Red Faction: Armageddon's biggest issue might be its timing - there's a pretty good selection of games that has just been released, with many major blockbusters waiting around the corner. There's also a mode (similar to Guerrilla's Wrecking Crew) where you're supposed to destroy as much as you can within a strict time limit, with leaderboards if you want to compare yourself to others, which might be entertaining for a couple of rounds. It works well, and can be a lot of fun, but I miss the competitive game modes from Guerrilla which were the only reasons why I kept going back to it.
Armageddon features a Horde-like mode, called Infestation, where you and up to three others fight against ever larger hordes of monsters. Where the game does lack compared to Guerrilla, in my mind, is multiplayer. It doesn't matter that it doesn't look as hot as Crysis 2 (and honestly, I have had more fun with Red Faction than I did with Crysis 2, but that's probably just me) when you're tearing down a makeshift shelter using grenades and machine gun fire, desperately trying to defend yourself from an approaching horde of Martian monsters.Ī nice bonus is that all the upgrades you buy throughout the campaign is shared between single- and multiplayer - even between single player saves, which means that me and the friend that has got his own save on my console will benefit from upgrades that I have bought. It's popcorn-entertainment, a good game to spend a couple of hours with, and it performs that job splendidly. In an age where we stare ourselves blind at blockbuster games with the hottest graphics and blockbuster moments, we tend to judge games like Red Faction: Armageddon way more harshly than they deserve. Red Faction: Armageddon is simply entertaining, which goes a long way.
The story has its moments, but despite some good voice acting it doesn't really manage to grip me.
The graphics look good, but are far from spectacular. The controls work, they do what they are meant to do. It delivers exactly that, and nothing more. That's not to say that it's an amazing game in any way.
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