While Arkane’s video games, as the Dishonored designer is quickly to confess, are difficult to specify, comprised as they are of a mix of categories and an overlapping mass of systems, its co-op vampire searching video game Redfall is, at last, entering into focus. It even has actually a release date: May 2, 2023.
In previous live streams about Redfall, Arkane has concentrated on the moment-to-moment gameplay, how the weapons work, a few of the abilities you can open, and how you can work together with other gamers to integrate capabilities versus your vampire opponents. However in this newest live stream, the Xbox & Bethesda Designer Direct, Arkane took an action back to speak about your overarching goal in the Xbox Series X video game.
Your mission is simple: clear the town of Redfall of all the bloodsuckers and their buddies.
That may seem like a straightforward goal, but in practice, there’s a little more to it. For a start, the town of Redfall doesn’t just have a vampire problem. Human cultists have taken up residence in the community, capturing survivors and feeding them to the bloodsuckers. It’s a kind of hero worship for the cultists, trying to get on the good side of the pointy-teethed menaces and gain favor with the vampire gods.
To rid the town of vampires and cultists, you’ll need to go from neighborhood to neighborhood, eliminating vampire nests and cultist operations. Eventually, when you’ve caused enough of a ruckus, you’ll need to kill a vampire underboss. These are souped-up vampires armed with special abilities you’ll only encounter in those boss fights.
In each neighborhood, you’ll find a safe house in which you can set up shop. Arkane didn’t go into much detail about what you could do at these locales, though hopefully, they’re more than good fast travel and respawn spots.
When you kill an underboss, you will claim their skull, which acts as a kind of key. Collect enough skulls and you unlock a fight with one of the vampire gods, and I don’t know how to put this other than saying they’re a heckin’ big bloodsucker. They’re the kind of big that makes me think I may have to play Redfall in co-op after all, even though you can complete the whole video game in single-player.
I’ll make the call on whether I want to go it alone against the vamps nearer the time, however at least I can schedule the decision in now, because the Redfall release date isn’t far off. I only have to wait until May 2. And, of course, as it will be out on Game Pass on day one, I don’t even need to convince my friends to pick up a copy. We can simply boot it up on an impulse.
