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{{Short description|2004 action game}}
{{for|the film based on the video game|BloodRayne 2: Deliverance}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2012}}
{{Infobox video game
| title = BloodRayne 2
| image = Bloodrayne2 ps2 front.JPG
| developer = [[Terminal Reality]]
| publisher = {{Unbulleted list|[[Majesco Entertainment|Majesco Sales]]|'''''Terminal Cut/ReVamped'''''|Ziggurat Interactive}}
| director = 
| producer = Raymond Holmes
| designer = {{plainlist|
* Raymond Holmes
* Jeff Mills
* Drew Haworth
}}
| programmer = {{plainlist|
* Fletcher Dunn
* Ken Rogoway
}}
| artist = Scott Wetterschneider
| writer = {{plainlist|
* Drew Haworth
* Raymond Holmes
* Jeff Mills
* John Shirley
}}
| composer = Kyle Richards
| series = ''[[BloodRayne]]''
| platforms = {{Unbulleted list|[[PlayStation 2]]|[[Xbox (console)|Xbox]]|[[Windows]]|'''''Terminal Cut'''''|Windows|'''''ReVamped'''''|[[Nintendo Switch]]|[[PlayStation 4]]|[[PlayStation 5]]|[[Xbox One]]|[[Xbox Series X/S]]}}
| released = {{Unbulleted list
| '''PlayStation 2, Xbox'''
| {{vgrelease|NA|October 12, 2004<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kohler |first=Chris |date=October 12, 2005 |title=''BloodRayne 2'' bounces off to factory |url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/bloodrayne-2-bounces-off-to-factory/1100-6109301/ |access-date=October 11, 2024 |website=[[GameSpot]] |language=en-US |archive-date=December 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241215012127/https://www.gamespot.com/articles/bloodrayne-2-bounces-off-to-factory/1100-6109301/ |url-status=live }}</ref>|EU|February 17, 2006}}
| '''Windows'''
| {{vgrelease|NA|August 2, 2005<ref>{{Cite web |last=Adams |first=David |date=2005-08-02 |title=BloodRayne 2 Bares Fangs at Retail |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2005/08/02/bloodrayne-2-bares-fangs-at-retail |access-date=2023-03-17 |website=IGN |language=en}}</ref>|EU|February 17, 2006}}
| '''''Terminal Cut'''''
| {{Video game release|WW|November 20, 2020}}
| '''''ReVamped'''''
| {{Video game release|WW|November 18, 2021}}
}}
| genre = [[Action game|Action]], [[hack and slash]]
| modes = [[Single-player video game|Single-player]]
}}

'''''BloodRayne 2''''' is an [[Action game|action]] [[hack and slash]] [[video game]] developed by [[Terminal Reality]] for [[PlayStation 2]], [[Xbox (console)|Xbox]] and [[Microsoft Windows]]. It does not follow on directly from where ''[[BloodRayne (video game)|BloodRayne]]'' finished; instead, it takes place 60 and 70 years later in a [[Modern era|contemporary]] 2000s setting.<ref name="release">{{cite web|first=Marc|last=Saltzman|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91667036/the-times-herald/|title=BloodRayne|newspaper=[[The Times Herald]]|date=October 22, 2002|accessdate=August 29, 2021|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>

A remastered version titled '''''BloodRayne 2: Terminal Cut''''' was released on November 20, 2020, and later on [[PlayStation 4]], [[PlayStation 5]], [[Xbox One]] and [[Nintendo Switch]] as '''''BloodRayne 2: ReVamped''''' on November 18, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Lada|first=Jenni|date=September 16, 2021|title=BloodRayne 1 and 2 ReVamped PS4 and Switch Announced|url=https://www.siliconera.com/bloodrayne-1-and-2-revamped-ps4-and-switch-announced/|url-status=live|access-date=September 16, 2021|website=Siliconera|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210916182423/https://www.siliconera.com/bloodrayne-1-and-2-revamped-ps4-and-switch-announced/ |archive-date=September 16, 2021 }}</ref>

==Plot==
The [[Full motion video|FMV]] opens with a flashback set shortly after the first game. Rayne is seen entering a library (called Blood Library), with a few Nazis inside. She finds that Brimstone members have been slaughtered and realizes her vampiric father Kagan is here, acting as an influential Nazi. Rayne rushes to confront him for revenge for her mother's rape and the murder of her family, and Kagan mocks Rayne by saying he does not recognize her, as he sired numerous offspring that way. He finds what he was looking for, called the Vesper Shard. Knowing Rayne still wants to kill him, he then brings Professor Tremaine up from the floor, strangled by his own small intestine, but barely alive. Kagan knows that they know each other, and that Tremaine "stole" yet another offspring from him. While Kagan mocks Rayne, Tremaine pulls out a detonator, first giving time for Rayne to run, then detonating the grenade, killing himself and seemingly taking Kagan with him.

