The game was published by Activision and serves as a prequel to the movie, following the adventure of Blade with help of his mentor and friend Abraham Whistler.

The player takes control of Blade as he makes his way through various vampire-infested locations in order to defeat the head vampire menace.

Blade is equipped with a "multi-launcher" that can shoot all sorts of things to kill vampires, like silver glaives and UV grenades.

"[14] Samuel Bass of NextGen said, "With the actual film available on DVD for half the price, why waste your time with this inferior spin-off?

Marc Nix of IGN called it "Violent, visceral, bloody action on the Game Boy Color, just how you like it.