Comments on: Red Faction Guerrilla Footage

By: direFRAG

direFRAG — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:29:45 +0000

God.. After playing demo RF1.. and RF1 since December of 2001, and still playing that tired-old game, THIS looks better than the alternatives. I could give less of a flip about the character or plot.. in multi-player for PC, I just wanna turn it on.. select a server.. and kill things.. cool.

Now.. the loss of character advantage, such as the skinny chicks and the exteneded armor of the suits for some – that’s good. Hopefully some thought went into limiting weapon capability – like the precision rifle’s abililty to shoot hyper-fast with hardware mods.

All in all, this is cool.

-|xR|- direFRAG – Red Faction PC – 7 year veteran

By: jtrain36

jtrain36 — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:31:15 +0000

if you read game informer you’ll see that the character in those screen shots of the article have a different looking character. maybe you’ll be able to customize him. idk

By: Caiman

Caiman — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:47:20 +0000

Yeah, but they could take a leaf from Irrational’s book and call it Biospace or something. We’d all get it.

Incidentally, the best part of Red Faction was the bit that was left from Descent 4.

By: aldo

aldo — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:19:06 +0000

I think Interplay own the rights to Freespace so Volition can’t do anything. I think.

Yeah, but on the other hand interplay have about 5p and some lint to rub together nowadays, so I can still dream.

(actually, someone doing a nice linear FS/Wing commander-alike space shooter replete with huge explosions and huger spaceships – or vice versa – would be enough for me)

By: Kommissar Nicko

Kommissar Nicko — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:05:22 +0000

I never played Red Faction 2, but I remember that Red Faction 1, while fun, fell into the generic:
Flunky 1: “Guy whose name starts with a ‘P’! Go out there and take on the entire weight of [insert foeman] by yourself! Here’s a [pistol?]”
Flunky 2: “Lookout!”
(Flunkies die. All, exeunt.)

I just can’t remember in which franchise your guy was named “Patterson,” but I remember Red Faction was “Parker.”

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:36:20 +0000

They were really desperate to argue in favour of 3rd person werent they? if it was the right thing to do, they could just shut up about it, but no? I think they know they have done wrong to make it more popular.

By: Chaz

Chaz — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:56:25 +0000

I didn’t like the previous Red Faction games but this one looks pretty good fun. Although it might loose some of its wow factor once Mercenaries 2 comes out ahead of it. Which promises much the same sort of action and destructible buildings etc.

By: Unspeakable Horror

Unspeakable Horror — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:05:11 +0000

I’m only posting here to say that I want Freespace III too.
That is all. Thank you.

By: Caiman

Caiman — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:39:15 +0000

Volition needs to follow NIN’s approach, break from its publisher, and develop Freespace 3 for its fans! I realise that’s about as likely as Looking Glass reforming and developing Thief 4, but I can dream.

By: andy

andy — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:06:40 +0000

can’t wait, been a huge void in the destructible arena since the first game came out.

By: Larington

Larington — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:57:23 +0000

I must admit, I have this sneaking suspicion that the move to third person was partly motivated by either A) Its becoming the ‘done’ thing in games all of a sudden, or more likely:
B) The executive who decides whether we get a milestone paycheck or not told us to make it third person.

I feel the need to echo the statement that the character needs to be quite interesting or at least well written if they are going to make this move to third person perspective.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:18:29 +0000

Well, ‘Mercenaries’ on Mars if we’re lucky. It could become ‘Just Cause’ on Mars.

“Buildings fall down realistically”, like that’s a selling point. “Buildings blow up awesomely”, that’s a selling point. And they don’t need a physics engine as Earth Defence Force/Global Defence Force and such have shown.