Red Faction: Guerrilla

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7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 375 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 231 out of 375
  2. Mixed: 103 out of 375
  3. Negative: 41 out of 375
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  1. TM
    Oct 16, 2009
    2
    This game is a terrible, terrible console port. While it is incredibly fun blowing stuff up and destroying buildings with hammers, it does get boring quickly. The missions very repetative and the combat is laughable. Don't waste your money on this.
  2. Solinski
    Sep 26, 2009
    0
    The game is just a physics demo that plays like 4-5 star GTA. Ironically, the addition of other weapons and combat detracts from the game. The combat is insufferably dull.
  3. DavidM
    Dec 27, 2009
    2
    I really wanted to like Red Faction 3; I loved Red Faction 1. But I hate it. Everything moves fast like a silly cartoon. There's no feel of weight or reality to the world so you never suspend disbelief. At the end of the training area you are asked to smash towers around the map. Police cars come at you in such great numbers and at such speed you are constantly surrounded by a I really wanted to like Red Faction 3; I loved Red Faction 1. But I hate it. Everything moves fast like a silly cartoon. There's no feel of weight or reality to the world so you never suspend disbelief. At the end of the training area you are asked to smash towers around the map. Police cars come at you in such great numbers and at such speed you are constantly surrounded by a comical Blues Brothers style pile up with cop cars flying through the air. Unfortunately this is not as cool as it sounds because the game isn't *trying* to be funny. This is the point at which I quit and uninstalled in disgust. This game earns two point for being technically interesting, in that you are able to break nearly everything in the world, but the lack or realism completely ruined the experience for me.… Expand
  4. Davy
    Jul 26, 2011
    4
    Good game which is ruined by how much of a poor port it is. You open this game and It screams 'console' at you. Even running in mid-low graphics the game still tends to give a poor performance. When I first downloaded the game from Steam I could not change the audio volume in game as it would stay the same to whatever I changed it to which meant that I could not listen to music or talk toGood game which is ruined by how much of a poor port it is. You open this game and It screams 'console' at you. Even running in mid-low graphics the game still tends to give a poor performance. When I first downloaded the game from Steam I could not change the audio volume in game as it would stay the same to whatever I changed it to which meant that I could not listen to music or talk to friends while playing. The second thing is that the other day I launched the game and it started in a window. I took it out of the window and all the resolutions had disappeared.
    Poor Console Port!    … Expand
  5. nopoles
    Jun 2, 2011
    4
    Interesting physics, decent story, but the controls ruined the game for me. It played like a poor console port, the controls just felt terrible. For an FPS, the controls felt spongy and imprecise, and badly needed some polish. This was the only Red Faction game I've bought, and I don't intend to buy another. Simple aweful.
  6. churnt15
    Jan 4, 2011
    3
    RF:G doesn't have that many variety in missions. Any mission you do is some form or variation of destroying EDF property. At first, I thought I was playing the game wrong, it seemed like no matter what I did in the missions I would have a swarm of EDF troopers shooting at me from all sides, I would constantly die, and when I escaped it would barley be with enough health orRF:G doesn't have that many variety in missions. Any mission you do is some form or variation of destroying EDF property. At first, I thought I was playing the game wrong, it seemed like no matter what I did in the missions I would have a swarm of EDF troopers shooting at me from all sides, I would constantly die, and when I escaped it would barley be with enough health or unsatisfied mission complete and death that followed. I tried approaching the mission several different ways, I tried being stealthy, even though the game suggest that you can, no matter what direction you come in from even through the back or concealed in a vehicle you just can not be stealthy, then you have to complete you missions while your being shot at because your somehow expected to be a one man army with no one at your side to assist in the mission, but when you do get assistance it usually one or two people that quickly get shot to death. You can try to take one of the EDF armored vehicles only to find out that the same bullets they are shooting you with is piercing through the armored vehicle and destroying the vehicle quickly. The troops don't stop coming either, Even for a video game it just seems unrealistic to be shot at over and over again while you trying to get your missions done.

