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Rating: 42 reviews Sales Rank: 606
Platform: PlayStation 3 Genre: sci-fi-action-games ESRB: Rating Pending Media: Video Game Edition: Normal Operating System: Playstation 3 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3 Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 5030917067259 EAN: 4005209112789 ASIN: B0015XIEYA
Release Date: June 5, 2009 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Set 50 years after the climactic events of the original Red Faction, Red Faction: Guerrilla allows players to take the role of an insurgent fighter with the newly re-established Red Faction movement as they battle for liberation from the oppressive Earth Defense Force. Red Faction: Guerrilla re-defines the limits of destruction-based game-play with a huge open-world, fast-paced guerrilla-style combat, and true physics-based destruction. - Open World Guerrilla Warfare: You decide who, when, where and how to battle. Utilise guerrilla tactics, improvised weaponry, and modified vehicles to lead insurgent attacks on EDF targets. Launch attacks based on your own gameplay style, take on missions in any order you choose, or engage in destructive activities to weaken the EDF's grip on Mars.
- Strategic Destruction: Use destruction to your tactical advantage, setting ambushes or chain reaction explosions to attack enemy strongholds and permanently modify the game environment. Leverage fully-dynamic physics-based destruction to improvise on the fly: blow holes in a wall or floor to set an ambush or escape, take out a staircase to stop your pursuers, or drive vehicles through blown out walls.
- Evolving & Emergent Gameplay: Carve your path through an ever changing landscape as you improvise your combat tactics - mixing gameplay styles, vehicles, weapons and explosives to defeat the EDF.
- Epic Sci-Fi Setting: Explore the huge, unforgiving Martian landscape, from the desolate mining outpost of Parker to the gleaming EDF capital city of Eos, then tear through the fully destructible open-world environments swarming with EDF forces, Red Faction resistance fighters, and the downtrodden settlers caught in the cross-fire.
- Multiplayer Combat: There is no place to hide when you put your guerrilla warfare skills to the test in a variety of highly destructive multiplayer com
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Persevere - it is worth it August 26, 2010 FussyReviewer (London) I started off this game gripped by the opening graphics and story opener but quickly feeling let down by the initial game play. I think it started with me driving to missions like GTA. Graphics on PS3 seemed weak compared to other games I had played just before, the driving mechanics weren't great (worse than GTA:San Andreas) and the initial weapons were weak so I kept getting killed fighting about 2 EDF soldiers and was sort of wondering about this as a game.
I'm not really sure what kept me playing tbh but it was somehow compelling and as I progressed and worked through levels and unlocked new areas on the map this just got better and better and better, scenery is more varied, graphics got better (?), stories and missions open up and the weapons improve. Once I got the nanoforge and the rocket launchers on the 3rd area of the map this game became something else and I had soooo much fun!
I'm not sure what made this game such a great experience in the end but it has surely been one of the best games I've played in last cpl of years (and that's a lot of games...) so a cpl of random points below:
- In the early stages the EDF are a real pain and this game is hard but that becomes a benefit (compared with other mundane by the book games). No aimless AI in this game - these guys are out to kill you and most of the time they'll succeed! In fact they are probably a little too good. Its hard to hide from them once they see you. But again you have to get good and step it up to take them on.
- Over the game you build up support for the Red Faction so what starts as you randomly destroying things on your own slowly builds up to having support from the population and this builds up a real sense of a slow revolution in a game.
-The destructible environment engine puts this in a league like GTA in the only other game I've driven around aimlessly for hours smashing things up and having great fun without taking part in missions. There are missions where you attack EDF bases - it is satisfying to sit up on the hills and shoot out the structure with the nanoforge or rocket launchers or drive a garbage truck theough the walls and hastily retreat. Likewise planting mines all round a building by sneaking about and then hitting the detonate button to blow it up while you're driving away is great fun. I'd have loved if you could be sneakier about this but sometimes the AI gets you too quickly here. If you don't like sneaky you can always just drive a heavy truck through the building....
- The final level is amazing - sooo hard though and I was incredibly frustrated on the countless attempt getting a little further but being killed in a second so you really have to work out a strategy and plan to complete it.
- The music is one thing in this game which adds so much too - there is one major mission towards the end of the game where you infiltrate a base to use a satellite lazer and there is a thumping sound track which really added to the excitement in this game. As your alert level goes up the music goes up tempo too which adds to the excitement and drama of the game.
- Weapons are brilliant really and so diverse - as well as the usual machine gun, shotgun, rockets etc, we have arcwelders,heat seeking bullets,thermobaric rockets (brilliant massively destructive explosions which turned me into thinking the graphics were much better than I originally thought), nanoforge which dissolves walls, rail guns to shoot through walls etc - real scifi weapons and dynamics to match.
- the dualshock vibrate as you smash up a wall with the hammer really made me feel like I was smashing things up for real. Sounds childish and noone wants to admit to the creativity of destruction (!) but everyone I handed the controls to seemed to be strangely drawn to randomly smashing up buildings!....
The only frustrating thing here is no matter how many times you do each bit and no matter which way you try to destroy a base or do a mission, you're likely to get killed a LOT (the EDF are really good...) and spend a lot of time driving back again to have another go. I found the soundtrack quite soothing in this instance but it can be annoying.
This game is hard (frustratingly so) but at some point it flips from a run of the mill GTA sandbox type thing to making you feel as if you're building up a real revolution and taking on an army of the best AI soldiers you're ever going to meet and its a real challenge. If you finally make it to the end you'll have the feeling that you have achieved something monumental that I haven't felt with more than a handful of games.
So minor frustrations and a slow non descript start aside, I have to give this 5 stars. Best thing with the greatest sense of achievement I have played since San Andreas or Halo...
Brilliant June 14, 2010 Knotyou (UK) I am a Red Faction nut anyway and things just get better with every instalment. Am I am so lucky! Sometimes I can get bored towards the end of a game and rarely play it again, but as soon as I finished this one I selected insane level and am looking forward to another month of fabulous escapism. Can't wait for the next one.
Absolutely Brilliant!!! June 10, 2010 Tom Prestwood (UK) If you have any doubt about whether to buy this game, remove it all now.
This game is absolutely brilliant, im not going to write a 1200 word essay about it, just giving you all my opinion on the game.
The GeoMod 2.0 is surely a milestone in gaming history.
Trust me, buy this game, you will NOT be disappointed.
PS3 Red Faction Guerrilla Review May 18, 2010 D. Hopchet (London, UK) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A very good, undated PS3 sand-box adventure game. Graphics work very well with the sunset and sands of mars, lots of interesting vehicles and weapons and good destructible game-mechanic nicely used in the overall architecture of the game itself (like rubble as currency). Highly recommended as a first purchase for new PS3 owenrs
Red Faction Review April 4, 2010 Paul Tanner Before i bought this game i looked at a few videos on gamespot
Looked interesting so i bought it and was amazed at the graphics
You can knock any building down with your hammer
The storyline started of brillant but when you do side missons it gets harder
The only let down is you get killed easy, the side missions take forever to complete and dont use the cheats as when you do you cannot save it wheather you try and turn it of later during the game
Must buy game if you like gta or saints row with knocking buildings down
Red Faction: Guerrilla (PS3)
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