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[Anvilfolk]

For little less than an day, Red Faction: Guerrilla is off 75%, making it 2,49€.

Grab it.

Quoted for truth! Don't bother with the sequel, Armageddon.

[andrea]

red faction guerrilla is good.
It has a story, sure. But the best part is finding new ways to bring down buildings.

My favorite is perhaps shooting enemy planes and making them crash on your target.

[Graknorke]

My favorite is perhaps shooting enemy planes and making them crash on your target.

u wot m8
How do you make the planes crash? I've never actually been able to hit them, When even a shot from the nano-rifle didn't do anything I assumed they were invincible.

[nenjin]

RF Guerilla is a steal at that price. Not the most brilliant open world game ever, but it's large, has a lot of play time and there is absolutely something magical about smashing buildings to pieces with explosives and/or your sledgehammer.

[andrea]

My favorite is perhaps shooting enemy planes and making them crash on your target.

u wot m8
How do you make the planes crash? I've never actually been able to hit them, When even a shot from the nano-rifle didn't do anything I assumed they were invincible.

Just to make it clear, by planes I mean the EDF flying things that attack you.
to destroy one with the nano rifle you need to hit it a few times. But that doesn't make it crash.
What you probably didn't notice is that you can target their wings. ( and perhaps even the tail, can't remember). A nano rifle shot on the wing, and the wing will disappear, making the plane spiral down to the ground and exploding.

[Lightningfalcon]

You can also take one down with a gauss rifle.   Rocket launchers are also really good at taking them down especially with heat seeking, even more so with multi-rocket (But using is purely a "SCREW YOU EDF" move, since only one is necessary).   A shot from a thermobaric rocket also works, through that is overkill.   I think that they actually have vulnerable engines, since I remember setting one that had just arrived on fire with a single shot from my sniper rifle.  And if you kill the pilot with the rail driver the whole thing automatically explodes.
Perhaps the gunship's greatest enemy, however, is the mountain.  Especially in Parker.   I can't tell you how many times I've seen a gunship just slowly float along, only to suddenly explode when it crashes into a mountain.   
But the most effective way is to shoot it's wing with the nano rifle, due to them then becoming a flying bomb.    Rocket launcher with heat seeking is also an effective way, and if you get a lock and then quickly fire at an opposite angle it will curve and have a greater likelihood of destroying the wing.   

[Chaoswizkid]

YMMV on RF: Armageddon. I tried to find where I originally posted about that, but I couldn't find it.

RF: G is a very cool game. RF: A is a game that is basically the actual successor to the original Red Faction (Red Faction 2 is considered bullshit that has nothing to do with anything and it doesn't exist), in that it is a semi-linear FPS with multiple weapons to use, environmental and building destruction with a heavy subterranean vibe, although RF1 had more humans than aliens to fight.

I really enjoyed RF1, which I had only played for the first time like last year so even though it's dated it has aged well. I gave 5 minutes in RF2, paused, googled it and then promptly uninstalled since it was a wholly worse game than RF1 with no actual plot carry-over. I also enjoyed RF: G, but when I played RF: A I felt like it was kinda like an updated RF1 and it was pretty fun.

I think a lot of the people who crap on RF: A are the people who've only played RF: G, were hoping RF: A to be like a Guerrilla 2 and they didn't get what they want.

[Lightningfalcon]

-snip-

I agree on some parts.   I played RF: G first, and hadn't had an oppurtinity to played the first game until recently.   As a result I decided to again give Armegeddon another try.  Still horrible.  There is no challenge, the guns don't really feel satisfying (With the exception of the magnet gun), and none of the characters actually feel like they are important.
The magnet gun does go a way to redeeming the game, but an entire game can't lean on a single weapon.  All the other weapons just didn't go far enough, and destruction isn't as meaningful.   In the original all the guns felt good, and if you fired the fusion rocket launcher stuff was going to DIE.    In Guerrilla your weapons felt like something that was cobbled together from mining equipment, and while each individual shot may not of done much, with careful planning you could do some serious damage that would affect the actual gameplay.   In Armegeddon... sure, you can destroy an entire building with a single shot from the heavy walker, and sure you can ire singularity bombs from a distance.  But what does that do?   Most of the time it just kills the enemy.   You don't open up a new route, you don't destroy the enemies cover, allowing you to gun them down.   You just kill them. 

[BurnedToast]

Guerrilla is quite good, the only sad thing is the enemies that CONSTANTLY respawn in huge numbers at a very fast rate, and usually behind you (even if that's impossible because, for example, you are backed into dead end path). I understand you're a guerilla and you're not supposed to be able to straight up fight the enemies and win... but the game's stealth system is pretty broken so you don't have a choice most of the time.

It's still worth it anyway for the building destruction which is so glorious. Strapping bombs to a truck, diving out before it plows straight THROUGH a wall into a 3 story building and mashing the detonator, then watching the building slowly collapse as the supports give in one at a time.... all totally unscripted.... is something that's sadly never been matched yet.

[darkrider2]

Red Faction 1 was probably the first first person shooter I ever played (for the PS2). That game is just a classic, if frustrating sometimes. I never bought RF2, or really cared that it existed.

Then I got Red Faction Guerrilla and man, Volition, that's one hell of a way to get your series up and going again. I loved everything about this game, my favorite thing to do in the game was take the arc welder and just start causing mass chaos until the EDF sent a tank, steal it, and roll around blowing up everything forever after that. Every weapon felt like it was unique in this game, not just another bullet spewer (I was a fan of the ridiculous accuracy pistol), and many of them were built around the destruction mechanic.

But lets be honest, the grinder was the best weapon ever.

Then I bought Armageddon because Guerrilla turned me into a fanboy, and... just... that game was a franchise killer, I don't care if you stick master chief in there, that game ruins careers.

[Micro102]

I would totally buy red faction guerrilla even though I already beat it if there was a mod that gave me all new things to destroy. I love the demolition physics on that game and couldn't stop playing until I destroyed everything.

[Graknorke]

_{Red Faction is just a ripoff of Half-Life}

[Lightningfalcon]

_{Red Faction is just a ripoff of Half-Life}

I disagree.  Red Faction has cutscenes, an innovative feature not seen anywhere in Half-Life, and an obvious improvement in the FPS genre. 

[BigD145]

You can't tunnel through the map in Half-Life.

[Glloyd]

_{Am I the only one who really dislikes the Half-Life series and pretty much any Valve game?}