Red Flatulence Guerrilla

This is not a review, just a gripe and some thoughts.

Destruction is gratifying and Red Faction Guerrilla has it up to your eyeballs. But talk about stuffy game structure Driving to a mission marker to start a mission then drive to the mission proper. Fail the mission, the drive has to be repeated. Game filler, it's boring.

If a mars civilian is run over or if a mission is failed or you die then you get penalised a few points off the morale bar. I'm cool with not deliberately running people over in this game its not like they ask for it like in other games like GTA or Saints Row. Trying to get out the garage is a bitch when one them walks in front of the vehicle.. come on now.. that's just teasing. However I'm not cool with a civ walking in front of a tank/mech in a sector liberation mission causing morale to fall from 100 to 93 then finding out that once a sector has been liberated moral can't be boosted back up.

Getting penalised for failing a mission or dying is not on my thumbs up list, having to drive back to a mission is punishment enough. The points demoted aren't significant n themselves, about 3 but they do accumulate and points gained from completing a mission can be reversed. Morale does count as there is an achievement, Power to the people, Raise the Morale of 3 sectors to 100% and the morale means more support from civ's..

The mechs rock, they cause so much devastation, as long as the target isn't moving to fast, and those annoying EDF (baddies) armored cars are eradicated in a clumsy swoop of a mechanised log. Who doesn't love rampaging in a mech? The bummer is you can't save vehicles, I tried by taking a dying mech back to base, saving game, then reloading but there was no spawn fresh mech waiting for me.

Also loading times suck, especially restarting a mission and viewing the map. It's not so bad on the Elite, the Pro loading times were up to 12 seconds just to view the map.

The weapons are a lot of fun I haven't bought them all yet like the grinder and rocket launcher because I just keep upgrading the nanorifle. Nanorifle is the favorite so far, it disintegrates everything and nothing stands a chance, plus the disintegration animation is fun to watch.

Other than the EDF and mars civs/rebels there are the marauders.I like their character design and weapons, very Tuskin Raiders hanging out at the Thunder Dome.