Denied the pleasure of killing him herself, Rayne spends the 60 years after the war seeking out and destroying Kagan's offspring.<ref name="storyplot">{{cite web |url=http://www.bloodrayne2.com/storyline.php |title=BloodRayne Storyline |website=BloodRayne 2 |publisher=[[Majesco Entertainment|Majesco Sales]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070620200026/http://www.bloodrayne2.com/storyline.php |archive-date=June 20, 2007}}</ref> These offspring, Rayne's half-siblings, have banded together to form a group called the Cult of Kagan.<ref name="storyplot"/> The Cult has created the Shroud, a substance that can render sun rays harmless to vampires, allowing them to surface at all times of the day, and which twists nature into a nightmarish perversion <ref name="storyplot"/> (trees dying almost instantly, grass catching on fire, corpses twitching). Using the Shroud, the Cult has pledged to create a new era of vampiric supremacy, continuing Kagan's legacy.

Rayne and her ally Severin find high ranking members of the Cult, who are responsible for hundreds of disappearances in a city. Rayne learns of their plot and defeats her ambitious half-sister Ferrill, the apparent leader of the cult. It is soon revealed that Kagan himself has long survived over the years and has come out of hiding. After Kagan has Ferrill dispatched, he sets about the plot to activate the Shroud, blocking out the sun and setting loose an army of vampires and demonic entities to destroy the city, making it his kingdom. Rayne again sets her sights on killing Kagan.

With Kagan's army having taken over the city, Rayne seeks out his tower to face him once and for all, fighting his army to get to him. A vengeful Ferrill makes an army of her own to usurp Kagan. After Rayne dispatches the last of her half-siblings, she confronts Kagan in his throne room, with Kagan mocking her one last time about the effort he took to create her. A fight ensues and Rayne kills her father, avenging her family.

Despite Kagan's death, the vampires still plague the city, and Severin suggests that Rayne should run it now. Brimestone declares martial law to rescue the surviving humans, cracking down hard on all vampires and more vampire overlords setting their sights on the city.

==Development==
The game was developed by a team of around 20 people.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.armchairempire.com/Interviews/bloodrayne-2.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060624155926/http://www.armchairempire.com/Interviews/bloodrayne-2.htm|title=BloodRayne 2 Q&A|website=armchairempire.com|archivedate=June 24, 2006|date=February 7, 2004|accessdate=January 28, 2024}}</ref>

