The modern-day part of the Skyrim complete conversion mod "Vampire the Masquerade": Redemption Reawakened has been updated with a 10-minute video showcasing London in the year 2000.

The original "Redemption" predated its more famous (and better-loved) CRPG sibling "VTM - Bloodlines" by four years. Half of the game is set in the late medieval period, while the second half of the game is set in London and New York City at the end of the millennium, with the vampire knight Kristoff playing like a fish out of water. Unfortunately, it fell victim to the worst trends in RPGs of the late 90s and early 00s, like Sideshow Bob stepping into a sea of rake.

Tactical pauses and full parties with no direct control over your companions resulted in janky, mushy RPG combat where countless incomprehensible stats dictated the outcome of battles.

I've told you about the medieval part of "Redemption Reawakened" before, but this is the first modern part in a while, and the RR team's clatter game really hits the mark, with all the physics bits and boobers I crave in a first-person RPG littering this office. While the Skyrim conversion doesn't completely dispel the Skyrim stink, the team still created a believable and palpable environment with an art style that is very different from the base game.

And the gunplay looks pretty good. I won't know for sure until I touch it, but the first-person animations look better and more believable to my eyes than anything I've seen in first-person RPGs of Skyrim's generation, such as Fallout 3, New Vegas, or even Vampire Bloodlines! The cops and vampire hunters that Kristoff fights are holding their guns like swords.

The demo sequence really comes alive when Kristoff gets his upper body up, and Redemption Reawakened's city zones have the same noirish feel that I cherish from Bloodlines, and my expectations for Skyrim mods London feels like a modern city, not an unreasonable approximation of Skyrim. The showcase also previews a GTA-style police response system, with Kristoff shooting at cops to trigger a SWAT tactical response, and elites with riot shields descending in helicopters for riot control.

Progress on this seriously impressive mod continues at a rapid pace, with no release date currently set, but we can't wait to play it, and you can follow the progress of "Redemption Reawakened" on project leader Galejro's Twitter or YouTube.