    Your suppose to be in a resistance against the EDF in this game and you will just get frustrated that nobody comes out to help you, after a while I just decided I wasn't playing this game cause I got tired of doing all the work while the underground resistance did nothing! As for destructible environments, not true, the only thing you can break is the structures, however unlike the first game the ground and hills your on can't be destroyed or altered, another annoyance in the mission is that the buildings don't crumble so easily and the missions aren't completed until they are completely decimated. This means that even though half a building is standing up, it won't collapse on its own you have to place more explosives. In closing I just want to say, having played this game several months after its release, I am really disappointed that every credible video game magazine and website gave this game a good review, I feel like they didn't play this game long enough or at all to see the issues. It makes me wonder what they are really reviewing.    … Expand
  7. SimonC
    Oct 7, 2009
    0
    The game does not work! It has needed a patch to get it working from the second it was released. No patch is forthcoming from Volition. How they screwed up this badly I do not know. Do not buy this game. Wait until they have fixed it (if they ever do) and get it cheaper and working, do not be conned like I have been.
  8. Morring
    Aug 28, 2012
    4
    Quite a dull game in my opinion. Blowing up stuff is kida fun, but the slaughtering of countless generic enemies is a real chore after a while, and they will just pop up out of thin air as soon as you set off some explosives. Besides, it's really hard to suspend disbelief: the enemy throws at you as if on a suicide mission, with police cars flying all around the place and crashing intoQuite a dull game in my opinion. Blowing up stuff is kida fun, but the slaughtering of countless generic enemies is a real chore after a while, and they will just pop up out of thin air as soon as you set off some explosives. Besides, it's really hard to suspend disbelief: the enemy throws at you as if on a suicide mission, with police cars flying all around the place and crashing into each other. The physics aren't that good either, you can blow up three quarters of a large tower's base and find it balancing on the last remaining bit, but thankfully this doesn't happen with every kind of building. The combat is why I couldn't bring myself to finish this game tough. It seems this is a game about blowing things up, that does everything to make you spend less and less time blowing things up. It also needed a stealth component in my opinion.… Expand
  9. Budget_Security
    Dec 6, 2014
    3
    Just about worth the steam sale price. The demolition is the only good thing here, and the music is ok, but the rest is your usual bland console port fare and way too arcade. The world is not persistent enough - enemies pop in from nowhere, or you demolish something huge only to find it replaced next mission etc. The graphics are not as good as the screenshots suggest. World design isJust about worth the steam sale price. The demolition is the only good thing here, and the music is ok, but the rest is your usual bland console port fare and way too arcade. The world is not persistent enough - enemies pop in from nowhere, or you demolish something huge only to find it replaced next mission etc. The graphics are not as good as the screenshots suggest. World design is bland like mars in real life, and has a lego city feel (lots of copy paste buildings etc). The story starts ok but is not so interesting afterwards. While other ports like Assassins Creed have similar flaws, they just about make up for it while this one just about does not.
    If you are easy to please and like arcade action, this game is ok, otherwise leave it alone.

    Respect to the developers though for still updating their game 5 years after release. Finally good riddance to Games-For-Windows-Live.    … Expand
  10. BeatHour
    Feb 16, 2013
    4
    A half-hearted console port. As far as gameplay goes, its fine if you want a mid-tier third person shooter. The physics are cool if you just like breaking through walls with a sledge hammer. Otherwise, its model of structural damage and collapse isn't as good as some free 2d flash games. The storyline isn't anything meaningful or interesting. Level design is bad. There are no features of aA half-hearted console port. As far as gameplay goes, its fine if you want a mid-tier third person shooter. The physics are cool if you just like breaking through walls with a sledge hammer. Otherwise, its model of structural damage and collapse isn't as good as some free 2d flash games. The storyline isn't anything meaningful or interesting. Level design is bad. There are no features of a console game to speak of, modders are almost non-existent, and the Games for Windows interface further blocks what you can do with the game.

    Each level is a reskin of the last, except with an arbitrary color scheme. The first level you start in is red, then orange, then green, then blue. Why? Its very ugly and plain. There's nothing cool to blow up except one huge bridge (which is one of the only really cool and interesting thing about the game) and two sky scrapers which have indestructible hard-points which make it only possible to destroy them one way. Why would they do this in a game who's only appeal is that you can destroy stuff?

    The multiplayer is pretty good. The different backpacks make gameplay interesting. For example, you can be a 'rhyno' backpack wielder with a sledge hammer, and wreck through walls to surprise targets. However, the multiplayer is buggier than on console and I don't think there are as many players.

    There is little moddability. With such potential with the destruction engine, why not a system where you can add and design buildings? This is an insult to PC gamers, just handing them a console port with no attention to the things PC gamers expect. You can't even use cheat codes to, for example, get rid of the bad guys so you can sandbox destroy stuff in the world. Even if you have a minimal destruction save file there's still not much to blow up in the world.

    The progression system feels so limiting. Just Cause 2 got guerrilla warfare right. In this game, there's no place to hide or anything. You just kill people and blow stuff up to unlock new areas. So lame. I don't want to have to sit through your bad storyline just to play the game the way I want to.

    I only payed $5 for this game I feel like I wasted my money. I was really disappointed that this is the only non-indy title that tries to emulate destruction physics and it totally fails. I liked it better on Xbox anyway.    … Expand
  11. Klewer
    Nov 9, 2013
    4
    A game that feels as though it could of been so much on PC but a very lack lustre port and poor performance on PC just means this game never quites hits the mark the way it should and becomes a chore to play.
  12. 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), 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    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

Awards & Rankings

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#23 Best PC Game of 2009
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#30 Most Discussed PC Game of 2009
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#33 Most Shared PC Game of 2009

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Metascore
82

Generally favorable reviews - based on 29 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 29
  3. Negative: 0 out of 29
  1. InsideGamer.nl
    83
    Red Faction: Guerrilla is a sandbox game in its purest form. Watching giant structures collapse is an absolute thrill, and although the characters and their backgrounds aren't very compelling, the awesome weapons and great amount of side missions will take players on a path of destruction for hours to come.
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  2. GameSpy
    90
    Despite its lackluster storytelling, Red Faction: Guerrilla is a whole lot of fun to play, thanks to its meaty campaign and well-rounded multiplayer offerings.
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  3. DailyGame
    85
    The best in-game destruction ever can't make up for a few major shortcomings, but when a game is built to blow up buildings, it's hard to find much fault when it does that so well. You'll definitely overlook the shortcomings and focus on what this game does well instead.
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