Red Faction: Armageddon
Red Faction: Armageddon is a third-person shooter video game developed by Volition and published by THQ. It is the fourth installment in the Red Faction series. The game takes place on the planet Mars. It is…
Red Faction: Armageddon is an adventure developed by Volition, released 6 June 2011 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $1.99 at GOG. The main story takes about 17 hrs to finish.
What Red Faction: Armageddon is
Red Faction: Armageddon is an adventure game developed by Volition and released in 2011. It was published by Syfy Games. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Geo-Mod.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Half a century after the Red Faction resistance and their Marauder allies freed Mars from the brutal Earth Defense Force, harmony on Mars is again threatened but this time by a lethal force shrouded in mystery. When the massive Terraformer that supplies Mars with its Earth-like air and weather is destroyed, the atmosphere turns to chaos, super-tornados and lightning storms engulf the planet. To survive, the Colonists flee to the underground mines and build a network of habitable caves. Five years later, Darius Mason, grandson of Martian Revolution heroes Alec Mason and Samanya, runs a lucrative business from Bastion, underground hub of Colonist activity. Mining, scavenging, mercenary…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, open world and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 58 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Red Faction: Armageddon holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 7 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 72, across 104 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 17 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $1.99, that works out to about $0.12 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2GHz Dual Core Processor (Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon™ X2) or higher, 2GB System RAM or more and 320MB Video RAM, GPU w/ Shader Model 3.0 support, NVIDIA® GeForce® 88xx series or better, ATI Radeon™ HD30xx series or better. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 8GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.99 at GOG, 90% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Red Faction: Armageddon launched on 6 June 2011, within three weeks of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, L.A. Noire, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D and Terraria. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, L.A. Noire, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, Terraria.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Red Faction: Armageddon yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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