![]() Arkane has made first-person shooters for some time now, so the team knows how to craft guns that feel good to shoot and melee attacks that land with impact. As you level up, you earn points to unlock more perks in the game's skill tree. Over time, you can activate an ultimate skill, like Remi's healing field. The characters' special abilities work on a cooldown, similar to Apex Legends or Overwatch. I chose Remi de la Rosa, a combat engineer who tosses explosives and distracts enemies with a small robot. You choose between four playable characters with different special abilities. If Deathloop married Arkane’s quirky ideas to a more mainstream first-person shooter, then Redfall is simply a mainstream co-op shooter that happens to be made by Arkane. Redfall’s style and freedom can’t mask its familiar core gameplay. It’s easy to compare Redfall with the classic supernatural co-op shooter Left 4 Dead, but the actual experience so far seems much more varied and substantial. If I tired of one objective, I simply picked up another. During my 90-minute play session, I cleared out hostile vampire nests and unlocked safehouses. Redfall's open-world structure gives you the motivation to explore these places. Your fire station base has enough detail to feel like a real home. For instance, I fought through a movie theater, from the balcony to the lobby to the garage shot down lookouts perched on top of a haunted mansion before encountering a room full of floating books and weaved through snack aisles in a convenience store. Despite being an open-world game, Redfall has interior spaces that exhibit the same careful craftsmanship. The studio loves designing intricate spaces that you'll increasingly appreciate as you examine them from all angles. The more you explore the town, the more you see Arkane’s touches. And in a cool mix of old and new, the game's soundtrack blends classic spookiness with contemporary hip-hop beats. The vampires may be manmade, but some of them resemble ancient fiends like Nosferatu. The characters feature somewhat exaggerated, cartoon-like designs that highlight their big personalities. The northeastern coastal setting gives the island a strong vibe, like something from a Stephen King book.
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