Redfall Looks Like Arkane Austin's Take On A Borderlands Game
Despite looking a whole lot like Turtle Rock Studios' Left 4 Dead or Back 4 Blood in its latest gameplay trailer, developer Arkane Austin wants players to know that its upcoming open-world, cooperative first-person shooter Redfall is not like those games. After talking with Arkane Austin studio director Harvey Smith and Redfall co-creative director Ricardo Bare, I came away thinking Redfall looks and sounds more like Arkane Austin's take on a Borderlands-like game, not Left 4 Dead.
«Once in a while, we get compared to Left 4 Dead,» Smith told GameSpot. «But this is a big campaign that is persistent and you play through the story and level your character up and you can do that alone or with other people. We love Left 4 Dead, but [Redfall] is not Left 4 Dead in any way really, other than colorful characters. When you play alone in our game, you have one character, there aren't bots. We don't have the whole party together.»
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Redfall takes place in the titular fictional Massachusetts city, which has come under siege by an army of vampires. That army of the undead has created an endless night by blocking out the sun and also prevented any and all escape by cutting the island off from the rest of the world. Those humans who are still alive have either joined a cult devoted to sacrificing everyone to the vampires or are struggling to find a way to survive the nightmare.
You fall into the latter camp, playing as one of four
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