Besides experimenting with a variety of weapons and loadouts, it’s going to be the worldbuilding and characters, including a biomedical engineering graduate with telekinetic powers, that will keep you immersed as you uncover the town’s mysteries.Īnd after recently taking a greater glimpse at Redfall‘s gameplay during Xbox and Bethesda’s Developer Direct showcase, we couldn’t be more hyped for this vampiric shooter. Redfall is actually a completely open-world setting that players are free to play seamlessly in single-player as well as in co-op multiplayer while the threats will also include fighting human cultists.

Playing as a group of survivors, this isn’t just Left 4 Dead with blood suckers. Redfall is the name of Massachusetts town overrun by a legion of vampires created from a scientific experiment gone wrong. During the most recent Playstation State of Play we also got the latest look at new character Lily, the definitely not new character Cammy and everyone’s favourite mohawked powerbomb machine Zangief.Īfter the critical success of innovative timeloop shooter Deathloop, here’s another unique twist from developer Arkane (this time from its Austin-based studio). SF6 features a substantial revamp of the original World Warriors (shout out to cop-turned-kung fu master Chun Li and a Ken, who looks like he’s fallen on hard times) as well as new challengers like French grappling fashionista Manon and graffiti ninja Kimberley.

Of course it’s also all about the roster. But the ability to create your own fighter to take to an expansive single-player mode and an online battle hub is what’s going to build a confident new platform for both veteran fighting game fans and a new generation. With a bold hyper-real style and a more accessible control option, early hands-on already reveal a supremely polished fighting game with exciting new systems. Fighting games feel like that specialist dying breed, but if anything’s going to reinvigorate the genre then Street Fighter 6 is going to be the one.

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