.. I am the first to stand up and say I am not that good at gaming. Neither do I have the time these days to commit but I’m pretty poor too.
PC Gaming has some advantages in that, if you want, you can enable GOD Mode. Now for those of you still reading, I have my reasons.
I like to play games and experience all the glitz and glamour of games like Crysis. But to be fair, it flippin hard – even on easy. Now if I play as normal with death mode on – I would only ever get so far then loose interest. My alloted time would expire and the game would goto SNIP Heaven. However, with GOD mode on – I can progress through and complete.
There are obviously dis-advantages. The main being no sense of achievement – lack of set piece enjoyment and each games end up playing like a game of Serious Sam – but for me, it suits just fine. I’m not saying every game or all the way though, but for me GOD mode is one + of PC gaming :-/
I finished Red Faction: Guirilla today, and you know what? I really enjoyed it.
The game, if you don’t know, is a kind of GTA on Mars. This means you have a free roam world to explore with a line up of key story missions to follow as well as numerous side non-story missions.
Part of the appeal of the game, is the feature that lets you blow stuff up – and this means almost EVERYTHING. There are some lovely demonstrations of physics in action with some large structures and buildings that come toppling down.
There were some impressive set pieces with a shit ton of stuff going on on the screen, and the trusty old 360 does a good job with the frame rate. Sure, there are a few scenes where it does drop to a noticeable rate, but when you consider what action is taking place – it is excusable.
I found the game to be a total time sink, continuously getting distracted by exploring new places and buildings. The Mars environment is very believeable and well populated although the AI is a little retarded at times.
Don’t get me wrong – I am by no means a conisuer of games review and I don’t pretend to write a 1up competing review here – I just know that I really had fun playing this game. In fact – it has pulled me back into gaming after a long long abscene.
I had a quick look at Multuplayer – it seems sturdy and all of the destruction appears to be there on Live which is nice. But for me, the fun is in the single player.
Thanks Red Faction 
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