Games Paul on 05 Jun 2009 07:12 am
Red Faction: Guerrilla
Sandwiched in between the two high profile superhero-in-an-open-world releases of inFamous and Prototype is the excellent game of Red Faction: Guerrilla. I don’t own a PS3 so inFamous isn’t on my radar. Prototype is the team that made Hulk: Ultimate Destruction which is a great game. But RFG has been getting good reviews at my regular haunt and it’s from the devs of Saints Row 2 (which I played a LOT more than GTA IV last year) so I jumped in.
Wow. What a great game. I’ve only played a few hours of single and multiplayer but my initial impressions are very favorable. The mars/sci-fi setting really sets up the style and artwork. There’s a plethora of vehicles and weapons. The detail and draw distance is impressive and I like the mechanics of missions, actions, control and morale to progress in the game.
But the killer app is the destruction. Every single building, bridge, factory, whatever can be destroyed. Not just some, all of them. As an example there’s a rescue mission I was having a lot of trouble with. By the time I fought through the existing guards to the back of the building reinforcements made extraction very tough. So I drove my truck up to the back of the building and used my trusty sledgehammer to knock a hole in the wall. Took out the guards in the room, left some detonating charges on the load bearing beams, loaded up the truck and sped off as the building collapsed on the reinforcements.
If you like open world games ala GTA IV, Saint’s Row 2, Mercenaries, and the like you really need to take a look at RFG. I’m scheduled to play some online with a group tonight, will probably post additional thoughts over the weekend.