“What works for us is hearing, sight, distance, cones of vision, and all that nerdy stuff we love,” says Smith. An important part of this work is the enemy AI Legions of vampires will not inexplicably descend on you just because you entered their patrol bubble. Rather than Redfall calling for silent, surgical strikes against unconscious targets, stealth is a tool that aids in exploration of Arkane’s first open city world. “Stealth is important to this game, but this isn’t a stealth game,” says Smith. action choice that characterizes so many of Arkane’s games isn’t part of Redfall’s DNA. But like Deathloop, that doesn’t mean the popular stealth vs. This understanding perhaps influenced Arkane Austin’s decision to align with the action-packed ambitions of Deathloop (created by sister studio Arkane Lyon) rather than the insidious sensibilities of Dishonored. Even more likely things will get out of hand.” “Once you have a second person, if that person is another idealized Arkane fan, there are times when the game still feels that way with someone else,” he says. However, Smith recognizes that the experience changes as other players join the party. “We set out to do the most ambitious thing we could,” Smith assures me. These fears were not unfounded either With Arkane’s critical track record but commercial struggles, it was easy to believe that a co-op shooter was the studio’s attempt to go a little more mainstream. “So you can find your way around very slowly, play at your own pace, observe things remotely, plan, formulate, harvest resources, do all the things that you probably enjoy doing in an Arkane game.”įans of the studio’s previous work will no doubt be relieved that all of these elements are taken into account and that Redfall isn’t, as some have feared, a replica of Left 4 Dead. “It was very important to us that we make it possible for you to play the game alone,” says Smith. With no desire to separate solo and multiplayer modes, Smith and his colleagues set out to create a game that would work as both a satisfying single-player game and a great co-op experience. “We put an inordinate amount of work into making the single player feel right,” said Harvey Smith, Studio Director at Arkane Austin. Determined to translate Arkane’s trademark into a game that can be enjoyed by four players cooperating, the minds behind Redfall begin with what the studio has always done best: single-player. Why did the creators of Prey and Dishonored move away from meticulous, handcrafted precision in favor of the chaotic chaos of co-operative open worlds? A year later I learned that, well they didn’t. When Arkane Austin announced its vampire-slaying shooter Redfall last year, it was understandable that some of its community were a bit skeptical.
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