Red Faction: Guerrilla (360/PS3)

[Moaner]

It could just be my love of watching buildings realistically crumble and crush people to death but it's going to be hard to go back to SR2/Mercs/GTA after playing this.

Never liked any of those series anyway.

Seriously though, I think I'm using "redefines the genre" a little differently than you are. At the end of the day, Red Faction may be superbly crafted, but it's still an open world game where you do the same 4 varieties of missions as all the other open world games except they've replaced kill 10 rats with what looks like kill 10 buildings.  Mostly though, I was never one for being hyped up by landscape/architecture destruction. I prefer subtle things like shooting a gun or firing an arrow at a column and little chunks blowing up. Destruction of entire buildings (or even whole areas) is sorta, you know, a visceral thing I can't see as having lasting appeal.

Ok, in all fairness than you may not have as much fun with RF as I have.  However, it is not by any means a one trick pony.  The gunplay is superb, the weapon upgrades are really neat, and the use of cover/stealth/planning are essential.  Oh, there actually are subtle things like blowing up chunks of building, cover, glass, signs, and even cooler stuff I don't want to spoil for anyone.  In fact the only game I've seen do glass better is Resistance.

I know I'm being a fanboy here but I don't want to talk you into buying something you really aren't going to like.  If GTA/SR2/Mercs aren't your cup of tea I'd advise you watch some 'let's play' videos or something before buying it.

[Azazel]

I think I'm going to BiiF this thing later today. A preview will be that it lacks depth, doesn't redefine the genre any mroe than Red Faction 1 did, and the story is meh even for games of this ilk (though I won't hold that last one too much against it).

[Malakili]

Hopefully this will come out on steam, and then go down to like 50% price, at which will buy it.

[AcidCat]

Mercenaries lasted about 30 minutes for me, so no, it doesn't sound like it's worth playing.

Well for what it's worth I didn't care for Mercenaries either (or the demo of the sequel) but I really dig RF:G. YMMV of course.

[Stormwaltz]

Stardock has placed the PC version of RF:G on preorder sale this weekend for $40 USD. You get the first two games free.

http://www.impulsedriven.com/rfguerilla

[Venkman]

Anyone ever pick up the PC version of this and have thoughts? I enjoyed the X360 demo, but between Batman and Aion, I decided to hold off on Red Faction.

[Hawkbit]

The price point seemed nice, the GFWL did not.  Opting to wait till the PS3 version is $30.

[Stormwaltz]

I just got it last night. Haven't had a chance to install it yet, but I'll let you know.

[CmdrSlack]

If I can't muster the desire to play this in a day or two, it's going back to Gamefly. It was great, but the difficulty ramped up rather quickly. I may have to downgrade to casual just so I can destroy shit.

Also, it got a bit tedious. Maybe I'm just getting too old for some of the FPS elements.

[Stormwaltz]

Oh, look at that. Internet required to activate, and it isn't labeled as such on the box. I guess I'll tell you what it's like in a week or two, when I have home internet again.

FAKE EDIT: Or maybe I'll return it to Best Buy to make a point.

[Kageh]

50% on Impulse this weekend, is this worth it on the PC?

[jakonovski]

50% on Impulse this weekend, is this worth it on the PC?

Unless the PC version is broken, a thousand times yes!

[Azazel]

I should really get back to this at some point. It was shallow, but fun.