Vampyr - Preview @ Kotaku

Kotaku have written a piece about Vampyr, based on a talk with Stéphane Beauverger last month in Paris.

Set in post-First World War London, with Spanish Flu killing off the city's citizens far faster than the war ever did, Vampyr puts you into the shoes of surgeon Jonathan Reid. Shortly after the game begins, Reid is bitten and turned into a vampire by a night-creature using the confusion of the plague to feed on the vulnerable.

In your search to find out what you've become, you travel through different areas of London. Each hub has groups of characters to meet and interact with. Unlike other RPGs, where NPCs stand and wait for you and have little relation to the other NPCs around them, in Vampyr the characters in each hub are linked—they're friends, enemies, family members. In the demo I was shown, Reid comes across two men arguing in the street. The older of the two pulls a gun, fires on the younger, and runs off into the night. The demo-er talked to the boy, who was tight-lipped about the argument, except to say 'He's not been the same since he came back.' The demo-er had Reid track the older man in the dark streets and feed on him—as the older man died we were privy to his final thought: 'It's okay, I died a long time ago in France.'