Hunter: The Reckoning – Redeemer is a 2003 hack-and-slash video game developed by High Voltage Software and published by Vivendi Universal Games for the Xbox. It is based on the tabletop role-playing game Hunter: The Reckoning, and is part of the larger World of Darkness series. It is the third Hunter video game, following Hunter: The Reckoning (2002) and Wayward (2003). Players take the roles of hunters, who fight undead hordes using ranged weapons, melee weapons, and magic. The story is set ten years after the first Hunter: The Reckoning video game, and sees the original's four hunters team up with the new hunter Kaylie to investigate incidents in the town of Ashcroft connected to the Genefex Corporation and werewolves. The planning of the game began in the middle of the development of the first Hunter: The Reckoning video game, and was heavily influenced by player feedback. Redeemer performed moderately well commercially, and saw a mixed critical response, with critics praising the game's multiplayer mode and visuals, and enjoying the story and addition of Kaylie, but criticizing the level design as confusing. Gameplay Hunter: The Reckoning – Redeemer is a hack-and-slash game in which players fight large amounts of enemies in a third-person perspective, either in a single-player mode or in a multiplayer mode supporting up to four players. The gameplay is very similar to that of the previous two Hunter: The Reckoning video games, and sees players fight undead hordes with ranged or melee weapons, including powerful limited-use weapons found in levels; players also have access to magic spells called edges, with effects such as healing or increasing one's attack power. The game is divided into levels, which have different objectives, including traversing an area, escorting characters, freeing innocents from zombies, clearing an area from monsters, and defeating bosses. Players initially have five hunter characters to choose from, each with their own specialties and edges: Kaylie is a Redeemer, and is focused on ranged attacks; Deuce is an Avenger, with strong melee attacks; Kassandra is a Martyr, who moves quickly; Father Cortez is a Judge, and is focused on magic attacks; and Samantha is a Defender, and balanced. The player can also unlock two more characters – the Wayward hunter Joshua and the Risen wraith Carpenter – by fulfilling certain conditions; by collecting monster cards dropped by some enemies, the player can also play the game as those monsters.