After Red Faction Armageddon's disappointing sales figures in 2011, THQ quietly put the series to bed, not long before the publisher itself came to a messy and highly-publicised end. Nordic Games promptly snapped up the rights to the franchise, commenting that it had a "good concept" to work with, and is already discussing possibilities with as-yet unnamed developers.
According to Volition's senior producer Jim Boone, however, there's only one outfit qualified to carry on his studio's legacy - DICE, developer of the deformation-happy Battlefield series and the much-touted Frostbite engine.
Halo veteran Marcus Lehto's studio, Ridgeline, will now be joined by DICE on the project.
TheGamer Writes "No more nerdy or serious games set on the Red Planet, send me back to that destructive sandbox."
It would be a perfect time with the huge leap in cpu power these consoles have over previous generations
Yes please. Guerilla was a great game. The destruction in that game is still better than most. Maybe Volition can go back to it and let Saints Row rest for a while.
Yes! More players young and old need to play and respect the franchise that literally invented destructible environments!
Would love a REAL Red Faction 4 (the one Volition REALLY wanted to make and not Armageddon) or a Red Faction 1 remake.
Battlefield Producer Jaqub Ajmal, who has worked on fan-fave entries such as BF3, BF4 and their DLCs, has announced he's departing DICE.
That's a bad sign but not unexpected given how EA managed the franchise post BF4.
Hopefully he will start his own company and be able to bring a new spin on the shooter genre.
Oh this could be good.I still play 1& 2 on my Ps2.
Red Faction Guerrilla was one of my favorite games of this generation.
A fps Red Faction game by Dice? im in, I loved the early Red Faction games, more the original, played the hell out of multiplayer
That would be awesome, but they're sorta busy...
Oh nononono, resurrect it as a TPS or GTFO!