Arkane Austin·Released May 2, 2023·Single player
Redfall is an open-world, co-op FPS from Arkane Austin, the award-winning team behind Prey and Dishonored. Continuing Arkane’s legacy of carefully crafted worlds and immersive sims, Redfall brings the studio’s signature gameplay to this story-driven action shooter.
For a game about fighting vampires, Redfall feels soulless in all the wrong ways.
Our review of Redfall, a confounding, slightly annoying, sometimes wonderful video game.
A hollow open world FPS which feels more like you're playing through an already abandoned live service, as opposed to a fully supported one.
A lifeless multiplayer FPS that lacks any of Arkane's usual brilliance.
Redfall is ultimately not up to Arkane's usual standards. It feels rushed, unfinished, and unsatisfying to play.
Arkane takes a stab at infusing the genre du jour with its signature style, but the end results are a bloody mess.
Plagued with bland missions, boneheaded enemies, and repeated technical problems, Redfall is a bafflingly bad time across the board.
Redfall sees Arkane experiment with melding genres, to mixed results. There's plenty of flashes of the style and narrative flair we've come to expect from this incredible studio as you explore the town and face off with its undead inhabitants. However, the mixing of FPS action and story beats with open world exploration and a relatively relaxed pace leads to a balancing act that may leave hardcore shooter aficionados and Arkane super fans alike wanting more. If you come at it looking for a chilled out bit of vampire hunting there's still plenty to enjoy here, but some irksome AI issues and a lack of clarity over what it really wants to be leave it feeling a little lost in a limbo of its own making.
