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Red Faction: Guerrilla
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After the death of his brother at the hands of a corrupt Earth government, Alec Mason has no choice but to join the Red Faction terrorist cell and fight to free Mars from Earth oppression.
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"Who knew that blowing apart buildings, bridges, and other Martian structures could be so satisfying?"
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Mars: Where everything is made from Styrofoam and Pritstick.

It was nice to revisit this game. Destruction is still really fun 8 years later, but the game doesn't really have a lot going for it otherwise. To be honest, apart from the ability to blow every build… Read more

A guilty pleasure of a game

Red Faction: Guerrilla developed by Volition, Inc. and was released in 2009. The game is an open world third person shooter with a heavy focus on its destructable buildings physics. The story takes pl… Read more

Red Faction Guerrilla Review: Get your ass to mars

Red Faction Guerrilla is a reboot of the series from its fps ps2 days. Volition have made this reboot a third person game, and instead of the linear story structure of the prequels, this game is an op… Read more

Has a couple of issues... But wreckin' buildings is AWESOME!

Red Faction: Guerrilla is the third Red Faction game and like the others the gist is that you're a oppressed miner guy on Mars and naturally you want to fight against said oppression. This involves a… Read more

A game that tries its best to make you hate it

Red Faction: Guerrilla is one of the more egregious examples of an older franchise brought into the realm of open world gaming. For the most part it succeeds at this task, thanks to the newest version… Read more

A Good Sandbox Game that Takes Place In A Sandbox

Red Faction Guerilla is a very nice take on the open world sandbox game that actually takes place in a sandbox. While it does nothing in the way of groundbreaking the genre it offers some mindless fun… Read more

Underloved and awesome

Man I was looking forwards to Lovefilm sending this. It's all I heard about on podcasts and message boards at the time, while I was utterly skint. I eventually ended up playing Prototype instead, whic… Read more

Open World Adventure Done Right.

It's tough to find open world games today, it's even harder to find one that's worth playing. Lucky for you, this is one of the few; proud open-world games worth playing and/or buying. When you look f… Read more

Blowing Stuff Up Never Loses It's Charm

Having disliked the first two Red Faction games, I came into this game skeptical. The promise of being able to destroy anything eluded the development team in those games, and the shooting wasn't enou… Read more

destruction,jetpacks and more!!!

This game is great in many ways for not only is itr a free roam with great weapons and gadets but the story takes place on MARS!!!!!!! This game had many great feayures lets start with the grapics the… Read more

Excellent, but plotless fun for the destructively inclined.

Mars. The red planet has always been a fascinating setting for science fiction. H. G. Wells imagined green Martians who would invade and attempt to conquer the planet, whilst Philip K. Dick had humans… Read more

Red Faction: Guerrilla

With the jump to current generation systems, Volition decided to take the Red Faction series in another direction. My only prior experience with the series was some of the second game's multiplayer du… Read more

Red Faction: Guerrilla - Breakin' stuff has never been sweeter.

Red Faction: Guerrilla is an third-person open-world action game developed by Volition, Inc for the Xbox 360 and PS3. You’ll assume the role of freelance miner Alec Mason, a newcomer to Mars, who’s ma… Read more

Sleeper Hit of 2009

RF: G is a follow-up to two of my favorite FPS from last generation. The geo-mod gimmick was a decent selling point for the prior titles, but with clear issues (why can I only shoot through certain wa… Read more

Enormously fun, but painfully flawed

Red Faction Guerilla does one thing very well; it does one thing better and more enjoyably than almost any game in the past. Stuff falls over very well, buildings crumble, towers crash to the floor, a… Read more

joy of bashing

i loved to bash on things in this game. I found this giant hammer in the game, and it was a real joy just to pound away on a building with the hammer. With each resounding clang of my giant hammer, th… Read more

Passable but done better elsewhere

Compared to other sandbox type games this is a great game when it comes to smashing down buildings, However the driving mechanic has some minor issues that make driving around from point to point a te… Read more

Never Seen So Many Things Break!

Red Faction Guerrilla is a third person shooter that takes place on mars in the future. Your brother is a demolition expert who is a large part of red faction and gets killed. When this happens the re… Read more

Red Faction: Guerrilla Review

Red Faction: Guerrilla is a third person action game that takes place on Mars. You will be playing the role of a person that has just come to visit your brother and to do a hard day's work. Of course… Read more

Surprised that it's actually quite fun.

