
Still, I have enjoyed playing as Layla, the young woman of color who gets a powerful umbrella weapon early on. Yes, I experienced issues myself, especially with the camera. And while it needs updating like No Man’s Sky and Fallout 76 needed updating, there’s still something potentially good there right now. They went into what seemed like an overly caffeinated extrapolation: This is the end of Xbox because the game is broken and all games forward will probably be broken, too. The seaside town of Redfall needs to feel more alive. Among fans and critics, there was much bemoaning and berating on social media. Redfall, the vampire-rife open world game made by Arcane’s Austin studio, arrived for subscribers on Game Pass this week. In this grim, game world, the indication is that vampires wreaked this chaos upon humanity. It almost looks like it can attack and wipe out the world, like the rogue planet barreling down on Earth in Von Trier’s brilliant, affecting “Melancholia” movie. Make your way onto the shore, and there’s the most blazing, fiery eclipse in human existence. It’s somehow stopped, seemingly by an invisible barrier.

A wall of water, all around, alive but suspended, more like concrete than water. Outside is a disturbingly odd phenomenon. Moments later, you’re viciously attacked by famished vampires with the most massive hands and slashing nails that you’ve ever witnessed. As you awake on the deck floor, you’re completely confused. Each character was given a brief moment during the trailer at E3 2021, and their individual personalities shined through.There’s a wrecked passenger and car ferry, stuck in the sticky muck.

The names of the playable characters in Redfall are Devinder Crousley, Layla Ellison, Remi De La Rosa, and Jacob Boyer. Similar to other squad multiplayer games like Left 4 Dead, the player and their teammates will choose from a cast of four characters.

The Redfall player will be able to play alone or have the option for up to three of their friends to join them.

It will put the player in the titular city in Massachusetts as a part of a four-player squad that is trying to get out the truth about what's happening in the small island town. Now Bethesda and Arkane are introducing their own spin on the vampire genre with the upcoming Redfall. The bloodsucking monsters have long found their way into video games as well, with titles like Vampyr and Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines putting players into a vampire's shoes. If Bram Stoker could see the ways that vampires have evolved since his novelization, he would likely be as impressed as he was shocked.
