![]() ![]() Then I got to go deeper into the nest and eventually found a big red beating heart. ![]() Then I pressed a button in the projector room of a big theater. It got hairy when two vampires came after me, but I managed to survive their attack. And so I took care of the vampires one by one with the UV light and the shotgun. I was in the midst of a lot of enemies, but they were pretty tame. I found that inside the nest home there was this big underground space - almost another town in itself - where the vampires were waiting. When they turned into stone, I pulled out my shotgun out and blew the vampire into a bunch of tiny rocks. But I was armed with an ultraviolet light gun, which could freeze the vampires and temporarily turn them to stone. I got in more firefights, died, and then decided to load up on points and resources by attacking a vampire nest. I crossed the river at a dry patch and headed to a point on the map that housed the big estate where I was headed. I was resurrected back in the home base, and then I set out in a different direction, as you can do in an open world. The tough thing about the vampires is they have this ability to fly extremely fast and get behind you or fly above you or escape you. The camera angle was tough in that close combat and while I was trying to figure that out, I quickly died. As soon as I got up there, the vampires killed me quickly in close combat. I went looking for artifacts and climbed to the top of a building. I ran through it but realized I lost a lot of healthy. I moved close to a group and attacked them and didn’t have to much trouble taking them out.īut there was some kind of thick fog blocking the way across the bridge. For some reason, the vampires haven’t wiped these people out and are instead using them as cannon fodder against the human survivalists. There were outposts of human cultists who worship the vampires as gods. I needed to make it to a certain house across the river, and there weren’t many ways to get across without being discovered. I found there were all kinds of things that I could check out in the outside world. I went outside and wandered into the open world. I loaded up and packed a revolver and a shotgun. I started the demo in a safe place, a big building occupied by human survivors who have gathered a bunch of guns and ammo and other resources like medkits. There’s a contrast between the horror of the vampires and the familiarity of the quaint town. It’s the location of the Salem witch trials and has a dreaded backstory to add to the spooky environment. It’s very tied to American folklore around horror stories, said Ricardo Barre, co-creative director at Bethesda, in a conversation with GamesBeat. ![]() Redfall is set in a small town in New England. I appreciated the fact that Arkane was taking a deep dive into world-building again, after giving us the worlds of Prey and Dishonored in years past. The first thing I noticed about the world was that it was big. ![]() I had a fully leveled up character with access to some good weapons like machine guns and grenades. In my preview session, I was able to join the game about mid-way through the campaign. >Follow VentureBeat’s ongoing GDC 2023 coverageĪnd it’s up to residents of the town to fight back and destroy the vampires one by one while getting rid of the vampires’ relatively weak human cultist followers. An evil company called Aevum did some research into the occult, and they unlocked a bunch of vampires who are terrorizing the town after cutting it off from the mainland. It’s a story-driven shooter set in the open world of an island town called Redfall, Massachusetts. The game is coming on May 2 on the Xbox Series X/S and PC from Microsoft’s Bethesda division and Arkane Austin. I played a preview of the open worldwhere humans use heavy weapons to square off against god-like vampires. Redfall has an open world where you can mow down human enemies or get slaughtered by vampires. ![]()
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