For a game so awesome, this game seems really short and kinda leaves me wanting more...unless there were more chapters or something I didn't see. It actually seems a lot shorter than games like Duke 3D or even Doom that came before it.

Gonna go try out the sequel finally and see how that is...I heard its kinda mixed/bad. I wonder if there will ever be a 3rd game...

If you did not play the sequel before the original would not recommend it, the game is not bad but not as fun as the original.. is a game to pass the time only.

You can enlarge the life of the first game playing mods, many of them are much better than the originals.

http://www.gog.com/forum/blood_series/one_unit_whole_blood_launcher_map_and_mod_collection_too/page1

I do not think will be sequel since monolith Studios was purchased by Waner brothers, and the license blood belongs to Infogrames(Atari). and Infogrames has said he does not see a future to the product.

Seeya

Blood 1 with Plasma Pak has 38 levels

Duke 3D Atomic edition has 40 and what extends that number are two secrets levels in episode 2 and 3 which were questionable in terms of quality (poor attempts of single play in deathmatch circle layout). So without counting these inferiors there are 38 (DM filler maps available to play through regular single play as secret levs aren't worth listing as proper sp levels).

Now for the expansions, the only true made to be official legitimate expansion made by other company is just Duke it out DC (Carribean, Nuclear Winter and others doesn't count). That's 9 levs.

For the Cryptic Passage that's 9 levels.

Blood 2 has 33 levels, with Nightmare Levels expansion it's made to 39 levels, so it's somewhere like Blood1+Plasma Pak, additional level is battle with Ancient One (well it's kind of gauntlet, first you fight with Gideon at the end of episode 3, then kill him again in spider form in chapter 4, after that 3 undead chosen, and then ancient one).

Second game is not bad or good, just aged more because of 3D and Lithtech. Also story is about future Cabal ruling the world dystopia as Cabalco, so beings from other dimension and sci-fi comes to level progress.

The only from Blood1 addons I would recommend between Blood 1 and 2 or instead is Death Wish addon by Bloatoid.

In addition to DW I would also recommend and [url=http://www.gamefront.com/files/files/10242838/ratme1_setup.exe]RATM

I'm loving 2 but then I wasn't expecting the reinvention of the wheel, just running around and blasting and it delivers on both.

Blood 1 is short? Try playing on the hardest difficulty and tell me how long that takes you to finish.

Blood 2 IS a mixed bag. The difficulty modes are really poorly designed. Easy mode is so easy it's not even a challenge and normal mode is tough to the point that the Act 1 boss can 1-2 shot you. Plus that airplane level is absolutely horrible if you don't know what to do. I had a friend in high school who gave up on Blood 2 because he couldn't figure out how to get past it.

Blood 1 is where it's at.