Red Faction: Guerrilla
Metacritic Average: inFamous (PS3): 85% / Red Faction: Guerilla (PS3): 86%
Metacritic Average: Prototype (360): 78% / Red Faction: Guerrilla (360): 85%
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Featuring:
- The GeoMod 2.0 Engine that makes everything you can destroy crumble and crack as it should, naturally and realistically.
- Weapons that feel just right, that are up-gradeable and varied and can destroy people as well as the environement!
- Online play with lobbys, ranks and unlockables.
- A diverse set of side-missions that stomps ALL over eating zombies or climbing buildings to shoot red alarm lights. (Racing that feels like Smugglers Run, Shooting that feels like Metal Gear Solid 4.)
The story is mostly cheese-ball, cookie-cutter revolution fluff, but the game plays so well, you're not gonna care!
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Praise for Red Faction:
- Gaming Age: "An essential game to play if only to see Volition's exemplary game design in action. Failing that, the sheer amount of fun derived from taking on an entire military yourself with some of the most over the top weaponry every to find itself into a game should seal the deal."
- Game Focus: "By delivering a solid campaign mode, an incredibly vast open world, destructible environments and addictive multiplayer modes, THQ and Volition brings you a high quality game that you can�t miss. Red Faction: Guerrilla is a must have in your collection and it won�t be forgotten when award season starts somewhere by the end of the year. While people aren�t expecting the game that much, they will be extremely surprised by it. We highly recommend it."
- Play.tm: "This is explosive, balls-to-the-wall action that makes no concessions in delivering the ultimate playground in which to wreak havoc. The almost limitless potential for reckless mayhem is what makes Guerrilla such an unashamedly fun game to play, which is why this is without a doubt the biggest summer blockbuster so far this year and consequently an essential purchase. Now go on, get your ass to Mars."
- Game Informer: "No matter what mode you enter, Red Faction: Guerrilla delivers on its promise of destruction, and offers an experience unlike anything else out there."
- 1Up: "Guerrilla isn't a terribly deep game, but as a "summer blockbuster," it works just right. It doesn't expect you to get lost in a deep, engaging sci-fi world -- you're on a mission to Mars to watch stuff explode. A deeper story might have made it more enjoyable in some respects, but it might also have killed the momentum of the demolition action."
Recently Spotted:
*crickets*
SANDBOX GAMES ARE STUPID!
YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IN A SANDBOX, DO YOU?
YEAH CATS SHIT IN THEM. YOU GUYS ARE PLAYING WITH CATSHIT! I HAVE HIGHER STANDARDS THAN THAT!
You like ExcitePenises. You are devoid of ANY standard, and should refrain from having an opinion on any matter, ever.
The gaming world has its fair share of 'graphics whores'. I'd better label myself as a 'physics whore'. The better the physics are, the more fun I'm going to have with the game. Red Faction Guerilla was satisfying. I haven't played an open world game that let me drive my car off a cliff and crash it through the second floor of a building for a surprise hostage rescue. Also, strapping charges to the bottom of your vehicle is a new and lulzy take on rocket jumping.
Big words for a man that likes Ass. Creed.
That might be, but I didn't say I had any HIGHER standards. I'm your friend, after all.
With friends like you, who needs enemies?!
I am all that and more rolled into one. You need nothing more.
Wow! Just played my first online game and I am impressed!
You have to earn experience to unlock different game modes (as well as TONS of customization features), so all I was able to really participate in was "Anarchy" which is your typical Deathmatch.
But... Wow! There are a lot of different (Back)Packs you can put on in the course of the match all with AWESOME effects:
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There are many different game modes I was able to view tutorial movies about: You have modes with Capture Points you need to keep to earn points; Modes where you do as much damage to your enemies base as you can; Destructor is where one of your teamates is chosen to be the ONLY one who can destroy things -- you must protect your Destructor while hunting the enemies... and many, many others...!
Not having played them yet, I can't do them justice by trying to describe them here --BUT-- one thing I saw that was VERY cool was a Reconstructing Gun where you rebuild structures and your capture points, etc. Watch the incredible destruction engine --IN REVERSE-- ! ! !
I am typically NOT an online player but this was SERIOUSLY addictive! Blending the best of Team Fortress, Red Faction, CoD, Gears of War among many, many others REALLY brings all of the features of this game together --SUPERBLY-- ! ! !
Wow!