Red Faction: Guerilla

[MheAd]

Anyone else looking forward to this one (N.America release on 25 of August)?
I got into this game thanks to recommendations of Bashman, many many years ago. I wasn't disapointed by the sequel. I hope it will be the same with the third game. Although, from what I can see / read, it will be played in 3rd person perspective, and I don't understand whether this will be an option (like in RF2) from the ordinary FPS-perspective, or 3rd person perspective will be the only view avaiable. And the sys. requirements published on several sources on the net will be very low (a PIII 500 mhz machine (?!), which was like recommended req. for the last Red Faction game ).

Well, let's see what will happend.

[DeadMeat]

I guess you mean the PC version?

Has been out on the console for a while now, and I've played it. It's pretty interesting, lots of explosions and destruction, and sandboxy as well. It's always in third person, and it's a shooter.

There are a lot of different vehicles, some with mounted weapons you can use. You can upgrade weapons and purchase new weapons for the scrap metal you pick up from destroying buildings and doing other things.

That said, I haven't gotten far, only second area, so there's probly tonnes of things I haven't seen yet.

I'll probly continue playing it when I feel like it

[MheAd]

Sounds fine to me, although I'm disapointed that first person view is no longer an option.
Has the game kept the same concept - meaning there are no real missions but you just keep going and going until the end of game - which is probably one of the more original aspects of the original Red Faction games?

[Atebash]

Mmm good old Red Faction. I'll never forget all the fun we had in LAN with this game.

[DeadMeat]

No ... I'd say it's become more like GTA.

Red Faction 1  (and 2?) was a straight up fp shooter, wasn't it?

RFG is more like GTA, with story missions that progresses the games story, tons of optional sidemissions of like, 7 different types perhaps, "destruction minigames" which is basically "destroy this within a time limit with this weapon/turret/robot" and other stuff that just lies around which you can destroy if you want to.

Ofc, they affect each other, so if you complete lots of sidemissions, enemy presence in that area will lessen until it's practically non-existant, and you get bonus mission reward multiplier for that etc.

It's worth a try, though if GTA-style sandboxing is totally not your type of game, then you might have a problem with it.

[MheAd]

The way you are discribing it - it seems to be an entirely different game

[DeadMeat]

Yeah it kinda is :E

Also, environtment aren't destructible, only "man-made" buildings and stuff.

[Herzeg Dva]

Well having played it up to the first mission before getting my arse kicked by the AI, it is very similar to GTA and standard-fare 3rd person shooters. Environments are as destroyable as the previous games but you cannot deform terrain so no advances have been made in that regard. The biggest disappointment for me comes in the form of presentation meaning impressive set-pieces are a thing of the past.

[DeadMeat]

Well who knows, as you play more of it and get into the latter zones there may be some impressive set-pieces as well ... besides the fact that you'll get some kinda jetpack also

[Herzeg Dva]

The jetpack is only for hopping around you cannot travel using it. Anyway just finished the game. Not bad but the sandbox elements were unnecessary. 8/10

[DeadMeat]

That's a shame ... but maybe it'd be too much of a rocketeer if you could use it to travel ;P

[MheAd]

I forgot to write anything on the subject. I installed it, played it for 50 minutes - that was it - uninstalled it. Has nothing to do with the previous great games.