Little is known about Redfall. But what we do know is that it is a story focused, cooperative first person shooter, that involves destroying a plague of vampires. The last official footage we saw from Bethesda on Redfall was that from the Xbox and Bethesda showcase in the summer of 2021. Here is a brief reminder of the trailer, about 4 and a half minutes long.
From the trailer it looks pretty action packed. If you combine this with a gripping story, such as those Arkane are known for, and slick gameplay, then we should be in for quite a treat! Cards on the table before we delve deeper here, I have just come from watching The Strain on Disney+ and felt compelled to write this speculation piece about Redfall as conceptually, they sound relatively similar. Rag-tag group of survivors with different skill sets investigate and attempt to destroy a plague of blood thirsty vampires…
Redfall speculation based on the Xbox blog…
For those that want to check out the Xbox blog themselves, the link is here. But to help support my claim about parallels between The Strain and Redfall, see below. Redfall, comparative to New York in The Strain, is under attack from a legion of Vampires.
As the story unfolds, one of the main characters Ephraim Goodweather from the CDC teams up with a group of survivors, each with different skill-sets, who are determined to stop the plague… Sounds pretty similar, right? The vampires have also somehow gathered human followers, which again is akin to The Strain. This character from the trailer even seems comparable to one of the survivors from the trailer:
This does seem like where the similarities with The Strain stop though… For a start, the vampires in the Redfall trailer look incredibly different from the ones in The Strain. So we move now away from this comparison, onto the next. The story sees players traverse a varied open-world that includes forest, city and coastal areas. See the quote below, again from the Xbox Blog linked at the start of this piece..
Reading from the quote in the picture above. There is going to be a mix of ‘biomes’, outposts to find and capture and some “supernatural psychic spaces” Conceptually, the gameplay loop behind this game sounds to me like a mix between Prey, Far Cry and The Outer Worlds; an exciting sounding amalgamation for sure. We have reached out to Bethesda for some clarification on this speculation and, at the time of writing, have not heard back yet. We do not expect them to come back to us with anything on this until after the full game play reveal anyway, so was a bit of a shot in the dark.
The Redfall character classes
The other official details we know are that there are 4 character classes, each with differing abilities for players to utilise and combine to defeat the vampires. There is not a huge amount for us to speculate around here, but it would be interesting to see if they have their own character arcs that play out differently depending on who you play with and the decisions you make. Could do a lot for replayability and make the game feel a little more dynamic. I like the fact that they have some supernatural abelites too…
Below is the information given on the four different characters:
DEVINDER CROUSLEY ‘Dev’ is a cryptozoologist and aspiring inventor. Armed with weapons of his own creation, he’s on a mission to reveal the truth.
LAYLA ELLISON studied biomedical engineering at a local university and volunteered for a medical trial at a research facility, where something went very wrong, leaving her with intense telekinetic abilities.
REMI DE LA ROSA is a brilliant combat engineer who has spent her life on the frontlines of the world’s disaster zones. With the help of her robot cohort, Bribón, she’s determined to help rescue Redfall’s survivors.
JACOB BOYER is an ex-military sharpshooter turned private contractor. Strange happenings on Redfall have left Jacob with a mysterious vampiric eye and a spectral raven that’s never far from his side.
Needless to say, watching The Strain and looking deeper into Redfall has grown our hype considerably. Because of this, we will keep this as a working piece on Redfall so all updates will go here as we get them!
