Comments on: Red Faction: Guerrilla is Just Plain Fun!

By: Ben Lilley

Ben Lilley — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:38:55 +0000

Hey Matt, just thought I would come back and let you know I did it! I had a break from the game to play through Fable II and Battlefield 1943, but last weekend I went back and cleaned up RF:G.

The final mission was pretty tough and only cracked it on the 3rd try, thought I was gone for after my modified tank got screwed up pretty quickly but scraped through in the end. Felt quite proud!

Definitely a good fun game in the end.

By: ReTodd

ReTodd — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:19:03 +0000

It wouldn't be the first time Matt.

By: Dennis Coughlin

Dennis Coughlin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:02:59 +0000

Ha! – that's exactly what I did. Kept thinking, "knocking down a bunch of towers should not be this freaking hard!"

Yeah, the difficultly level thing is strange. Would be interested to hear what the developers were thinking there. The game is way too frustrating on "normal" and perfect on "casual". But calling it casual sounds like that setting was only meant for the Nintendo Wii crowd or something : )

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:39:22 +0000

I love this game also. I played the single player demo, and while it was fun I never thought much of it. But then the multiplayer demo released and I was instantly hooked. Needless to say, I actually went out and picked up the game. Incredibly fun. While Battlefield: Bad Company introduced destructible environments, RFG perfected it.

I was simply amazed on the the mission where I had to destroy the massive bridge in the Badlands. Started taking out each support beam and then, crack, all support fell and the massive structure fell.

While the story isn't something to tell others about, the gameplay alone is an absolute blast! (haha, I made a pun)

By: Ben Lilley

Ben Lilley — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:10:32 +0000

That almost sounds like a challenge! But yeah I'll let you know how I get on, I'm just starting the 5th city so shouldn't be too far away.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:21:17 +0000

I almost gave up on this game really early on. You know the mission where you have to knock down the towers with an armored truck? Attempted that 4 times on normal and made it to 10/12 towers every time. Getting out of the vehicle meant a slow death by trampling. So I bit the bullet and dropped the difficulty, and was definitely better off for it. Didn't have another ultra frustrating moment for the remainder of the game.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:18:36 +0000

I had shrugged this game off after playing the multiplayer beta quite some time ago. It was fun and all, but I didn't really get into it. But when the reviews started pouring in and were generally in the 8.0-9.0 range, I knew it was one to pick up.

I don't know if I'd compare it to Crackdown, though. It's open world, and there's lots of explosions, but that's about it. There's more story here, and EVERYTHING is destructible, as opposed to just vehicles in Crackdown. There's more purpose in RFG as well. If anything, I think you may like it more.

By: Dennis Coughlin

Dennis Coughlin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:19:56 +0000

"I found RFG to be quite difficult to begin with, and dropped the difficulty level to casual pretty early on."

Sound glad to hear you say that – I thought I was the only one! : )

Absolutely loved this game from the start but thought the difficulty level was way too high. And more importantly, it interrupted the fun. So I changed it to "casual" and then found it to be perfect.

I'm still clearing the second city – taking my time – and constantly getting distracted by my random acts of violence . Or as you say, blowing shit up. : )

By: Jamie Huskisson

Jamie Huskisson — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:18:04 +0000

Combat walker FTW, I destroyed the last half of a game after I found the respawn location of one. 145mil damage in one rampage, genius.

By: Rockers Delight

Rockers Delight — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:12:31 +0000

I'm going to need a "blowing shit up" kind of game after I'm done with the JRPG I'm playing through at the moment. This game wasn't even a blip on my radar, so if I end up enjoying it as much as you, thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Plus, if it's remotely similar to Crackdown, I know I'd love it.