Red Faction: Armageddon Review

System requirements:

Minimum:
OS: Windows XP
Processor: 2GHz Dual Core Processor (Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon X2) or higher
Memory: 2GB System RAM or more
Graphics: 320MB Video RAM, GPU w/ Shader Model 3.0 support, NVIDIA GeForce 88xx series or better, ATI Radeon HD30xx series or better
DirectX: 9.0c
Hard Drive: 7.5 GB
Sound: 100% DirectX 9.0C compliant sound card or equivalent onboard sound

Recommended:
OS: Microsoft Windows 7
Processor: Any Quad Core Processor(Intel Core i5 or AMD Phenom II X4) or 3.0+ Dual Core CPU
Memory: 4GB System RAM or more
Graphics: 1GB Video RAM, GPU w/ Shader Model 4.0 support, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 400 series or better, ATI Radeon HD5000 series or better
DirectX: 11
Hard Drive: 7.5 GB
Sound: 100% DirectX 9.0C compliant sound card or equivalent onboard sound

The Red Faction series carved its own niche ever since the inception of the franchise back in 2001, by letting players interact with the environment in new and exciting ways. And when we mean interact, we mean tear everything down with a big hammer until there's nothing left.

2009's Red Faction: Guerrilla marked the jump to the current generation of devices for the series, and impressed through its wide open world, even if its presentation lacked polish in areas like graphics.

Now, Red Faction: Armageddon, Volition, the developer of the series, and THQ, its publisher, have eliminated the open-world aspect in favor of adding more polish, telling a more refined story and allowing for the same freedom in tearing the environment down.

Does Red Faction: Armageddon manage to succeed or should it be torn down bit by bit with a large sledgehammer? Let's find out.