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Red Faction Guerrilla

5 star:		(23)
4 star:		(13)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

Red Faction: Guerilla is a sandbox game that has a enough unique elements in it that separates it from the recent influx of sandbox titles. The environment is uncommon and and the main character is a revolutionary that actually fights for a cause that isn't. selfish, and he isn't a thug.

DESIGN
Guerilla is designed like most snadbox titles with a unlockable map, safe house, mission objectives and a weak story. You drive around a decent sized landscape using a varied set of vehicles that are different than most sandbox games. The Mars environment is a nice change and the day/night cycle is put to great use to illiminate the barren, mountanious landscape. Compared to most open world games that involve cities, Guerilla's design is very plain in and rather monotonous. Most of Guerilla's innovation comes with the Geo Mod 2.0 Engine that allows you to destroy any man made object with great detail.

GAMEPLAY
Red Factions gameplay is typical of all the recent sandbox games. The unique environment provides a different twist on the missions, while the repetition and weak story continues the grenres shortcomings. Guerilla's gameplay involves expanding a map by completing mission objectives, and furthering the Red Factions cause inside the different Mars colonies. Red Faction'smost endearing quality is that you play as a good man, with good intentions. The shooting is competent, the vehicle controls are good, and the citizen involvement is impressive. The enemy faction known as the EDF (Earth Defense Force) are everywhere, and the moral meter that controls colonists involvement within your actions is an important element. However, the most important gameplay device is the building destruction, and this is what takes Red Faction: Guerilla above most sandbox titles. You can use the destruction element in your favor during missions, and some objecives strictly adhere to destroying everything. This gameplay mechanic is very fun, and nicely detailed.

PRESENTATION
Guerilla is nice looking for a sandbox game. The environment graphics are nice, and the mountain terrain and sky are detailed and immersive. The character graphics and sound are less impressive, but still convey a decent amount of reality. Most impressive is the sound and look of crumbling buildings. Whether you blow up a foundation and watch as it slowly falls under its own weight,or you plant five charges to a single vehicle and watch as it lights up like the fourth of July, the small nuances of the destruction engine are incredibly impressive. Red Faction: Guerilla boasts a decent symphonic score and the games overall presentation is honorable for a sandbox title.

FINAL WORD
If destroying buildings is your thing. Buy Red Faction: Guerilla. As a sandbox game it plays well, has good production values, and allows you to play as a character with a cause, but it still comes with the typical sandbox games shortcomings like repetition, and a weakly told story. It is a lengthy and fun game, that still has yet to perfect the flawed trappings of the sandbox genre.

I love the original Red Faction, I played on the PC and PS2 (pssst it's better on the PC) anyway, RF2 was alright but not as fantastic as the first one, RF has a pretty good story and the humor was great, but both where FPS games, so I was really worried they where going to hack up RFG as it is now a TPS.

Well I'm about 50% done the single player campaign, and have logged many hours of online, I can not get enough Red Faction Guerilla.

Single Player:
This is great, we have tons of fun here. The maps are really nice, very easy to navigate, and very large. There is a great selection of missions ranging from destroying a building or structure as fast as humanly possible to extracting hostages' who are being probably tortured from your terrorist actions as new member of the Red Faction, all with out them dying.
Driving around is actually really fun, I don't normally like driving in a game, but this was nice, all your vehicle options are distinctively different from each other, if you drive a big dump truck, it's slow and is terrible at cornering but you have a massive destructive power, being able to drive it through a building with ease. But if you are looking for fast and small with great handling, there is that to, but at the same time you give up that fantastic crushing capability.

As far as weapons go you can upgrade everything at one of your safe houses after you collect "salvage" I actually liked doing this, it's like my goal to get as much salvage as I can possible get, the more the better. There is really a weapon for every situation your in, and when you run out of ammo, get your hammer out and start bashing everything in sight, you can take out buildings people walls trucks and just about anything that looks like it could brake, all with a little mining hammer. As like most games the more you play the more weapons you unlock and then you can buy them.
There are ammo crates all over so if you find that there are to many EDF (Earth Defense Force, they are the enemy) around and not enough bullets or rockets then just load up and at the same time you can change you weapons selection as long as you have them unlocked.
And the whole moral thing they have is neat, the higher the moral of the Red Faction the more ammo will be in the crate for you to reload with, they also help you fight when they are happy. If you die or a member of the RF dies, you get less ammo and they will also freak out and run away from a fight when the moral meter is low.

Over all the single player is great so far, anyone who does not like it has not played for long enough, it's easy at first but once you get in to it, it's a quick jump to becoming more difficult and hopefully you have collected enough salvage to fight the good fight and free mars from the tyranny of the US government......Umm I mean the EDF, there couldn't be a major political parallel in RFG could there?


Multiplayer:
I won't spend to long on this but wow this just as fun as single player, maybe even more fun. They replace the run with a whole bunch of different backpacks, like a jet pack, my fav is the Rhino pack where you are able to smash through enemies and walls or both.
The game types are the same as you would find in most multiplayer games, nothing new here, just that an enemy can come from anywhere, so essentially no cover, they will just hammer there way to you, and beat you down, as you cower in fear because you're out of ammo with no back pack and wish you picked up the Thrust pack to shoot out the top of the building only to die mid flight from some kid with a rocket launcher.

