It may surprise you, but Mars is not a great place to live right now. It used to be great, but now that the atmosphere’s made the surface inhospitable, you’ve gotta go live in the dingy mines underground. Nuts. To make matters worse, Darius Mason, the grandson of Alec Mason from Red Faction Guerrilla, has accidentally unleashed an evil race of aliens on your home. It’s a bit of a mess, sure, and it’s yours to clean up in Red Faction Armageddon.
We sat down with developer Volition as they played through a bit of the game at Gamescom last week. And while we were only shown a brief section, it was packed with just enough weapons, enemies and powers to leave us wanting more.
Since watching the trailers, we’ve been eager to explore the horror element to Armageddon, and the start of this demo showed just that. Mason is trekking down a tunnel, taking in the sights (and by sights, I mean the mounds of mangled bodies left by the aliens). Volition has nailed the atmosphere here; a creepy corridor, deadly quiet, filled with gore, just what I like. Things don’t stay silent for long though; a vehicle set ablaze comes crashing down the path and suddenly we’re surrounded by creepers; spider-like enemies that do a lovely job of hacking at your heels, chucking us out of the horror back into the Red Faction action we know and love; Mason makes short work of them with a machine gun before continuing onto a bigger environment.
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