Great game... at first glance.

User Rating: 7 | Red Faction: Guerrilla PS3
I preordered this game over 3 months before it came out and picked it up the day it came out, four days later I traded it in.

When I started playing the game it seemed to be something new and exciting. You could destroy any man made structure in a variety of ways (my personal favorite was covering a car with explosives and driving it through a wall) The Guerilla Actions were all fun and novel for the first few hours, then I realized that I had been doing the same thing over and over and over for the entire length of the game. Go blow this up, take down this building, stop that truck, kill this person, those are the only things you have to do to beat this game.

Don't get me wrong it is fun and there is nothing more satisfying than taking down a huge structure with a hammer, but after a few hours the game gets extremely repetative. The weapons are pretty basic FPS standbys, you have the shotgun, machinegun, pistol, and mines. But there are a few standouts, like the Nano Rifle a gun that shoots a bullety containing Nanites that are capable of disintegrating any substance. The only problem with the Nano rifle is that they give it to you way too early in the game. The other unique weapon is the Singularity Mine You set it down and it sucks in everything araound it into a singularity and then explodes violently, it is by far the most destructive thing in the game but very hard to come by.

The replay value of this game is little to none, nothing changes, all the characters and missions will be exactly the same. The Wreckingcrew ,ultiplayer is fun for a little while (about 1 or 2 rounds) then everyone gets sick of it and is done playing. I never got a chance to try out the online multiplayer, but given the rest of the game it should be fun with nothing really memorable and will probably have dwindling player counts in the months to follow.

Overall this game is fun and is good to occupy a couple of days but with a thin plot and repetative gameplay it is more of a rent than a buy