Photo: Troika Games, co-founded by Fallout veterans Tim Cain, Jason Anderson, and Leonard Boyarsky, built an ambitious and deeply strange RPG with Vampire: The Masquerade, Bloodlines. The game launched unfinished, riddled with bugs, and directly competed with Half-Life 2 on release day, one of the most anticipated PC games of the decade. SVG reported that lead writer Brian Mitsoda later described it as having beendumped on the market at the worst possible time.