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
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Tom Chick
Tom Chick
Status: Battle dancing
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.
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  • Nakarti
    Nakarti

    11/10/2009 2:28:20 PM

    I got it through Gamefly almost as soon as it released, expecting to be disappointed after Far Cry 2.
    The intro scene is cool, but I want to go back, damn invisible walls, I see roads down there!
    Lets just say it's the first game in a long time that now that I've completed the main mission, I want to play again. Even though I died a bazillion times. (Which reminds me of early Final Fantasy games...)

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  • An0nym0usLegend
    An0nym0usLegend

    6/20/2009 2:47:53 PM

    "a point of no return" ha sums it up indeed! I was playing the demo this morning, just the sheer amount of detail and the charming sense of the game really feels like an instant classic which will be talked about years from now. Whats more unbelievable is the fact it seems rather real, in a somewhat near future. The sense of realism really does shine in my eyes. Great article Tom. Looks like im going to be $65 dollars short this week...haha sorry mom but i cant pay the bills this week! haha!!!

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  • RyanKuo

    6/4/2009 8:34:34 PM

    I actually wasn't expecting this to be the least bit interesting, but it was quite fun. Played some deathmatch on the E3 floor for a while. It's a very punchy game -- things like boosting into the air and knocking down walls with the sledgehammer / smasher backpack sound & feel extremely phallic. The screenshots in comparison just look muddy and uncompelling. Glad it's much, much better in motion.

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