Redfall
Arkane is primarily known and beloved for immersive sims like the Dishonored series and Prey. This year, it did something quite different with the co-op multiplayer-focused vampire shooterRedfall, and sadly, it didn’t pan out too well. Don’t get me wrong, the things that the developer does best—storytelling, worldbuilding, environmental design, cool abilities—work here, and smashing that stuff into an online environment could’ve been a recipe for thrilling vampire-slaying shenanigans. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been. Characters would sometimes run in place despite no controller input, framerates would plummet when performing executions, enemies would just stand still in combat, bullets would do no damage, audio would randomly cut out—Redfall was a mess. The team isstill patching the game so, maybe in time, it’ll be worth checking out.
