We get up close and personal with an alien infection from the upcoming third-person shooter Will '.
At the Electronic Entertainment Expo last month, we saw a demo
Unlike Red Faction: Guerrilla, you shouldn't have any qualms about destroying everything in sight; in fact, that's what you're supposed to do if you hope to leave behind a safe path for survivors. An icon in your radar will indicate which structures need to be taken down. We talked about the new magnet gun that smashes two objects you fire at together in our last preview
Another thing that the nano forge can do (which we didn't see) is fire off a shockwave that acts as an area attack to disable creatures in your vicinity. This disables them and causes them to fall back, giving you time to focus and pick off one alien at a time. Durall explained that this new feature gives players more options and changes up the gameplay experience. We'll learn more about the other uses of the nano forge another time, as the focus of our demo was on the aliens. The first enemies we encountered were the creepers, which are spiderlike fast-moving aliens that attack in a pack. The aliens send creepers out as part of the first wave to take out any humans that might get in the way. They have leaping attacks and a ranged spit attack, so even if they aren't very durable, in large numbers, they can be quite annoying. Their role is to neutralize the area so that the disease can continue to spread without having anyone get in the way.
Don't underestimate these guys, especially when they come in packs.
The next group we faced were the ravagers, a much larger alien species that stands upright and is more cunning than the insectlike creepers because it uses the walls and ceilings to its advantage. Agile and stronger, ravagers are the defense lines and keep you from destroying what they're trying to build. These are two of the weakest aliens that you'll encounter in the game, and Volition isn't quite ready yet to reveal other details at this point. Durall gave us a bit of backstory by mentioning that Dr. Capec from the original Red Faction had encountered the same aliens and was performing tests on them. The mutants that resulted from those experiments were what you faced in the initial game. These aliens have been buried underground for a long time now and have only recently awoken. It seems that there's more of an emphasis on the story this time around, as THQ is delving into the lore by partnering with the SyFy channelcollect live action two-hour movie pilot, the game ships called Red Faction: Origins. History will follow with Alex Mason 'son Jake and take place between the events in the guerrilla and Armageddon.
We'll be keeping a close watch on the game in the months to come, so stay tuned to GameSpot for more details on Red Faction: Armageddon as soon as they become available. The game is currently set to be released March 1, 2011.
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