channelnews.com.au Updated:
2012-01-25 06:59:53
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It?s official: my favourite weapon is now a magnet.The original Red Faction titles pioneered destructible environments in video games with the Geo-Mod engine ? a bit of software that let players blow gaping holes through walls rather than use the front...
Unique take on destructible environments; fun arsenal of weapons...
Can get repetitive and tedious at times; bland cutscene-directed story...
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The basic storyline to Red Faction: Armageddons single player campaign is that we are a mercenary on Mars. The game begins with us joining a squad of marine type characters on a mission to save the planets Terraformer from being destroyed by the big ev...
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smarthouse.com.au Updated:
2012-01-25 06:59:53
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The original Red Faction titles pioneered destructible environments in video games with the Geo-Mod engine – a bit of software that let players blow gaping holes through walls rather than use the front door. Red Faction: Armageddon takes that legacy an...
Unique take on destructible environments; fun arsenal of weapons...
Can get repetitive and tedious at times; bland cutscenedirected story...
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We had the fear about Red Faction: Armageddon from the very first time we were told it would abandon the sandbox principles of the previous entry to the series, Guerrilla.The repair function is, unsurprisingly, quite useful.Having played it at numerous...
Armageddon misses the point of why people loved Guerrilla by such a phenomenal margin it’s genuinely difficult to understand. It’s not a terrible game, it’s just bland, boring and loses the vast majority of factors that made the last game worth playing...
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Say what you will about Red Faction: Armageddon, but Volition's third-person shooter packs some truly fantastic toys. Sure, it has all the usual shotguns, assault rifles and rocket launchers, but alongside them you'll find mighty hammers that can smas...
Weapons, multiplayer...
Visually a bit boring, repetitive, not that exciting...
Red Faction is a perfectly acceptable genre effort with a great set of weapons, but one that that still gets stale with time. While it has its moments and the multiplayer is fun, so many other games have done this so much better, and with so much more...
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To quote Quaid/Hauser (Arnold Schwarzenegger) from the excellent movie Total Recall "Get your ass to Mars". These memorable words mirror my opinions about the latest Red Faction game, Armageddon which once again sees players returning to the red planet...
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Picking up where THQ’s Red Faction: Guerrilla left off, Red Faction: Armageddon drops the open-world mechanics of its predecessor in lieu of some very linear, but explosive fun. The game’s destructible environments plus its assortment of innovative wea...
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Brian Reitzell composed the soundtrack to THQ’s latest Red Faction title, Armageddon. While I was disappointed with the shortness of the campaign as well as the on-rails style, the soundtrack itself is another matter.The opening Overture brought to min...
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There are few fictional character types as instantly familiar as the space marine. He is the stoic, beefy Alpha Male who talks as straight as he shoots and has few qualms when it comes to eradicating intelligent alien races...
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I was a big fan of . It was a refreshing change from the games of the day. You could even drive trucks through buildings, leaving holes shaped like trucks in them. It satisfied an itch that I’ve always felt games should scratch – namely testing my skil...
Volition have a long storied history of making fantastic games and this is Volition at their best. Excellent game. Change it seems, is very good. Michael O'Reilly Based out of Toronto Ontario, Michael is a long time reviewer and columnist for Diehard...
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The Red Faction series has undergone a lot of changes since the original release shortly after the US launch of the PS2. At the time, the first person shooter genre was largely relegated to the PC, as the consoles lacked the firepower needed to pull of...
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Red Faction is a video game series developed by Volition, and Armageddon is the fourth game in the series. As with the first Red Faction and Guerrilla, the story takes place on Mars. The story starts off with the main character, Darius Maso...
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Despite a few flaws, 2009's Red Faction: Guerrilla did several things extremely well. Namely, it told an amazing story about a group of rebels who picked away at a tyrannical government until it fell, and it provided a huge, open world in which you cou...
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Red Faction: Armageddon represents the fourth game in the Red Faction series, and it's interesting to see how far things have come. From first person, to third person. From destruction/manipulation of the environment to destruction/manipulation of obje...
Red Faction: Armageddon represents the fourth game in the Red Faction series, and it's interesting to see how far things have come. From first person, to third person. From destruction/manipulation of the environment to destruction/manipulation of obje...
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See, the real issue here isn't so much that Armageddon is a mediocre game -- which it is -- rather that it's such a letdown after its excellent predecessor. I'm not sure why Volition tried to reinvent the wheel here, but (while Armageddon's got some good ideas) it was a major mistake to...
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gaming-age.com Updated:
2012-01-25 06:59:54
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I think it's been pretty well known that Red Faction: Armageddon had ditched the open world sandbox style gameplay of Guerilla in favor of a standard single player campaign, but having played through that campaign twice now, I don't think that was the...
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There are few things more satisfying than planting explosive charges around the base of a massive structure and then stepping back a safe distance, before detonating them. The resulting chaos -- the crumbling of steel and concrete, bathed in a cloud...
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1up.com
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2012-01-25 06:59:54
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If you don't know by now, Red Faction: Armageddon boasts destructible environments -- one of the strongest elements of the game that makes it, well, fun. Running around in an explosion of rubble and flame becomes time well spent. On more than one occas...
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The very first objective you get in Red Faction: Armageddon captures what it’s all about: “Destroy the wall.”Gripping the shaft of my mighty, gyroscopically enhanced hammer, I swing at the barrier. CRACK! The force of impact with steel-reinforced conc...
RFA is basically one great moment—destroying buildings with a powerful weapon—repeated for a whole game...
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If you're familiar with the Red Faction series, then you know Mars as a dangerous place where the regimes are oppressive and the building codes are lax. In Red Faction: Armageddon, alien infestation replaces armed uprising as the series takes on a new...
Magnet gun inspires destructive creativity, Powerful arsenal and abilities, Destroying stuff is great fun, Extra modes offer more opportunities for mayhem.
Bland story and characters, Underground environments can get repetitive.
The versatile magnet gun marries beautifully with the series' signature destructibility to make Red Faction: Armageddon an exciting and explosive shooter...
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ign.com
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2012-01-25 06:59:54
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One sign of a great game is when you never notice it's repetitive. Anyone can be reductive and distill a game down to a few key mechanics that are repeated, but it's up to the level design, enemy A.I., and a host of other factors to keep it interesting...
Despite its forgettable story and pacing issues with the campaign, Red Faction: Armageddon is good fun for letting out your inner destructive child. They ability to tear apart and repair the environments at will is a hook that keeps working, and when t...
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