Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

Bloodlines is a PC game made by the now defunct developer, Troika. The game follows a character created by the player out of one of the seven Camarilla clans and is considered a canon prequel to the "Gehenna" novel. The player's choice of clan and gender directly alter many of the things they can do and say in the game. As one would expect, a Nosferatu can't walk the streets, while a Ventrue has an easy time convincing Camarilla vampires to do what he or she says.

The game runs on Valve's Source engine. It is highly buggy out of the box, but the initial patch adds much stability to the game, and it's popularity as an involving, plot-intensive, highly replayble RPG has inspired fans to continually update it with unofficial patches.

Among the game's various plots and usual vampire politics is controversy surrounding the character of the cab driver. Dialog in-game and the file structure of the game's voice clips when installed suggest that the cab driver is, in fact, Caine. However, other stories considered canon seem to contradict this, associating a character from Bloodlines, clearly identified as the cab driver's friend, with a powerful Malkavian who pretends to be Caine. The implication is, of course, that this Malkavian is also the cab driver in-game. Given the intentional hints designed to make the player question who the cab driver is, it is very likely that the develoeprs fashioned the character in this exact manner as a deliberate joke of sorts. Thus, the answer is that the cab driver is Caine if the player "wants" the cab driver to be Caine. Likewise, the cab driver is not Caine if the player so wishes.