==Reception==
{{Video game reviews
| PC = true
| PS2 = true
| XBOX = true
| na = true
| CGM_PC = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |title=BloodRayne 2 |magazine=[[Computer Games Magazine]] |publisher=[[theGlobe.com]] |issue=180 |date=November 2005 |page=72}}</ref>
| CGW_PC = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Gladstone |first=Darren |url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/issues/cgw_255.pdf |title=BloodRayne 2 |magazine=[[Computer Gaming World]] |publisher=[[Ziff Davis]] |issue=255 |date=October 2005 |page=80 |access-date=October 28, 2019 |archive-date=July 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200705093110/http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/issues/cgw_255.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
| EGM_PS2 = 6.33/10<ref name="EGM">{{cite magazine |author=EGM staff |title=BloodRayne 2 (PS2, Xbox) |magazine=[[Electronic Gaming Monthly]] |publisher=Ziff Davis |issue=186 |date=December 25, 2004 |page=106}}</ref>
| EGM_XBOX = 6.33/10<ref name="EGM"/>
| EuroG_XBOX = 5/10<ref>{{cite web |last=Martin |first=Matt |date=February 21, 2006 |url=https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/r_bloodrayne2_xbox |title=BloodRayne 2 (Xbox) |website=[[Eurogamer]] |publisher=[[Gamer Network]] |access-date=October 28, 2019 |archive-date=October 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191028192429/https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/r_bloodrayne2_xbox |url-status=live }}</ref>
| GI_PS2 = 8/10<ref name="GI">{{cite magazine |last=Miller |first=Matt |url=http://www.gameinformer.com/Games/Review/200411/R04.1118.1728.34737.htm |title=Bloodrayne 2 [sic] (PS2, Xbox) [score mislabeled as "9/10"] |magazine=[[Game Informer]] |publisher=[[GameStop]] |issue=139 |date=November 2004 |page=147 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080207110308/http://www.gameinformer.com/Games/Review/200411/R04.1118.1728.34737.htm |archive-date=February 7, 2008 |url-status=dead |access-date=October 28, 2019}}</ref>
| GI_XBOX = 8/10<ref name="GI"/>
| GamePro_PS2 = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="GamePro"/>
| GamePro_XBOX = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="GamePro">{{cite magazine |author=Clockwork Crow |date=October 13, 2004 |url=http://www.gamepro.com/microsoft/xbox/games/reviews/38708.shtml |title=BloodRayne 2 (PS2, Xbox) |magazine=[[GamePro]] |publisher=[[International Data Group|IDG Entertainment]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050212122101/http://www.gamepro.com/microsoft/xbox/games/reviews/38708.shtml |archive-date=February 12, 2005 |access-date=October 28, 2019}}</ref>
| GSpot_PC = 6/10<ref>{{cite web |last=Navarro |first=Alex |date=August 23, 2005 |url=https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/bloodrayne-2-review/1900-6131775/ |title=BloodRayne 2 Review (PC) |website=[[GameSpot]] |publisher=[[CBS Interactive]] |access-date=October 28, 2019}}</ref>
| GSpot_PS2 = 7.3/10<ref name="GSpot">{{cite web |last=Navarro |first=Alex |date=October 13, 2004 |url=https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/bloodrayne-2-review/1900-6110516/ |title=BloodRayne 2 Review (PS2, Xbox) [date mislabeled as "October 14, 2004"] |website=GameSpot |publisher=CBS Interactive |access-date=October 28, 2019 |archive-date=October 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191028184255/https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/bloodrayne-2-review/1900-6110516/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
| GSpot_XBOX = 7.3/10<ref name="GSpot"/>
| GSpy_PS2 = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="GSpy">{{cite web |last=Fischer |first=Russ |date=October 27, 2004 |url=http://ps2.gamespy.com/playstation-2/bloodrayne-2/561052p1.html |title=GameSpy: Bloodrayne 2 [sic] (PS2, Xbox) |website=[[GameSpy]] |publisher=IGN Entertainment |access-date=October 28, 2019}}</ref>
| GSpy_XBOX = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="GSpy"/>
| GameZone_XBOX = 8.2/10<ref>{{cite web |last=Zacarias |first=Eduardo |date=October 25, 2004 |url=https://www.gamezone.com/reviews/bloodrayne_2_xb_review/ |title=BloodRayne 2 - XB - Review |website=GameZone |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006223334/http://xbox.gamezone.com/gzreviews/r23092.htm |archive-date=October 6, 2008 |url-status=live |access-date=October 28, 2019}}</ref>
| IGN_PC = 6.8/10<ref>{{cite web |last=McNamara |first=Tom |date=August 18, 2005 |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2005/08/18/bloodrayne-2 |title=Bloodrayne 2 [sic] (PC) |website=[[IGN]] |publisher=Ziff Davis |access-date=October 28, 2019 |archive-date=October 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191028184253/https://www.ign.com/articles/2005/08/18/bloodrayne-2 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| IGN_PS2 = 8/10<ref name="IGN">{{cite web |last=McNamara |first=Tom |date=October 13, 2004 |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2004/10/13/bloodrayne-2-3 |title=BloodRayne 2 (PS2, Xbox) |website=IGN |publisher=Ziff Davis |access-date=October 28, 2019 |archive-date=October 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191028184255/https://www.ign.com/articles/2004/10/13/bloodrayne-2-3 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| IGN_XBOX = 8/10<ref name="IGN"/>
| OPM_PS2 = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |title=BloodRayne 2 |magazine=[[Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine]] |publisher=Ziff Davis |date=December 2004 |page=124}}</ref>
| OXM_XBOX = 7.2/10<ref>{{cite magazine |title=BloodRayne 2 |magazine=[[Official Xbox Magazine]] |publisher=[[Future US]] |date=December 25, 2004 |page=67}}</ref>
| PCGUS_PC = 70%<ref>{{cite magazine |title=BloodRayne 2 |magazine=[[PC Gamer]] |publisher=Future US |volume=12 |issue=10 |date=October 2005 |page=65}}</ref>
| MC_PC = 67/100<ref name="MCPC">{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/game/bloodrayne-2/critic-reviews/?platform=pc |title=BloodRayne 2 for PC Reviews |website=[[Metacritic]] |publisher=CBS Interactive |access-date=December 30, 2018}}</ref>
| MC_PS2 = 70/100<ref name="MCPS2">{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/game/bloodrayne-2/critic-reviews/?platform=playstation-2 |title=BloodRayne 2 for PlayStation 2 Reviews |website=Metacritic |access-date=December 30, 2018}}</ref>
| MC_XBOX = 71/100<ref name="MCXBOX">{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/game/bloodrayne-2/critic-reviews/?platform=xbox |title=BloodRayne 2 for Xbox Reviews |website=Metacritic |publisher=CBS Interactive |access-date=December 30, 2018}}</ref>
}}

''BloodRayne 2'' received "average" reviews on all platforms, according to the [[Review aggregator|review aggregation]] website [[Metacritic]].<ref name="MCPC"/><ref name="MCPS2"/><ref name="MCXBOX"/>

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==References==
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==External links==
* {{official website|http://www.bloodrayne2.com}}
* {{official website|https://web.archive.org/web/20050827110736/http://www.bloodrayne2.com/news.php|Archived page}}
* {{moby game|id=/bloodrayne-2}}

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