The game describes the cub's journey through the early 21st-century Los Angeles to explore the truth behind a currently discovered sanctity that heralds the end of all vampires. Take place in White Wolf Publishing's World of Darkness, the game is based on White Wolf's role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade and tells a story about a human who is killed and revived as a fledgling vampire. It is developed by Troika Games and published by Activision. Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines is a role-playing action game and presented from the first or third-person perspective.