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Red Faction: Battlegrounds

Red Faction: Battlegrounds revolves around vehicular combat from a top-down view. It has twenty offline missions arranged in a weakly-ordered campaign as well as multiplayer both local and online.

40 5 April 2011

Red Faction: Battlegrounds is a shooter developed by THQ Digital Studios UK, released 5 April 2011 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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What Red Faction: Battlegrounds is

Red Faction: Battlegrounds is a shooter game developed by THQ Digital Studios UK and released in 2011. It was published by THQ. It is available on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Red Faction: Battlegrounds revolves around vehicular combat from a top-down view. It has twenty offline missions arranged in a weakly-ordered campaign as well as multiplayer both local and online.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Red Faction: Battlegrounds holds a critic score of 40 out of 100. That places it above 4% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 28 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Red Faction: Battlegrounds launched on 5 April 2011, within three weeks of Portal 2, Crysis 2, Mortal Kombat and Total War: Shogun 2. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Portal 2, Crysis 2, Mortal Kombat, Total War: Shogun 2.

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When did Red Faction: Battlegrounds come out?
Red Faction: Battlegrounds was released on 5 April 2011 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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