Summer 2021 Bethesda Softworks and Arkane studio announced a cooperative shooter about vampires in the open world Redfall. The game was compared with the famous series from the very first steps Left 4 Dead. However, the developers do not support this view. In an interview GamesRadar creative director Ricardo Baer and studio head Harvey Smith said the game was intended as a “warm-up” after years of working on Prey and Dishonored. The developers, however, overestimated their strength a little, deciding to use the open world and multiplayer at the same time, which is why the creation process was delayed.
The creators of Redfall understand why the game is compared to Left 4 Dead, but they assure that in terms of gameplay and feel, these games are completely different. In Redfall, we’d rather feel like Far Cry 2 or S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
We wanted to take a familiar setting and go deeper into it. Redfall Island should be a place that, after a few hours of exploration, we will know as well as Talos or Dunwall. And when we say we wanted to expand, what we mean is: what if we take all of our experience and our creative values and put them in an open world?
Harvey Smith
Redfall Island is much bigger than Talos, and we’re not just going to fight here. At the safe base, you can talk to NPCs, get side quests, and choose story missions. But no one will forbid you to ignore the tasks and just get out into the open world in search of adventure and exploration.
Redfall players will put their curiosity and ingenuity to good use. It will be possible to free city blocks from vampires, saving the townspeople and allowing them to live more comfortably. And the main difference from Far Cry will be that we will not have any transport, we will have to explore the world slowly, taking into account the dangers.
You can fight vampires and cultists alone, but sometimes it will be necessary to team up with three more players. At the same time, the choice of character will be made free, and there may well be four identical heroes in the group. Although variety doesn’t just help in combat: the characters communicate in the process and increase the level of trust.
To make the shootouts convincing, Arkane enlisted the help of FPS experts. In particular, developers were consulted by studios that worked on Doom.
Redfall doesn’t have a set release date, however it is rumored to be released in early May 2023.
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