Red Faction: Armageddon is the fourth game in the Red Faction franchise. This game is really on point with all of its other predecessors, but if you really want the freedom of all-encompassing mayhem Red Faction: Guerrilla offered, you may be unhappy with the direction in which this game is headed.

The game starts off with Darius Mason, who is the grandson of the protagonist Alec Mason from Red Faction: Guerrilla. Darius is not the self-proclaimed warrior his grandfather once was, as if that weren't enough, Mason then gets manipulated into saving the world from Mars' terraformer and, several years later to fight an alien menace that has unleashed on the planet Mars in a struggle to save the few surviving Martians. Something game-lovers and diehard fans of the genre will take away from Red Faction: Armageddon, is its use of environmental destruction. Other games allow the players to solely blow single objects to pieces, but in Armageddon, the environment becomes a weapon in itself as the player manipulates and contorts his/her environment to help slay the enemy. You can sling enemies into walls and crash them throughout the landscape in Armageddon.

There are also two extra modes to play in, once the gamer is done with his single player missions. Infestation is an online four player survivor mode, and the Ruin mode can be activated only through a key that comes with a new copy of the game or purchased as DLC. The upgrades a player earns in any game mode, are transferred over and you can go back to lobby between waves in order to purchase more upgrades for Darius. Armageddon also likes to keep its fans busy while in campaign mode, so the developers decided to add in all-inclusive vehicle missions that help alleviate the mundane pacing of getting to the end of campaign mode. Darius gets to pilot mechs, as this becomes a great way to showcase the extensive development that went into the fourth game.