BloodRayne 2 is an action hack and slash video game developed by Terminal Reality for PlayStation 2, Xbox and Microsoft Windows. It does not follow on directly from where BloodRayne finished; instead, it takes place 60 and 70 years later in a contemporary 2000s setting.
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.
Plot
Shortly after the events of the first game, Rayne finds Brimstone headquarters personally sieged by her father, the vampire overlord Kagan. As Rayne confronts Kagan, the latter is torturing Professor Germain, a father figure within Brimstone who helped save Rayne as a child. Kagan reveals that Brimstone is holding the Vesper Shard, believing it can be weaponized against vampires. As Kagan gloats, Germain makes Rayne run, setting off an explosion seemingly killing Kagan. Denied the pleasure of killing Kagan herself, Rayne vows to destroy Kagan's legacy by killing the cult of his children .
Decades later, Rayne's quest to exterminate Kagan's remaining followers brings her to a city where the last of his children are operating. The Cult of Kagan are led by Rayne's vampiric half-sibling; her sisters, the ambitious Ephemera and the arrogant Ferrill; and her sycophantic brother, Xerxes. Rayne infiltrates a party hosted by one of her half brothers, Zerenksi, who lures the city's leaders and elites to be massacred. After Rayne kills Zerenski, she and her handler Severin observe numerous abductions across the cities as increasing vampire attacks are becoming more public and audacious.
During one such attack, Rayne encounters and briefly fights Ephemera. Reaching the city's sewer system, she faces Slezz, a towering vampiric monstrosity the cult uses to breed monstrous children. After killing Slezz, Rayne soon infiltrates a factory run by the cult, attempting to harness the Vesper 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
Reception
BloodRayne 2 received "average" reviews on all platforms, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.