Red Faction: Armageddon bomba ---> THQ kills franchise

[SirKicksalot]

THQ has pulled the plug on its Red Faction franchise following poor sales of RF: Armageddon.
Speaking at an investor call today, CEO Brian Farrell confirmed that "we do not intend to carry forward with that franchise in any meaningful way."



Holy effin' shit!

I can't believe they give up on it. I wonder exactly how catastrophic the sales were, THQ had ambitious plans with those spin-offs and the TV movie and possible show... And who the hell agreed to launch it during E3?

(Inb4 the franchise rises from the grave after the Total Recall remake)

[Xercies]

Well they really shouldn't have just made it into a kind of generic third person shooter, and stuck with the ridiculous open world thing they did with Guerilla

[QuantaCat]

Hm. Poor Volition. I hope their Saints Row The Third fares well, because for some reason, I like them. Maybe it was that documentary that was made a couple of months ago.

[sabrage]

I hope that Volition does a good job with Insane, which in turn sells by the truckload

[Malawi Frontier Guard]

It was fun while it lasted.

There is a pun to be made about Red Faction not having been carried forward in a meaningful way with Armageddon. I don't know.

[Smashbox]

There really was something exciting about Guerilla, I played that game for a long time and never stopped grinning. Lots of original ideas. I have no idea how Armageddon was made after that. Sadly, they squandered a lot of potential.

[sabrage]

I'll pick up Armageddon once it heats cheap (which now seems imminent) on the strength of two words alone: NAPALM LASER

[Smashbox]

Call me crazy, but napalm laser seems like a bit of a contradiction in terms.

[QuantaCat]

maybe the laser shoots palm trees in a place called "na" ?

that was horrible.

[Kodeen]

That's a shame (and I don't mean that in the RPS meme way). I only ever played the first one PS2, seemed a decent enough game though. In other news, before this thread I was completely unaware of a Total Recall remake. Just looked it up and I must say, I am disappointed in it's existence. Even if they have paper mache third bossoms and make "Chocolate Rain" part of the official soundtrack, I feel ... like they're raping my childhood.

[Chris Evans]

I'll pick up Armageddon once it heats cheap (which now seems imminent) on the strength of two words alone: NAPALM LASER

It is about £20 on Amazon and personally I think it is well worth that. Really enjoyable game, it may not be a groundbreaking 90% kind of game, but it would sit in the early 80s if I was using a numerical system for it.

I found Guerilla a bit...so-so, didn't really find it massively appealing.

Sad to see the franchise ending though, loved the first one on the PS2, just destroying the multiplayer maps with the bots was awesome.

[Alex Bakke]

Really saddened to hear this; I hoped they would have made a return to First-Person before they were done with it.

[The JG Man]

It is about £20 on Amazon

Down even more now. Both £15 at Amazon and Game. I'm tempted, but I already have loads in the back-log. I'll probably wait till it hits £10, which suddenly makes me feel very cheap.

[sabrage]

I've got too many other games to even put Armageddon on my radar, but I'll get to it eventually. Is there mod support? I might grab the console version when I do.

[cowthief skank]

Would I be right in assuming that their words "we do not intend to carry forward with that franchise in any meaningful way" mean that now anybodyh could make a Red Faction game without fear of infringing copyright? If not, there is something seriously wrong with copyright law...

[hamster]

Nope. Unless they don't renew their copyright/trademark. Probably gonna keep it tho. Could always sell the rights and I think it counts as an asset