Red Faction: Guerrilla is the third entry in the Red Faction series and deviates from the first-person shooter genre, incorporating an open world sandbox environment similar to Mercenaries , Grand Theft Auto or Saints Row . The game was developed by Volition Incorporated .
Set 50 years after the events of the first two games, Mars has been liberated from the devious Ultor Corporation by Red Faction and the E.D.F. (Earth Defense Force) has stepped in to help the Miner Community get back on their feet. However, the E.D.F. has become an occupying force, taking over the planet, executing citizens and imposing martial law on the planet.
The player takes control of Alec Mason, a recently arrived dissident of Earth hoping to make his new life on Mars with his brother Dan, only to be swept up in the Revolution and free Mars five sectors from E.D.F. control. To do this the player must complete missions and destroy E.D.F. vehicles and property, lowering their control on each sector and raising the morale of the resident population.
The missions range from story missions which purpose is to further advance the story and other missions including Transporter (returning certain vehicles to a safehouse in a certain amount of time), Guerrilla Raid (where the player and a group of Rebels attack and E.D.F. building and destroying it), Barrel Dash , Total Chaos , Rampage and Escalation . Players have a variety of vehicles to choose from, ranging from cars to trucks, dune buggys and dump trucks and even tanks and APC's.
There is also a plethora of weapons including pistols, shotguns, assault rifles, the sledgehammer (the player's main weapon which can't be removed), remote mines, anti-personal mines, rocket launchers and the dreaded Nano Rifle (which fires a stream of nanobots that can disintegrate targets within an instant). The game also has an updated Geo-Mod 2.0 game engine which allows the player to virtually destroy a building realistically.
The PC game comes with the DLC Demons of the Badlands included which was previously only available for the Xbox360 and PS3 consoles.
There is also an offline two-player mode called Wrecking Crew where two friends take turns on four different modes such as Rampage , Escalation , Capture the Flag , Damage Control , Siege and Demolition and play a certain set of rounds to win an event. Online multiplayer games are present as well including Anarchy , Team Anarchy , and Wrecking Crew . Additionally, there are backpacks for the Wrecking Crew and Multiplayer modes which enhances the players abilities such as Jetpacks, Stealth, Vision (essentially an X-ray) and more power-based ones such as Concussion, which will knock over nearby enemy players.
Players have a variety of weapons to choose from and can carry four different weapons at a time. The most advanced weapons are only unlocked through the story missions while some can be found in E.D.F. buildings (like the Singularity Mine) and each weapon can be upgraded through safehouses which include extra ammo and more firepower through scrap.
The game features the physics engine, Havok for the character physics.