i will open this by saying that guerilla really was not that great of a game. interesting and fascinating destruction tech, but absolutely just a generic open world game that paints by the numbers for the rest of it.

so they followed that up with, as anyone would've done, a gears of war clone.

in all honesty? this game isn't that bad. i can see why it would be disappointing to most, but on the whole, it's a gears of war clone that uses the guerilla tech to have destructible environments. it's fine overall. enemy variety isn't the greatest, the nanoforge is underwhelming and only exists for story objectives and to compensate for the fact that you can destoy the path of progression, and the story is fairly boring.

i will say though i did enjoy the guys in this game! they were pretty alright.

if you want to play this game i do not think it's a terrible time, but i also don't think it's worth going out of your way to pick up and play. i only really played it because i picked up the THQ complete pack over a decade ago, otherwise this game would not have been on my radar.

I'll say I don't hate on games. I may have a love-hate relationship with some games and come back every so often; and others that I drop. However I feel that this one really dropped the ball for it's PC (Or at least Steam) port. Why? Why is it so? The Xbox 360 port was perfect.

This one however has so many issues. Did you click continue or load a save? Sorry, we have to boot you back to the main screen until the button does it's job. Did you step, jump or turn around 1% too fast? I guess the game has to hard crash on you. Now you have to play it in windowed mode and set it up like that every single time you boot up the game. That and have the task manager on standby in case it happens again. Oh and don't bother playing Infection then play the story, then it always boots you.

Now that the technical stuff is out of the way we can move on to the gameplay. It's a downgrade from not just Guerrilla but also the original that was also underground. Enemies jump whenever they feel like it from one surface to another which if it were not for the auto-aim be a pain to actually shoot. Let's also not forget that you have regenerating health and the majority of enemies deal chip damage that will reset how much time you will have to wait to regen. Then there's the fact that all the other enemies that don't deal chip damage are tanks that will suck up most of your (Albeit plentiful) ammo every single time you encounter one of them.

Most cave missions have a very samey look to them making it annoying to get around with all the aliens shooting tic-tacs at you that respawn quicker than babies are born. Then there's the last few sections of the game that have all of the above crammed into one very long, very annoying and agonizing drag through the alien hive.

Oh yeah and the story, it's nothing to write home about like with a lot of Volition titles. Suffice to say Red Faction: Guerrilla was the peak of it's series and Red Faction: Armageddon was the series tumbling down the other side of that mountain never to be seen or talked about ever again. And that's a shame because I really, really liked Guerrilla as a kid. And this too. If you are buying it just get the achievements and never go back for anything else. 4/10, it was fun while it lasted.

The destruction and repair mechanics are awesome