While the original Blood was a fairly well polished action romp, packed with fun weapons like the napalm launcher, sawed-off shotgun, dynamite bundle and tesla cannon, this unworthy sequel manages to either cut out or completely ruin the satisfaction value of pretty much all of the above. And what is a shooter without fun guns? A lot like a game of tag with two bad legs per contestant, I imagine.
The delightfully fun knockback effects seem to be gone, the corpses fall in weird places like mid-air or half-embedded in concrete, the blood is uglier and if anything less plentiful, the enemies are inadvertently hideous (at this point, anyone who feels that any 3D graphics beat any 2D graphics by default, may wish to stop reading) and so are the levels, besides which they exhibit considerably less ingenuity and industriousness than the original's. Little room details are polished to look good in a screenshot while cavernous spaces of numerous levels are left as empty, poorly shaded cubes.
That not enough? Well, you know how in the first game, Caleb would comment on things, swear or taunt as he killed enemies, quote MacBeth and Evil Dead, sing Frank Sinatra tunes under his breath if you left him idle for a bit? Well, he seems to do that stuff a lot less now, if at all... his lines have gotten both fewer and weaker.
Finally, last but not least, the game is still hard, but this time it's hard in a stupid way, rather than challenging and occasionally cruel... in the "shoot each guy eight times with the new and worse napalm launcher, run out of ammo and spend even longer trying to kill the rest of them with weaker weapons" way. And that's not even mentioning the bosses. Do yourself a favor and save your money; if you haven't played the first game, try it instead, and if you like it, play it again, perhaps at a higher difficulty setting.