![]() Switching to an open world meant a bigger playground to roam around in and more variety on offer in terms of game play, and they didn’t disappoint when virtually everything that appears on screen can be taken apart to its base components. Whilst the original two were more like corridor shooters with specific walls that could be demolished, Volition upped their game with Red Faction Guerrilla and introduced Geo-Mod 2, their proprietary software that enables the level of destruction on display. The key selling point in the games has always been the destruction of the environment to allow a sense of freedom rarely found in gaming. Only he can free the planet, one guerrilla action at a time. When up against overwhelming numbers and brutal firepower the best course of action is surgical hit-and-run strikes against infrastructure and facilities, and with Mason being a mining engineer, it’s a match made in heaven. Unfortunately, Dan doesn’t survive much beyond his role as establishing the backstory, and Alec is left to join up with the freedom fighters and start out liberating the small mining colony of Parker. The Red Faction is alive and well as a small rebel force and are actively working to oust the EDF from each inhabited region and free the people. Meeting up with his brother, Dan, he’s filled in on what life is really like out in the barren wastes and that the Earth Defence Force (EDF) have turned from heroes to oppressors since the events of the original two games. Set in 2125, Red Faction Guerrilla has you (as the aforementioned Alec Mason) arriving on Mars to start a new life. Those of us who have longed for a return to the simple ways of Alec Mason and sledgehammering a building to pieces can rejoice and be recruited into the liberation of Mars once again. Whilst updated versions of last gen games are all the rage, and some cynically point towards cash grabs and easy money for publishers, it’s fitting that this is here because it didn’t set sales alight at the time, and was overshadowed by the functional but far too linear goings on in the sequel, Red Faction: Armageddon. Arguably the best instalment of the four games, Red Faction Guerrilla ReMarstered is the entire open world destruct-em-up plus DLC after a lick of performance paint and some of the slowdown dust wiped from its edges.
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