Mars’s calendar is objectively superior to ours. For starters, their Independence Day comes someday before America’s, and trades up the fireworks for driving large mining robots via buildings. At least, that’s what I’m drawing from the pun-ishingly named Red Faction: Guerilla Re-Mars-tered‘s new release date trailer. This polished-up version of Volition’s area demolition sandbox is due out on July third, and so they’ve even gone and licensed Chris Remo’s fan-song ‘Space Asshole’ to accompany it.
The re-Mars-tering course of is admittedly giving a a lot bigger set of enhancements to console gamers, however a few of the upgrades are common, together with an all-round graphical overhaul. Textures are sharper, shadows are up to date to fashionable requirements, lighting is improved and there’s a bunch of contemporary post-processing and shader results. Resolutions now natively go all the best way as much as 4k, which I’d think about gained’t impression efficiency too badly as the sport was at all times extra CPU dependent (to crunch all these physics) than something.
There’s been no point out of it to date, however the one function I’d kill for on this up to date model is the power to respawn buildings in zones. As nice because the destruction mannequin of the sport is, and as satisfying as it’s to see a constructing you walked via ten hours in the past with a gaping gap nonetheless in it, it’s kinda unhappy to stomp your approach via a zone early within the sport and discover it utterly barren later. Plus, typically a constructing is so enjoyable to knock over I need to do it twice.
Still, a pity it’s simply Guerrilla that’s getting up to date and never its sequel, Armageddon, which I insist to today was terribly underrated. I imply, yeah, it was clearly rushed and the story is full bobbins that resolves itself immediately when the protagonist realises he’s been residing in a plot-hole for years, however I reckon that the power to select up and throw total buildings at your enemies was well worth the value of admission. Then once more, I’m not a lot of a fan of open-world sandboxes.
Red Faction: Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered shall be launching this July third. So far, no value has been introduced, and as a lot because the advertising revolved round a Free Mars, I feel the perfect present homeowners are going to get is a reduction at launch.
