Quick Look: Red Faction: Armageddon

Been waiting for this...

Oh damn, get.

Looking forward to watch this. Not sure if i should get it or not yet.  
 
Edit: Yeah not getting this game. Id like these weapons in Guerrilla though.

MAKE THE WORLD DISAPPEAR!! 
 
 
 
 
THEN BRING IT BACK!

GUESSING THEY DON'T LIKE IT JUST A HUNCH

Hesitant to get it for PC but we'll see how reviews turn out.
Exclusive demos? Really?

Just in time for lunch, I love it!

This seems like a downgrade from the last game, honestly, which is sad. Plus, I can't believe they took out the competitive MP they had in Guerilla, which was a ton of fun.

wow shame that this doesn't seem that good =/

I'm still on the fence on this. Probably a Steam-sale buy on this one as well.

I don't know. I typically really like Volition's work but everything that I thought was interesting about RF:G seems to have been removed and replaced with something not interesting.

My biggest gripe with the demo was that the enemies don't actually do anything when your fighting them. They just sit there on the walls waiting for you to shoot them while rarely shooting back.

This combat seems brutally tedious.  
 
- Scott

The idea was so promising. RF:G would have been amazing if it was a little more structured and streamlined. And that magnet gun looked awesome. Too bad.

Please just remake red faction 1. That was the best one and then put the series to rest.

Brad looked more positive about it on last week's Bombcast...

Volition's never made a game I enjoyed. This doesn't seem to be bucking that trend. Tons of promising ideas with poor execution is practically the company's MO.

Yes. More shaved heads, please.

I absolutely loved Red Faction: Guerrilla, especially the multiplayer. It was classed based in a way (with the backpacks), and the fact that you could switch out backpacks on the battlefield made for some great and innovative gameplay. Unfortunately the multiplayer doesn't return, and the game in general just doesn't look fun. I was looking forward to this title from the day it was announced. After playing the demo I was very soured. Volition is one of my favorite developers, and they really let me down this time. Hopefully Saint's Row 3 will satisfy.

Well, this is a disappointment.

FOR FUCKS SAKE THEY COMPLAIN ABOUT THE GAME BEING TOO EASY FOR MOST OF THIS QUICK LOOK..... 
 
Stop bitching and try 'hard' if that's the case... then you may need to dig into the game mechanics more also!

IM CALLING IT'S DOWN !!!!!   I NEED TO CANCEL MY BET!!!!

I dont know why but parts really remind me of Dark Void

I was looking forward to this title from the day it was announced.

I never really got into  Guerrilla, but it seems odd that considering how successful that was, that they went in almost the totally opposite direction with this.  It would have been fun to see them take the destruction elements a step further or maybe just set it in a more interesting location.

Why is the part for the QL a fetch quest? 
 
Guess I'll just go back to Guerrilla and blow shit up.

It's torture watching Brad play games. He just dawdles around too much. I know I'll get a bunch of flak for that.

Hm.

It's torture watching Brad play games. He just dawdles around too much. I know I'll get a bunch of flak for that.

Thanks guys, I was curious about this one and you've let me know all I needed to know. It seems like Volition doesn't even understand what makes their games fun. They spend all this development time on their technology and then hardly use it? I'll pass on this one.

Brad, you owe it to yourself to play Saints Row 2.

@Scooper said:

It's torture watching Brad play games. He just dawdles around too much. I know I'll get a bunch of flak for that.

I agree, he sometimes seems a little aimless, he's great as a secondary guy though. 

FOR FUCKS SAKE THEY COMPLAIN ABOUT THE GAME BEING TOO EASY FOR MOST OF THIS QUICK LOOK.....  Stop bitching and try 'hard' if that's the case... then you may need to dig into the game mechanics more also!

Damn, this looks so uninteresting. Shame :/

Pretty much what I expected since seeing the first trailers.

Brad looked more positive about it on last week's Bombcast...

I see a lot of complaining about the various aspects in which this game didn't live up to expectations, but even after finishing L.A. Noire the guys at GiantBomb still trip over themselves to praise it. I'm starting to seriously doubt some of the reviews and quick looks put out lately. 
 
After playing the demo I don't see any reason why RF:A wouldn't be a fun 3rd person shooter with a cool setting and brilliant weapons.

From what I've seen of this game so far:

• Graphically, it looks terrific. The lighting is excellent, and I really like how fire casts shadows off of the cave's bumpy walls and floor. The game also looks surprisingly colorful, which is not something you would expect in a game about Mars. The way the enemies glow and bleed, as gruesome as it sounds, is quite lovely.
• Manipulating the environment still looks as fun as it did in the previous Red Faction games, but I would have liked to seen a dynamic cover system, in which you would take the magnet gun and toss a chunk from a nearby building down in front of you, and proceed to use it as cover. But the way everything just "crumbles" makes everything look too weak.
  

• Manipulating the environment still looks as fun as it did in the previous Red Faction games, but I would have liked to see a dynamic cover system, in which you would take the magnet gun and toss a chunk from a nearby building down in front of you, and proceed to use it as cover. But the way everything just "crumbles" makes everything look too weak.
  

More hyped for Saint Row 3 after that new trailer :O

Really annoyed by all the pessimism surrounding this game. Played the demo at least 10 times. And what the hell do they mean destruction isn't the focus? It's constantly happening around you in battle. Whatever. What bums me out most is that people will watch this and write off the game completely. 

I fee like the gameplay on its own merits is alright.  The visuals seem interesting and the tech is there.  However I feel like the main problem with this game comes to the "go here and shoot this for a while but then here comes sequence breaker" design.  Feels very average and an old way of structuring a shooting video game.  Guerrilla was where it was at with GeoMod and it's a damn shame they eschew that for something more traditional, not less.  If Armageddon had taken a page from the Just Cause school of game design, this game could have been everything Guerrilla should have been and more.
 
The question is do you want a competent, somewhat interesting, but ultimately unambitious and rote 3rd person shooter?  Aside from the persistence element and presence of GeoMod there's literally nothing to distinguish this as anything but just another video game.  Whoever is Volition's creative and design team needs to feel those mixed reviews hard because its their fault for throwing what could have been a great game under the bus.

This game has rental written all over it.

Brad complains its too easy right before nearly dying, Brad claims ammo is everywhere and the magnet gun isn't needed, then runs out of ammo and loads another save. Complain that destruction is never really needed then load to a point where its mission mandatory. Seems like operator error is the problem here.

In all honesty, I found all Red Faction games to be slightly boring. Cool concepts but just the design and execution make it boring.

Also, wow no wonder they think it's boring. They're playing it in the most mundane way possible. Stop using the damn assault rifle.