Which means you get to smash up everything. The first is torn away to clash with the second with destructive force. Given to you amazingly early on, this tool can attach one magnet to any destructible object or enemy, and then a second to anything else. It’s the best thing in a shooter since the Gravity Gun, and everything else I play from now on is going to feel like a relic. It feels like it’s about to end multiple times from about the midway point onward, which ends up being confusing rather than frustrating.īut all of that can be ignored thanks to one thing: The Magnet Gun. The plot, such as it is, is convoluted and haphazard, muddling two or three main themes – fighting the evil Adam Hale, battling Martian creatures, rescuing various people – and the pacing is downright peculiar. Feeling responsible for the disaster, hero Darius Mason (indeed yet another in the Mason dynasty) sets about killing everything that’s spiny on his own. The surface of Mars is getting too dangerous for human life, the colonists have fled underground, and a new enemy is appearing in the form of some local beasties. The setting is pure sci-fi hokem, the likes of which you’ve seen in a dozen Dune rip-offs. The problem is, it’s a corridor shooter, in a sequel to its gloriously open world predecessor. Because it is, without a doubt, one of the most pure fun corridor shooters in ages. If there were no expectations of the series, if this were the first game in a new franchise, it would be being heralded as one of the most pure fun corridor shooters in ages. Red Faction Armageddon, however, makes one big mistake: Red Faction Guerrilla.

The sense of sheer power, and constant, remarkable devastation, is a treat. It’s ability to let you use the environment itself as your primary weapon is unsurpassed. No game has ever offered such destruction, let alone on such an epic scale. Red Faction: Armageddon is extraordinary. Having smashed every last thing from beginning to end, I'm now in a position to tell you Wot I Think. Volition's Red Faction: Armageddon has been out for a few days, surprising many with the direction it's taken for its hammer/magnet based destruction.

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