RFG multiplayer = hours and hours of destructive endless fun.

As for graphics, no it's not like there KZ2 or anything like that, but I just think it leaves miles of room for improvement in hopefully RF4 for whatever they call it. And it seems to be smooth, no jerking around or getting stuck on a corner, just great game play.
My only real complaint is that there is no Co-op campaign, because come on that would be stellar in so many ways, maybe next time.

And I do think if you play online this is totally worth full price.

If you like great big maps and endless amounts of destruction, this game is for you. The Geo-mod 2.0 system works incredibly well, and though I do miss the ability to tunnel through walls/hills etc. as in the other Red Faction games I don't know that it would be particularly useful in this one.

The game play is very good. Controlling your character feels a bit like Mercenaries or Lost Planet, but much smoother. The vehicle physics are also very good, though I've noticed a glitch where smaller vehicles abruptly and inexplicably accelerate forward from a dead stop. It is rare, however and helps as often as it hurts. The ability to stick to walls is kind of useless, considering that 90% of the time you're working to demolish every wall in sight, and the rest of the time enemies are rapidly demolishing any walls you use as cover. Perhaps they could've found a better function to assign to that button.

The story line is ok. Is it on par with Fallout 3? Not a chance. While they worked in a little bit with an "ancient" race descended from the Ultor Corporation of the earlier games, I think there was probably more potential in that particular vein than they made use of. Otherwise the story of Martian colonization is fairly interesting. The use of modern news-media jargon on the bad guys' broadcasting system as they put their own spin on you and the Red Faction's exploits is a nice touch. Story is very much secondary to the action, however and there are some pretty big holes in the plot. You have to wonder why your character quits using the awesome satellite guided artillery, for instance, in favor of driving a tank through swarms of enemy soldiers who could have easily been vaporized with said artillery.

The visuals are pretty good. Of course, the game takes place on Mars, so if you're expecting something other than lots and lots of rocks you clearly need to spend more time familiarizing yourself with the solar system than you do playing video games. The Martian sunsets are brief but if you catch one from atop a big rock in the Badlands its kind of pretty. The character graphics are also pretty good.

Bottom line- is this game fun? Lots.
Is it worth $60? It depends what kind of game you like. If you like open worlds and lots of destruction, then yes. And though I have not taken it online yet there is some good replay value in the single player alone.

I've played and beaten about 75% of the PS3 games out there, even the bad ones. I don't play sports or kids games, but everything else I buy and beat. So I feel I'm pretty good with comparing and rating games.

Pros: It's a unique game, cars are fun to drive, map is cool, making your own holes into compounds and such.

Cons: Sigh. The game is incredibly boring. The story is terrible and completing missions doesn't make you feel like you've really accomplished anything.

Also, the gunplay in the game is pretty bad. You don't feel like you're firing a gun, but rather a rubber-band gun. Boring.

Using cover is incredibly frustrating. You have to push towards a wall, then 'tap' (very lightly) L2. Make sure it's a light tap, because L2 is also used for sprint. So if you do anything but 'tap', you'll sprint out into the open and get creamed. Very frustrating.

The graphics are very average at best...and the difference in the districts is simply a different colored hue/filter. When driving, you can cross over into a new district and all the sudden the environment has a blue or tan tint rather than red. Whoop-dee-do.

The thing that actually caused me the most frustration is this: you choose to mark a place on the map to go destroy and collect scrap metal, but on the way you get interrupted and your buddy calls you and says the guerrillas need help. So you drive literally 5 minutes sometimes to get there and if you die in the fight, you re-spawn at a safehouse. The only problem is that when you re-spawn that mission you died on is gone...or is it? See now you have to pretend like you're driving to a whole other mission before the girl pops on again and tells you to go to the mission you died on. So you get to try again...but oh wait, you have to drive the 5 minute trip all over again! This is incredibly frustrating.

To be honest, I had to push myself to beat this game. It got boring and frustrating really fast. I can see where if you really jive with the style of the game, you can have a lot of fun. But it's not for me at all. I prefer games that are engaging and make sense.

THIS GAME IS A BLAST TO PLAY!!! Both literally and metaphorically!!!

I will make this very short, BUY THIS GAME!!!

Everything in this game is great! Graphics, sound, animation, physics, controls, and lighting!!!

The story is a little too much to the point but it has to be, 120 missions!!! come on!

I thought this game would ruin the Red Faction title, NO, I WAS WAY WRONG!! I LOVE THIS GAME! If you have destructive tendencies, look no further!!!

Anyone who gives this game a bad review has never played this game or has no life but to ruin titles that deserve the fame that the creators worked so hard for.

10/10 *****

Have you ever played the first Mercenaries game?
You are given a task, but you can execute anyway you can think.
Do you want to blast your way in? Or snipe from far away?
Heck, you could just steal a helicopter and just drop in from the sky.
The only limitations were your imagination.

