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75 out of 100

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  • Summary: Half a century after the Red Faction resistance freed Mars, the red planet again becomes a battleground. Colonists struggle for survival in the underground mines after the surface is rendered uninhabitable. When Darius Mason, grandson of revolution heroes Alec Mason and Samanya, unknowingly releases a long-dormant evil, Armageddon is unleashed on Mars. As settlements are torn asunder, only Darius and the Red Faction can save mankind. The battle will take them to the core of the storm-blasted planet through ice caves and lava flows until they are face to face against the unspeakable threat. Red Faction: Armageddon expands on the critically acclaimed, best-selling franchise with new, groundbreaking challenges. You are humanity's last hope for survival. … Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 29
  3. Negative: 0 out of 29
  1. GamingExcellence
    Jun 5, 2011
    95
    Honestly if not for some minor complaints Red Faction Armageddon would be a damn near perfect game. As it is, this is a strong contender for best game of the year for its fantastic mix of intense action, fun character customization that changes how you play the game, great graphics and all around fantastic gameplay experience. Even the minor flaws are easily ignored and most will likely not even notice them, as wrapped up in the game as they will be.
  2. Gamers.at
    Jun 16, 2011
    84
    If you like to blow stuff up, RF:A is certainly worth your while. It simply knows what it's good at and delivers that without any aggravating flaws. Just don't expect it to be anything more than a "MichaelBay-esce" action-orgy. Because despite its quite interesting story, at its heart, it still nothing more, then an action-packaged homage to everything destructive... which is a good thing.
  3. PC Format
    Jun 13, 2011
    71
    Offers great weapons, a great destruction model...and not enough ways to have fun with them. [July 2011, p.94]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 37 out of 51
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 51
  3. Negative: 8 out of 51
  1. Spyker
    9
    This game is one of the best Third Person Shooters created in my opinion. With the great storyline to the graphics to the weapons and a lot more. I am giving this lovely gave an Overall 9/10 for its variety of weapons, nice graphics, interesting monsters and fast paced action. Even though the monsters and environments area mostly the same It was still A great experience and fun to play. If you hate short campaigns, do not buy it. For A Professional like me it took me 3.5 hours to finish it on the hardest mode available.… Expand
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  2. Corrupted12
    5
    How do you take an open world destruction game and make it better? If you answered "jam it into a cave" you probably work for Volition. Literally, if you wander slightly away from an objective it does the "get back here in ten seconds or die" thing. As a standalone game, Red Faction: Armageddon would probably deserve a 6. But when you compare it to the glory of Red Faction: Guerrilla it's hard to think of it so highly. They took a perfectly good system and changed its every aspect. And for the most part, made it considerably worse. The multiplayer is pathetic, like a slower, more boring version of Halo's Firefight. The gameplay is hardly different from any other shooter, with the occasional moment where you can blow up a building. (Usually you'll be running through indestructible caves.) The plot...don't even get me started on the plot. SPOILER ALERT. In the beginning of the game the terraformer that keeps Mars stable is blown up. Ignoring the fact that such an important target is so weakly defended, given you have the ability to literally repair anything, the fact you don't immediately repair it should confuse pretty much anyone. But fine. An easy author handwave is that the terraformer uses materials the nanoforge can't reproduce. Only...in the end of the game YOU DO ACTUALLY REPAIR IT in order to kill all the aliens you're fighting. Begging the question, why didn't you do that when the thing blew up, and why the HELL didn't you do that when the aliens showed up!? END SPOILERS. If you don't want the game spoiled for you, suffice to say the plot is a bad joke. So in the end the game is another generic third person shooter. There are some innovative ideas-the nanoforge ability to repair things, and the Force-like abilities it enables are awesome. But pretty much anything else you could see by copy-pasting something like Gears of War and changing all the names (and removing the chainsaw). Also, and here's the worst complaint, the game is dark. Not dark in the "this is kind of spooky" way. Dark in the "I just fell off another f***ing cliff? Really?" kind of way. The only redeeming quality is that this is probably the only game we're gonna see this year that at least attempts to be innovative. So yeah. It's a good rental game. But buy it? Hell. No.… Expand
    • 1 of 2 users said yes
  3. Hegemon4Hire
    4
    /// If you're looking for a return to the single-player open-world gameplay and revolutionary vibe of Red Faction: Guerrilla, Armageddon will disappoint. The game is played on rails (sometimes literally), sending you from one shooting scene straight into another, using passably rendered FMV cut-scenes to fill in the gaps. Initially, these hands-off video portions work well, but there are several times in the mid and late game where the segues are disjointed from the action and the narrative seriously falters. By the end, the poor editing and lack of depth to the characters and story overall left me feeling that there was little point to the single player campaign. /// Even though GeoMod still lets you wreck the environment, this destructive potential only extends to structures and living things for the most part. The game takes you back beneath the surface of Mars, but there's no blasting away cave walls to find side passages or shortcuts in Armageddon. At least the Magnet Gun is a versatile tool and fun to play with, much like the tried and true remote charges in Guerrilla. RFG's Nano Forge is still around, now upgraded with a talking AI assistant and the ability to grant thinly-disguised magic abilities to Alec Mason's grandson Darius (the Impact ability, for example, is basically a Star Wars "Force push"). /// Sadly, having hoped for another dozen hours or more in a sandbox, Armageddon turned out to be Star Wars: Rebel Assault II remade in the Red Faction setting with a sudden and unwarranted injection of aliens. Contrived story, little choice or excitement, and average action.… Expand
    • 3 of 4 users said yes

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