" Welcome to Red Faction: Guerrilla (RFG) and the red planet of Mars in which your journey will take place to help the mining colonists and avenge your brother. Let me take a flashback though, to when Red Faction began back in 2001 with a follow up of Red Faction 2 in 2002; both stepping outside the box a little from the regular first person shooter with its Geo-MOD technology allowing the gamer to destroy the environment and not just have a preset way of going into an area or doing things. Fans of Red Faction will be glad to know that upgraded Geo-MOD 2."
Overall: Imagine a game where you can destroy a building, then go on an hour long killing streak at the other side of the map and come back and that building is still a pile of rubble. Can't ask for much more than that and that is what red faction: Guerrilla can offer you.
Thanks to the Geo mod 2.0 engine, this game is completly destructable, no building will fall the exact same way as one before it.
The vast landscape of mars, the variety of cars straight out of 1980's sci fi movies ( no flying ones though, sorry) the multitude of weapons from sledgehammer to thermobaric rockets (don't be to close to one of these bad boys when it goes off) No two players will ever have the same experiance while playing through this game. They should have named this game, Satis Faction: Guerrilla. But that idea is probably why im not a game namer :(
Red Faction: Guerrilla is a 100% must buy. Gameplay: The year is 2128 and you are alex mason, you find yourself arriving on mars to "mine" you meet with your brother and you quickly see what Red Faction: Guerrilla has to offer you by going to collect salvage from an abandoned work site.
Once that mission is over (without revealing any spoilers) you get really into the action.
Now with 3rd person view as opposed to the original Red faction fps series, you really can get a feel of being on mars, and see a whole shed load more destruction you would have playing in first person.
The gameplay for RF:G is superb, with the ease of blowing up an EDF tower with a couple of properly placed mines and a couple swift blows from a sledgehammer, just make sure you are out of the way as the flying rubble can hurt you, which is good to keep in mind when fighting a whole loada goodies turned bad guys (EDF).
Also the jump to multiplayer offers you nothing less than the single player campaign, well.. minus vehicles, but who really wants cars in a shooting game if you want that go play gta, where im sure you cant blow up nearly as much ;).
Multiplayer boasts the same feel and gameplay as single player, is there an enemy in that building? blow it up and find out, you may crush him to death or at least make him flee his hideyplace or if your feeling a bit more tech go and suit up with the vision backpack and simply "see" your enemy and where his campfire is set.
To keep you playing and intrested (or to keep things intresting?) as the more you destroy you gain salvage which can be used to buy more weapons or upgrades to existing ones carry upto 18 mines, detonate 12 at a time (that's a whole lotta boom)
You can even upgrade your armour once,
The gameplay on RFG is top quality and i have no complaints! Graphics: Visually stunning. From buildings collapsing from stress right down to the little mini tornados of dust you see whilst driving about.
RFG is really a visually stunning game, and the guys at voilation have really added to it by making it in 3rd person, you would really miss so much of the action in this game if they never added that feature.
you get the nice warm feeling inside when sledgehammering an enemy into a wall and it crumbles. you get the nice warm feeling outside when seeing the greenyblue explosion from blowing up big gas tanks. RFG is a visual WIN! Sound: *Bang bang bang bang....Grrroooannnn....CRASH* the lovley sound of putting c4 at the foundations of a bridge and then hearing it moan under pressure untill it finally had enough stress and crumples under its own weight. There is nothing more staisfying than that.
RFG's audio bring alot to the already awesome game from the sound of thermobaric rockets being fired and the bone crunching impact of a sledgehammer to enemy face leaves you satisfied with the buttons you just pressed Suggestions: The guys at voilation have done an outstanding job with this game, they've done more than enough to keep the single player campaign addictive, and done an amazing job at keeping the multiplayer just as mind numbingly addictive with unlocks after each couple of matches depending on how good you do.
All i can suggest is they can wow us further with some awesome DLC!
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