EL33TONLINE: News tag archive: redfactionarmageddon
During a recent investor report in which THQ revealed disappointing company-wide first quarter performance, CEO Brian Farrell announced that the publisher will not “carry forward” with the Red Faction franchise (at least in any meaningful way) in the future due to “disappointing performance.”
Farrell explained that, in today’s “hit-driven, core gaming business,” even reasonably popular and highly polished games such as Red Faction will have a tough time in terms of sales performance, as these titles “face a bar that continues to move higher and higher.”
Red Faction: Guerrilla bucked the first-person tradition of Volition’s previous Red Faction and Red Faction 2 shooters by letting players loose in an open-world sandbox environment while pulling the camera view out to a third-person perspective. Guerrilla continued the series’ signature world destruction feature, however, but vastly improved this aspect by allowing players to literally bring buildings and structures crashing down by removing their supports, or simply by smashing them to bits, piece by piece.
Volition’s latest shooter, Red Faction: Armageddon, once again bucks the series’ trends by placing you in a more linearly constructed world (rather than a wide open space) to provide much more focussed gameplay and a stronger narrative than Guerrilla.
Epic world destruction capabilities are still (very well) represented, and while there are stretches of time where you’ll find yourself plodding through the same gameplay sequences, all is forgiven when the action ratchets up and the alien-shooting intensifies, and you’ll find quite a bit of gameplay variety to keep you interested until the very end.
Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Red Faction: Armageddon.
Finally! I’ve been waiting a long time for a game to really burn up the Media Create charts, and this week Yakuza: Of the End has done just that.
Yakuza titles generally perform very well in Japan, but I wasn’t sure how Of the End would do over there because it features a ruined, zombie-infected city with more than a passing resemblance to a certain pleasure district in Tokyo.
THQ had a well-rounded line-up going into E3 and as a result we enjoyed some awesome screenshots and explosive trailers from the publisher.
It’s almost time for the weekend, and it’s freezing cold here in Durban with an occasional spot of torrential rain!
What’s a gamer to do?
Keep the doors shut tight, dive under a blanket and indulge in some guilt-free gaming, that’s what!
This week has been incredibly hectic what with E3 2011 and all, so pick through El33tonline’s massive amount of news coverage, our latest reviews and a gigantic collection of competitions, all before finding out what members of El33tonline will be up to this weekend, and what games we’ll be playing (or not, as the case may be):
That’s right - THQ and Volition’s crushing (in more ways than one) third-person shooter Red Faction: Armageddon is now available to provide us with all of the world destruction (and reconstruction) action we can handle!
Shooting, breaking stuff, aliens to shoot, and breaking more stuff to shoot at aliens. A simple and effective formula for an action game, right? Well this latest action shooter implements these elements with a little more depth than just that (thankfully), and we have been given the opportunity, courtesy of Ster-Kinekor and THQ, to go hands-on with the latest iteration in the Red Faction series, queue ladies and gentlemen Red Faction: Armageddon.
Continue reading El33tonline’s hands-on preview of Red Faction: Armageddon.
THQ has just announced that over one million gamers have now downloaded the Red Faction Armageddon demo, which became available earlier in the month.
And with that awesome news, developer Volition has revealed that Mr Toots has been unleashed in Red Faction Armageddon.
What’s the big deal with Mr Toot’s? Well, I’m glad you asked!
THQ has released a new Sketch Mode trailer for its upcoming third-person action game, Red Faction Armageddon, which is coming very soon to a PS3, Xbox 360 and PC near you.
The trailer shows protagonist Darius Mason and Kara in this new Sketch Mode, which is actually a kind of cheat mode that is built into the game.
You know what’s cool? Lenticular 3D images. It’s always fun tilting a seemingly flat image back and forth to see that picture change and animate before your eyes.
You know what’s even better? When the box of your favourite videogame features this ‘magical’ effect, giving you a reason to closely examine the cover art while manically tilting the box from side to side.
This is exactly what you’ll be able to do with a limited edition of Red Faction: Armageddon, the Commando & Recon Edition. Check out a demonstration of the lenticular 3D effect with the image below:
THQ and Volition’s Red Faction: Armageddon is coming soon to a PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC near you very soon, and when it hits, we’ll be privy to a mighty action game that combines crushing set-piece action with impressive cinematic flair, to make for one of 2011’s most memorable games.
That’s what I get out of this latest trailer for the game, in any case.
It’s well worth a watch as we see protagonist Darius Mason unwittingly unleash a hellish underground army of aliens on Mars. Explosions, gunfire and incredible scenes ensue:
The promised demo for Red Faction: Armageddon is now up and available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace!
Weighing in at 850 MB, you can look forward to a taster of the following exciting content:
Red Faction: Armageddon is set to be the latest entry in a franchise comprising three previous games, namely Red Faction, Red Faction 2 and Red Faction: Guerrilla, and in this highly intriguing developer diary featuring members of Volition discussing the game, we get to learn a bit more about the history of Red Faction, and how that history plays a part in Red Faction: Armageddon.
There are massive doses of in-game action included in the video, as Red Faction: Armageddon’s features, weapons and enemies are detailed:
Another delay? Just another day in the videogame industry…
It’s just been revealed that THQ’s third-person action/absolute destruction game, Red Faction: Armageddon, has been delayed by one week around the world.
sigh
After an amazing blowout of gameplay videos released the other day for Red Faction: Armageddon, THQ and Volition have unleashed an awesome set of screenshots showcasing some of the main characters embroiled in the action game’s intriguing, cavern-bound story with looks at Kara, Winters, Hale and protagonist Darius.
The publisher/developer pair have also seen it fit to release a character trailer focussing on Kara, as she provides a quick recap of the story of Red Faction: Armageddon and the harsh life her people have had to endure following the ‘event.’ Catch all of that with a hop, skip and a jump:
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