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Red Faction: Guerilla PC to get bonuses

After having to wait three months for Red Faction: Guerilla to hit the PC, PC gamers will be getting a treat to compensate for their wait.

A report from IGN reveals that the port will include the “Demons of the Badlands” DLC package, along with the console pre-order bonus Wrecking Crew mode maps, two PC-exclusive multiplayer maps. Even six Wrecking Crew maps and the Bagman modes from the upcoming second DLC are included.

So maybe the wait was well worth it. Red Faction: Guerilla will be heading to the PC on September 15th through various content distribution services, such as Steam.

NPD Sales Results for June 2009, Prototype tops charts

The NPD Group have released the sales figures for the month of June today.

The DS is currently holding the top spot in hardware sales, with its home console counterpart trailing behind. Amazingly, the PlayStation 2 is still almost selling as much as the PlayStation Portable. The price is obviously a big factor in consumer decisions, with the failing economy and other circumstances.

As for software, Prototype debuted and sold over 400,000 copies, topping the charts. Many sports titles follow the sandbox action game, including Tiger Woods PGA Tour and Fight Night Round 4.

Hardware:

1. Nintendo DS 766.5K
2. Wii 361.7K
3. Xbox 360 240.6K
4. PlayStation 3 164.7K
5. PSP 163.5K
6. PlayStation 2 152.7K

Software:

1. PROTOTYPE (360) 419.9K
2. UFC 2009:UNDISPUTED (360) 338.3K
3. EA SPORTS ACTIVE BUNDLE (Wii) 289.1K
4. TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR 10* (Wii) 272.4K
5. WII FIT (Wii) 271.6K
6. FIGHT NIGHT ROUND 4 (360) 260.8K
7. FIGHT NIGHT ROUND 4 (PS3) 210.3K
8. MARIO KART W/WHEEL (WII) 202.1K
9. RED FACTION:GUERRILLA (360) 199.4K
10. INFAMOUS (PS3) 192.7K

via NeoGAF

Red Faction: Guerrilla system requirements

THQ has given the system requirements for their upcoming PC title Red Faction: Guerilla. The publisher has also announced the release dates, which will be September 11th for an international release, and September 15th for North America.

Minimum:

• OS: Windows XP / Vista
• CPU: 2.0 GHz Dual-Core Processor (Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon X2)
• Memory: 1 GB RAM / 15 GB of Hard Drive space
• Video Card: 128 MB 3D Video Card w/Shader Model 3.0 Support (Nvidia GeForce 7600/ATI Radeon X1300)

Recommended:

• OS: Windows Vista® for DirectX® 10
• CPU: 3.2 GHz Dual-Core Processor (Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon X2)
• Memory: 2 GB RAM / 15 GB of Hard Drive space
• Video Card: 256 MB 3D Video Card w/Shader Model 3.0 Support (Nvidia GeForce 8800/ATI Radeon HD3850)

Read (Red Faction Underground)

Red Faction Guerilla Gets Smashingly Good Promotion

Whatever the review scores say (I haven’t played the game or read any reviews yet), I have to give THQ some major points for their interesting choice in promotions/publicity stunts/giveaways for Red Faction Guerilla. If you’d been strolling the streets of London yesterday you might have seen a car being pounded on by strangers with a sledgehammer.

This wasn’t a case of revenge, random violence or vandalism; THQ had taken a rather odd event most often used for a fundraiser at state fairs and utilized it to promote their newest game. Usually whoever’s running the ‘car smash’ charges a few bucks for a few whacks at the vehicle, but this time taking out your aggression on the automobile was more than free; it was profitable. Inside the car were over a hundred copies of Red Faction Guerilla. Folks at THQ said it was an ‘experiment’ to see how many people would stop in the middle of their day to wail on a car in order to get a free copy of the game, inspired by the game’s incredibly realistic destruction engine. They also get kudos for taking the car in for recycling after the conclusion of the event.

Red Faction Guerilla Game Review–The Best Red Faction Game Yet

Recently, a game landed onto the Xbox 360 that left me a little cold.  It was called Red Faction; Guerilla, and was yet another sequel to the first person shooter original and first sequel.  And when I first laid hands on this one I sighed in the deepest resignation and dragged out my thesaurus hoping I could find a new word for “craptacular”.   Seriously, I’m so very tired of first person shooters.  There are so few good ones.

