In addition to its offensive capabilities, the Nano-Forge is equipped with a Reconstructor that can repair any manmade structure. With all of the metal flying around, you will inevitably destroy walkways and bridges that you need to traverse. There are lots of ways to tear down structures, whether you prefer your demolition up close and personal with the Maul or from a distance with the Plasma Beam, which cuts through supports like butter. The Magnet Gun also has less violent purposes such as pulling out-of-reach ammo and salvage toward you and destroying infected buildings. There are few things more satisfying than watching part of a building fly across a room to crush a bug and some of his friends. Projectiles can be attached to enemies and structures with the first (and anything attached to it) being pulled toward the second. The game’s signature weapon is the Magnet Gun. The Maul, a brutal melee weapon and the Nano-Forge, with abilities that slam, levitate, shield and augment your strength, allow you to stay alive and make some breathing room. Thankfully, even when you are out of ammo, there are still weapons at your disposal. In many ways, Armageddon feels a bit like a survival horror game between the camera and the emotionless enemies flooding toward Darius. This provides a very claustrophobic feel, which juxtaposes nicely with some of the wide-open caverns you’ll traverse. Red Faction: Armageddon is a third-person shooter featuring a camera that is extremely tight to Darius. He is duped into unleashing a long-dormant horde of bugs, thus beginning his quest for redemption and survival. The population of Mars is forced underground Darius leaves the military and becomes a private contractor specializing in salvage.

The game opens with a Red Faction assault on a cultist-held terraformer that ends badly. Equipped with a Nano-Forge, a talking Situational Awareness Module (affectionately called SAM), and an arsenal of diverse weapons, Darius will venture from the surface of Mars to deep underneath it.

Red Faction: Armageddon follows the story of Darius Mason, descendent of Alec Mason, hero of the Red Faction’s triumph over the EDF in Guerrilla. I had so much fun with Red Faction: Armageddon, that I was inspired to grab a copy of Guerrilla and spend some time with it. I haven’t been back to Mars since, and was pleasantly surprised to see how the series has evolved since last generation. Blowing holes in the ground just to see how far you could go, ripping buildings out from under enemies and busting through a wall to get to a multiplayer opponent were all pioneering moments. I have fond memories of Volition, Inc.’s original Red Faction.

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