GAMING
Red Faction: Armageddon
* Format: 360 (version reviewed), PS3, PC * Unleashed: Out Now * Publisher: THQ, Syfy Games * Developer: Volition, Inc.
* Site:
http://www.redfaction.com
As a follow-up to Red Faction: Guerrilla, Armageddon takes some hard turns away is the open world, the sprawling Martian landscape, and the freedom to make your don is a strictly linear corridor shooter with a tight, over-the-shoulder camera perspective, and alien monsters to mow don has taken several cues from Dead ments are a huge departure from the dusty red of Mars, and much closer to of monsters crawl and shamble towards you with the same ridiculous gait of a nec- romorph, except here they are alien crea- type that finds video game monsters silly, rather than scary, Armageddon is going to be very fun at times, it ditches a lot of the that was already derivative when Dead gameplay that holds the entire experience
awesome weapons like the magnet gun, which essentially allows you to toss half a out of a room, which is where the other Using your repair tool, you can rebuild any What does get old is the uneven level de- be a lot easier to forgive some of its other
What holds this awkwardly-paced cam- paign together is a story that simply takes a bald-headed everyman with a cleavage- one interesting bit of the story is the arc Darius takes, beginning the game by un- name (Alec Mason from Guerrilla), and ism is handled in just about the most pre- dictable manner possible, with the story
painting him as a completely just and there was one page Volition should have the consistent over-the-shoulder view cutscene breaks where the action fades to black to show a CG Mason dance around sue, Volition has gone in a different direc- you get is a 4-player co-op mode against With the destruction element in full effect, game, and if you can turn your brain off for problems come when you start to think, our cake and eat it too, with fun experi- ences, good stories, and novel gameplay, time as its predecessor, or many other games that have come out this
written by Critical Gamer’s Joe Donato
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