Red Faction: Guerilla – My Sick New Addiction
There’s really not a whole lot to say about it, but the demo for Red Faction: Guerilla dropped a few days ago on the 360 Marketplace, and I’ve played it over and over and over since then. It’s absolutely remarkable how fun it is to destroy a building wholesale with nothing but a sledgehammer. There’s something primally appealing about driving a truck through a building, then detonating a remote mine and causing the entire thing to collapse. I fear that I will one day be able to purchase this game, as I don’t know that I would ever recover from a month-long binge of it.
Volition is one of my favorite current developers, and this game demostrates exactly why. Overall, a lot of elements of the game aren’t particularly strong, for example the driving mechanics, and the gunplay, but, as with Saints Row 2 and it’s equally satisfying grab-and-toss mechanic, the world’s first game with ACTUAL fully destructible environments manages to transfix me in a way that few games of this generation do. Again, like with Saints Row 2, I don’t think the game is good, in the way of your Bioshocks or your Half-Lifes, but it is incredibly fun, and as strongly as I believe in video games as an art form, I think there’s definitely a place for games like this. Expect to hear more from me when I get an opportunity to play the full version.
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raddevon on 07.22.2009
I picked up a cheap copy for PS3 on Craigslist after playing through the demo about nine times on each difficulty. This game really came out of nowhere, don’t you think?