Red Faction: Guerrilla
About the Game
Red Faction: Guerrilla is the third entry of the Red Faction series and deviates from the first-person shooter genre that the previous two incarnations featured and incorporates an open world sandbox environment similar to Mercenaries , Grand Theft Auto or Saints Row ( which the developer, Volition , has also developed). Set 50 years after the events of the first two games, Mars has been liberated from the devious Ultor Corporation by Red Faction and the E.D.F. (Earth Defense Force) has stepped in to help the Miner Community get back on their feet.
Story & Setting
The missions range from story missions which purpose is to further advance the story and other missions including Transporter (returning certain vehicles to a safehouse in a certain amount of time), Guerrilla Raid (where players and a group of Rebels attack and E.D.F. building and destroying it), Heavy Metal (where players provide a distraction which allows fellow rebels to complete another mission without alarming the E.D.F.), Demolition Master (which players have to destroy a target within a certain time limit and a limited supply of ammo) and House Arrest (where players must rescue hostages and return them to a safehouse).
Gameplay & Core Systems
You take control of Alec Mason, a recently arrived dissident of Earth hoping to make his new life on Mars with his brother Dan, only to be swept up in the Revolution and free Mars five sectors (Parker, the Badlands, Oasis, the Free Fire Zone and Eos) from E.D.F. control. To do this players must complete missions and destroy E.D.F. vehicles and property, lowering their control on each sector and raising the morale of the resident population. There are also missions that pop-up from time to time including Courier (where players must track down and kill an enemy spy to collect the information he is carrying), Assault (where players must defend a certain target against incoming E.D.F. forces) and Convoy (where players must either destroy a line of vehicles or capture a target vehicle and return it to a safehouse). Completing these missions will drop enemy control of the area, raise morale of the citizens, be awarded scrap and unlock more advanced weapons.
Standout Features
- Red Faction: As a result a new Red Faction element has been formed to fight the E.D.F. and once again bring peace and freedom to the Martian landscape.
- There is also a plethora of weapons including pistols, shotguns, assault rifles, the sledgehammer (the players main weapon which can't be removed), remote mines, anti-personal mines, rocket launchers and the dreaded Nano Rifle (which fires a stream of nanobots that can disintegrate targets within an instant).
- players can carry four different weapons at a time and can swap them out through access at their safehouses or through ammo boxes littered throughout the landscape.
- Nano Rifle: The most advanced weapons such as the Nano Rifle is only unlocked through the story missions while some can be found in E.D.F. buildings (like the Singularity Mine) and each weapon can be upgraded through safehouses which include extra ammo and more firepower through scrap.
- Geo-Mod: The game also uses an updated Geo-Mod 2.0 game engine which allows players to virtually destroy a building realistically such as making it lean left by blowing up the left side of the structure or lean forward if the front is blown apart.
- Players can use this to their advantage against enemies such as destroying the building from the ground floor, toppling it on enemies and vehicles or destroying the support structures of bridges with explosives, causing it to collapse with a convoy of enemies on top.
- Havok: It also features the physics engine, Havok for the character physics.
- Online multiplayer games are present as well including Anarchy , Team Anarchy , Capture the Flag , Damage Control , Siege and Demolition which awards players experience points that they can use to customize their online players and acquire more advanced weaponry.
Modes & Ways to Play
There is also an offline two-player mode called Wrecking Crew where two friends take turns on four different modes such as Barrel Dash , Total Chaos , Rampage and Escalation and play a certain set of rounds to win an event. Additionally, there are backpacks for the Wrecking Crew and Multiplayer modes which enhances the players abilities such as Jetpacks, Stealth, Vision (essentially an X-ray) and more power-based ones such as Concussion, which will knock over nearby enemy players and Tremor, which can damage enemies as well as structures.
Player support includes Free-for-all / One-on-one (VS) and Team.
Presentation & Atmosphere
Display support includes HDTV 720p, HDTV 1080i, and HDTV 1080p. Audio support includes Dolby Digital.
