Red Faction: Guerrilla
Red Faction: Guerrilla is the third game in the Red Faction series developed by Volition Inc. and published by THQ Inc. Red Faction: Guerrilla has been in development for over 4 years as of September 2008.
Plot
Red Faction: Guerrilla is a 3rd person, open-world action shooter set on Mars, 50 years after the events of the original Red Faction (around the year 2128). Players take the role of an insurgent fighter named Alec Mason with the newly re-established Red Faction movement as they battle for liberation from the oppressive Earth Defense Force (EDF - allies in the first Red Faction). Throughout their fight for freedom, players carve their own path, wreaking havoc across the vast, open-world environment of Mars, from the desolate mining outpost of Parker to the gleaming EDF capital city of Eos to the Earth-like region known as Oasis.
Utilizing improvised weapons, explosives and re-purposed mining equipment and vehicles, Red Faction: Guerrilla allows players to tear through fully destructible environments in an unforgiving Martian landscape swarming with EDF forces, Red Faction resistance fighters, and the downtrodden settlers caught in the cross-fire. Red Faction: Guerrilla also features a robust multiplayer component, including several modes focused on destruction-based gameplay.
The game starts out with Alec Mason, the protagonist, landing on Mars and meeting his brother, Dan Mason. As they drive through the streets of Mars, a group of EDF cars nearly crashes into them. This starts Dan talking about all of the horrible things EDF has done to the people of Mars. As he speaks, scenes of cruelty are shown, such as death squads and beatings. When Alec and Dan arrive at their destination, an abandoned lab, they spot a gunship flying in the air. The player is then tasked with destroying the abandoned buildings while their brother keeps a lookout. As the player returns to the vehicle, the gunship returns and orders Dan to surrender, revealing that he was part of Red Faction. When Dan tries to run, the gunship shoots him and Alec. Alec survives but Dan is killed instantly. He returns to Dan's home to find that EDF has raided the house. When the soldiers see Alec they order him to drop his "weapon" (a sledgehammer). Alec is accused of being a part of the Red Faction insurgents by the commander and is placed under arrest. Despite Alec's protests of arriving today which is responded with the commander saying "I guess you work fast." And retorts that Alec had detonators for the remote charges the player used in the first game play sequence. Alec responds to being a mining engineer and having a permit for the charges, which results in the commander pushing him off and retorts once more "It just got revoked!" the commander then orders the platoon with him to shoot and kill Alec. Before he can be killed Red Faction members start engaging the soldiers. As all of soldiers fall except for the commander, Alec picks up the sledgehammer and kills the leader with it. The leader of the Red Faction walks up to Alec and tells him that whether he likes it or not, he is now part of the rebellion.
Multiplayer
Red Faction: Guerrilla features online multiplayer. it utilizes a matchmaking system similar to that of the Halo series. The current game modes include Demolition, Anarchy, Siege, Capture The Flag, and Team Anarchy. Before Siege and Demolition can be played, the player must achieve a certain rank.
The PC version of Red Faction: Guerrilla will not feature dedicated servers, instead clients will have to host "listen" servers.
Area
Red Faction: Guerrilla takes place on a section of Mars called Tharsis. Tharsis is made up of 6 sectors.
In the expansion pack Demons of the Badlands there is another location Mariner Valley.
Platforms
Red Faction: Guerrilla has been released for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. The PC version is coming on September 15, 2009 (North America) and September 18, 2009 (International). Cross-platform multiplayer will not be available. The PC version of Red Faction: Guerrilla will be available for purchase through Valve's Steam content distribution system[1], as well as via retail. On 9 July 2009, THQ Inc. announced that the "Raptr" client will be bundled with Red Faction: Guerrilla along with Games for Windows Live and Steam (if you buy the game via Steam). [2]
Collector's Items
As preorder bonuses, the following items were given away at different stores around the world:
- AmRuKuo 700M Heavy Walker figurine
- Official Handbook
- Official Comic Book
- RF:G Official Keychain
- RF:G Official T-Shirt
Previous Games
Red Faction and Red Faction II are the two previous games in this series.
Sequels
No sequels to Red Faction: Guerrilla have been announced as of yet.
Trivia
In the Dust Safehouse, the radio operator can occasionaly be heard saying "Cut the chatter Freeman," This may be a possible reference to Half-Life's protaganist, Gordon Freeman. This is hinted to not only in the name Freeman, but also in that the Gordon of Half-Life does not talk.
In the EDF bases, calls for Pvt. Calhoon are made over the speaker system. This is a reference to Barney Calhoon of the HL series.
The areas Parker and Eos are named after characters from RF1.
In Eos, there is the Hendrix Memorial. Hendrix was a character who helps you (but dies) in RF1.