well with your style of play will help you advance through the game.

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In Code Vein, you play as a Revenant in a future world "full of vicious enemies and monstrous bosses." You can make use of Blood Veils, which extract the blood from enemies to boost the player's abilities.

"Players can change their form to increase their strength, weaken enemies, and utilize new weapon abilities with overpowered attacks," Bandai Namco said. "Utilizing the vast array of weaponry along with each character’s Gift, players can adapt and strategize to a variety of battle conditions that suit their play styles."

The game is being developed by Bandai Namco Studios, which also contributed to the God Eater series, and is scheduled to launch in 2018 for consoles.

For more on Code Vein, you can see a lot of images and get more details on the story here in our previous coverage.

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This game looks more like bloodborne and not dark souls.

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hope its nothing like darksouls

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@mari3k: I hope it's very much like Dark Souls.

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@mari3k: why?

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"Endorsed by From Software!" - Gamespot.

Jokes aside, it looks promising. Just need to see more and i think it'll be my type of game.

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Great, another RPG I'll suck too much at to be able to play!

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So it's namco bandai and not from software , with that logic you can say From tekken if you wan't to call it from oldest and most popular one ...............

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The anime faces look so out of place.

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@nandosmc: It has character customizations

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It seems like it takes one too many cues from Dark Souls. Swap the "Lost" with "Hollow" and there you have it. But, it still looks cool.

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I'm a little disappointed by the animation. I really liked the trailer graphic style it was different than all those slick ( too slick ) looking game and this one has that Tales Of, Naruto etc style that is a little meh to me because it seems that Namco always use this style for their Japanease centric game.

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@clefdefa: those are the assets they want use. Kinda lazy

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@clefdefa: expect a lot to change given its launching some stage next year, particularly the animations...

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What's the point with these misleading clickbait titles? You're just setting people up for disappointment. Good thing i don't generate any ad revenue.

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@Dante-xero: But you add to their statistics.

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needs more BEWBS!

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I hope there's actual substance in this too, so that it's not just a Souls-clone cash-grab.

It's already abusing the Souls similarity heavily at this point. I haven't yet seen an article about this game that would've not had Dark Souls in it at the same time.

Being made by the God Eater team makes me highly sceptical...

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Looks awesome....

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STOP SAYING DARK SOULS PUBLISHER. It's extremely misleading and we heard the first time. There's no need to repeat it in every fking title.

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Combat looks like Souls so it's got that going for it.

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@millionsedge: oh.... and boobs

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Looks pretty cool, eye'll keep an I on this one.

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Sweet. I'll keep an eye on this one.

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