PS3 Review – Red Faction: Guerrilla
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Developers have long lured us with talk of fully destructible environments for quite some time now, and Battlefield: Bad Company was one of the first titles to actually have a destructible feel to it. Unfortunately, the game wasn’t fully destructive. Sure, you could blow a chunk through the wall of a building, and the wall would break to some extent. But no matter how hard that building was battered, whether it was by missile fire or a vehicle driving through it, the structure would still stand perfectly straight. Thankfully, Red Faction: Guerrilla does away with that nonsense.
Red Faction: Guerrilla is set in the year 2120, with the Earth Defense Force as the main enemy. You play as Alec Mason, a mining engineer who has come to Mars to reunite with his brother, Dan. Your character comes equipped with a variety of weapons, some of which you stumble upon later on in the campaign. Mason begins the game with a sledge hammer weapon. In Red Faction: Guerrilla, you’ll be able to equip three weapons at once. These weapons can range from explosives, to guns capable of tearing down buildings. The game has a wide variety of weapons to choose from, and the ability to have three at once helps out a lot.
Volition promised their fans fully destructible environments and, incredibly, they achieved it. The title has vast numbers of buildings to destroy, cars to blow up, and bridges to collapse. The best part is that it’s a different experience every time. The first moment I watched as a building collapsed before my eyes, I was stunned. Never before have I seen that pulled off in a game so perfectly. Taking down buildings is a blast, and you can destroy them any way you want. The possibilities are endless.
The controls in Red Faction: Guerrilla are easy to pick up, with R1 used to fire your weapon, and X as your jump button. Switching your weapons out is as simple as holding R2 and making your selection with the D-pad. Driving is also a cinch, with R2 to accelerate, and L2 to brake or back up. The enemies in the game are repetitive at first, as you’ll run into the same enemy in all the territories on Mars. During the course of the game, however, the enemy variety gets kicked up a notch. Fortunately, the enemy characters are fun to take down, and despite the bad A.I. you probably won’t get bored with them during your playthrough.
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July 8th, 2009 at 7:24 PM
the frustration of hard mode gives this game a 4/5
July 8th, 2009 at 7:56 PM
So far, Red Faction: Guerrilla is nothing less than my favourite PS3 game. It’s so damn addictive (especially the online play). The GeoMod 2.0 engine and the sledgehammer are worth $70 by themselves!
July 8th, 2009 at 8:50 PM
I have the game but I’ve been so busy playing other titles (inFAMOUS, Prototype, Ghostbusters) along with my GameFly rents that I really haven’t had time to play it much. I loved the demo which is why I bought the game, but this article makes me want to play it so bad. I’m really looking forward to the lull in game releases through the end of July and August so I can dig into it.
July 8th, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Sleeper hit of the year. Fantastic game. Its a shame there are not more people playing multiplayer.
July 8th, 2009 at 11:38 PM
I really enjoyed this game, but it felt almost like it ended too soon (almost like the story wasn’t done yet).
July 9th, 2009 at 7:09 AM
Wow! 5/5 – didn’t see that coming. I guess I should try the demo.
July 9th, 2009 at 11:22 AM
5 out of 5, really? I thought the demo sucked, whats different?
July 9th, 2009 at 12:23 PM
you know when i first saw this game i thought it was going to be a huge sleeper. the more and more i saw of it the less i liked it and then when i played the demo i thought it was awful. i cant believe it has been getting such good reviews. i guess i am going to have to go rent it.
July 12th, 2009 at 2:07 PM
Thanks to your review I jumped on the opportunity to buy this game today when I seen it for $49.99 at GameStop. Great job Dan
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November 3rd, 2009 at 10:17 PM
dam! is it that hard?
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