Red Faction: Guerilla (360)

This has now been sent back to Lovefilm, uncompleted and surprisingly unloved. I’m not sure what the problem was. I loved the demo when I played it a few months ago and I expected that I’d love this game, but it didn’t come together. I could blame too many dull drives or the slightly awkward

We’re getting there, we really are. It’s all coming together. Last night I was more careful, I died less (though not infrequently) and I had a grand old time. I’m really growing to love the missions that involve other characters, though the “defend a certain area” missions seem to be incredibly tough, with the EDF

Played through two more times last night. It’s just great fun. The initial on-foot shooty section is great, the stompy walker section is great and the mounted gun section is great. It’s all great!

Got up, cleaned my teeth, fed the cat, sat down and played through this demo another few times. I really, really, really like this, you know. Things never seem to play out quite the same; it never quite becomes routine. Awesome stuff.

Oh, oops, forget what I wrote just now. I just started this up again and tried playing it as a standard shooter. Turns out, it’s better than I gave it credit for. There’s not enough ammo to do the whole demo level with a gun, I don’t think, but a nice cover system and a