

Red Faction: Armageddon is a third-person shooter video game developed by Volition and published by THQ. It is the fourth installment in the Red Faction series. The game takes place on the planet Mars. It is set in the year 2175, fifty years after the events of Red Faction: Guerrilla. Half a century after the Red Faction resistance and their Marauder allies freed Mars from the brutal Earth Defense Force, harmony on Mars is again threatened but this time by a lethal force shrouded in mystery. When the massive Terraformer that supplies Mars with its Earth-like air and weather is destroyed, the atmosphere turns to chaos, super-tornados and lightning storms engulf the planet. To survive, the Colonists flee to the underground mines and build a network of habitable caves. Five years later, Darius Mason, grandson of Martian Revolution heroes Alec Mason and Samanya, runs a lucrative business from Bastion, underground hub of Colonist activity. Mining, scavenging, mercenary work--if the job is dangerous, Darius is your man. Few sane people now venture to the ravaged surface, aside from contractors like Darius and the smugglers who run goods between the settlements. When Darius is tricked into reopening a mysterious shaft in an old Marauder temple, he releases a long-dormant evil and unleashes Armageddon on Mars. As Colonist and Marauder settlements are torn asunder, only Darius and the Red Faction can save mankind. The battle will take them across the storm-blasted planet--and below it, to the very heart of the unspeakable threat
ShooterAdventureActionScience fictionHorrorOpen worldaliensvehicular combatmechsteamachievementsonlinenanotechnologyover the shoulderterraformingvehicle combatexplosionsteam achievementsPlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
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Epic, contemporary, earnest and unpretentious.
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- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
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- Platforms
- PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
- Developer
- Volition
- Publisher
- THQ, Syfy Games
- Released
- June 6, 2011
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
- Perspective
- Third person
- Engine
- Geo-Mod
- Time to beat
- 17 h main story
IGDB rating 7.2/10 from 104 ratings.
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