Red Faction: Armageddon

The Red Faction: Armageddon is concerned with destructible environments. The player must reclaim cultist fortifications on the planet’s disaster-ravaged surface, defend colonists from hostile Martian creatures in the ancient mines and chasms beneath it, and clean all structures of infestations. Darius, the main protagonist, fires the Magnet Gun at one object, then at another, and the first object rockets toward the second. The Mason family’s Nano-Forge reappears, having been passed down through two generations. Darius’ father has programmed the tool to reverse any destruction to artificial objects. The Nano-Forge will also have an ability called Impact, which releases a mighty force capable of blowing away structures and knocking enemies off their feet. Darius’ Nano-Forge, weapons, and armor are all upgradeable, allowing him to improve their efficiency, unlock new abilities, and change their appearance. Volition debuted the LEO exosuit at E3 “a robotic suit armed with powerful weapons, but its greatest strength appears to be its ability to crash through structures with little effort. Darius flew the LEO at full speed through a swarm of aliens, splattering them on contact before crashing through the walls of an infested building.” Infestation is a cooperative multiplayer game for up to four players that features two different game modes: survival, where you must survive against waves of increasingly tricky alien attackers, and defensive, where you must defend areas from attack. The game’s leading storyline developers, Leo and Max, revealed “Ruin mode” in a six-part YouTube series. This mode consists solely of “blowing stuff up.” Players can take their time or cause as much destruction as possible in one minute. The latter method will support both global and friend leaderboards. However, Ruin mode will be available only to players who buy the game new or purchase a code online. Players will be given the option of playing the mode’s demo or entering a code using the methods described above.