Get your ass to Mars

So I've put a couple of hours into Red Faction: Guerrilla, and I'm really enjoying it. It's basically an open world game with varied missions and and lots of vehicles, except you're on Mars. Grand Theft Auto: Cydonia Stories, if you like. The game also doesn't require you to have played previous RF games, although there are some returning characters, if you count the savior-turned-corrupt corporation Earth Defence Force as a character. Yep, the bad guys in Guerrilla are the good guys from the first game, now a fascist state with the standard laundry list of human rights violations, torture, and death squads.
You play Alec Mason, a miner who takes a personal interest in joining the titular rebellion, due to events in an opening cutscene that any video gamer or even movie fan will see coming a mile away. From then on, the destruction starts, and what glorious destruction it is. The best way to take back the planet from the EDF is to destroy their facilities and buildings, and you use all manner of tools to do so. The structures come down as you'd expect, take out a few supports, and the whole thing will usually collapse under its own weight. You start with a sledgehammer and some remote charges, and I honestly haven't found a better way to cause havoc, even though the rocket launcher provides some thrills. You may also drive one of several vehicles into buildings, which cause massive structural damage in their own right.
I could go on about the missions, or the fun I've been having just driving around the various areas, but I should get this posted for now. Maybe I'll go into more detail in another post, if I ever get back to a regular schedule.