Get Your Ass To Mars! Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-Tered

<p>The first incarnation of <em>Red Faction&colon; Guerrilla<&sol;em> was released almost a decade ago on the Xbox 360 and PS3&period; The game met with some critical and even financial success&period; Unfortunately&comma; THQ was on a collision course with bankruptcy and the franchise was put on hold for quite some time&period; THQ Nordic swooped in and saved the day through purchasing many IP&&num;8217&semi;s from the bankruptcy sale&period; <em>Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-Tered<&sol;em> is the outcome&period; Sadly&comma; it isn&&num;8217&semi;t a new game&comma; but the remaster was actually done well unlike some others&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m looking at you&comma; <em>Prototype<&sol;em> and <em>Ultimate Alliance<&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I&&num;8217&semi;m assuming with all these remasters that THQ Nordic is popping out their version of testing the waters for a new entry&period; After all&comma; the <em>Darksiders<&sol;em> IP was handled in such a way as well&comma; and we are getting a new game in that series very soon&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m glad that THQ Nordic is playing it smart&period; Hopefully&comma; we will see a new <em>Red Faction<&sol;em> game soon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3><strong>The Story<&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>If you&&num;8217&semi;ve played this game before&comma; then you know that you control Alec Mason&comma; a mining engineer who just landed on the red planet to meet up with his brother&comma; Daniel&period; Unfortunately&comma; the reunion is cut short after a quick &&num;8220&semi;tutorial&&num;8221&semi; destruction mission&period; After the mission&comma; the EDF &lpar;Earth Defense Force&rpar; attempts to arrest your brother&period; Sadly&comma; things go wrong and he is brutally murdered&period; You escape to your brother&&num;8217&semi;s tiny abode only to find the EDF waiting for you&period; After a brief argument and being labeled as a member of the Red Faction&comma; your life drastically changes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Red Faction comes to save your life&comma; but now you&&num;8217&semi;re one of them&period; You have to do missions for them or you will never be free&period; To achieve this freedom&comma; you are given missions that disrupt the EDF&&num;8217&semi;s power over Mars&period; The more EDF buildings you destroy and the more citizens you get on your side&comma; the easier it will be to liberate the 6 areas of Mars&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;139965" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-139965" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-139965" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;06&sol;28005843&sol;red-faction-guerrilla-remastered&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"360" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-139965" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-Tered<&sol;em> &&num;8211&semi; THQ Nordic&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<h3><strong>The Look<&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>I&&num;8217&semi;m not going to lie&period; The last few remasters I&&num;8217&semi;ve decided to sink my teeth into have been huge letdowns&period; Fortunately&comma; <em>Guerrilla<&sol;em> is surprisingly well done&period; Having played halfway through the original before something else caught my eye&comma; I can tell that THQ Nordic put a lot of time and love into pulling this game into the current generation&period; The cutscenes don&&num;8217&semi;t look like a just a re-skin and the environment is just amazing&period; I&&num;8217&semi;d imagine if we ever passed through the Van Allen Radiation Belt and put humans on Mars&comma; this is what it would look like&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A constant red hue follows you throughout the game&period; You just get the feeling of grittiness&comma; like sand is constantly sticking to you&period; Even when you&&num;8217&semi;re blowing up countless building and killing the EDF&comma; I saw none of the slowdown that I remembered from the original&period; The only thing that kind of struck me was the long loading times&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m playing through <em>God of War<&sol;em> right now as well&period; The only load time you get there are when you first boot up the game&period;  There&&num;8217&semi;s no excuse for these long load times with how powerful the current generation of consoles is&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3><strong>The Mechanics<&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The point of this game is to destroy as much as possible&period; You have a huge hammer and ninety- nine percent of the world is destructible&period; Left Trigger is heavy attack&comma; Right Trigger is light attack and A is jump&period; When you encounter the EDF&comma; you can switch to using a rifle&period; RB shoots and bringing up the weapon wheel requires pressing the corresponding face button&period; You&&num;8217&semi;ll be un-oppressed in no time&period; The Right Thumbstick to bring up an easy aim mode&period; This slows you down so you&&num;8217&semi;re most likely better off firing from the hip&period; The fact that you can destroy almost everything in this world is what makes it a huge seller to me&period; Don&&num;8217&semi;t like where those solar panels are&quest; Run them over&period; Dislike all the road signs&quest; Run them over&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That huge tower blocking your view of the ice caps&comma; blow it up&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s great&excl; Salvage becomes available as you destroy buildings&period; This salvage lets you upgrade your destruction items to make even bigger bangs&period; The driving is fun as well&comma; seeing as this is a pretty large map that you must traverse getting around should not be clunky&period; Thankfully&comma; the driving controls are intuitive and help you get to your destination with no floatiness in sight&period; When you&&num;8217&semi;re driving a huge Mars earth mover&comma; you can destroy anything in your path&period; Make sure to aim for the EDF&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;139971" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-139971" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-139971" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;06&sol;28013722&sol;red-faction-guerilla-remarstered-edition-9-1522325334203&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"360" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-139971" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-Tered<&sol;em> &&num;8211&semi; THQ Nordic&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<h3><strong>The Verdict<&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Although I was a big fan of this game when it came out in 2009&comma; I never got around to completing it&period; However&comma; now that I can it play it on my Xbox One&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m super excited to see what I missed out on in glorious current gen HD&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m not a fan of replaying parts of games if I have to grind or I lost my save&comma; but I see myself going through this game again just because of how well THQ Nordic treated the remaster&period; This wasn&&num;8217&semi;t a quick cash grab or a sloppy porting job&comma; cough Konami&comma; it was a well done upgrade for the next generation of gamers&period; This is the definitive edition&period; Forget finding one on the PS3 or the Xbox 36o&period; Spend the thirty dollars on this remastered masterpiece and you won&&num;8217&semi;t be disappointed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;