Redfall is on Xbox Game Pass for console and PC, so if you wanted to give it a try without shelling out $70 for it, that might be the best option. This is one where the team didn’t hit their own internal goals.”Īrkane hasn’t issued a statement since Redfall launched, so whether the team feels the same way about failing to meet its own creative goals is unclear. Their track record is awesome, I love a lot of the great games that they’ve built. “When I look at the review scores of this game it’s did we have enough creative differentiation in our core idea and did we realize that creative ambition?” Spencer said. However, he doesn’t believe performance troubles are what caused the game’s poor reception. Official Twitter account for Arkane Studios - makers of the critically.
Redfall has a 57 aggregate score on PC, where it faced the worst performance issues, and 62 for Xbox. Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.Spencer said the team expected aggregate review scores to be “double digits” higher than they were. Subscribe to my free weekly content round-up newsletter, God Rolls. Hopefully we do not see a repeat of this in the future with their own newfound first party devs.įollow me on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. That’s the larger tragedy here rather than producing a bad game, which was not the fault of the workers, but poor management dictating a bizarre, trend-following pathway and Microsoft making the wrong choice in a trolley problem once they acquired the publisher. The saddest part of the story is that 70% of Arkane Austin no longer works there, and it appears the studio that made Prey may not really ever exist in the same way again. If this felt like a game that probably should have never seen the light of day, that appears to be a sentiment at least some people working on it seemed to share.
Microsoft did neither, and Phil Spencer would later says that they didn’t do a good job “engaging” the studio. Arkane was hoping Microsoft would step in and overrule their bosses, either cancelling the game outright, or at least letting them reboot it so it was back in their single player comfort zone.
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