Zero Punctuation: Red Faction Guerrilla

[13lackfriday]

Hahaha, well you finally got your review, though I don't think you would have been so quick to ask for it if you'd known Yahtzee had an ugly past with it.

The fact that your rebel allies randomly spawn when you commit minor acts of destruction is hilarious...actually reminds me of a scene from a certain HL2 parody comic [http://www.hlcomic.com/index.php?date=2006-06-16].
The wonky building physics isn't any surprise to me...in Gears of War, when one of the bridges gets demolished, chunks of rubble start flying and bouncing around more like styrofoam blocks than anything else, so when you make that a central theme of gameplay, no doubt you're gonna have issues.

Glad you're very self-conscious about the games you repeatedly laud with praise...
I think Yahtzee has a new Prince of Persia.

 

[lahanl01]

it's not that he's losing his spark it's just the summer game drout

 

[Clirck]

Best review I have seen for a while.

 

[nightazday]

that sounds like the revolutionary war

America- colonialist that don't like their resources being taken

Britain- stupidly oppressive forces that had there economy tipped over

 

[awatkins]

Agreed. Yahtzee needs to be faster, I cant get my healthy dose of Zero Punctuation if there are ambiguous commas laying on the floor. Kind of like when you're eating Rasin Bran and see horse flies about the room and start realising that rasins kinda look like flies in milk.

 

[DazZ.]

For a game he said he didn't like, he sold it to me quite well.

 

[sln333]

"A box came up saying my morale had gone down. No it fuckin hadn't Red Faction: Guerilla!"
I'm a bit surprised a game setting you up to destroy things tries to keep you from destroying things.

 

[biofreak20]

Yeah it felt really short...

 

[nokelso]

I so need to make an icon of Yahtzee and Saints Row 2 getting married. Such a touching scene...

 

[Razorback0z]

No Evil Genius ??

Ah cmon man give it a review.

Nice one anyway.... thanks... love your work.

 

[rickthetrick]

I agree with this review totally. I got bore about a third of the way into the game, and just quit. Now it collects dust and sometimes serves as a coaster.

 

[Ph33nix]

A quite good review. I do have to agree about how just when you feel you can go and destroy the world with your hammer and rocket launcher the game pulls you back in and says no.

 

[civver]

The Earth forces are kinda cartoonishly evil. The comment about the Norse god/biscuit buildings was funny. As for needing ammo, ever tried picking up the Earth forces' weapons? It's pretty much the same. Last sentence was funny. This week's review was good.

 

[ninjajoeman]

wait isnt guerrilla warfare were you run in guns blasing shooting people then before you can get hurt you run like shit back to base?

Agreed. Yahtzee needs to be faster, I cant get my healthy dose of Zero Punctuation if there are ambiguous commas laying on the floor. Kind of like when you're eating Rasin Bran and see horse flies about the room and start realising that rasins kinda look like flies in milk.

shut up shut up shut up!!!

 

[Kaiyen]

C'mon, I liked the original Red Faction

 

[SomeUnregPunk]

the only part of Redfaction 1 that i liked was when you added the cheat codes, then you can dig by explosives through the map. but without the codes, it got boring and the story seemed like a cheap dime store scifi novelette. the reviews i read on this game convinced me not to buy it because they all practically said, " it's fun to topple buildings but it sucks to try to get to that point in the game."

 

[Nasty McDonalds Burritos]

I enjoyed Red Faction 2's multiplayer, mostly because you could make your own bots to play with when friends were unavailable. I havent played this one yet, but a friend of mine said that the game itself was really fun.

 

[Grahav]

Unshait the shait. That made me laugh.

He did a slow rant this time. I am brazilian and was able to understand 90% of it without rewinding.

 

[Cavouku]

He seemed to slur a bit when he said "But then a little message came up saying that my morale had gone down. No it fuckin' ha'n't, Red Faction Guerilla, now ge' ou' of the way so I can break all your stuff."

But oh well, yes, I know all too well how one game can make you pessimistic about any further games. Turok 2 for the N64 was all it took for me to completely disown any game from 1st person perspective... Yes I can be petty.

I'm not sure why so many people are complaining about little things like him talking slightly slower, he'll catch on and speed it back up for you whiners if you must have your lack of commas. Maybe he'll just replace it with "mutherfucker".

Loved the stuff about getting engaged to Saints row 2 ^_^

I never out loud "laugh" during a new Yahtzee review because I'm afraid I'll miss something witty and have to rewind. And, like a menstrua- no, never mind, I'll stop referencing his reviews now.

...You lazy ni-

 

[Chiefwakka]

He's right about how the game doesn't focus around guerrilla actions. The AI will suggest you give serious planning before downing high priority buildings (since they are well guarded). But I found after all my planning the simplest thing to do was drive a car up a mountain, fly off the edge, jump out of the car, activate my jetpack and land on the roof right after my car plows through it. I then run in and between my rocket launcher, remote charges, and nano rifle (think star trek fazer set to kill only it disintegrates large chunks of building and people) I'll tear it down in several seconds. Hop in a car and hang out in the safe house.

This was on hard mode. It's not easy, but careful planning is pointless when acting like a chimp gets the job done easier.