Red Faction, Homefront before April 2011 News

I've got an idea for the Red Faction sequel, don't set it on Mars, that red shit is so boring!

I really like RFG but PLEASE this time make the matchmaking work properly and not some crazy method you are using at the moment.

You will constantly be in a lobby waiting for one last person to join before the game starts, and then the game will decide you have been waiting to long and remove you from the lobby and go searching for a new game, not find one and then setup its own game, where usually one person will join.. So you have a group of 8 people waiting for 2 to begin and your game with 2 people in waiting for another 6... utterly frustrating and maddening logic.

If they cant fix this crazy logic, at the very least let us view the games created and choose one to join.

Perhaps they can make the story good for RFG2?

That was the only thing I felt was lacking. It was extremely fun, especially with the nano rifle, but the plot was like Total Recall, except shit.

Red Faction but not on Mars? I hope that was an attempt at sarcasm...

Really liked Guerilla, only real improvement needed for the single player is a strategy element, I was really disappointed that I couldn't order my followers around, didn't make sense given that my character was something of a hero to the Faction.

Multiplayer could use a lot of work too, co-op perhaps?

Tone the EDF down and make it last longer than 5 hours on normal and we will talk Volition. Keep the Geo-Mod 2.0 though since that ruled.

/Spaaaaace Asshooooooole
//In a truck, flying off a ridge....

"but the plot was like Total Recall, except shit."

Because everyone knows that Total Recall is the pinacle of storytelling... Get ready for a surpriiiiise!

Who cares when you're blowing shit up?!

One to watch for I think. The first game had a lot of potential I think but had a quite a few niggles that held it back from greatness so hopefully they might do better second time around. They do have a great game engine for this anyway.

The story wasn't great, but the engine is certainly a lot of fun and works well in single and on-line modes, coop could be great, but they really need to sort out that matchmaking logic for me to return to the franchise. I don't want to spend what little leisure time i have sat for 20 mins watching the lobby screen, while it cant cobble 5 players together for a DM, despite there being plenty of people to play.

I hope they have set the new RF game at a point in the future where Mars is completely terraformed, so it has more tree's and stuff. The desolate Mars landscape from the first was okay for about half an hour, but after that it just felt like you were driving round a giant headache. As long as they keep the cool damage physics.

got RFG 1 in the thq pack on steam, am really injoying it, but am annoyed that there are no pilotable air vehicles, no modding and the multi matchmaking sucks!

WE need modding this time on pc !

While I don't have a PS3 and so didn't play Uncharted 2 or Demon's Souls, and I didn't get around to picking up Assassin's Creed II yet, Red Faction: Guerrilla was my personal favourite game for 2009 (and I was only playing the 360 version!).

I got it last week for my friend's birthday as well, and he seems to prefer it to Assassin's Creed II (which he'd just completed). Incidentally, I got it from ShopTo.net for 360 for under 12 quid delivered, and it's under a tenner on PS3 on Amazon.co.uk

The sequel has so much potential - some more built-up areas, some stealth options, 2-player co-op for the campaign, and some more control to-ing and fro-ing on the maps (the EDF seem very reluctant to try and reclaim their territory on the map unless you trigger a mission). Also, designerheadache is right - that matchmaking is a royal pain in the butt!

But Red Faction: Guerrilla got so many things right already - great single-player, great multi-player. Honestly, I think one of the reasons it didn't sell so well is because of the Red Faction name - I didn't enjoy the original Red Faction on PC, and it was only because I happened to play (and love) the demo that I picked up this one. Sad to see it at such low prices already (US$5 for PC on D2D last week!).

Oh God, I'm geekgasming over the sequel now... imagine different shops or workshops in different towns, being able to modify your equipment more, an adjustable jetpack in single-player so some of the multiplayer functions are in there... good luck, Volition! :)