![]() ![]() The bad guys win that day and the giant machine is taken out, reversing all of the work done to give Mars a more habitable atmosphere and sending the local population down to live in the caves below the surface. The action actually starts 40 years after the previous game, with a prologue set during a terrorist assault on the Mars terraformer. Players step into the role of Darius Mason, grandson of Guerilla‘s protagonist and a formidable warrior in his own right. There's nothing it does exceedingly well, and it's otherwise very unenjoyable.Armageddon picks up 50 years after the events of the previous game. If you like destructibility - well, I assume the previous game is better. If you want sci-fi action and tons of guns, Bulletstorm is WAY better. If you want a game about an alien invasion with bug creatures and tentacles popping out of nowhere, Black Mesa is better. ![]() Even linear levels notwithstanding, it's just not a good game in general. Ultimately, I would not recommend this game for any amount of money. The game gets so mind-numbingly repetitive in the latter half that I had to run past most things just to preserve my sanity. The plot and characters are the most generic of generic sci-fi shooter stereotypes. Special effects are headache-inducing, environments are butt-ugly, and while there's a wide array of weapons, most are fairly samey, that is, if you aren't in a forced turret section, of which there are many. You are a bald Space Marine fighting off hordes of identical, incredibly generic alien bugs. Other than that though, there's very little to write home about here. ![]() Even in the 2020s, Halo Infinite doesn't even let you run over trees with a tank. Let's get the game's one good point out of the way: most manmade structures can be destroyed and rebuilt, which is impressive for 2011. ![]()
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