Red Faction Re-Mars-tered Heading Nintendo’s Way This Summer

Written by Brandon Hofer on April 24, 2019

News: Another open world title is heading to the Switch soon where you can cause destruction pretty much everywhere and anywhere.

THQ Nordic has just revealed that Red Faction Guerrilla: Re-Mars-tered is heading to the Nintendo Switch. Already available on Xbox One and PlayStation 4, this remastered edition of the popular Red Faction Guerrilla title will be available on July 2, 2019, for $29.99. Some of the features the version on Nintendo Switch will have include the following:

Choose between “Performance” and “Quality” mode

Fully reworked graphics - heavily reworked textures and graphic features adding, for example, specular maps.

Improved shadow rendering

Improved lighting

Reworked shaders and postprocessing

Optional motion controls for a better sense of aiming while playing in handheld mode

For those who might not be familiar with Red Faction Guerrilla, the premise is below:

”Set 50 years after the climactic events of the original Red Faction, Red Faction: Guerrilla allows players to take the role of an insurgent fighter with the newly re-established Red Faction movement as they battle for liberation from the oppressive Earth Defense Force. Red Faction: Guerrilla still defines the limits of destruction-based game-play with a huge open-world, fast-paced guerrilla-style combat, and true physics-based destruction.”

Some of what you can look forward to in Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered, regardless of platform, include:

Open World Guerrilla Warfare - You decide who, when, where and how to battle. Utilize guerrilla tactics, improvised weaponry, and modified vehicles to lead insurgent attacks on EDF targets. Launch attacks based on your own gameplay style, take on missions in any order you choose, or engage in destructive activities to weaken the EDF's grip on Mars.

Strategic Destruction - Use destruction to your tactical advantage, setting ambushes or chain reaction explosions to attack enemy strongholds and permanently modify the game environment. Leverage fully-dynamic physics-based destruction to improvise on the fly: blow holes in a wall or floor to set an ambush or escape, take out a staircase to stop your pursuers, or drive vehicles through blown out walls.

Evolving & Emergent Gameplay - Carve your path through an ever changing landscape as you improvise your combat tactics - mixing gameplay styles, vehicles, weapons and explosives to defeat the EDF.

Sci-Fi Setting - Explore the huge, unforgiving Martian landscape, from the desolate mining outpost of Parker to the gleaming EDF capital city of Eos; then tear through the fully destructible open-world environments swarming with EDF forces, Red Faction resistance fighters, and the downtrodden settlers caught in the cross-fire.

Multiplayer Combat - There is no place to hide when you put your guerrilla warfare skills to the test in a variety of highly destructive multiplayer combat modes.

Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think. Will you be picking up Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered later this summer when it arrives on Nintendo’s platform?