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Red Faction: Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered
Set 50 years after the climactic events of the original Red Faction, Red Faction: Guerrilla allows players to 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. Red Faction: Guerrilla re-defines the limits of destruction-based game-play with...
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Red Faction: Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered Reviews
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Red Faction: Guerrilla is one of those games from the Xbox 360 era that all your friends talked about, but you never found time to play… Or at least that was
Red Faction: Guerrilla was one of my favourite games when it first launched ten years ago. With a fun open world, tons of weapons to use, and most importantly, a completely destructible environment that lets the players get wild and blow s**t up. The Re-Mars-Tered edition initially launched on other systems last year, but it’s now time for the Switch to get in on the action with some surprisingly solid results.
Despite having a title that deserves a firm slap across the face for the marketing executive who thought it up, Red Faction: Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered is a great get for those who may have missed it the first time around, or anyone who might want to revisit (and re-destroy) the red planet. It may not add any new content to address the empty open world and bland story, but it does perform well, and everything I loved about Red Faction: Guerrilla is still front and center and looking better than ever.
If you’re a fan of Just Cause or Saint’s Row, then Red Faction Guerrilla might well tickle your fancy. In the days of sprawling open world titles with hundreds of missions tied together with awful stories, the simplicity of this game makes a welcome change. Violence is not big, hard, or clever, but it sure is a hell of a lot of fun. Red Faction Guerrilla Me-Mars-tered is the remaster no one was asking for, but has turned out to be a welcome surprise.
Here we have a remake of a fun open-world third-person shooter. However, is it good enough to stand out in this day and age?
We tell you, it’s a good game! It’s not average! It might have some problems here and there, but you have to admit it is a “Good” game.
Red Faction still has the best destruction in games ever.
Red Faction Guerrilla was a frantic open world romp and mayhem simulator. This remaster is a total recall of the original with a fresh coat of paint.
The visuals are adequate for the most part, though the characters’ faces are somewhat off-putting during cutscenes. Mars itself is entirely brown and red, which doesn’t exactly make for the most diverse setting. It’s difficult to tell areas apart, with only the occasional landmark standing out as visually interesting. The Nintendo Switch version of Re-Mars-tered also struggles with audio quality, as most of the dialogue is of low quality and constantly peaks, which is a tad annoying.
There’s nothing outwardly wrong with Red Faction Guerrilla, and the HD remaster is handled competently. On the Nintendo Switch, and particularly in handheld mode, it actually looks really nice in capturing that grim-Mars wasteland. Sadly, open worlds age far worse than most other approaches to game design, and while I can quite happily recommend HD remasters of JRPGs that originally appeared on PlayStation 3 – or even PS2 or PS1 – because it’s the unique and timeless narratives that people play them for, open worlds lose their value rapidly. Everything that a title like Red Faction Gue…
Red Faction Guerrilla’s primary hook, its physics-based destruction, has aged remarkably well. It is still to this day incredibly fun to take out the support of a building and watch it tumble to the ground. Regrettably, the game that surrounds this mechanic is a shallow and repetitive misunderstanding of open-world design. Add to this the less than impressive performance levels of the Switch version and you’re left with a great idea that just doesn’t have the design to support it. Much like the result of its primary game mechanic, Red Faction Guerrilla crumbles without the support of mor…