In the beginning of the game the terraformer that keeps Mars stable is blown up. (Usually you'll be running through indestructible caves.) The plot.don't even get me started on the plot. The gameplay is hardly different from any other shooter, with the occasional moment where you can blow up a building. The multiplayer is pathetic, like a slower, more boring version of Halo's Firefight. And for the most part, made it considerably worse. They took a perfectly good system and changed its every aspect. But when you compare it to the glory of Red Faction: Guerrilla it's hard to think of it so highly. As a standalone game, Red Faction: Armageddon would probably deserve a 6. Literally, if you wander slightly away from an objective it does the "get back here in ten seconds or die" thing. How do you take an open world destruction game and make it better? If you answered "jam it into a cave" you probably work for Volition. You are humanity's last hope for survival. Red Faction: Armageddon expands on the critically acclaimed, best-selling franchise with new, groundbreaking challenges. The battle will take them to the core of the storm-blasted planet through ice caves and lava flows until they are face to face against the unspeakable threat. As settlements are torn asunder, only Darius and the Red Faction can save mankind. When Darius Mason, grandson of revolution heroes Alec Mason and Samanya, unknowingly releases a long-dormant evil, Armageddon is unleashed on Mars. Colonists struggle for survival in the underground mines after the surface is rendered uninhabitable.
When Darius Mason, grandson of revolution heroes Alec Mason and Samanya, unknowingly Half a century after the Red Faction resistance freed Mars, the red planet again becomes a battleground.
Summary: Half a century after the Red Faction resistance freed Mars, the red planet again becomes a battleground.