But then I got it in, and I’ll tell you, I was pleasantly surprised.  Surprised is almost too weak a reaction, but is it really possible to be pleasantly shocked?

Anyway, you play a miner whose focus is in demolitions freshly landed on Mars a while after the earlier events of Red Faction.   The Earth Defense Force, which for some reason isn’t even ON Earth any more, is acting as an occupation force on Mars, backing up pretty much ever evil move that the Ultor Corporation (THQ just loves the name Ultor, I guess) makes.  This is doubly odd since, originally, the Earth Defense Force was a collection of GOOD guys who assisted Red Faction.  So much for that, huh?

So now you’re on planet, and the EDF just wiped out your brother for “crimes”.  No one really bothered to tell you what they were before they blasted him with what looked like a vulcan cannon, or before they came after you and discovered that you had explosives in your trailer (you’re a mining engineer with a demolitions specialty, remember?) so you, in response, joined Red Faction out of necessity and the desire to get payback for your dead brother.

The game itself plays a lot like some other titles, especially Saints Row, Grand Theft Auto, Just Cause and Mercenaries, and offers many of the same elements.  You can steal cars, which look a lot more like moon rovers and have apparently enhanced suspension to handle the rocky terrain better.  You’ll roam around a map with multiple zones, blowing things up, knocking things down, and shooting holy hell out of the EDF in an effort to wrest control of Mars away from them and put it back in the hands of the people.

There is a truly incredible variety of things to do in this game, make no mistake about that.  Within my first few minutes I had blown up several abandoned buildings, collected scrap from said buildings to upgrade my weaponry and hardware, and shot about thirty five stormtroopers—err…EDF troops.  I do enjoy a game that’s about more than walk from point A to point B and shoot whatever wanders in front of you.  As a result, this may actually be my favorite Red Faction game just by the sheer fact that it actually includes something different to do.

Granted, it’s not that much different from a first person shooter—its biggest difference may well be just a matter of perspective (no pun intended), but with the addition of driving and setting explosives and collecting items, it does elevate the game slightly above its predecessors.  It’s a good rental, no mistake there, but whether or not it’ll be a good buy depends on just how much you like shooter games with some solid action.

PC version of Red Faction Guerilla delayed

Seems like Terminator Salvation isn’t the only problem PC gamers are facing, the highly anticipated Read Faction: Guerilla has been delayed on the PC by several months, according to Joystiq. The game will launch on the PS3 and Xbox 360 next week, while PC gamers will have to wait until August 25, although that date isn’t confirmed as of yet.

Red Faction: Guerrilla demo released for everyone

While originally available exclusively to those who pre-ordered the game, THQ has recently announced the demo for Red Faction: Guerrilla has hit both Xbox Live and the Playstation Network for all to have.

The demo is single-player only but will be sure to give players a glimpse of what to expect:

“The press and consumer buzz for Red Faction: Guerrilla continues to build, as gamers prepare for a new standard in open-world, destruction-based game-play,” said Kevin Kraff, vice president of worldwide marketing, THQ. “The single-player demo will give consumers an exciting taste of what the full game will offer on June 2nd.”

Red Faction: Guerrilla is currently slated for a June 9th release for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.

Read (Kotaku)

Red Faction: Guerilla Gets Release Date

Following the revelation of the Saints Row 2 DLC, Volition today gave Red Faction: Guerilla a solid release date – June 9.

The studio’s next game will hit PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on the same day. It is the sequel to the destruction-centric first-person shooter set on Mars. However, this entry does away with the linear level design and introduces an open-world to destroy.

A downloadable demo is set for release on April 23. However, those who preorder the game from GameStop will get it almost three weeks before.

Red Faction Guerilla demo coming

GameStop has revealed that the upcoming shooter Red Faction: Guerilla will be getting demos both on the Xbox 360 and PS3.

GameStop is accepting pre-orders for the game, and the ones who pre-order will be getting early access to the demo on April 3, instead of April 23, when the demo will (supposedly) be freely available.

Red Faction: Guerilla, the third game in the series is a third person shooter developed at Voliton, and will be released on the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 this June.