[regawdless]

One review got released too early, by Noisy Pixel.
It got taken down but Google still shows the score.

Redfall is an anomaly because a game with this good of a team behind can't possibly be this bad, and yet, it is. There are these drips of looter shooter, RPG, and multiplayer elements sprinkled throughout, but none of them work together, delivering a messy and almost incomprehensible experience. Still, gunplay and exploration stay consistently fun, thanks to the satisfaction of taking down enemies and the level design. That being said, the single-player campaign is dull, but the multiplayer campaign could provide bouts of fun comprised of laughing at the strange AI behavior or the fact that no one can find keys to a door.

Some YouTuber also released early, got taken down as well. He gave it a 6/10.

Will post more when the embargo lifts.

Edit: another one, more positive this time

Redfall Review - High Stakes Vampire Hunting

Redfall is a new first person vampire shooter from Arkane, a solo or coop game about fighting bloodsuckers in a fictional New England town.

cogconnected.com

Score: 78

The Good
Interesting enemies
Fun coop
Cool powers and weapons
Manageable open world


The Bad
Graphics/art look dated
Solo play can be difficult
Lacks imagination and innovation

Edit2:

[XSX - 59] https://metacritic.com/game/xbox-series-x/redfall…
[PC - 57] https://metacritic.com/game/pc/redfall

‘Redfall’ Reviews Are Here, And They Are A Bloodbath

Review scores are coming in for Redfall and they aren’t just middling, they’re poor. For a game of this size from a studio that normally produces solid hits, it’s wild to see Redfall arriving with such poor scores.

www.forbes.com

Redfall review: "Feels rushed, unfinished, and unsatisfying"

The latest Review,,,reviews, breaking news, comment, reviews and features from the experts at GamesRadar+

www.gamesradar.com

Redfall Review - Half-Staked

Arkane takes a stab at infusing the genre du jour with its signature style, but the end results are a bloody mess.

www.gamespot.com

https://gamerant.com/redfall-review/

'Redfall' review: Good enough for Game Pass

Redfall is not fit for public consumption. Arkane Austin’s vampire-infused world is unpolished, underpopulated and littered with glitches.

www.engadget.com

Redfall review: A vampiric open-world shooter with a bad case of anaemia

Redfall's 30 FPS drama seems a bit silly now.

www.windowscentral.com

Redfall is Arkane defanged

Dead and not entirely loving it

www.polygon.com

Review | Redfall

Redfall is finally here, and I loved it. Trapped on an island off the coast of Massachusetts, you and up to three of your friends will shoot, loot,

xboxera.com

Review: Redfall - Arkane's Undead Experiment Brings Mixed Results To Xbox Game Pass

Stranger Fangs

www.purexbox.com

Edit:

Harvey Smith on the politics of Redfall, and how its undead were born from real-life bloodsuckers

Redfall is a silly game about shooting vampires, but also not. Yes, it's about clearing a town of a supernatural nuisan…

www.eurogamer.net

Trump bad, billionaires bad, Brexit bad.

 

[gameragodzilla]

I kinda expected this given how cringe the trailers were, though it is just one review. We'll see how the rest are.

 

[Rock And Roll]

Nothing about this game looked remotely promising tbh.

 

[Helljumper]

The contrived hype around this game from Xbox and the Xbox community is amusing.

 

[Nicktendo]

 

[JORMBO]

What's gonna happen to MS if Starfield turns out to be a bad game. XBSX is my least played console of all time.

 

[Yawnson]

Its not bad because its woke, but the woke was definitely invoked cause it was bad.

 

[CloudNull]

Oof not looking good. I'm not surprised but I was hoping it would turn out good.

 

[teezzy]

The contrived hype around this game from Xbox and the Xbox community is amusing.

Ill be honest

We're drawing at straws here man

Hopefully Starfield and Stalker 2 turn out awesome

 

[DonDonDonPata]

The contrived hype around this game from Xbox and the Xbox community is amusing.

leave my waifu Arkane Studios alone

 

[regawdless]

Doesn't look like I'll be around when the embargo lifts because it'll be too late here. Curious what it'll look like when I'll wake up lol

 

[Rock And Roll]

Doesn't look like I'll be around when the embargo lifts because it'll be too late here. Curious what it'll look like when I'll wake up lol

 

[Helljumper]

Don't know if it's been posted elsewhere but there's a Redfall custom Series X to celebrate the launch:

 

[JORMBO]

Granted it is Dreamcastguy but….

