{"id":1188,"date":"2011-07-14T16:21:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T23:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2011-07-14T16:21:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T23:21:59","slug":"red-faction-armageddon-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/red-faction-armageddon-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Faction Armageddon Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Red Faction Armageddon Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6129\/5938120006_fc8731224d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"152\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I know things have been scarce around here since E3. I&#8217;ve been playing a few different games so I&#8217;ll try to get some posts up about them.\u00a0 Or at least links to the XBLA reviews I already posted.\u00a0 Kicking things off with these catch up posts I&#8217;m going with Red Faction Armageddon.\u00a0 It is not very often I play through a solo campaign twice, but with RFA I did them back to back.\u00a0 I played through the first time on Normal and enjoyed the story.\u00a0 After I beat it a New Game + mode unlocked which let me carry over my maxed out character and allows for cheats (like unlimited ammo) to be used in the game without effecting achievements.\u00a0 So my second time through was on Insane mode with all the rockets I could fire.\u00a0 It was a lot of fun going through just wrecking shop.<\/p>\n<p>I did miss the open world aspect from Red Faction: Guerrilla and the strategy that brought.\u00a0 There was still a lot of destruction but this was a completely linear experience.\u00a0 It was not as fun as RFG since I could not just wander around the open world smashing stuff but RFA is still a really great game.\u00a0 The story has some truly funny moments between the characters and even pokes fun at some other games (Gears for one) with the dialog being almost direct quotes but in different situations. There were even a couple really unexpected twists in the story which caught me by surprise.<\/p>\n<p>I did also try out the co-op mode which is similar to Horde mode with waves of enemies coming at you needing killed.\u00a0 Although there is a lot less hiding\/defending in RFA&#8217;s Infestation mode that in Gears. I played in a 4 player group and we worked through the 30 waves without too much trouble. We could have increased the difficulty but we were having to much fun seeing who could get the most kills.<\/p>\n<p>I am dissapointed in the lack of multiplayer verses modes.\u00a0 In RFG those matches were a lot of fun and it is a shame it is missing in RFA. Still, Red Faction Armageddon is well worth playing through. I just hope the next Red Faction game brings back multiplayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know things have been scarce around here since E3. I&#8217;ve been playing a few different games so I&#8217;ll try to get some posts up about them.\u00a0 Or at least links to the XBLA reviews I already posted.\u00a0 Kicking things off with these catch up posts I&#8217;m going with Red Faction Armageddon.\u00a0 It is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[214,7,5],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-360","tag-red-faction-armageddon","tag-review","tag-video-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}