Countless games before have promised fully destructible environments, but Red Faction: Guerrilla looks to be about the only one to actually ever deliver on that promise. I caught a portion of a live demo on G4 the other night and it’s one of the most impressive games I’ve seen so far this generation. The team at Volition, as you’ll learn in this dev diary, made the game world so destructible that they actually had to become more like real architects than mere 3D structure modelers. I so can’t wait to get my hands on this sucker!
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Red Faction 2 was one of my favorite games ever, and the perfectly-paced FPS as far as I’m concerned. Tons of options, reasonably destructible environments, it was just a great game and I always wondered what would come of the Red Faction series after that. Haven’t even watched the video yet but I’m pretty excited.
RF2 is good, but I actually like the original RF better myself. Guerrilla is going to follow up on the events of the first game too, so I’m excited about that. Definitely watch the video, I think you’ll be pretty impressed.
Did either of you play RF2 on a console? On the PC I found it very lacking … maybe I need to give it another go …
Only ever played the RF games on consoles, as they were both designed more as consoles FPSs. The PC ports came out well after and from what I remember they always reviewed well under the console versions.
And it’s not like I said RF2 was amazing lol. I only said it was good. I liked the first game a lot better.
That is one thing that makes me happy with this new release – they are basically ignoring #2 and setting this up as a sequel to #1. I’m pretty well on-board.
Boy – I was on vacation last week and we had no ‘net access … loads to catch up on 😉
You’ve got a lot to catch up on indeed. E3 didn’t have a mass of brand new game announcements, but still a lot of cool stuff on games we already knew about. Scour our E3 archives at http://www.vgblogger.com/?cat=1000 to see what you missed so far.