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 will take 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 will 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. Utilising 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 will also feature a robust multiplayer component, including several modes focused on destruction-based gameplay.

Red Faction is quite intense. What are the main selling points of the game? Well, for me it was the large scale free roaming, which meant you could pretty much go anywhere, and anything in sight you could interact with, certainly in terms of demolition, for which the building …

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Definitely one of the best games of 2009. It's great fun messing up buildings with singularity bombs and smacking the crap out of other players online with an ostrich. The single player campaign is reasonably good, but the multiplayer more than makes up for it.

A fun game that lets you blow things up, what more could you want?