Red Faction: Battlegrounds Xbla - Xbox 360 [arc... Instant

: Even when you find a match, performance is marred by dropped connections, disappearing vehicles, and occasional console freezes. Community Perspectives

: Designed as an online-heavy title, the community was essentially "dead on arrival". Unless you have friends for local 4-player couch co-op, you'll likely spend more time in empty lobbies than in actual matches.

: Unless you are a die-hard series completionist or looking for a very specific, cheap local multiplayer fix, your $10 is better spent on the Xbox Marketplace for a more robust twin-stick shooter like Renegade Ops . Red Faction: Battlegrounds Reviews for Xbox 360 - GameFAQs Red Faction: Battlegrounds XBLA - Xbox 360 [Arc...

: The single-player "campaign" is actually just 16 brief training missions that can be blazed through in about 45 minutes. Its primary purpose seems to be unlocking items for Armageddon at Ranks 10 and 20.

“Battlegrounds is fun for a bit, but that fun depends on so many things coming together (mainly the ability to find other people to play with).” GamesRadar+ · 15 years ago : Even when you find a match, performance

“Honestly, the game struck me as a vehicular combat game that was halfway done when someone walked in and said, "Hey, we should make this a Red Faction game!"” IGN · 13 years ago

: Combat follows a basic rock-paper-scissors mechanic between Walkers , Tanks , and Rovers . However, the small maps and zoomed-out camera often result in "death-loops" where you respawn and immediately explode again. : Unless you are a die-hard series completionist

for the Xbox 360 (XBLA) is a chaotic, top-down vehicular combat spin-off that unfortunately feels more like a hollow promotional tool for Red Faction: Armageddon than a fully realized game. While it captures the franchise's signature love for explosions, it ditches the deep environmental destruction that made the series famous in favor of generic arena brawling.