Red Faction: Guerrilla

1. cambria

   Oct 25, 2010

   10

   Played this game twice through story mode, and once with the pc add-on marauders campaign, and it is an excellent piece of work! This is morePlayed this game twice through story mode, and once with the pc add-on marauders campaign, and it is an excellent piece of work! This is more like "GTA with WAY MORE cool stuff to do". Though it can get a little difficult to continually push back their attacks, should you set off too many alarms. Really nice FOV blurring, totally immerses you in your firefights from small to large scale. If you go exploring at night, expect to be ambushed by marauders! But they have their own unique weapons, so it's worth it. They also control a large piece of desert to the southeast on the map, which is worth exploring in detail once the story provides time. Bottom line, this game is easy on your gpu, is very well polished and optimized AND comes with an extra marauder campaign for when you finish the primary! Steam has had it on sale 3 times, I paid 10 bucks for it and was well worth the 40+ hours spent on it. Now it's on sale for 5, I hope many more people realize this game's greatness.… Expand

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2. HoustG.

   Dec 22, 2009

   10

   This is one of the best games I have ever played. I think people don't give it the credit it deserves. By just walking around and This is one of the best games I have ever played. I think people don't give it the credit it deserves. By just walking around and exploring all of the different places and buildings you can tell the developers put a lot of thought into this game. To truly enjoy this game though, you really need to explore all the little things scattered around Mars. One thing that made me laugh is in the Badlands sector where there is a Mars Rover hidden by some rocks by the side of the road (it marks it as a vehicle on your minimap). All in all, I think this is a GREAT game. With all the different things you can do (going off huge jumps in cars, running EDF people over, destroying stuff for fun, bailing out of cars while in the air, freeing hostages, and much more) and how much fun it is to do them, I believe this game is an amazing game and that people should look past it's minor problems and really enjoy the game.… Expand

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4. Caleger88

   Nov 4, 2012

   9

   love this game! i remember playing the older Red faction games and i missed the environment destruction from the older ones i love destroyinglove this game! i remember playing the older Red faction games and i missed the environment destruction from the older ones i love destroying the buildings which is why i got the game i wasn't paying attention to the story as much as i should have....but i the physics of destroyed buildings where there was only one support strut in place and the building didn't collapse under its own weight kinda killed the game play for me...would have liked more building to destroy though or ones that would be rebuilt so i could destroy them again would have kept me entertained for days....… Expand

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5. LeeW

   Sep 23, 2009

   7

   This is an incredibly fun game. I love it to bits. However, I've only been able to play the singleplayer portions of the game. I This is an incredibly fun game. I love it to bits. However, I've only been able to play the singleplayer portions of the game. I apparently seem to be the only one having this difficulty as trying to connect to multiplayer freezes and soon crashes, as well as the control menu. However, I cannot stress this enough: buy this game. I doubt more than a small amount of other people will have this problem and the part of the game I've played so far is amazing. Hopefully Volition will release a patch soon for me.… Expand

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6. Dashery

   Jun 12, 2011

   7

   Red Faction: Guerrilla is a game that takes some getting used to. The first couple of hours are a real frustrating bore. Early on, it takesRed Faction: Guerrilla is a game that takes some getting used to. The first couple of hours are a real frustrating bore. Early on, it takes one forever to get used to driving mechanics on the PC version. I felt they were horrendous, yet, as you move on and become more fluent with the game, the easier they become, and by the end of the game you're able to enjoy them. The only big flaw is how flimsy they are. You can be going so slow, accidently tap a rock and all your windows will shatter and the front end of your vehicle will be damaged. All vehicles are like this, and I felt as if NPC vehicles were much weaker than mine on the Normal difficulty. I would plow into an NPC vehicle and absolutely destroy the thing. And the lack of any sort of flying vehicle was a shame. Graphically the game looks pretty well, characters design here is solid. However, things tend to get boring environmentally. Every environment is virtually the same, just different shades of dirt. Oasis green, Parker red, Dust dust, Eos dust, Badlands darker red (but then again, it IS Mars, what can you really do for it?). The storyline is almost as bland as the color scheme. Mars is controlled by the evil corporations who just want moneymoneymoney and it's up to you, the downtrodden masses to rise up. Characters have no real character, and cut scenes always feel awkward for some reason. And what would a review be without talking about RF's destruction? Destruction is really fun, and probably the saving grace of the game. I really enjoyed being able to knock into a building, or place charges and watch a building implode on itself (my favorite being any of the games few massive bridges you're able to take down). The only real problem with it, is that the number of buildings to destroy are limited and over time they don't repair. Once you liberate a zone, targets go away. I kind of wish they wouldn't. The bigger buildings especially would be nice to be able to destroy again and again. When all is said and done, RF: Guerrilla is your typical shooter with the same bland taste in story as the franchise has come to know, held up by some entertaining free roam destruction and driving mechanics.… Expand

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7. Gohenko

   Nov 6, 2015

   7

   In this game, you get to **** some **** up on Mars. You are Alec Mason, the hero (a.k.a. the only person who's really doing anything) of RedIn this game, you get to **** some **** up on Mars. You are Alec Mason, the hero (a.k.a. the only person who's really doing anything) of Red Faction, a resistance movement fighting against the tyrannical rule of Earth Defence Force.
   
   The open world of Mars gets fairly dull quickly, the graphics look really outdated, the story and characters are "meh" at best (Samanya's fake British accent is absolutely unbearable) and the third person shooting is quite bare-bones. However, the game does have an ace up its sleeve: completely destructible buildings. Pretty much every man-made thing can be utterly annihilated by explosives or vehicles or even your trusty sledgehammer. I cannot stress enough how fun it is to just go to an enemy stronghold and destroy everything in your sight.
   
   Every open world game needs to have its own gimmick to stand out from the crowd. Red Faction Guerrilla's gimmick is destruction. A damn fine gimmick, I'd say. Otherwise, it's just an alright open world third person action/adventure game.… Expand

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8. carnivorCactae

   Jan 16, 2022

   0

   Instead of having a Red Faction Game, they gave you a bad GTA-clone on easy-mode with 3rd Person (where you can peek behind walls and cover),Instead of having a Red Faction Game, they gave you a bad GTA-clone on easy-mode with 3rd Person (where you can peek behind walls and cover), undestructible terrain and boooring, boooooring downtime inbetween all the carnage.
   
   Drive to mission -> hope the mission is fun -> destroy buildings -> trigger alarm ->get swarmed by infinite amounts of enemies, with infinite amounts of reinforcements -> Flee to your base -> resupply, and drive, drive, drive again...
   
   So you never really have the time to enjoy the carnage, because your impressive (albeit flawed) destruction gets interrupted by hordes of enemies, who will require all your limited ammo-supplies to deal with them.
   
   Upgrading your arsenal takes a painfully long time and you are basically required to play on casual-difficulty, since the upgrades don't cost that much. It's still excrutiatingly slow.
   
   Destruction is enjoyable and "physically correct", but there is so much dead, empty and boring blank areas inbetween, seperated by unclimbable mountains and rocks, that you'll fall asleep when driving to your next objective again.
   The impressive "geomod"-engine took three steps backwards and now doesn't allow you to destroy terrain.
   Yeah, thats right:
   You can't destroy the terrain! In a Red Faction-Game!… Expand

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