The multiplayer beta for Red Faction: Guerrilla was rough around the edges, but enjoyable nonetheless. The recent multiplayer demo? A huge improvement overall, but I still had some doubts about the full game's longevity in a sea of online, community-driven games.
Now that I have played the retail version's multiplayer, I must say I was completely taken by surprise. The core concept was always there, sure, but now that Guerrilla has been polished and the XP/unlockables/lobby system has become fully realized, everything has come together in a huge way.
This is going to sound like pure hype, but seriously, you need to give Red Faction a chance if you have ever enjoyed anything in the first- or third-person shooter genre. It's got the diversity in gameplay you'd want, enough player-controlled options to keep things interesting, and best of all, experience points can be earned in private matches.
That's right, you aren't forced to play with randoms online. Great Friday Night Fights game or greatest?
Quick guide to Friday Night Fights for fresh meat: Each week, a bunch of Destructoid readers and usually an editor or two get together to play some videogames online.
The planning for FNF takes place in the forums, where Dtoiders volunteer to host by dropping their information (gamertag, time, game, etc.) in the forum post corresponding to the system they're interested in playing on.
Then, every Friday, reminder posts for those who don't pay attention to the forums (the scallywags) go up in the community blogs section. And for those who are too lazy to read the blogs, they have got my weekly recap posts which bring all of the FNF-related details into one unified place.
From there, all you need to do is shoot a quick message over to one of the hosts listed below asking for an invite, or simply force your way into the room. Whatever works!
If you want to get your gaming done later on in the evening, scroll on down past this section, otherwise hit up the following European hosts/early FNFers for a good time.
Tonight's Host (more info from Gibbo):- Gandysampras - Gandysampras (Halo 3 @ 10:00 GMT)
- FUSIONTR - Fusion Elder5 (Crackdown @ 10:00 GMT)
Tonight's Hosts (more info from Blehman):- JohnnyViral - JohnnyViral (Red Faction: Guerrilla @ 8:30 EDT)
- CHARAZNABLE - ShinigamiBV (Gears of War @ 8:00 or 9:00 EDT)
- Blehman - Blehmeng (Red Faction: Guerrilla @ 9:00 EDT)
- de BLOO - BLOORATARD (Street Fighter IV @ 11:45 EDT)
- KD_Alpha - MichelleMata85 (Street Fighter IV, NBA 2K9 @ ???)
Tonight's Hosts (more info from Y0j1mb0):- JackOfNoTrades - JackOfNoTrades85 (Red Faction: Guerrilla multiplayer demo @ 8:00 EDT)
- IronPikeman - IronPikeman (Killzone 2 warm-up @ 9:00 EDT, clan battle @ 11:00 EDT -- pass: TOID)
- y0j1mb0 - k0wb0y-b33b0p (SOCOM: Confrontation @ 12:00 EDT)
Beyond FNF: - Destructoid's Killzone 2 clan
Tonight's Games (more info from ryu89):
- ryu89:
Skype: Ryuh89
Super Smash Bros. Brawl: 0817-3428-3165
Starting time: 11:00 EDT
Tonight's Games (more info from ScottyG):- Diablo 2, Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, and other assorted games. Check the Steam group!
Contest:
3:00 PM on 06.05.2009
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Anyway... I'm thinking about doing L4D instead since everybody hates Valve now.