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What is the Story Behind Red Faction: Guerrilla?

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I bought the game a few weeks ago and it’s amazing. I just don’t understand the story of why they are on mars and why red faction wants to destroy EDF property?

Red Faction: Guerrilla takes place in 2125. The Earth Defense Force (EDF), the allies in the original “Red Faction”, has become the main antagonist of Guerrilla. Although initially supportive of the Martian miners, Earth’s natural resources have run scarce, and as a result, its global economy has collapsed from rampant speculation of commodities and lack of production. Under pressure by Earth’s corporations and leaders to acquire the resources of Mars at any cost and at a pace to meet Earth’s high demand, the EDF has forced Martian society into a permanent state of unfree labour. The newly-reformed “Red Faction” arises to rebel against the EDF, drive them off the planet, and begin fairer negotiations with Earth.

Alec Mason, the player character and a mining engineer,[5] arrives on Mars to reunite with brother Daniel and begin a new life, only to learn to his surprise that Daniel is now a member of Red Faction. While on work detail, Daniel testifies about the EDF’s cruelty to the Martian people and asks Alec to join their cause; he is soon after gunned down by air support from an EDF assault team. Alec is rescued by Red Faction guerrillas and becomes a reluctant freedom fighter for the group along side inventor “Sam” Samanya, rambling psychotic Jenkins (who believes that Mars should be “purified”), and commander Hugo Davies. Between Davies’ command and Alec’s skill and bravery, the EDF are quickly driven out of an entire sector, “Parker”, for the first time.

While the campaign against the EDF continues in the “Dust” sector, Alec is eventually assigned by Davies to routine surveillance of the “Marauders”, a mysterious and violent warrior tribe living in the inhospitable “Badlands”, in hopes of recovering stolen weapons. Instead, Alec winds up tracking them to an abandoned Ultor Corporation base that promptly comes under massive assault from the EDF. During the fracas, Alec steals a strange device called the “Nano Forge” and escapes. The EDF responds by pulling out of the Dust Sector and ordering the artillery base in the “Free Fire Zone” to bomb the town of Dust into oblivion. Alec is then tasked with saving key members of Red Faction and vital information on the EDF from the bombardment, which he succeeds in doing.

Alec seems to temporarily lose faith in the movement, citing that no matter how determined their efforts the EDF will simply bomb them to submission. However, Sam analyzes the Nano Forge and discovers it can create catastrophic nanites that can disintegrate any object. A prototype “Nano Rifle” is built from the device, which Alec uses to liberate other sectors, while Davies declares it a vital bargaining chip against the EDF. A successful suicide run against an EDF artillery base is commenced, allowing the group to begin hostilities against the EDF in their own central territories. Unfortunately, Jenkins’ obsession with the “purification” of Mars deludes him into betraying the group, resulting in the annihilation of the Red Faction’s command center and the death of Davies (Alec kills Jenkins later on but it is a side-mission only in Eos, but regardless the player can still play the activity “collateral damage”). Only Sam and Alec survive the assault; they learn afterwards that the star ship Hydra under the command of Admiral Kobel is arriving to Mars to put an end to the Red Faction once and for all. They also plan to elminate all life on the planet, as said by Kobel himself, calling the civilians “Expendable”.

Sam declares that they will need support from the Marauders if the campaign against the EDF is to continue; when Alec remains dubious, she reveals that she is a former Marauder herself, joining the Red Faction because the Marauders were consumed with anger and hate, and did not want to be a part of the lifestyle they endure. The pair head to a Marauder stronghold to meet with their ruler, Vasha, Sam’s sister. Sam requests the usage of the Marauders’ particle accelerator technology, with plans on combining it with the Nano Forge to create a superweapon capable of destroying the Hydra. Vasha agrees in exchange for possession of the Nano Forge once the war is finished. While inside the Marauder stronghold, the player can also discover a “radio tag” found on an old corpse that implies the Marauders are the descendants of former Ultor Corporation scientists.

After capturing a broadcasting station and using it to regroup the Red Faction, Sam and Alec lead a successful final assault on the EDF’s central command alongside teams of Red Faction and the Marauders, driving the EDF out of their own territory. The two groups converge on Mt. Vogel to begin utilizing the Marauder’s accelerator; however, a surprise EDF blitzkrieg lead by a General Roth wipes out the Marauder crew guarding the summit end of the accelerator and Vasha along with them. Alec single-handedly storms the mountain, defeating Roth’s entire army and personally killing Roth. Sam’s plan succeeds and the accelerated Nano F

Red Army Faction’s Verena Becker Faces a Trial in Germany Over 1977 Murder

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Verena Becker, former member of the Red Army Faction terrorists group, has to stand trial for the 1977 murder of Germany’s former Chief Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback , a court ruled.
Red Faction: Guerilla – (Game Trailer HD)

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Forgotten Games of 2009

Everyone is making their best of the year lists about this time and of course there are lots of lists that forget about albums, movies or in this case, games, that came out earlier in the year and are now forgotten due to the mass of new and great games around the holiday season. Here is a list of three games that have been forgotten by the critics and listmakers.

Resident Evil 5

It seems like this came out a long time ago but it really just came out in March 2009. This was one of the hottest games available for a few months and got nearly unanoumsly good reviews but now critics seem to have forgotten about it. The graphics along make Resident Evil 5 worthy of inclusion in the best of the year lists, but it is possible that the seemingly outdated stop-and-shoot style of gameplay may be the reason it is now being ignored by listmakers and critics. The failture of Capcom to release any worthy downloadable content after the game’s release may also have something to do with people forgetting about the game. With DLC it would have kept Resident Evil 5 fresh on critics’ minds.

Prototype

This darkhorse release surprised many as one of the best and most unique game experiences of the year. You control Alex Mercer, who wakes up to find himself geneticially engineered with shapeshifting powers that give him superhuman speed and performance chip weaponry, but the real power is his ability to “eat” or “consume” people so that he can take their memories, powers and their appearance. It is a very large sandbox style action game that gives the player hours of great gameplay but little in the way of replay value, which is possibly why it has been forgotten now at the end of the year.

Red Faction: Guerilla

A very underrated action game, you play as a mercenary on the newly colonated planet Mars avenging the death of your brother. The fun of this game was how almost everything in the game could be destroyed. Any building, any barricade, any vehicle, anything. The mechanics and gravity of destroying huge buildings with a few well placed grenades was a feeling of destructive bliss. Too bad this game got lost in the shuffle because it also had one of the more fun multiplayer modes in a recent action game.

About the Author

Alan McGee is a freelance writer from MN.