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Red Faction: Armageddon demo now live (and extra magnetic)

by Alexander Sliwinski on May 3rd 2011 3:15PM

The Xbox Live demo for Red Faction: Armageddon is now available and has everything you could want ... by which we mean "the only weapon you'll ever want:" the magnet gun. The weapon is anything but polarizing, as you might have noticed in our recent preview.

Beyond toying with the magnet gun, you'll get to reassemble demolished buildings and walkways with the nano forge, use collapsible worm holes to implode enemies, and just generally blow up everything in sight. The demo concludes with a note that says the game will launch on May 31, but we'll remind you that the title was recently moved to June 7.

Tags: demo, microsoft, Red-Faction-Armageddon, Volition, volition-studios, xbox, xbox-live

Reader Comments (32)

Nice, a reason to turn on my 360!

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

The Gears 3 beta is out and you needed a reason?

@Danthaman The online is working and you needed a reason.?

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

The best gaming console on the market, and you needed a reason?

im replaying guerrilla right now on my PC. im looking forward to this one.

@bshido
Guerrilla raped my laptop. I can't imagine Armageddon doing any better.

Does anyone know if the demo has any co-op?

@The Pork
No Coop in the demo

Just added it to my download queue. Thanks for the heads up.

It's pretty damn good. I love the Magnet gun, it's hilarious.

the last red faction demo was great so I look forward to this

Meanwhile PSN is deader than a doornail *sighs*. Patience and all that good stuff right?

@snydist the good news is that when the store is up we will have loads of demos and games plus free PS+ games and discounts so we will have lots of things to do

I still need to play the last Red Faction game. That should be pretty cheap now, yeah?

Just played the demo and was pretty impressed , on another note I have now decided my new goal in life is to own a real magnet gun

Just finished the demo. Was not impressed. Not that my opinion matters. :p

pc demo? D:

Red faction or Infamous? Red faction or Infamous?
I DON'T KNOOOOW!!!

@xxMayDay31xx

I'll help you out.

Red Faction.

@xxMayDay31xx I would pick Infamous easily over red faction the game is amazing.

@xxMayDay31xx
Always bet on Red.

@xxMayDay31xx

red faction gets boring after a bit but infamous is pretty bad ass through out

@xxMayDay31xx

Tough call. Both are good games, though neither are the deepest sandbox games around. I'd pick inFamous by a slim margin, but if you really enjoy blowing stuff up go with Red Faction. Really, you should just play both.

The Lego Pirates of the Caribbean demo is out also im downloading them both now.

Actually I think you'll find the magnet gun is *highly* polarizing

good stuff definately guna download this asap :P looking forward to this game, hopefully you'll give it a good review :D

Thought the demo was alright. Nothing amazing IMO. I'll pick it up eventually though.

Boy, Nintendo really upgraded the Power Glove.

The demo was pretty short and restricted. Would have liked to play around in some more open areas with bigger structures.

@WiredKnight Exactly what I was thinking.

Wow, lemme just say as I loved RFG, this one seems a little more solid. Its Got the feel of the first, but damn, magnet gun is epic.

Played this demo last night. My fears have been confirmed. Simply put, there is no comparison between this and Red Faction Guerilla.

In Guerilla, you played a terrorist and spent a good amount of time destroying goverment property. It was interesting, deep, replayable, and just downright fun.

This game has you shooting generic neon-colored aliens in claustrophic dark caves. Let me be clear: this is not fun. And there is no challenge. You dispense your foes with such overwhelming firepower you might as well be pissing on an ant colony.

About that firepower: You have an arm band that repairs anything, a gun that shoots black holes, a gun that magnetizes anything to anything else, and some kind of kinetic force powers to boot. Don't forget an indestructable armored suit that auto locks onto anything and can instant-kill anything by charging through it. Did I mention you're just a lowly miner?

Ok, this is garbage. Volition managed to remove everything that was fun in Guerilla and replace it with...well Doom 3 with slightly destructible environments. The magnet gun is cool, sure, but it's completely unnecessary and certainly not a game-changer (say, like Half Life 2's gravity gun).

Long live Red Faction Guerilla, one of the most underrated games on the 360 and one of the best games of the past 5 years. Now if only Volition would realize it.

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