Red Faction : Guerrilla

In place of the game diary, you get this post.

Want to know the best game you missed so far this year? Read on suckers. While you busy re-hashing old 80's movie into a semi playable video game, the good people over at THQ and Volition bring you a great re-make of a 90's video game. Originally released on the Ps2 Red Faction pops on the 360. But what is it? I was thinking the same thing until I read about 15 different blogs and magazine articles on how everyone was going to over look this game. I got tired of reading it, so I rented it.

At first glance of the cover, your thinking a Russian game. Wrong. Your probably thinking FPS, wrong again. RFG maroons you on Mars. That is where the Red comes in......you team up with you brother to fight the government within a small Faction. I have yet to see how guerrilla's tie in. Mars is presented to you in a open world, highly destructible, environment. What I was first surprised at was the vehicles. They are awesome. Some fun is to be had, by blazing wildly across Mars, and jump a huge crater to land your mining 6-wheeler squarely in a government building. Total destruction, for the building at least.

With Volition at the developing helm, you get a good taste of Saints Row in this game. These open world games are starting to get repetitive. Get in car. Drive to mission. Play mission. Drive to something else. While RFG does have this aspect, the destructible environment over shadows any similarities you will find in other sandbox type games. Oh, and you will find similarities. This should not scare you away.

A wide array of weapons, vehicles, and NPC's keep the action flowing. That bad ass sledge hammer you see in the title plays a pretty big part in the game. It is fun smashing down a huge building, then turning around and smashing someone's head in. Good times. I played about 2 hours of the main campaign and liked what I saw. If I had to compare this game to some others, I would lump it into a category of the following : Bully, Saints Row, GTA, Assassins Creed. I hope the missions do not get repetitive. The first "level" had me destroy a few key government buildings, rescue a few hostages, and 3 mission type scenarios. All very fun, but could get old very quickly. Time will tell. I usually do not like to post any comments until logging some serious hours, but tonight's game play was really fun, and I needed a break from the diary. If your concerned the streak lives on at 345 straight days.

So the blogs and magazines are about 65% right on this one. Definatley a great game to rent, but not something you will be kicking yourself over missing. Keep in mind, I have not played any of the online modes, but those are usually not deal breakers for me. The G's have been trickling out at 10 per level. It would appear you can achieve 500 G's from the single player and 500 G's for completely ridiculous online play. Seriously? When will they just give up on the online G's?

Thanks for reading