Every piece of debris that rains down, every slow-motion sway, tip, and tilt before a building or smokestack falls has me holding my breath in anticipation. It also makes me wonder why nobody else has done anything like this. I’ve leveled hundreds of structures over the past week and it is no less exciting today than it was nine years ago. then placing your remote-detonated charges on those key positions, or firing a thermite rocket or just whacking away at a concrete pillar until the structure weakens and topples to the ground.
Yes, there are vehicles and they’re fun to drive, and yes, there is an on-foot weapons-based combat system that blows the doors off many games that have come post-2009, but all of these activities take second place to analyzing structures…no, really analyzing them, and checking structural integrity points, support columns, load bearing walls, etc. Guerrilla takes the core concepts of Red Faction and builds upon them with intricate levels of environmental destruction first seen in games like Battlefield: Bad Company, and while Bad Company let you blow up pretty much anything you wanted, Guerrilla does it with a style and physics that will have kids heading to their high school guidance counselor’s office to inquire about a career in demolition.Īs shallow as it might sound, most of the charm in Red Faction Guerrilla is based entirely on the premise of blowing stuff up. But otherwise, this new version of Guerrilla had me ready for another tour of duty on Mars. Arguably, the cutscenes seem to be the original pre-rendered movies from 2009 a stark contract in quality to actual gameplay graphics and loaded with screen tearing, apparently immune to my v-sync lock. That’s how you reward player loyalty!Įven though it’s been nine years since Guerrilla I still have fond memories of that game, and they all came flooding back the moment I fired up Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered, which defaulted to 4K and highest quality settings.
It’s even better news for those of you who did get the original PC version, as you are getting this $20 game as a free update. I never did play it on the PC, so I was expecting big things when THQ Nordic announced they were remastering the game for current PC tech. The last time I played Red Faction Guerrilla was the summer of 2009 on the Xbox 360.
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