Finished Red Faction. There was a some padding towards the end with DRIVE ACROSS HALF THE GAME FOR NO REASON parts, but overall it was a good game. Had a lot of annoyances like not letting you play with the fun toys much, bad (or lack of) checkpointing, repetition, and horrible combat where you basically need to find some little tiny spot (or better a car) where you're not being hit to recharge your shields since guys around shooting you from every direction at once and infinite respawn. Still, destroying stuff was really cool, the mechs rocked, the visuals were fantastic, good music, and the story was light but fine. Plus it was pretty short (only 20 main missions) so it didn't wear out its welcome too much.
Wrecking Crew is fun. Kinda dicked that the multiplayer gets even MORE and BETTER toys to play with. A real jetpack (thrust), rhino, singularity bombs, etc...it's too bad the PC community is DEAD for this game because I'd imagine running around in deathmatch with all these crazy weapons and vehicles while the environment is destructing around you would be very, very fun.
I checked out a little of the so&so of the badlands dlc and its impressive! A full-blown area with importance targets, side-missions, story misisons, all new weapons/vehicles, cutscenes. Cool stuff. Will play through it tomorrow before I uninstall the game.
I definitely got my $10 worth from the steam sale and would probably pick up a sequel if they made one with improvements.