This is the first game that I have played since then that gives you that same freedom.

For example, you have to stop a convoy of supply trucks in this game.
* You can bring a bridge down on top of them.
* You can block the road with other trucks and blow them up as the convoy approaches.
* You can approach from behind and run them off the road in a truck of your own.
* Heck, just stand in the middle of the road with a rocket launcher and pluck each one off.

For me, I love a game that makes you pause just to think of the most creative
destructive possible way to execute a mission. You become proud of your strategy.

The graphics are good enough.
The Geo-Mod technology that lets you blow up everything is awesome.
The targeting system could use some work, but it doesn't hurt the game,
just makes it more challenging.

You will have fun with this game.
I promise.

If you need a break from COD WAW - this is it. RED FACTION GUERRILLA has arrived and it does not disappoint. I will begin by saying that I was a big fan of the RED FACTION 1 and 2 for the PS2.

IF you like the following games you will love this RED FACTION:

GTA
HALF-LIFE
COD
FALLOUT

(Yes, it is a little of all those games).

The presentation is beautiful. The setting is MARS and you must help liberate all 6 sectors. There are plenty of GUERILLA missions and tasks waiting for you. Fell free to do them as you like. Free exploration is fun and gives the player a chance to get salvage stuff to trade in for weapons and upgrades. Black ORE piles are begging to be hit with the sledge hammer for salvage. The vehicles are OK and don't travel very fast but handle very well except for drift braking which I'm still trying to figure out why it feel a little loose.

OK, what makes this game different from all the rest?

Played FALLOUT - Great but it felt a little...EMPTY.
GTA...Fun but in no longer UNIQUE.
COD. Run and gun fun. Weapons, Weapons, Weapons. RF gets real creative in this department
HALF-LIFE - Instant classic becasue it has excellent gameplay and a great story. Ah RF has a great story and solid gameplay.

OK. The real fun with RED FACTION is the PHYSICS ENGINE. IF you, like me, like to blow stuff up this game will rock your world. You don't just blow stuff up..you BLOW STUFF UP...throw a series of sticky bombs on buidings in a strategic manner and detonate them all in the order placed by hitting the circle button. That simple. The chaos that ensues will have you running some distance away from the scene so you can appreciate the carnage you've created. THe cut scences come rather sporadically and lay out the storyline.

I have liberated 2 sectors in about five hours of play so I imagine this game may not be that long.

ONLINE PLAY. Have only palyed in two matches but they were incredibly fun. GRAB a JET PACK...fly around and shoot your opponent. Or GRAB a SPEED PACK and run at warp speed as you shoot your oponnent. THere in also a Ram pack for running through stuff and a health PACK which crates a shield that boosts your life.

MINI GAME FUN. TRY the PlAYER V PLAYER DEMOLITON MODE and see who can score the highest, the his side game will keep you busy and challenge you for hours.

I've just finished playing through the single player campaign. It is very engaging and challenging. The dynamics of choosing your own mission, among many different choices, is very enjoyable to me. I've also played with a friend taking turns to see how much destruction we could do. That was fun. I've only played a couple of online missions, and those are fun too. To me, the thing that differentiates this game from the rest, is the single player campaign.

All the great things you've read/heard about this game is true.

PROS
- The destruction physic is amazing
- Visual effects/graphics are sharp
- Vehicle handling is spot-on
- Driving mechs to blow stuff up is simply AWESOME!
- Open-world environment is fantastic
- Variety of mission types is high
- Online multiplayer provides unique mechanics and is enjoyable
- Over 40 hours of gameplay in single-player campaign mode alone!!!

CONS
- Weapon variety is on the short side but not too bad
- Storyline is a little bland but serviceable
- Ability to fly aerial vehicles would have been way cool!

If you enjoyed open-world games like Mercenaries, this game expands on the concept and provides hours and hours of entertainment!!!

*** POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT ***

At the end of the campaign mode, there an interesting surprise waiting for you that is ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!!! For those of you who played COD4: Modern Warfare, the words "AC-130" should give you a clue on what I'm referring to ;)

This is a great game for destroying anything in sight. From housing developments to multistory buildings, Red Faction Guerrilla lets you destroy pretty much every man-made structure on Mars. The story is fairly well thought out, and the graphics are very nice, showing the redness of Mars.

Pros:
1. Destructibility very well thought out. Taking out supports will cause entire buildings to collapse.
2. Good Graphics. While it wont win any awards, ala Killzone 2, it is very crisp and I never encountered framerate drops.
3. Fun Multiplayer: Volition took the enjoyment found in the singleplayer and made many nice multiplayer offerings.

Cons:
1. Checkpoint system is somewhat unforgiving: If you die in the middle of most missions, you may have to start from the beginning. While not that big of a problem, it can get annoying if you almost finished a mission and then failed and have to start again.

If you are looking for a fun third person shooter with great destructive mechanics and competent multiplayer offerings, Red Faction Guerrilla is for you.