A vampire shooter with real bite, or a toothless bloody mess? Find out in our Redfall review:
Redfall begins with a wave goodbye. The goodbye consists of a number of people who try to leave the fictional New England town of the game’s title onboard a ferry. The wave is what stops them. It looms as high as a skyscraper, and the looming is permanent. It refuses to roll or break, presenting a sheer wall of broiling surf and beaching the ferry, along with a scattering of other boats, on the sand.
The action has you tooling up, heading out, slaying ranks of the undead, and truffling for traces of backstory via diary entries, letters, and so forth. Plus, it’s geared, more or less evenly, toward single and cooperative play.
We need more of this sort of thing. Vampires have been ill served by video games of late. How drab it was to watch the hero of, Jonathan Reid, agonise over his newfound lack of life; all those nifty powers and all he could do was moan about his ebbing mortality. As for Vampire Survivors, though I’ve lost countless hours to it, most of that time was spent hacking down swathes of mutant plants, like an aggrieved landscaper.
At first glance, vampires mark a departure for Arkane, which usually goes for hard science fiction or industrial fantasy. Glance again. Picture the heroes of Arkane games: Corvo, existing in shadow, walking between worlds, and conducting tides of rats to gnaw on the populace; Morgan Yu, punctured by unnatural powers and caught in the lunar pull; and Colt Vahn, a killer trapped in a loop of living death. Indeed, it’s a wonder that it’s taken the studio this long to get literal.
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