
The first one is the aesthetic aspect of it. Why go underground again? Jim Boone: There's a few different reasons, actually. IGN AU: Speaking of the first Red Faction, it seems like it's a risky move to take the series back underground after it had broken away from those claustrophobic environments and given players big worlds to play in that really highlighted the GeoMod technology well. Expect some freakier foes than the last game. You still have human enemies that you fight, but you have this otherworldly nemesis that you're also having to deal with. It was definitely more creature-oriented, along with humans, and the same thing is going on in Red Faction: Armageddon. Really, if anything, we've kinda come full circle, with Red Faction one, where we did have an underground setting, and we had a lot of mutants in that one. We haven't deviated at all from our roots in terms of Red Faction in that regard. But having said that, from a gameplay standpoint it is still very firmly in the action realm. Our thought is that if you have these creatures that you're encountering in the world and they're going through and massacring everyone, it's probably not going to look terribly pretty.

IGN AU: Does this new alien threat mean you're taking the game down more of a horror shooter path? Jim Boone: That's a good question actually, and what we like to talk about is that in terms of the tone, and the vibe, it definitely has a very horrific element to it. So you're trying to find out what's going on, and trying to set things right. And some of the people are actually blaming the main character, Darius, for this happening.

And in yet worse news, while they were down there they've encountered something that is now wiping everyone out, massacring everyone.

It took them a little over ten years to do so. Unfortunately, the surface of Mars at this point in the story has been devastated, and so the entire civilisation has had to go beneath the surface of Mars and rebuild their civilisation. Jim Boone: Red Faction: Armageddon takes place two generations after the events of Red Faction: Guerrilla, and you play Darius Mason, who's actually the grandson of the main heroes from Red Faction: Guerrilla, Alec and Samanya. IGN AU: Tell us a little about what's happened since we last visited Mars.
