REALLY mixed feelings... read below for my reasons
If this game was NOT called Red Faction I would give this game 5 stars. BUT it is a Red Faction game and I want to give it 3, but its fun. First off: this game is super fun no two ways about it!!!
2nd: This is a TERRIBLE Red Faction game. I just wish they called it something else. They added aliens which are a FUN element but STUPID in the Red Faction Universe. Its just cheap and lame to all of sudden have aliens on mars after 3 other games with no aliens on mars. They took out player to player multiplayer which I LOVED in the previous game. This game is linear, not sandbox (like the last game), which I think is also bad thing. the GEOMOD 2.0 engine is amazing. You can destroy everything, but it takes a back seat in this game even the added wrecking crew mode (called Ruin) is only 5 tiny levels that I beat in 10 minutes. For a Red Faction game this has gone in a TERRIBLE direction. If you can get past that, then this game is SUPER FUN!!! most people wont care or notice, but I have been a Red Faction super fan since the very first game on ps2. now we are stuck with aliens in the red faction universe for ever (LAME IMO!) and I want to see the GEOMOD engine become more of a central part or an even bigger mini game much like it was in Red Faction Guerrilla, in that regard they took not 1 but 2 steps back in this game. otherwise this game is super super fun. I just imagine it has a different name when I play it like: "Super Fun Blow (some) Stuff up and Kill Pointless aliens Mediocre Story, no PvP Multiplayer Mars Game"