| Platform | OVERALL |
|---|---|
| PlayStation 3 | 8.80 |
| Overall | 8.80 |
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Guess what, more impressions pasted as reviews! Ok the honeymoon with Red Faction is over. It's still a very high quality but it does suffer from way to many repetitive side missions syndrome. The main problem with the game is that you need to travel too much, Mars isn't exactly Liberty City, nor is it whatever the Infamous city was called. Its just hills, its red and it has a few buildings that all look the same. So most of the time you are driving from point A to point B with nothing really going on. Many side missions have you drive to a point where they give you another destination to drive to. Then there are those missions where you need to drive someone back to base, sometimes its the furthest base. GTAs side missions can happen anywhere, hop into a cop car at anypoint and just like that you are doing vigalante. Plus there is fast travel to basically everything and GTA has mostly main missions. So yeah its not GTA, not that I expected it to be. I have come to the conclusion that nothing will ever be GTA, its on a class of its own when it comes to open world action games. I am still enjoying Red Faction, but I am finding myself avoiding side missions which is not a good sign. I should want to do them. ... Red Faction is finished, the last few missions were pretty cool. The satellite bombing runs were ok, CoD4 did it way better, this was way too simple. Overall the game is blast, the best Mercenaries style open world game I have played. It is so satisfying to blow everything up. The game gives you the guns to do so, great variety in weapons and vehicles. As I mentioned before, some of the side missions are a bit of a pain cause of too much travel but some are excellent. The combat can be a bit sloppy, you cant really stealthly advance on a location. When enemies attack its best to just blow stuff up and escape, trying to take them down like a tactical shooter doesnt work so well. I miss the combat on that level a bit the game sort of teases you cause it gives you a cover system but its almost pointless to use it. Traveling can get boring, home bases are sometimes far from missions, many missions require you to return to the base so after you finish you need to travel out all over again. Too much terrain without anything interesting. It's sad cause driving is blast, it feels like an offroad racing game, something like motorstorm. I tried online and the experience was not so good, it was hard to find a match and when I did it wasn't that great. Great game, with a few tweaks it could be in the AAA range. But it's right there, on the edge of excellence. It's one of the better games I have played this year. |
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Posted by Dvader Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:20:54
Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:45:31
I was expecting this to be a review of he original PS2 game (which I am currently playing).
Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:46:31
Oops. 
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