Redfall

"Looking at the world of Redfall, I become sad by its wasted potential. For every great location, there are a handful of forgettable ones. The result is an empty-feeling game with several puzzling problems, like a lack of proper stealth …"

"I wanted desperately to find a good game underneath all the bugs in Redfall, and every now and then a tiny ray of light would shine through and give me hope. I took my time to give it a fair …"

"In no way is Redfall groundbreaking - but sometimes all a game needs to be is fun to play, and Arkane has created an experience that offers a good time."

"Arkane&s;s vampire thriller is muddled and deeply compromised, but has moments of real charm."

"Redfall is hampered by issues like poor AI, texture pop-ins, and bland missions, meaning its stronger moments are overshadowed."

"Redfall will be a good game for when all the technical problems that launch treasures are fixed. Arkane&s;s good hand in terms of setting and gameplay is moved to the background due to errors and failures and despite everything, this …"

"Redfall isn’t a total disaster, and there’s fun to be had in slaying vampires, especially with a couple of friends. But to call Redfall a shallow experience would be an understatement. I’m happy to loot and shoot and make my …"

"I really spent most of my time playing Redfall thinking about what else Redfall could have been. I like that Arkane tried something new, and I’m bummed it came out like this. It’s a really unique premise and concept in …"

"In Redfall, Arkane&s;s trademark can only be seen in places, and the end result, while not entirely awful, falls far short of what we expected from the return to the scenes of Prey&s;s creators."

"Redfall is an indecipherable mess. Many technical problems destroy its playability, making it still fun when played with friends, but otherwise it is clearly an incomplete game."

"There is a lot to enjoy with Arkane&s;s latest, even if some aspects don&s;t feel as fleshed out as they could be. The game looks and plays great on PC with several graphics options, including performance and ultra-performance modes. Although …"

"An echo of Arkane’s past glories - one in which the studio’s unique voice can still be heard, but more faintly than we’ve come to expect."

"Redfall isn&s;t as unplayable as some of the most intense reaction might lead you to believe. That said, we found it to be a rather mindless experience, often finding ourselves going through the motions. And when considering how it falls …"

"Redfall is a serviceable first-person open-world shooter with perhaps the most needless "RPG layer" in the history of always-online games. Tools that might make the sandbox more fun are arbitrarily spread across four separate playable class characters. Weapons you enjoy …"

"From a studio having delivered far better and should in all likelihood have done so once more, Redfall is an uncharacteristically poor and cobbled-together brand of tedium."

"Redfall is a compelling adventure with killer combat and an atmospheric setting in which you can easily lose a weekend. Even though it feels watered down by Arkane’s systemic standards, it’s an ambitious, primarily successful experiment full of narrative nuance …"

"Redfall isn’t the game anyone wanted it to be, and what is there is just OK. It’s a freak show, a roadside attraction, inviting you and your friends to come and gawk at one of god’s failed designs for an …"

"Redfall is ultimately a fun experience thanks to the world, the enemies, and the gunplay itself, but as a whole, it&s;s an incredibly shallow one too. Because of this, some may question whether it&s;s worth the price tag, but it&s;s …"

"Frankly, it’s a relief to see real neck-biters treated with the proper pulp care. Arkane Austin gets right to it: teeth, claws, and clear agendas."

"There&s;s definitely a decent time to be had with Redfall (especially in co-op) in spite of some baffling design decisions, but given Arkane&s;s track record, it&s;s hard not to be deflated by what Redfall could have been compared to what …"

"Redfall is a bafflingly bad time across the board. Plagued with bland missions, boneheaded enemies, and repeated technical problems, Redfall simply wasn’t ready for daylight in this state."

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

"I had fun playing Redfall, both solo and with friends. There’s a definite Salem’s Lot vibe to a New England town oppressed by a vampire apocalypse. All the characters are interesting to play and the monsters are varied. Still, Redfall …"

"Redfall misses the mark with nearly everything it does, while wasting a solid premise and setting."

"Immersive sim meets four-player co-op in this vampire themed first person shooter that features competent gunplay but a lack of ingenuity in its challenges."

"Redfall is one of the worst-performing games I’ve played in years, and even when it’s working, it’s undercooked and uninspired. It’s impossible to say if this is the case, but Refall ‘feels’ like a game that has succumbed to too …"

"Redfall becomes Arkane&s;s most fun game: no moral dilemmas, no existential doubts and totally enjoyable both with friends and alone."

"Redfall is an open-world game that retains some of the greatest virtues of Arkane&s;s design, but is weighed down by certain issues related to the genre to which it belongs. Possibly it will be a game that becomes something much …"

"Despite occasional flourishes, Arkane&s;s latest game feels fundamentally at odds with itself"

"Redfall is an open-world shooter where you can creep through a spooky mansion alone at night, then link up with some friends to take on a giga-vampire in another dimension. It&s;s weird, and it&s;s the right kind of weird."

"Redfall is ultimately not up to Arkane&s;s usual standards. It feels rushed, unfinished, and unsatisfying to play."

"Redfall makes concessions to work as a middling multiplayer game at the expense of a promising single-player experience."

"Arkane&s;s open-world vampire shooter has some of the developer&s;s trademark spark, but is let down by an identity crisis and technical woes"

"Redfall&s;s empty open world, flimsy shooting, and siloed systems make for a flat, dull experience."