Destruction Simulator
What Is It
Red Faction: Guerrilla is an open world third-person shooter video game developed by Volition, Inc. and published by THQ. It was released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in June 2009 and for Microsoft Windows in September 2009. The game is the third installment in the Red Faction series.
What I Think
Yes, I’m biased towards this game and yes I love this game. Problem?
Red Faction: Guerilla is amazing. There, I said it. But it really is.
The plot of the game is a typically strict regime is a little to controlling and people rebel. It’s a little more complicated than that but that’s the gist of it. Yes we can all agree this is the least original in existence. It’s used everywhere these days but I guess that just makes it a tried and tested formula.
You control a character called Alec Mason, a demolition expert throughout the game. His weapon of choice is a very powerful hammer and he’s rather good with it.
So why is this game so good? It all sounds so bog standard so far. The answer comes in the form of the environment. Every single building and object has been painstakingly built piece by piece. For the first time in a video game they literally built objects like they would be in the real world. The reason for this is that the game relies heavily on destruction. As in you the player tearing down structures in any way you like. To make this more dynamic they all had to be built by hand. No quick tools and 5 minute jobs, Just beams, concrete walls, glass and so on. The result is a game where nearly everything is destroyable, your way. Don’t like a wall? take it down. If you take a dislike to a bridge you can tear it apart in such a way that the next vehicle to cross it smashes through it.
There is insane level of destruction in this game. Destruction always was the forte of the red Faction series. In Guerilla we traded destructable terrain for a unprecedented level of destructibility in buildings. Worth it!
The game even contains vehicles. There’s a limited range of these though they do come in several colours so ooooooh. There’s heavy mining equipment, trucks, military vehicles and small personal cars. It’s quite a nice little range. Small but nice. If anything it’s a shame you can’t get into one of the hovercraft in the sky.
There’s a huge range of innovative and brilliant weapons in the game from sticky bomb that attach to any surface or person they land on to a mine that creates a vacuum and tears building apart before blowing the pieces outwards to cause more damage. There’s also more conventional weapons such as an assault rifle.
The AI in this game is one the the more robust I’ve seen in a long time simply because it can path-find through half destroyed structures. If an AI can negotiate a constantly changing environment while still managing to shoot at you and generally ruin your day then I consider it to be a good one.
Overall this game is well worth picking up and playing. The best of the series in my opinion.
DailyGilson 