I’ve been writing about video games, television and movies for Forbes for over 10 years, and you may have seen my reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. I cover all manner of console and PC games, but if it’s about looting or shooting, I’m definitely there. If I’m watching something, it’s usually science fiction, horror or superheroic.
The past few years, we have seen a litany of “redemption” stories in the video game realm. Some view these as a symptom of corporate execs rushing unfinished games, others believe them to be inspirational stories of dev hard work. Or you know, both.
Now, there’s some talk about whether Xbox’s Redfall may follow this same path. Redfall was indeed very much meant to be a live co-op game with future missions and characters and so forth. But instead it released as one of the lowest rated AAA games of the year, a bizarre fall for the normally stellar Arkane.
It didn’t move the needle. Not at all. Some praised Arkane for getting out 60 fps like they promised, but a couple weeks after the patch hit, Redfall isThe patch got some already friendly Xbox players to say “it’s better now!” but that conversation never lasted more than a day or two. I went back and played. Shooting was mildly better, still not good. Density was increased, but all that did is made me burn poorly distributed resources.
Redfall’s main sin was chasing the live service train. It’s a four player co-op game without any matchmaking, and about half of your character kit is devoted to co-op play you will probably never use. Past that, the cutscenes are still images. The shooting is poor. The enemies are idiots. The art direction hurts my eyes.
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