Red Faction: Armageddon details
| Formats: | TBC PS3, 15 Xbox 360 |
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| Players: | 1 |
| Genre: | Shooter |
| Collections: | June - Games, June New Releases |
| Developers: | VOLITION |
| Rental release: | 10 Jun 2011 |
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A step backwards from Guerilla
By Ozor (92 reviews) from Essex , 15 Jun 2011[Highly rated reviewer]
On paper this game should do well, it has a single player campaign, a mode which takes full advantage of the destruction called Ruin Mode, and a 4 player co-op mode which is similar to Horde from Gears of War 2 called Infestation.
When you play the game though you will quickly realise that it is lacking, especially when you compare it to the previous Red Faction title.
The campaign is very constricted, forcing you through narrow corridoors and small rooms which offer little destruction. This feels like a major step backwards from Guerilla as that offered multiple plans of attack, where as Armageddon will only allow for you to go in and fight with your weapons instead of the enviroment.
The story is forgettable, the characters are not introduced well enough for you to care for them, you're thrown straight into the fight without any real explanation why and the time skips make it feel even more disjointed.
Ruin Mode is fun for a few rounds, but anything other than that and it will get dull fast.
Infestation Mode is where this game was supposed to shine, 4 players team up to take on waves of aliens. Unfortunately this also gets boring quickly, with no new characters, emblems, costumes or weapons to unlock, there isn't any real incentive to keep playing once you've tried a couple of the maps. It also has a terrible system in which the waves just repeat themselves, there's no real variety in the enemies per wave, they just throw more of everything at you, reach level 10 and it will start again, reach level 20 it starts again. There's nothing added to spice things up except a few weapons which you probably wont use.
The weapons however are pretty cool, you have a rifle which can disintegrate objects or walls instantly, the rail gun which can shoot through walls and of course the trusty sledge hammer makes a return.
Red Faction: Armageddon falls short of expectations, with a lack of content and no real area in which it shines, you can't help but feel underwhelmed by it all.
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(30)Superb gaming
By PuppyKiller82 (7 reviews) , 11 May 2012Loved this game, so much more that your normal button smasher.
Took me quite a while to finish as started playing on other difficulties.
The weaponry is awesome, love the fact you can blow anything up, fling it using the magnet gun and then repair with your nano's, unlimited ammo!!!
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Surprisingly good
By Chinners (7 reviews) from Kingsey , 21 Apr 2012I didn't think I'd like this game, given the dreadful nightmare inducing impossible durge that was the first Red Faction on the Playstation 2, but surpriusingly the series has improved ten-fold since I last played the title.
I thoroughly enjoyed this game and found the gameplay extremely satisfying, especially when smashing bits of scenery with a massive warhammer. The same creepy atmosphere applies, but the gameplay and controls have vastly improved and it was not totally impossible to clock this game without too much frustration.
Give it a go, even if you're unsure - I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Repetitive and dull - a shame!
By ekofox (1 review) , 09 Mar 2012I really found it to be very linear and dull - a lot of the stages in the game tend to repeat and there was very little challenge. On some of the underground levels it was really easy to do and no real challenge at all. I loved Guerilla but this is not a worthy follow up at all.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Good game, but no Guerrilla
By Robecott (2 reviews) , 26 Feb 2012Not a bad game at all. A very linear in structure, which strays away from Red Faction Guerrilla's free roaming nature. I personally found this disappointing as I loved the way Guerrilla was set up. It doesn't really feel like the same game series - the only thing that's the same is the environment, a few of the characters and some of the weapons.- Was this review helpful to you?
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average at best
By cwynthalyn (11 reviews) from Keighley , 06 Feb 2012very sluggish compaired to guerilla and the destruction was a huge let down although the mech and levelling up abilities in the wheel was a good addition ok for a pas the time game when bored but to simplistic not worth a buy- Was this review helpful to you?
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