![]() ![]() Jacob is a former mercenary for fictional private military contractor, Bellwether. The rest of your arsenal, from assault rifles to handguns, is more prosaic, the gunplay turning out to be competent rather than exhilarating, and certainly nothing that will have Bungie looking nervously over its shoulder.Įven more so than weapons, your choice of hero influences both play style and the options available during battles. Once immobilised, a quick blast from a shotgun and they explode into satisfyingly small fragments. You can also temporarily petrify vampires using a portable UV light. More unusual weapons in Redfall include the stake launcher, which flings pretty much any sharp object you find, from pokers to broken pool cues, enabling you to spear your prey from a distance. But bullets aren’t the only thing you can use to defend yourself. Fortunately, they’re susceptible to bullets, which you use to weaken them before applying a good old stake to the heart. Unlike their followers, vampires don’t carry guns, instead swooping in for clawed melee attacks. Meanwhile armed cult members roam the island and will shoot you on sight. It’s largely empty though, the island’s citizens having either run away or been used as food by the blood suckers – there are a few hapless residents to rescue, but not many. On land there’s a mixture of houses and commercial buildings, as well as a scattering of twisted magical structures. And now there’s Redfall, which is designed to be played in up to four-player co-op. Deathloop had an interesting mechanic where a second player could invade your game as an assassin, forcing you to abandon your current objective and defend yourself. Since then Arkane’s interest in online gaming hasn’t abated. Perhaps less well known is that the studio was also developing a multiplayer game, called The Crossing, in the mid-2000s, which was cancelled before release. Starting with Arx Fatalis in the early 2000s, then Dishonored and its sequel, they also made Prey and more recently Deathloop, all of which rely on elements of the genre. Whether you loathe the term immersive sim or merely dislike it, the genre it describes, in which you solve problems using weapons, special powers, and the environment, is a rarefied one, with developer Arkane one of its last remaining proponents. ![]() Redfall – better with friends, probably (pic: Microsoft)įrom the creators of Dishonored and Prey comes a new four-player shooter that is Bethesda’s biggest budget Xbox Series X/S exclusive so far. ![]()
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