I loved the first Red Faction because it was like the Half-Life for the consoles and then the second one wan't that great. So I though the third would be really crap seeing all the trailers and the ch… Read more

The Resistance Is A Misnomer

Red Faction was a good yet forgettable FPS that was ported to the early Playstation 2 days back when FPS titles were pre-Halo bubble. Now fast forward nine years later, and the team at Volition Inc. d… Read more

Red Faction: Guerrilla is really fun, but it lacks a bit.

They killed your brother, now kill them! The story of this game is simple. The bad dudes, the EDF if you will, killed your brother, and you seek revenge by destroying all of the EDF shit. That's about… Read more

Explosions and Destruction

Red Faction Guerrilla is a very satisfying and enjoyable destruction based game with not a lot of variety stories and missions, but enough to make it a average game. The story is based on a society of… Read more

A decent port of a very good game

I was slightly worried about buying this after suffering the the last port from Violition, Saints Row 2 was a mess on the PC and I didn't have high hopes for this. Thankfully I was wrong and they've d… Read more

GTA meets destructible buildings and the result is great.

Red Faction: Guerrilla is actually a third game in Red Faction series which started in 2001, but you don’t need to know anything about that. You can still fully enjoy destructible environments, third… Read more

The most gratuitous destruction this generation has seen

When you think of interstellar tyranny and galactic civil war, Red Faction isn’t the first game that comes to mind. But when you replace those two things with Mars and unprecedented destruction, you h… Read more

Superior technology, flawed fundamentals, but always fun.

Everyone knows how awesome the dynamic destruction is in Red Faction: Guerilla. If you don't know, believe it - this is a technical and design achievement that should be recognized. Making buildings c… Read more

It's hammer time

Title: Red Faction: Guerrilla Release: June 2, 2009 Genre: 3 Person Shooter Developer: Volition Inc. Publisher: THQ Platform: Xbox 360 Rating: M (Mature) Product Link: http://www.amazon.com/Red-Factio… Read more

Smashin'

Freedom of total destruction has forever acted as a tight leash on the neck of action-based videogames. Growing up, I always heard friends talk about how much more fun taking a rocket launcher to a bu… Read more

A fantastic concept of repetition and glamour

Red Faction Guerrilla has opened my eyes to the possibilities of gaming, the only remarkable thing being its engaging sense of frustrating destruction. I cannot emphasize how much fun I had driving a… Read more

Who cares why, just blow everything up.

Red Faction: Guerrilla is a game strictly about blowing the heck out of stuff. It's because of the very straight forward focus that you get all sorts of crazy ways to, well... blow the heck out of stu… Read more

Red Faction Guerilla has tons to offer and it's all great.

I should preface this review by saying that I don't have a whole lot of experience with open world action games, or open world games of any sort, really. However, as I've gotten older, I've learned to… Read more

Red Faction Guerilla... Yeah!

So after beating the suprisingly great 50 Cent: Blood In The Sand, i quickly traded it into my place of work, for fear that it's poor sales and the fact that we were having a sale would plummet it's t… Read more

A real love, hate relationship

Red Faction is a very competent third person shooter from volition inc. the guys who brought us saints row. The obvious thing to mention first is the destructibility of the buildings and more importan… Read more

An unusual, explosive type of Mars

In developer Volition’s Red Faction: Guerrilla, the world is your destructible oyster. While there’s a sense of adventure to be gotten from exploring a colonized Mars, the sense of mayhem from wreakin… Read more

A refreshing but short lived take on the Red Faction franchise

I've been a fan of Red Faction ever since I blasted my first tunnel into a wall in the first game. Whenever I think of innovation in destructible environments, I think of Red Faction. Guerrilla really… Read more

The 3rd most fun i've had destroying a building with an ostrich

I never intended on buying this game. In fact, I actively made fun of it and other games that I believed "thought that destructible environments somehow made a mediocre game worth buying". I'm not goi… Read more

Is that your building on the ground over there?

Red Faction is a good game. I liked it a lot better than the other 2 Red Factions, and I liked it better in third person. Positives things about this game are the fact that anything can be broken, mos… Read more

Guerilla Raid-io!

Red Faction isn't a game for everyone. So very few games actually ARE for everyone that this statement really doesn't say much. However, Red Faction: Guerrilla seems so aggressively skewed towards the… Read more

A great open world game...

