While I do have both Red Faction and its sequel sitting on my shelf, I never got around to playing through them. Guerrilla (2009) was my first proper entry into the series and for the most part what I found was very enjoyable.

Hands up: who thought Halo's Flood levels were a good idea? Just the tentacle at the back?

So here I was about to play a game completely out of genre for me, to say I am comfortable with shooters is about the same as saying ice-cubes are comfortable with bonfires, but wow was I surprised.

Destruction and creation are popular themes within gaming – occasionally intertwined to the extent that they are difficult to separate – with some offering creativity and destruction at the same time, presenting an often intriguing dilemma.

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

RF Guerrilla was brilliant. RF Armageddon, is different in that the GTA free roaming is gone, its now a third person shooter. There are a lot of good 3P shooters around, this is ok, its solid, but I just felt there was nothing new, and after R.E.G, it was a bit of a letdown.

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...

If you like Red Faction games you will like this, better than Guerrilla this is easier to play,better weapons & gets along OK.

Challenging; Easy To Learn; Graphics

In Red Faction: Armageddon you have loads of fun destroying everything you see. The freedom to blow up environments and tear through objects will hook you straight off the bat. You'll often forget what you're supposed to be doing simply because you will have so much fun shooting everything.

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