Games Paul on 06 Jun 2009 07:26 am
RFG Multiplayer
I got online with some friends for about three hours last night touring through the multiplayer for Red Faction: Guerrilla. The combination of destructability + backpack abilities + gameplay modes made for a unique experience. As an example the Vision backpack gives you the ability to see through walls a few seconds at a time. It’s great for coordinating your team as you call out enemy locations but it also works on offense.
During one of the many memorable moments of the evening I was defending the flag and knew there was an enemy nearby waiting for backup before rushing the flag. I turned on my Xray specs, picked him out on the other side of the wall, and smashed it an him with my trusty sledgehammer. This is also great as the counter to the Stealth backpack. I don’t know how many times I went mostly invisible, snuck up on an opponent, and took him out with the one-hit sledgehammer attack.
It’s even got an experience system for unlocks (ala CoD 4) that works for custom and ranked matches. Just as RFG puts a new twist on the open world genre, it brings something new to the standard multiplayer shooter as well.