Redfall Review Roundup: A Bloody Mess That Fails To Impress
pczone.co.ukRedfall is the first AAA game from acclaimed developer Arkane to release for PC and console exclusively on Xbox, and the critical consensus is not good.
The game was initially revealed at E3 2021, with a planned release in 2022. As is customary with Xbox exclusives, the launch date was delayed. Sadly this wasn’t enough to save the game from buggy mediocrity.
It had originally been slated to also release on PlayStation 5 before Microsoft acquired Bethesda, but given how crap the end result is I’m sure Sony is very happy to have missed out.
Redfall lacks the level of polish we’ve come to expect from Arkane, whose other big titles include Prey and the more recent Deathloop – both GOTY winners.
Right now, Redfall sits at a 63 rating on Metacritic. For context, Deathloop has an 89 rating. Conceptually, it’s a stylised open-world first-person loot-shooter with a heavy emphasis on co-op play and character comedy. In reality? It’s a compromised, unfinished mess that lacks good world design with piss-poor AI intelligence and a half-baked loot system, according to the critics.
In his review, Mark Delaney of Gamespot remarked: “Ultimately, Redfall is a game that should not have been released yet. Its litany of bugs hampers the gameplay loop of exploring its world with friends…I can’t pretend to know whether Arkane chose to make a loot-shooter or was assigned to make a loot-shooter, but I can tell you what it feels like: one of the best game studios in the world suddenly made toothless.”
It’s fair to say that most gamers will probably blame Microsoft for the problems here, given Arkane’s good track record and the nagging perception that Microsoft continues to mismanage their games studios.
As is customary with virtually any big game these
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