7/2/2023 0 Comments Deathloop update![]() All of the heroes have special powers at their disposal however, unlike Destiny where team composition is an enormous focus, there isn’t any meaningful synergy between them. And like Bungie’s live-service marvel, this vampire-slaying shooter has a similarly quick and snappy brand of gunplay that’s very satisfying. For the most part it’s roaming an open sandbox and shooting shit up before returning to home base to top up ammo, spin a yarn with the non-playables, and receive the next thing to do. After spending considerable time in it, I think a lot of its nuts and bolts are modelled after Destiny. I had originally pegged Redfall as Arkane’s attempt at a Far Cry game. So, I’d expect all of them to have their own forgettable vendettas. Though I didn’t play through all of them, Orlando Bloom, I mean Jacob, is loosely tied to Miss Whisper, the god responsible for “gifting” him his magical milky eye. ![]() If anything, it’s the hero characters that don’t really lap up much focus. With the island under the authoritative rule of the vampire gods, the game does a pretty good job of unspooling their histories throughout the game’s rather cheap ‘live storyboard’ cutscenes that bookend most of the main missions.Īdmittedly, there’s more of Arkane’s patented world-building present than I had given the game credit for during my hands-on. Like a lot of Arkane’s stuff, there is actually a pretty wild story on offer with Redfall, if you’re happy to look for it. Only with Redfall, it feels like they were told a year out from launch and decided to pad the experience out with anything but a checklist of things to do in the titular town. ![]() It feels as though Redfall began life as a smaller project, almost like a stop-gap in development in between Dishonored games-like Deathloop’s apparent beginnings. As it turns out, host-only progression, inconvenient as it might be, isn’t even close to one of the game’s worst sins. Last month, I wrote about Redfall’s bad press and how the game might face an uphill battle to win fans over come launch.
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