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  • Summary: Red Faction: Guerrilla is a 3rd person, open-world action shooter set on Mars, 50 years after the events of the original Red Faction. Players assume 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. Throughout their fight for freedom, players carve their own path, wreaking havoc across the vast, open-world environment of Mars, from the desolate mining outpost of Parker to the gleaming EDF capital city of Eos. Utilizing improvised weapons, explosives and re-purposed mining equipment and vehicles, Red Faction: Guerrilla allows players to tear through fully destructible environments in an unforgiving Martian landscape swarming with EDF forces, Red Faction resistance fighters, and the downtrodden settlers caught in the cross-fire. Red Faction: Guerrilla also features a robust multiplayer component, including several modes focused on destruction-based gameplay. [THQ] Expand
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  1. Positive: 74 out of 84
  2. Negative: 0 out of 84
  1. 100
    An in your face, balls to the wall, destroy everything in your path treat. With a ton of missions to complete, an entire planet to destroy, and online modes that will have you sitting in front of your television for hours upon hours, this game has it all. I know this has been said a ton of times before, but it holds true for this game; if Red Faction: Guerrilla doesn't get your blood pumping, check your pulse.
  2. Red Faction: Guerrilla is a great game. Volition did many things right, but they came up short in some areas such as the subpar story, mediocre visuals, and the less than memorable characters.
  3. Though the explosions scale with progress, and the act of detonation continues to be a giddy pleasure, Mars could do with a thicker atmosphere.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 45 out of 51
  2. Negative: 4 out of 51
  1. VincenzoP.
    10
    Some glitchy controls can make achieving some pro times a real burden and the story is missing some flavor. However, games are about fun. The over the top destruction is so rediculously fun and fresh that it outweighs any flaws this game has, and yes EVERY game has flaws, and if we rated games based on flaws, no game would ever get a perfect score. A ten all the way, baby! Expand
  2. As a fan of the original Red Faction games, this game was honestly a pleasant surprise! With an open environment, optional missions, and a massive map, this game is definitively worth the price. Kept elements of the previous Red Factions, and is overall just an awesome game to blow crap up! :P Expand
  3. Red Faction:Geurilla is one of those games that you shouldn't judge by it's cover. The boxart may look a little bland but the game itself is so much more than that. You play as Alec Mason, An ex-con sent to Mars for mining. when the communist EDF kill his brother,it's up to him with the help of Red Faction to kick the EDF's asses out of Mars. The voice acting is slightly plain and the aiming is terrible. Also it gets tiring to look at the same colour scheme for 8-10 hours. Don't let that stop from playing this though. the Destructible environmnents are insane and the weapons are excellent. The physics in this game are the selling point. If you are looking for a cheap but fun game to play while you wait for Mass Effect 3. Then you should check out this game. Expand
  4. RickS.
    4
    Have you people even played the first 2 games, Red Faction 1 and 2 was all about pacing, you would run through stage after stage, with amazing guns, just blazing, think Gears of War but only first person. THIS GAME HOWEVER, is GTA 4/ and Mercenaries with nothing to do but fight wave after wave of dump insanely hard enemies. Oh god the multiplayer looks as if it was made for the N64, basically run,throw or plant grenade,run,shoot, even describing it is boring, let alone playing this mess. What the hell did they turn this game into?. I don't think i ever played a longer game than Red Faction 1, and the best multiplayer of all time i would say is Red Faction 2, the guns were balanced, fast paced, spawning and fighting was incredible. Please people if you want a game with atleast story, pick up GTA 4, if you want a game with cool explosions and driving, pick up Mercenaries. Red Faction Guerrilla, looked at what was selling and just went with it. Shame on you Volition for destroying one of the greatest games a console had(PS2), now I know how Spyro feels: ( If anyone played the first 2 games they would know what im talking about, i still play them even today, It's simply amazing to see how much more better the PS2 is then every next gen console so far. Expand

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