{"id":328,"date":"2009-04-23T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/load-runner-and-red-faction-guerrilla-impressions\/"},"modified":"2009-08-28T15:28:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T22:28:01","slug":"load-runner-and-red-faction-guerrilla-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/load-runner-and-red-faction-guerrilla-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Load Runner and Red Faction: Guerrilla Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/span><\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

If you have not seen it here is the Load Runner trailer:
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After that I spent the rest of my lunch break playing the newly released Red Faction: Guerrilla<\/span><\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

Follow this link to add it to your Xbox 360 Download Queue<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is the trailer for anyone not familiar with Red Faction:
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