I dont like to write long reviews so this wont be any exception. Red Faction Guerrilla is a very good open world game.Its around 12-15 hours long, and if you do everything it will take maybe around 20… Read more

Fun fun fun, and oh wait...did I say fun? :)

What an awesome game! The final 4-5 missions were just plain epic. Nice satisfying ending too. I was quite surprised with what new mission types they added near the end. So the ability to destroy any… Read more

The Landscapes are Ugly, but they Blow Apart Beautifully

The Red Faction series has had somewhat of a cult following over the years. While the series has garnered critical acclaim since the first installment, it has failed to reach true mainstream success.… Read more

OK Single player, Amazing Multiplayer

At first when I heard this game was going to be a third person shooter, I completely shot it down and labeled it as fail. They released two demo's about a month before the actual release date, a campa… Read more

Red Faction: Guerilla

I love blowing shit up. I have a pro blowing shit up agenda. If stuff starts exploding, count me in. Red Faction: Guerrilla is great because it encourages destruction and provides satisfying options f… Read more

Cliche' story, average graphics, good gameplay mechanics.

I'll skip the plot because it's your run of the mill rebels vs. an overbearing government, in steps a hero who is reluctant to play the role but eventually does. How it plays is where the game gets mo… Read more

Red Faction: Guerrilla VIDEO REVIEW

Destructibility is one of the key features many games, especially shooters are trying to achieve. Battlefield: Bad Company introduced a somewhat scripted version where as Red Faction Guerrilla is trul… Read more

The Almighty Sledge!

Red Faction Review 1.0 Although the plot is a little basic at some points, the near hitchless piece-by-piece destruction, the grand scale, and quality graphics, sound, voice acting and cut scenes give… Read more

Just plain fun

If I can think of one word to describe this game (excluding the words explosion, destruction, and awesome) it would be "fun". There are so few games that realize how important it is to be fun, and thi… Read more

Red Faction: Guerrilla (X360)

Red Faction: Guerrilla - Review Red Faction: Guerrilla is a third-person shooter video game developed by Volition, Inc. and published by THQ. The game is the third installment in the Red Faction serie… Read more

Boom goes everything

Red Faction Guerrilla is a 3rd person shooter as well as an open-world adventure game made by THQ and Volition; the people that brought you Saints Row 2. Nothing about the game significantly stands ou… Read more

Infiltrate and Destroy

Red Faction: Guerrilla is a clear example that a game can be fun when you're destroying anything that gets in your way and having a good story doesn't hurt. Plan and simple the first thing about RFG i… Read more

lets play with explosion !

Destruction is so deadly but can also be satisfying at times when your frustrated in life, Red faction is the type of game that made me wish the first battlefield bad company was with everything being… Read more

Tonious35-- Red Raction Review

All I can say is that you can make more cool explosions and flying debris in this game than Michael Bay on CRACK or any hyper-intensive drug/substance. To be safe I rented the Game and after a couple… Read more

Red Faction: Guerrilla Makes Open-Worlding Fun Again

Although Red Faction: Guerrilla will always be known first and foremost as a game about blowing stuff up, it should also be hailed for breaking the bonds of the open world genre. Don't get me wrong, t… Read more

Get to Mars, and blow it up

Ah, mindless action... how I despise thee. Yet, somehow I love thee. You make me feel things I've never felt before. I... Ehem... Right, so as you may well know by now, Red Faction: Guerrilla is a gam… Read more

Red Faction: Guerrilla Review - Hey kid, you like explosions?

Personally, Red Faction: Guerrilla really flew in under my radar. I had never played the first two games for the PC and I really had no idea what to expect, but after playing the very short single pla… Read more

Fun But Disappointing

The destruction in this game is really fun, but i found myself creating a single player LAN game just so i can destroy the buildings in peace. In the story mode the EDF attack you when you get too clo… Read more

Red Faction Guerrilla Uberdestruction

It's really fun to blow up $#*& up, Right? This is where this game shines over others. First thing first, its true that the story is kind of weak for a game of this calibre. Characters are not tha… Read more

Pure Destruction and Bliss

This game appeals to the desire of destroying absolutely everything. The story is so-so, but the physics and fun more than make up for it. You can go through with your hammer and slam down buildings,… Read more

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