![]() The story is alright, but fairly lightweight for most of the game, being the kind of thing you can tune out if you want to, similar to Tom Clancy’s The Division.Īll of the rivers have been drained by the vampires, which makes sense considering they’re scared of water.Įither individually or in a cooperative gang of four, you can roam around the town of Redfall, fighting groups of vampires and their still human accomplices. The gang of intrepid heroes must join up with the remaining survivors, establish a base of operations and then fight to slowly retake the town from the vampire menace. At the same time, all TVs and radios have been hijacked by the signal of The Hollow Man, which has inspired a cult of human survivors to pledge allegiance to him and kill anyone else. ![]() It’s set in the modern day, in the small town of Redfall, Massachusetts, where after an experiment by a bio-technology company goes wrong, a horde of supernatural vampires has invaded, permanently blocking the sun in a perennial solar eclipse, plunging the town into chaos and killing a large majority of the population. Redfall is an open world first-person shooter, with vampires. Redfall, the latest game from Arkane Austin, owes at least some inspiration to Matheson, as well as to the novel’s of Stephen King, most specifically ‘Salem’s Lot. While Matheson’s vampires are really closer to zombies, his novel inspired a vast array of post-apocalyptic fiction. It was one of the first novels to posit a scientific theory for vampirism, explaining that it was caused by a bacteria which infected the blood. The plot of the novel is wildly different from the film set in a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles in 1976, seemingly sole survivor Robert Neville has to venture forth to gather supplies during the day, and then barricades himself inside his house at night, in an attempt to ward of attacks by packs of roaming vampires. ![]() ![]() One of my favourite horror novels of all-time is Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend, memorably and poorly adapted for the big screen into the 2007 film starring Will Smith. ![]()
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