The game also features a shop mechanic where players can purchase additional combat techniques and power-ups to increase health and other characteristics.
Prior to confrontation, Dr. Jekyll, using the attic of Notre-Dame de Paris as a lab and a hideout, drank a concoction to transform to Mr. Hyde, becoming bigger, stronger, faster and retaining his memory.
He is assigned to pursue Dracula by the Holy Order, to track down a woman named Anna Velarious, as she can help, but is warned of the outnumbering dead.
After clearing the town of once again living skeletons, Helsing goes to the fountain, where he discovers a large pale man is interwoven cloth robes.
Vaseria Villiage, Transylvania Van Helsing is tasked to go to a place "most holy and divine", as called by Cardinal Jinette.
Woods, Transylvania Cardinal Jinette tasks Van Helsing with eliminating Igor, who has been torturing members of the Velarious family.
Outside of the library where Velkan Velarious, brother to Anna, was studying Dracula the ghost from the train station appears again.
While travelling to the old castle that Igor calls home, the ghost from prior showing appears again, but this time addressing Van Helsing as Gabriel and himself as Velarious, but is quickly dispersed from his ghostly presence by Igor himself, attempting to capture Helsing so his master can have revenge for murdering his bride.
Dracula is using the method Dr. Frankenstein used to create the monster to give permanent life to his offspring, otherwise the cannot sustain and expire quickly after birth.
After presumably defeating Velkan by him falling down a ravine and climbing a tower, Van Helsing crosses the bridge as Anna is carried by a bride further into the castle.
After venturing into the castle further chasing the bride, Van Helsing meets Dracula holding Anna hostage in exchange for the Frankenstein monster.
Castle Frankenstein cannot withstand the destructive power of Dracula and is falling apart quickly prompting Van Helsing to escape.
After arriving at the main courtyard Anna greets Van Helsing with a horse-drawn carriage with aim to flee the castle, they are chased by a Bride.
After pursuing Igor though the forest for the portal key to Castle Dracula and finally encountering him, Van Helsing is approached again by the ghost of Velarious, who addresses him as Gabriel without him having memory.
At the stroke of midnight, Van Helsing (Gabriel), transforms into a werewolf, striking fear into Dracula even in his demon form.
They specifically called the game "downright ugly", bemoaning the incredibly muddy and pixelated graphics, and panning the engine as unable to "keep up with what the designers throw at it, with tremendous slowdown occurring when four or more enemies show up on-screen.