Really Late Review — Red Faction: Guerrilla

The first Red Faction was released way back in 2001 when the PS2 was still considered a graphical powerhouse, the Dreamcast had just kicked the bucket and Microsoft was hyping up the forthcoming release of the first Xbox console. The game itself was an enjoyable but fairly standard shooter. Its only unique feature being extensive but incredibly underutilized terrain deformation dubbed “Geo-Mod;” an interesting concept that in practice rarely went beyond using your weapons to blast tunnels to nowhere. Not long after the release of the first game came its inevitable sequel which is generally considered to be inferior to the original due to offering more of the same with a less competent execution.

A fine display of explosion apathy.