Load Runner and Red Faction: Guerrilla Impressions
I tore myself away from Fallout 3 for a few hours today to checkout some new stuff on the Xbox Live Marketplace. I started things off with the new Load Runner on Xbox Live Arcade and was surprised by how much there is included for $15. It is a shame they accidentally priced it at $10 for a couple hours and now the community is up in arms about the pricing because for fans of action puzzlers there is a ton of depth in the new iteration of Load Runner. There are tons of game modes and levels as well as a level editor and that lets you download and play levels other people create. With the level editor and a growing community of people interested in playing Load Runner I think there will be tons of great new levels for a long time to come.
If you have not seen it here is the Load Runner trailer:
After that I spent the rest of my lunch break playing the newly released Red Faction: Guerrilla demo. I’m new to the Red Faction series so I don’t know much of the back story or anything, but I really dig the graphical style and game play. They give you an objective and a time frame to complete it in, but other than that you can go about completing it any way you want. The first time through I worked my way slowly across the level picking off enemies as I came to them. The second time through I grabbed a big truck and just drove over anyone in my way until I got to the objective. Then I grabbed it and worked my way to the back to the extraction point smashing everything in my way. I love how all of the buildings can be destroyed without too much effort when you have a big enough weapon or vehicle. After you get to the extraction truck you then ride on the back and man the turret. That part of the level was a lot of fun too. You’re just blowing up everything that tries to get close enough to stop you. If I had more time I might have played it again to check out other methods for completing the level, but I did not have enough time right now so that will have to wait. I would really recommend trying out the demo. From the looks of it and the trailer the game has a huge open world with a ton of missions. It has been a long time since I played a demo more than one time through, but I can see myself playing the Red Faction: Guerrilla demo a few more times.
Follow this link to add it to your Xbox 360 Download Queue
Here is the trailer for anyone not familiar with Red Faction:
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Monkeyisbest
10 May, 2009
Comment towards the Red Faction: Guerrilla Section – I also played the demo and loved the insnae detail when deystroying buildings and objects in the enviorment. I was very confused however when it came to completing objectives and finding out what the main mission was.
I pretty much just spent each time throwing charges at building and watching them fall to rubble. I enjoyed the game, but i was definitally lost.
I guess since you can figure it out easily, i guess i can too. I think my problem is that it was just a little bit too free for me.
Anyway, thanks for the review and i’ll try it again tomorrow.
Jigsaw hc
10 May, 2009
@Monkeyisbest I had to use the map to see where the objectives were too. They should have an arrow indicator or something pointing the way to help, but from reading more about it I think they intend for it to be pretty wide open.