Red Faction: Guerilla Campaign Review

When you have played video games over a certain amount of time, sometimes you find the games being released a little redundant. I know at times I have. Be it the hundreds of FPS' being released a year, or the multitude of community games all over the internet. For a while, all I had to play at my house was the same experience every day. Some may feel similar, wake up, work, or look for work, and when you get home you think to yourself what you'd want to play now. I was able to play Red Faction: Guerilla. In RFG you are handed the main character Alec Mason. he has arrived on Mars, from Earth to prosper in the colony of Parker, 1 of 6 colonies here. A short 15 minutes into the game, the cutscenes are over, there are no more training sessions to do, it's game time. "What's new?" I said to myself as I started the first level. And as soon as you step onto the floor the game hits you fast. RFG has a free roaming environment that is as beautiful as it is dangerous. There are 104 missions to choose from, but not in a specific order. you are free to do as you please, a handful of different guerilla missions to tide you over in between story obligated missions. But now the meat and potatoes of this game. The genius' at Geo-Mod, have developed a fresh breath of life for the gaming community, no longer do you have to go through a vast array of badguys in order to save the hostage, or get a new gun just to open a door. Instead of walking through the door, you can drive a dumptruck straight into the building, leveling ALL in your path. if there is a certain enemy you need to kill in a building, why go through all the trouble of going through all these tasks just to put a bullet in one man's head? RFG does away with that. You are free to destroy anything in the game you want, aside from the planet istelf, buildings, cars, signs, even the enemy soldiers with just a swing of the super-sledgehammer you have been given. Yet, even this incredible experience has its' faults. Nothing major, the cars and machinery that you are given, are all a little too loose to drive, and it seems that hitting a rock can turn you upside down, fresh for a beating. You will be finding that the game is challenging even on normal mode, so don't be angered if you can't hack hard mode just yet. the story itself seems pushed out of the way of the pure destruction, as you feel like more of an artist than a liberator when destroying a building or saving a hostage from said building. I don't want to ruin what ever amount of a story there is so I won't mention much on it. All in all this is a very good buy, the single player campaign of RFG gets an 8.5/10.