

"What did get old was getting shot and dying. Writer Russ Frushtick had experienced the same thing I had. "Crap," I thought, in the manner of someone who'd just been scooped. Immediately after putting the game down, I went to my PC and saw an article that had just been posted to MTV's game blog: " Why I Played Red Faction: Guerrilla on Casual." My elation at this great revelation was short-lived.

When I dialed down Guerrilla's difficulty, the game became an entirely new experience. I'd never have been able to do these incredibly fun things on "Normal" mode. I could destroy enemy buildings with impunity, not having to worry that I'd be sniped as I was gleefully reducing a communications tower to splinters. I could absorb far more of the enemies' bullets, meaning that instead of having to hang back and pick them off from afar, I could run up to the soldiers swinging my sledgehammer, taking all of them out with brutal bashes to the head.
