Some people can appreciate a little bit of drama mixed in with humor - others, not so much. good men." Do you not think that, as a lot of this was triggered by your movements through the environment, and the timing was all entirely controlled by the player, that sometimes that the two might collide with each other? This funny, smart-alec is also this soft character? Do you think that perhaps they can't mesh too well? GR: You just mentioned the "deep story moments." When I was just playing the game, it seemed to me that the way the main character was portrayed, he came across as somewhat of a - to use a vulgar term - a "dudebro." There seemed to be a large dissonance - sometimes he would be the guy making a smart-alec-quip, similar to a Nathan Drake or John McClane character, and then moments later, he would be reminiscing over fallen comrades, "a lot of men died here. So I think you can have both! You can have really deep story moments that push the narrative forward, but there's also some moments where you have some very original, complex gameplay." At the same time, we have these great sandbox environments where you're taking advantage of destruction to make sure that you can fight in a really unique way and have a lot of creative options. You get to see some great cinematics in there, with a great storyline, which we deliberately made sure to include. In going from Guerrilla, which was an open-world game, we specifically chose to make this a more linear game. I think that, just because you're doing one, doesn't mean you can't do the other. "I don't think they're mutually exclusive. But is at that the expense of the main character? Because if you're thinking always about the environment - if you're always thinking "Oh man, I could cut that bit in half, and then repair it! Then I could run over there and blow that thing up!" - then surely, because you're experiencing this game as yourself, as a player, but looking at Darius from a third-person perspective, he might become lost amongst the environment. GR: It seems to me that you really want people to think about the environment. So giving the player a more creative set of options in how they fight. Whereas in Guerrilla, the destruction was more in the background, we wanted you to take all the different elements into consideration rather than just thinking 'Take him down, shoot the bad guy.' You're thinking more about what's around you, your gun, the environment, repairing it. Basically, we wanted something that was going to. "You can use the repair functionality, and that allows you to create cover it's also a part of the story - you have to rebuild bridges, you have to rebuild the ladders, in order to move forward in the game. so destruction is driven into how you fight and how you play the game." With Red Faction: Armageddon, you have these physics based weapons, like the Magnet Gun, like the Plasma Beam. In Guerrilla, you had the destruction engine, you had destruction around you, but it really wasn't at the forefront.
"I would say the primary thing is basically giving players a more unique form of gameplay. What would you say about the game's character, in particular, or the way that you play the game, is the real meaning behind Red Faction: Armageddon? What is that you would like players to come away having experienced? GR: Earlier this week, at GDC, Clint Hocking asked the question "How do games mean?" Not just looking at a game's story, but focusing more on how your character, and the game's dynamic, affects your experience of the narrative. Darius is tricked by Adam Hale into unleashing this alien menace that has been sleeping beneath Mars, and once that's released, Darius is the only one who can stop them. Then there's this guy, Adam Hale, who is basically the game's bad guy, and leader of a group of cultists who want to bring down the terraforma (a device that allows the surface of Mars to be inhabitable), forcing humanity to be driven underground. "The story for Armageddon is: You control Darius Mason, grandson of Alec Mason from Red Faction: Guerrilla. Could you explain the story of Red Faction: Armageddon, for those of our readers who might not yet know the game's plot? Don't forget, if you see anything you find interesting, post a comment in the section below. While the hands-on impressions aren't quite ready to go live yet, we figured you might like to read the interview, featured below. While we were down there, we had some hands-on time with the single-player aspect of the game (along with a number of other modes) and also had the chance to interview Eric Barker, Manager at Volition Inc. On March 7, 2011, we were invited down to London, England, in order to have some play-time with the upcoming Volition-developed Red Faction: Armageddon.
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