Volition deliver a brilliant destruction game in which every Martian building gives way under Alec Mason's hammer. The demolition tools delight, the red open world keeps a rare flavour, and the 360 receives a welcomely original sandbox in an era flooded with cautious imitators.
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Category
Action Adventure1 player16+
Description
Third-person shooter by Volition and THQ, June 2009. Alec Mason arrives on Mars to work in EDF mines and joins the Martian Revolutionary War to overthrow the tyrannical mining company. Nano-Forge demolition hammer destroying environments with realistic GeoMod 2.0 physics, driveable vehicles and mechas and Martian open world. Revolutionary GeoMod destruction mechanics.
Red Faction - Guerrilla review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
4/5
Music
★★★★★
"Excellent"
4/5
Story
★★★★★
"Captivating"
Mars is built to be demolished: every structure rests on genuinely simulated beams and pillars, so a building struck in the wrong place collapses on itself and takes its neighbors with it. The rust and ochre palette of the Martian ground contrasts with the blue of the corporation's uniforms, and the ruins left behind stay visible for the whole playthrough.
The score borrows from industrial western music: electric guitar played in sustained notes, metallic percussion and low strings that evoke a frontier rather than a planet. Major demolitions trigger a short swell then a return to silence, and the Martian wind, permanently present, serves as continuous backing for every track.
The revolt is told through territory: each sector has a control gauge you lower by destroying the corporation's installations, so the story advances as the landscape changes hands. Around it, the tale of a miner who came looking for work and whose brother is shot on the first day recalls that the uprising begins with a private grief.
Gameplay
"Excellent"
Fun
"From the very first seconds"
A sandbox where everything is destructible: with a hammer and explosives, you flatten entire buildings that collapse realistically. The joy of free demolition, never caught short, delivers an instant, gleeful release. Snappy, generous and technically stunning, an open-world that makes physical destruction its heart and turns every mission into creative chaos.
Addictiveness
"Captivating"
Difficulty
"Balanced"
Lifespan
"Long"
Technical info
💾6,7 GB📅05/06/2009
Published by THQ
Red Faction - Guerrilla (Xbox 360) price, value & rarity
European (PAL) edition of the Volition open-world action game on a Mars in revolt, famed for its full physical destruction letting any building be pulverized with sledgehammer and explosives. Widely distributed in the West, its appeal lies in this acclaimed demolition technology and an esteem cult rather than scarcity. A piece valued by fans of destructive sandboxes.
Is Red Faction - Guerrilla still worth playing in 2026?
Released in 2009 on Xbox 360, Volition's Red Faction Guerrilla makes destruction its very core, thanks to a physics engine that lets you level any building with hammer and explosives, on a colonised Mars caught in revolt. Demolishing enemy structures piece by piece delivers a unique, ever exhilarating satisfaction. The open world and the sabotage missions fully exploit this mechanic. The repetition of objectives and a conventional story are the only downsides. But the pleasure of destruction stays without equal. For fans of destructible sandboxes and action, this title keeps a strong appeal today.