 

[Grinchy]

It's not like Arkane is retarded. Something bad must have went down and they were just forced to put out whatever they could put out.

Or maybe their team got diversity'd.

 

[Bernd Lauert]

Not like this, Arkane sisters...

 

[infinitys_7th]

Don't know if it's been posted elsewhere but there's a Redfall custom Series X to celebrate the launch:

Is it a Hot Topic Series Xclusive?

 

[JORMBO]

 

[Nikana]

Microsoft right now:

 

[JORMBO]

 

[WesternBlood]

Another flop for Microsoft Xbox division.

Good-assed Job Phil Spencer.

If Todd Howard blows it on Starfield, whoo boy!

 

[FactsAreDead]

STOP.MAKING.MULTIPLAYER.GAMES

Why is that so hard?! Multiplayer shit is where previously successful singleplayer-developers go to die. See also that shitty Suicide Squad-game.

Make good singleplayer-games and, surprise, success will be yours.

 

[CloudNull]

Watching Shroud play and it doesn't look that bad. I'm getting Borderlands vibes. He did get a gold weapon at level 2 and the ai looks pretty bare bones so far.

 

[WesternBlood]

One review got released too early, by Noisy Pixel.
It got taken down but Google still shows the score.

Noisy pixel made an article about being excited for it after playing a 2 hour preview, but has now reviewed it at a 4/10 after actually playing it non-currated.

>Get Paid To Preview Game with Positive Impression.
>Trashes it in a review later.
ಠ_ಠ

 

[Calcium]

Or maybe their team got diversity'd.

Probably the case. Another one bites the dust.

 

[Bullet Club]

 

[CloudNull]

Okay game is trash. Shroud just did a mission melee only. AI didn't even shoot back. No way they shipped this shit…. Arkane usually releases bangers.

 

[WesternBlood]

Zoomers pls...

 

[WesternBlood]

It's not like Arkane is retarded. Something bad must have went down and they were just forced to put out whatever they could put out.

Or maybe their team got diversity'd.

Consider the following:

 

[HeresJohnny]

STOP.MAKING.MULTIPLAYER.GAMES

Why is that so hard?! Multiplayer shit is where previously successful singleplayer-developers go to die. See also that shitty Suicide Squad-game.

Make good singleplayer-games and, surprise, success will be yours.

10000% this. Fuck multiplayer shit. Most of the best console multiplayer games started as killer single player games.

 

[DonDonDonPata]

Consider the following:

was just gonna say... their quality began dipping while at Bethesda. Lotsa talent went and made Weird West which is pretty good if you like that style of isometric sandbox RPG



I like their stuff. Deathloop was good (from what I've played of it so far), but it's not hard to see them struggling to hang on to what made them Arkane while under Bethesda.

 

[CloudNull]

 

[gameragodzilla]

Consider the following:

Nah, Arkane became shit around Dishonored 2 (which launched in a very poor state and had Anita Sarkeesian as an advisor) and Prey (which not only stole the name of a much better game but spent more of its lore on a bunch of random jackasses playing a tabletop game or the complete relationship drama of two lesbians than anything interesting). Those were part of the reasons why Mr. Colantonio left the studio. He even later gave an interview stating he wanted to apologize to the original devs of Prey for the bullshit surrounding the name.

Unfortunately, while I liked the first Dishonored when I initially played it, I ended up souring on it as I started playing more in-depth stealth games like Thief, Hitman and especially Splinter Cell. I would've liked Dishonored 2 to improve upon Dishonored 1 by adding some more depth, but unfortunately they didn't really do that. Game's harder and leaning isn't an invisibility cloak anymore, but still, it's a pretty basic, line of sight only stealth game.

STOP.MAKING.MULTIPLAYER.GAMES

Why is that so hard?! Multiplayer shit is where previously successful singleplayer-developers go to die. See also that shitty Suicide Squad-game.

