Zero Punctuation: Red Faction Guerrilla

[Ophiuchus]

Also, this is the 99th episode...next week what will happen?!?!?!??!?!

I was just about to make a comment about there being five full pages of 20 in the archive which makes this the 100th, but then remembered the repeat of the console rundown thing one week when he was away. So I thought I'd post it anyway in case anyone else has the same idea.

That said, the interview with Yahtzee from the PDF issue said that the 100th episode airs on August 5th, so someone somewhere can't count.

 

[MinionStarwind]

I will kill for a shirt that has the Yahtzee 'Hope' thing on it.

 

[CaptainCalvin]

Hooray! No gonad jokes in this one! My respect for you has recovered somewhat! keep up the good work yahtzee.

 

[slipknot4]

Hmm. it's odd he didn't rant on the difficulty...
well well...

 

[Gerazzi]

It was funny even if I do disagree with you.
But I will forever be the person who will try to find flaws in everything.

 

[LaBambaMan]

The game is good, and it's mindless fun if you end up not giving a shit about morale. There are some flaws, as Yahtzee pointed out, but it's still a fun game none-the-less.

The only thing about this review that kinda' irked me was that there was no mention of the awesome multi-player mode where you just destroy buildings for points. It's a great stress reliever and funny as hell to watch.

 

[Casual Shinji]

The only thing missing from Red Faction Guerilla were the colourfull crazy characters from Saints Row 2

 

[MK Tha Rebel]

Great review as always, hope you and Saints Row 2 have a happy life together.

Red Faction Guerrilla kinda dropped the ball, for me. I was hoping, since it was made by Volition, that it would basically be Saints Row 2 on Mars in the future. But, It wasn't. The moral system ruined it for me. Like Yahtzee said, "Here's Mars. There's lots of stuff to blow up. Here's plenty of guns to blow it all up. Just don't blow it up too much."

 

[Lord Honk]

gawsh, i played RF2 and had so LITTLE fun with it, the characters were so unlikeable (and as a matter of fact, they WERE antholes! oO ) the morale system worked just like in FO3 (heal the world or kill innocent.... well, whatever, i'm not so good at puns xD fact is, RFG hasn't improved on the points that bugged me in RF2 so i'm thankful for this review and for renting it before actually taking the risk and buy it.
which i will surely NOT do xD

 

[Therumancer]

Awsome referance to an obscure David Bowie song at the end there Yahtzee.

Also very nice to see you did this, given the advertising they did on the Escapist (even going so far as to have a badge) it's nice to see that they still let you critique them in your own unique and wonderful style.

 

[deathstrikesquirrel]

And still no reviewer seems to touch on the moral dissonance that occurs when you are committing (what amounts to) acts of terrorism when you blow up government buildings like they were the freaking death star, which cues the discussion of innocent contractors working in that building from Clerks.

 

[Mrsoupcup]

I think the game should be called Red Faciton: Break stuff. Its a good game just..... I wish it were about actual Guerilla warfare.

 

[ssgt splatter]

As much fun as it was to plow through EDF property with a walker while playing the demo on XBL, I couldn't convince myself to like this game. Everything in this review is true right down to the somewhat faulty physics. Keep it up Yahtzee.

 

[Aidoc]

As much fun as it was to plow through EDF property with a walker while playing the demo on XBL, I couldn't convince myself to like this game. Everything in this review is true right down to the somewhat faulty physics. Keep it up Yahtzee.

The stress system wasn't even in the demo there bud. If you sit and watch a heavily damaged building in the full game, it will collapse given a bit of time as it would in real life. There are some glitches, but EVERY GAME HAS GLITCHES. This game does something more ambitious than any game to come out for a good while, and you're going to pick at the occasional physics glitch?

 

[lacktheknack]

The pun at the end made me howl like a tipsy wolf, and I scared my mom. I think I need to get out more.

 

[Zephemus]

I knew that he would be reviewing this game for this week because my friend and I were playing this game on his PS3 over the weekend and frankly I was rather pleased with the game, though I made the same joke about you possesing Myolnir as Yahtzee did.

And now I really have to play Saint's Row 2 now if I liked Red Faction 2 that much.

 

[KaiRai]

Looks like he liked it. Begrudgingly though mind. Loved the bit about the wedding and the game in it's little suit

 

[KamachoMcSagget]

i downloaded the demo for it when it first came out, and after half an hour of waiting, i started to play it, and thought it would be good because it was by the guys that made sr2, as he mentioned at the end of his review, but i got bored after a couple minutes and i would never get that loooooooooong time spent waiting for it to download back. i know demos aren't as good as actualy having the game, but i couldn't find mutch to like in it.

and why would ANYONE want his themesong? it sounds like ass

 

[rize]

If you cut Red Faction: Guerrilla a little slack it can be a lot of fun. It does try to take itself very seriously though, so I guess it makes sense to pick on all the little places where the realism fails or the gameplay doesn't match the title's suggestion that you'll be using guerrilla tactics.

 

[Jay Cee]

Red Faction Chimpanzee?
No sorry I don't really...

OH! BECAUSE IT'S A...

We... I, right. Ooook.
Cool, cool.

Oh yeah and great vid by the way.