[rick404]

Had a chance to play around with Vampire Panic.

Here is a first hand description:
The game is a hostage rescue game in which you fight off a few monsters while searching for the people you need to rescue. There is an alert meter that builds over the time depending on the fighting and mandrake root power ups you pull up from the ground (they scream) when the meter becomes full the Master Vampire appears to give you a hard time.

So there are a few interesting points in this. The Vamp can charm your followers you rescued and either have them fight you or bit them. If bitten the characters left unaided will become vampires (Dask till Dawn variety.) In the first mission you have to save a girl lost in the woods. If you take too much time the Vampire will get her and you need to bring her to the Sanctuary quickly in order to cure her.

Or you can dilly-dally, fail, and enjoy the results.

I switched to the female hero and managed to be charmed (paralyzed in this case) and get bitten by the Vampire during the encounter. Same rules apply here as they do to NPC's. You get glowy red eyes and if you don't get purified in time the hero becomes a Vampire and screams viciously a bit before you get Game Over.

I am attempting to finished the hero mission and unlock the Vampire Side one. In that one the alert meter summons the vampire hunters who can be charmed and bitten with possibly more lasting effects...

Crappy screen shots and vid. Sound is terrible on my system. The red haze is the indicator of the vampire timer which works like the poison effect in many RPG's. Unfortunately there is this scratchy old movie reel noise effect throughout the game.