Red Faction: Guerilla is set to return as a remastered edition.

A Red Faction: Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered Edition, if you will.

No, that’s not a pun. Well, it is a pun, but it’s also the remastered edition’s proper name.

Continuing the time-honored tradition that brought you such remasters as Darksiders 2: Deathinitive Edition and Darksiders: Warmastered Edition, THQ Nordic are hard at work creating a remastered Red Faction: Guerilla, the 2009 classic that convinced a generation of gamers that blowing up everything is the solution to all of life’s problems.

In case you weren’t around at the time, Red Faction: Guerilla was the third installment of the Red Faction franchise. The whole plot centered around how a Martian colonized by man was now being oppressed by their home planet of Earth. Earth’s Defence Force, the military arm of Earth, is desperately trying to quell a rebellion sparked by deplorable treatment of miners on Mars, with the Martian populace taking up arms to overthrow their oppressors.

Red Faction Guerilla
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Red Faction Guerilla

If this sounds like quite a bit of human history, then you know exactly where original developers Volition were drawing inspiration from.

The original games were first-person, but Guerilla switched to third-person to better show the explosions. It may have also had something to do with the fact their other franchise, Saints Row, also was third-person.

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But anyway, the whole shtick of the game is you can blow up anything, and you must use this awesome power to cleverly achieve your objectives. For example, you might blow up a building holding a high-ranking military officer and then blow up the bridge to prevent reinforcements from storming your position and preventing your escape.

As for what’s new, THQ Nordic (the company that sprang from original publisher THQ’s demise) says they’ve reworked everything, including better textures, shadows, rendering, lighting, a complete shader & postprocessing rework, and native 4k support.

There’s no word on a release date yet, or which platforms it’ll come out on, but you can probably expect all the big names to be involved and definitely to see a release on PC. Maybe even in time for the holidays.

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