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r/patientgamers•
urchigold

Red Faction: Armageddon

Quick writeup on this one because I just finished it.

It was a fun game, overall. I didn't pay a lot of attention to the story, but it seems you are tricked into triggering an infestation of necromorph-looking monsters into the Mars colonies. You need to survive and then kill the invasion, as well as some cult dudes who support the monsters.

The structure of the game was a bit of a disappointment after Red Faction: Guerrilla, which had a fun open world where you could destroy tons of buildings. Armageddon has fun destruction, but not at the scope of its predecessor. This was more of a linear shooter with a bit of destruction.

The weapons are fun and you have a variety. My favorite was the magnet gun. Basically you shoot something, then shoot something else, and the first thing gets sucked into the second. This works with most enemies, structures, debris, etc. It never got old to send a monster flying into a structure, demolishing it, or attach a magnet to a cultist, then the ceiling, and watch him fly up and then fall to his death. Other than that, there's the standard collection of wrappings like shotguns, sniper rifle, rocket launchers, etc.

You gain salvage by finding it or smashing certain things, then spend it on upgrades and abilities. One minor complaint was it wasn't clear which structures give you salvage and which don't.

The enemies are fun to fight. Mostly monsters that cling to walls and shoot at you, as well as stronger ones that can take a lot of damage and charge at you. They change things up by letting you pilot vehicles from time to time.

Overall a pretty fun, but not amazing game. I enjoyed it and would recommend it.

Posted Aug 28, 2017, 10:03 PM UTC

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hexrx•

Cool, this has been in my steam library forever, last red faction game I need to play. I'll have to give it a try, doesn't sound so bad.

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urchigoldOP•

Yeah, it was fun, just didn't really "hook" me the way other games have. Fun to do a level or two and then put down until the next day

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slpgh•

That sounds like a cross between Doom, Halo, and Dead Space

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paperkutchy•

Unfortunaly its a not good cross of those games

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crazychris4124•

Wish we could get a new game in the series with a bigger & diverse world, better destruction and unique weapons. THQ Nordic is just sitting on the franchise and is doing nothing with it as far as we know.

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potatolulz•

Fun game. Red Faction Gorilla is still superior though, but even that game could be improved if they added little things like music radio in the cars or some customization.

But that magnet gun in Armageddon was great, I played most of the game just with that gun.

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paperkutchy•

I tought was more action oriented than Guerrilla and that alone made the game being much worse. Also changing the rebellion tunes to alien invasion didnt help. Its a good game but Volition did a lot weird choices that probably led the franchise to go under.

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Swirlycow•

spoilers

My least favorite part was the horribly tacked on romance.

There was no need for it to happen, it resulted in unnecessary death, and it even seemed like the game was going "hey, it'd be stupid to push romance cuz you're in a dangerous situation right now"

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urchigoldOP•

Ha ha, I hadn't paid much attention to the dialogue so when they suddenly kissed I was like, wtf?

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Swirlycow•

The whole 1 minute buildong up to it, the SAM was saying "we're being watched, stay on alert, hurry"

As they went for the kiss, she said "enemies approaching"

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PM_Me_Whatever_lol•

Red Faction Guerilla, despite its flaws, is one of my favorite games of all time. I first got it when I was like 12 and when it wouldn't run on my PC I was devastated. I had to beg and work my ass off for a shit box that could run it at about medium. But fuck me was it worth it. No game has ever come close to the same level of destruction physics and I have no idea why no one else has tried it. I'm sure we could do 10x better now.

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Spacejack_•

Did you play the first game? I fired it up the other day and had the most bizarre control config problem--I couldn't fire the pistol. Every other weapon worked fine. Baffled the hell out of me.

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Clearly_sarcastic•

I just got about 70% through the game when I got to a point of constant crashing at checkpoints. I tried lowering a bunch of settings per recommendations online, but it got unsustainable.

Ultimately though, I had very similar feelings. I wish every game had destructible environments and a huge friggin hammer to destroy structures and beings. I just played Warhammer: Space Marine and it was a great transition. Ultimately I was disappointed that so much of the game took place in tunnels, sort of limiting the amount of environmental destruction possible. The Magnet Gun remained fun the entire time!

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