
We're introduced to Darius Mason, Red Faction soldier and grandson of Alec Mason, the hero of Guerilla and apparently just one in a long line of men whose surname has led them to save the Martian colonies with a sledgehammer. But even in 2011, GeoMod still feels like a great idea in search of a game.įor this latest do-over, the action picks up 50 years after the events of 2009's Red Faction: Guerilla. Over that period the series has fidgeted uncomfortably from first-person shooter to openworld adventure and now, with Armageddon, to third-person shooter.Īll the above have featured the ability to blow bloomin' big holes in the scenery.


It's been ten years since developer Volition first debuted its environment-trashing GeoMod technology in the original Red Faction.
