Red Faction: Guerrilla

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DVDfever.co.uk – Red Faction: Guerrilla Xbox 360 reviewDom Robinson reviews

Red Faction: Guerrillafor Xbox 360
Distributed by
THQ



Strategy Guide:

  • Price: £49.99 (Xbox 360, PS3); £39.99 (PC)
  • Players: 1; system link: 2-16; online multiplayer: 2-16
  • Widescreen: Yes
  • 60Hz: Yes (optional)
  • HDTV: 720p/1080i/1080p
  • Dolby Digital 5.1 sound: Yes
  • Xbox Live-enabled: Yes
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In Red Faction: Guerrilla,you play Alec Mason, mining engineer, and need to take control of the red planet since it’s currently under atotalitarian regime.

There’s some great CGI scenes which set the tone and you’re given a Guerilla Handbook which contains tutorial videosand other useful info if you need to look into it.

However, the basics are that there are six areas of Mars, all controlled by the EDF (Earth Defence Force). Each sectormust have all the missions within completed in order to achieve its liberation, and you’ll also gain extra salvagefor completing a mission.

Red Faction Guerilla:
Clip 1: EDF Assault
You begin with just a sledgehammer and explosive charges, joining your brother to destroy a laboratory and tower – which isjust a way to get you into the style of the game. Soon after, your brother is dead thanks to those in charge and you’renext, until you’re saved at the last second and become part of Red Faction. It’s now time to take out the trash.

When you destory things, you can pick up salvage which is stuff the token girl in the game knows how to fashion intonew weaponry. However, it’s more fun to use the sledgehammer and imagine it’s Thor’s hammer!

And just like before you can smash everything into oblivion and it’s the perfect way to destress aftera crappy day at work. It’s especially fun to whack at the ‘legs’ of big structures and watch them slowly collapse tothe ground. Just try not to get crushed under it all!

Red Faction Guerilla:
Clip 6: House arrest – success!
As you go about the game, trying to complete missions, things like EDF Assaults will occur so you’ve just got to go tothem when you get the call. You can fire a weapon at them, but at you’ll see from the first clip, it’s easier to justthrow explosive charges at them and then set them off, and you can throw two at a time before exploding them. The problemwith firing weapons is that it’s not very well handled in this came – there’s no proper aiming system. You just pointand shoot.

There are various alternatives to missions – mini-games, if you like – such as EDF Assault, where you have to kill off all thedrones who appear in a particular sector to regain control of it; Demolitions Master – tests that teach you how tobring down buildings quickly and efficiently; and Transporter – finding the vehicles left by EDF contractors which wereworking for you, who have been killed.

Previously, you could only realistically smash up as much stuff as the game would let you, which was still a hell of alot more than most games, while this one really goes above and beyond the call of duty there.

Red Faction Guerilla:
Clip 7: Parker level:
Final mission – Start Your Engines

Other random observations are that there’s really cool music that is the kind which you’d expect from something akinto an ambient music backing track for a film set on Mars; if you get stuck at any point, just look at the map and seewhich targets need destroying Arrows show the way to go to your next objective; you can unlock weapons and upgrades alongthe way; and the game could really do with a rear view mirror for driving any vehicles.

Overall, Red Faction: Guerilla is fun for a fair few hours, but does start to get a bit tiresome after that asit’s very samey, so I’d recommend a rental before you buy.

In this review, I’ve uploaded a number of clips which are as follows:

GRAPHICS
SOUND EFFECTS AND MUSIC
PLAYABILITY
ENJOYMENT


OVERALL
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