Red Faction: Armageddon Review (OniFire)
I usually play on Normal difficulty but this time I chose Hard and it was honestly pretty easy.
Here are some pros and cons;
+ New Game Plus
+ 20 Hours of gameplay (playing casually - more for completionists)
+ Boss fights
+ Fun achievements
+ Decent visuals
+ Decent story
+ Diverse weaponry (can hold up to four weapons at once)
+ Satisfying and fun combat
+ Plenty of abilities and upgrades (fun upgrade system)
+ Destructible environments
+ Multiplayer 'Infestation' wave-based survival mode (you can play solo too)
+ Additional mode called 'Ruin' where you just destroy stuff and try to beat the par score.
+ Vehicle based (land/air) combat and an awesome Iron Man suit you can use sometimes
- Game drags on a bit
- You can only sprint for about 3 seconds
- Annoying enemy type (mostly alien bugs that jump all over the place, climbing up walls, etc.)
- Soundtrack gets a bit repetitive
- Prone to crashing (though personally I only crashed twice - maybe I was just lucky)
It's a linear, third person shooter. A lot of tight corridors. The destructible environments
keeps things fun though and you can also repair structures when you need to, such
as bridges. That can be annoying of course when you're running across one and
it collapses and you fall. Then you gotta run back up... Yeah, I'm lazy and I'm not
careful with my explosives so that happened a lot. So much fun. Note: This is the only
Red Faction game I've played so far, apart from the first which I gave up on at the
submarine mission (it was bugged or something, I can't remember). RECOMMENDED.