Red planet, a quest for revenge, a sledgehammer and an unexplored landscape to plunder...Mars calls.

Red Faction: Guerrilla is the third installment of the franchise and is a blast to play. Smashing apart buildings with your sledgehammer and detonating large quantities of explosives is basically what it's all about.

Those who have heard of Red Faction: Guerrilla already will immediately think of destruction. Claims have always been made that everything could be destroyed in the game's environment but we tend to think "see first, believe later".

The last few weeks have seen the release of a veritable bounty of free-roaming, open-world games that have each brought their own unique hook or feature to a genre mostly dominated by the Grand Theft Auto series.

Guerrilla is the third game in the rather successful Red Faction series. The series has been a staple in the industry not just for it's high review scores (due to being great games), but it's well known because of it's destruction system.

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Red Faction: Guerrilla is some of the best fun you're going to have this generation. There's plenty to get through in the single-player story and a deep multiplayer component to keep you playing it for a while.

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