Red Faction: Guerrilla (Xbox 360)
Get your ass to Mars for some out-of-this-world pyrotechnics, personality and gameplay.
6/4/2009 3:19 PM | 3 Comments | Page 4 of 4
What's Hot: Wonderfully realized setting; Imaginative weapons; Clever multiplayer; Awesomely destructible buildings
What's Not: So-so writing; Weak finale
Red Faction: Guerrilla is an historic game. By building into the gameplay the sort of destructibility other games have only pretended at, it's a revelation. It's like when I first discovered 3-D (
Wolfenstein 3-D), iron sights (for me,
Vietcong), mouselook (
The Terminator: Future Shock), cover (
Vietcong again), reloading (
Outlaws) or 3-D accelerators (
Tomb Raider). Once you've experienced these things, it spoils them for games without them.
Red Faction: Guerrilla isn't just a great game. It's a point of no return.
This review is based on a retail copy of the Xbox 360 game provided by the publisher.