Make good singleplayer-games and, surprise, success will be yours.

Yeah, Hogwarts Legacy has been the most successful game by a country mile so far, and Jedi Survivor seems to be pretty good as well so long as you're not playing on PC.

But people accept bullshit microtransactions in multiplayer more. Look at how much money Activision and Ubishit make from skins in CoD and RS6 Siege? This overmonetization nonsense is why we haven't gotten a new Splinter Cell game in a decade, despite everyone and their dog asking for one.

 

[Helljumper]

Why is Arkane still respected? Harvey Smith said this:

Smith recalls completing work on Dishonored 2 at Arkane Lyon and living in Europe during a period where the UK voted for Brexit, right before the US voted for Donald Trump. "I woke up in the middle of the night," Smith says of the US election, "I was on Twitter and I was just watching my friends be like, 'What the fuck is happening?' There was just this crestfallen, defeated, kind of reaction. And that's when I felt it: 'This signals the beginning of something really wild.' This is populism. This is like echoes of earlier times in history." And while all of this goes on in the background, he continues, numerous "horror show" incidents have taken place involving pharmaceutical companies.

Harvey Smith on the politics of Redfall, and how its undead were born from real-life bloodsuckers

Harvey Smith on the politics of Redfall, and how its undead were born from real-life bloodsuckers

Redfall is a silly game about shooting vampires, but also not. Yes, it's about clearing a town of a supernatural nuisan…

www.eurogamer.net

 

[HeresJohnny]

Why is Arkane still respected? Harvey Smith said this:

Smith recalls completing work on Dishonored 2 at Arkane Lyon and living in Europe during a period where the UK voted for Brexit, right before the US voted for Donald Trump. "I woke up in the middle of the night," Smith says of the US election, "I was on Twitter and I was just watching my friends be like, 'What the fuck is happening?' There was just this crestfallen, defeated, kind of reaction. And that's when I felt it: 'This signals the beginning of something really wild.' This is populism. This is like echoes of earlier times in history." And while all of this goes on in the background, he continues, numerous "horror show" incidents have taken place involving pharmaceutical companies.

Harvey Smith on the politics of Redfall, and how its undead were born from real-life bloodsuckers

Harvey Smith on the politics of Redfall, and how its undead were born from real-life bloodsuckers

Redfall is a silly game about shooting vampires, but also not. Yes, it's about clearing a town of a supernatural nuisan…

www.eurogamer.net

Well I can't speak to the quality of Redfall, but Harvey Smith sure seems to be a cunt.

 

[WesternBlood]

Nah, Arkane became shit around Dishonored 2 (which launched in a very poor state and had Anita Sarkeesian as an advisor) and Prey (which not only stole the name of a much better game but spent more of its lore on a bunch of random jackasses playing a tabletop game or the complete relationship drama of two lesbians than anything interesting). Those were part of the reasons why Mr. Colantonio left the studio. He even later gave an interview stating he wanted to apologize to the original devs of Prey for the bullshit surrounding the name.

Unfortunately, while I liked the first Dishonored when I initially played it, I ended up souring on it as I started playing more in-depth stealth games like Thief, Hitman and especially Splinter Cell. I would've liked Dishonored 2 to improve upon Dishonored 1 by adding some more depth, but unfortunately they didn't really do that. Game's harder and leaning isn't an invisibility cloak anymore, but still, it's a pretty basic, line of sight only stealth game.

Prey somehow turned out better than it should have, though I don't disagree with you.

 

[Gold Loot]

Jesus. I was expecting an average to above average game here , but damn.

One has to wonder if DEI is what's killing these studios.

 

[Nobel 6]

What happened to Arkane. Their previous are some of my favorites. I especially loved Prey, but the game has apparently turned out to be even worse than most people thought it would be.

I thought Deathloop looked even worse than this game and I ended up loving it so I had faith this game would be great too. Ooops, I'm sure glad Tears of the Kingdom will be out in less than 2 weeks.

 

[Zefah]

Nothing about this game looked remotely promising tbh.

Strong Battleborn vibes.

 

[TyphoonStruggle]

Zoomers pls...

Go Woke, Go Broke