Autrefois orientée vers le jeu de tir à la première personne, la série Red Faction a changé de fusil d'épaule dans le cadre de son troisième épisode. Optant pour une orientation third person shooter, l'opus proposait également une importante liberté d'action avec une progression basée sur un système...

Le GeoMod toujours impressionnant; Les possibilités de la nanoforge; L'ambiance immersive; Très agréable à jouer

Linéaire; Plutôt court; Bestiaire assez pauvre

When I first saw an ad for Red Faction: Armageddon I immediately thought "didn't this game come out a couple years ago? Doesn't it seem a little late to be advertising this game almost 2 years after the release?" But wait, I realized, this is a different game!

Armageddon is at its best when you can destroy everything around you, and is at its worst when you are required to simply dispatch hordes of aliens with your pistols. Yes, the story is a bit bland and the dialogue is downright odd at times, but the core action is pretty fun.

Using the environment as a weapon; The massive weapons; Online Ruin mode is a blast

The main campaign and story are a bit dull; Too many linear sections; The limited online modes

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Environmental destruction always enjoyable; Multiplayer modes return in solid form

A banal sci-fi narrative told through abrupt cutscenes; Taking the fight underground depletes the open-world excitement of Guerrilla; Linear levels and man-to-alien combat are not this series' strengths

When word came around that Red Faction Armageddon was going to trade in the wide open dunes of Mars' surface for the underground tunnels of the first game reactions were mixed. Some thought that the loss of the open world environment would harm the gameplay or that it would make the game bland to...

Great weapon variety; fun environments to destroy; special abilities are a blast to use; fights can be wonderfully chaotic; vehicle segments are awesome

Environment can be a bit too dark at times; lack of enemy variety; some plot holes; minor control quibbles

Imagine you're a colonist on Mars. You work the Martian soil without a space suit, breathing oxygen and living under an atmosphere, thanks to a terraformer your ancestors established and maintained. Now colonist, imagine that a group of terrorists attack the terraformer and bring it down.

Great weapons can really make a game. I've played countless shooters where I'm using high powered riffle after high powered riffle and that's great and all - but where's the creativity?

Last month, I had an opportunity to check out Red Faction: Armageddon at a preview event in San Francisco. At the time, I was impressed with what the game had to offer. The single player campaign was engaging, the Ruin mode offered up some mindless carnage, and the Infestation mode was a hoot.

The Red Faction series carved its own niche ever since the inception of the franchise back in 2001, by letting players interact with the environment in new and exciting ways. And when we mean interact, we mean tear everything down with a big hammer until there's nothing left.

+Polished destruction gameplay; +Great graphics; +Fun Ruin mode

-Lack of an open world; -Claustrophobic atmosphere

There are times when Red Faction: Armageddon is great: when you're firing rockets at the pillars supporting a bridge and watching the Martians on top get swallowed by rubble, or using the Magnet gun to send an explosive barrel into an alien-infested structure and creating a firework display of...