Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered

It's still fun. Play on the easiest difficulty for the most enjoyment unless you wanna turn what should be a fun playground into an unfun slog.

I played this game when it first came out almost 20 years ago, loved it and I was excited to see a remastered edition of a game that had unprecedented levels of interactive destruction for its time. Well I got through a big chunk of the game and I was extremely disappointed to say the least. Maybe my nostalgia goggles failed me, but I do not remember the physics or AI being this terrible. While driving, I was constantly hitting invisible bumps on the road that would cause my vehicle to flip inexplicably and the other cars seemed to purposely swerve into me while I was in the middle of a high speed chase like I had an idiot magnet strapped to the hood. Then I would lose favor with them when they would inevitably die from the resulting explosion. Dealing with the friendly AI was like leading a herd of freshly lobotomized cats through a fireworks presentation. They would constantly jump in front of your line of fire as if they were as eager to get out of the game as I was, and often decided to hang around explosives I laid or inside buildings I was trying to collapse. Hostages I was sent to rescue would often and eagerly run into mosh pits of enemy combatants and get minced instead of following me to the getaway vehicle. The timed destruction minigames were more of a test of my patience than actual strategic demolition as many would usually turn to trial and error, usually only successful once the physics decided to behave consistently for long enough to collapse the target (The one in the Badlands was especially egregious trying to roll explosive tanks down a long tunnel onto a building. Mason does not throw straight half the time and the tanks often get stuck on the way down leading to many many many frustrating restarts) The worst would probably be the Jenkins Collateral Damage missions. You ride gunner on some improvised buggy and shoot rockets at different structures and enemy vehicles. Jenkins apparently put his jalopy together with popsicle sticks and chewed bubblegum because it doesnt take much for it to get destroyed and you fail the mission. However, that doesnt stop him from slamming into every vehicle he comes across on the way to his own demise (Enemy or civilian). The final straw was when I was on some double digit attempt of the Collateral Damage mission in the Oasis region. I finally blew up all enemies and Jenkins was literally in the clear and about to turn into the safehouse until he decided to gently kiss something invisible with his buggy on the side of the road. Im not sure if it was a rock, or a dead iguana or maybe Jenkins himself hit the killswitch because even he got tired of his constant incoherent yapping, but the vehicle lost the last 8th or so of its health and was destroyed.... 50 feet from the end... Before my pounding headache got any worse, I alt F4d and uninstalled the game. I was so disappointed in this because of how much I loved the original game, but now I know better than to let happy memories dictate how I spend my money today.