You're the head of a failing entertainment company...

[Keoul]

FYI, that game already came out ten years ago. It's called Manhunt.

10 years? looks like it's time for a reeemmaaakkkeee!!
Just look at how successful Tomb Raider was! The money will be pouring in!

 

[chinangel]

i would blame piracy and foreign markets, and then make Monopoly: the game.

It would be a 1940's strategy/action hybrid in which you must take control of a massive city, killing or corrupting law enforcement, buying up swathes of land to launder money and train your lieutenents and so on while avoiding random things happening, shifting alliegences and the many other gangsters in the city.

 

[MammothBlade]

Buy the license for Vampire: The Masquerade and make the best damn freaking vampire game there ever was. I don't care for the specifics, but ensure it can break-even at realistic sales targets. Cut out the flab such as quick time events and pre-rendered cutscenes, forget AAA graphics, just make it a damn first person rpg and make it work. I would take a special interest in the weapons, combat, and level design, giving it a fresh and intuitive feel. Each clan would have a distinctive style and powers, and ample opportunities to use them. Also, TIME TRAVEL.

I don't care about the fate of the company after the game is completed.

If you don't care about the specifics, why buy the licence, why not just make something derivative?

But, sans time travel, that sounds a lot like VTM: Bloodlines, or at least there's probably the right mod for you somewhere.

Because I've played VTM: Bloodlines, and whilst I love it, I recognise that it needs a better successor. The Masquerade series needs an update, and a bloody good one at that.

I'd rather leave the specifics of the story and characters to those who are the most familiar with WoD lore. I'd make my own specifications and let other people work to them, with the exception of areas where I'll take a special interest.