Red Faction®: Armageddon™

It's fundamentally flawed, but by 2026 standards of gaming that makes it "ok". The biggest L here is the move to an indoor environment. Imagine if, after releasing GTA 5 and making hundreds of millions, Rockstar was like "nah let's go back to 2D games". That's what this game is like after coming from the high point of Red Faction Guerrilla. It feels limited. Secondly, it's so boring. Corridors and darkness ad infinitum. On my first playthrough in 2012 I gave up around 60% through. Granted, the second half of the game mixes things up with vehicles and bosses. I quite enjoyed it by the end but there's only so much you can do being in caves for 8 hours. -Tiny FOV in a third person corridor shooter. 3rd party patches are available but it never gets good. Sometimes it's naeusea inducing. -Enemies are boring and incredibly annoying. They leap everywhere, constantly spawn and just bog you down. Portals open and close before you can destroy them leading to more annoying enemies spawning. I eventually realised you can just run past them and they don't follow you into checkpoint locations. -The guns are average at best, never good at anything. The machine gun is an all-arounder but i…

::: FIX ::: if you're having problems with game crashing, there is a beta branch in the game properties... this fixes the crashing but you might see dev info, like cpu count in the top left. avoid the nonsense on the forums for fixes. This game just isn't even close to the original, other than you're on "Mars", and the "Red Faction" used to exist. I made it a few hours before i just gave up. I kept thinking that this is the Temu version of Half-Life 2. almost a decent game, but attaching the Red Faction name to it made it worse, because you're trying to compare it to earlier versions, which it pales. Red Faction 1 has the best story so far in the series, which could be considered a masterpiece compared to this hastily put to get mess... Red Faction 1 is good, but hardly a masterpiece. The weapons are boring, i spent most of the time using the "Magnet" gun which is a physics gun like the gravity gun in half-life 2... but that wasn't even enough to keep me interested. The map and map mechanics are predictable and repetitive. - loot under stairs. - loot behind crates. - loot in every opposite direction that you're supposed to travel. lazy and boredom feeding…

I'm gonna go ahead and say that the only reason this game nets out to a thumbs up is because it's so dirt cheap nowadays. I'm gonna try and give my perspective on this game based on what I can remember from when I originally played this game like 13 years ago and what I think about it now. I'll start off with what I think are the best parts of this game. 1.) The physics. I mean it's literally just the already great physics of Red Faction Guerilla but better, so what's not to love. Whether it's your abilities, a sledgehammer, or weapons, wrecking buildings and structures is as fun as it's ever been. However unlike RFG, it's heavily underutilized and feels more like a set dressing rather than a core mechanic like it was in RFG. 2.) The Nano Forge. While it's abilities are a bit of a mixed bag, the repair and impact abilities alone add a new element to the destruction and subsequent repairability of the environment and somewhat spices up the combat, which I think it desperately needs. 3.) The Magnet Gun. Probably the best addition in general. In essence it does roughly the same thing as the tether system from Just Cause, but it easily the one weapon I always made sure to keep in m…

how am i supposed to play bro,the game always crashes in the loading screen

As far as red faction games go, I like it. I appreciate the upgraded visuals, and that many of the weapons are functionally the same but again the visual upgrades are great. the story is great, and the controls work like they would be expected to, even if the icons are XBOX controller only.

Overall, not recommended. The game is poorly lit, to the point that your flashlight (which is woefully inadequate anyway) turns off automatically - and often - and leaves you in darkness. Much of the destructive fun of Red Faction's previous entry is missing, with a teleporting alien race displacing the human antagonists from last time. There are echoes of Ghosts of Mars, Dead Space, and a few other notable science fiction mainstays, but this title feels underbaked and unloved. I waited a long time before playing it and will only complete it to mark it off of a list.