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)very boring
By Cage2011 (89 reviews) , 22 Dec 2011Not sure if the story would make sense if you've played the other red faction games, i havn't and didn't have a clue what was going on with the story, forced myself through 40% of the campaign and couldn't take it no more i found it really boring- Was this review helpful to you?
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Mauve Faction
By SpiderJerusalam (13 reviews) , 11 Dec 2011[Highly rated reviewer]
Nowhere near as good as 'Guerilla'. The decision to take it underground and pit you against aliens hasn't done it any good. Unworthy of the 'Red Faction' name.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Could be better but a sweet game!
By Parkaaa (3 reviews) from Salisbury , 28 Oct 2011The graphics and the game play were immense but what put this game down is that its is NOT a sandbox game compared to the first game. The storyline however was good and kept me on my toes.- Was this review helpful to you?
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A good shooter
By NeilSBUK (87 reviews) from Epsom , 21 Sep 2011I played the campaign mode through once and then about half way through new game+. The campaign was excellent on the first playthrough. The story was easy to follow and entertaining, battling the aliens was sometimes frantic in the later levels and the shooting worked well.
The game didn't hold up so well during new game+. By then I had become more experienced at using special powers, and this made the enemies less threatening and not as interesting to fight against. I also wanted to skip to certain parts of the game, but unfortunately there was no mission select which would have been a major improvement.
Multiplayer is like a much simpler version of firefight. You fight up to 30 waves of enemies, with the option to stop playing after each wave. It is a fun mode, but with multiple good players on xbox live it becomes a little too easy, even on the harder difficulties, mostly because the enemies tend to stand around watching rather than attacking.
There are still some players online, but it seems to be getting more difficult to match-make already, so I suspect that many players are moving on to other games.
Overall, this is a title which is well worth renting, and maybe even purchasing, although I don't think there's much reason to play the campaign more than once.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Very good but short.
By Boltonsquad (9 reviews) from Rotherham , 16 Sep 2011Completed this in just over 6 hours but i thought the game was brilliant, i haven't played the first one but wish i did now.
The game is very short and i wish the story would have dragged out a little longer but i enjoyed it and it's well worth the rent.
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