Red Faction: Guerrilla

When we’re lucky enough to visit an important developer in the games industry, we’re used to visiting capitals, or at least a major city: EA Redwood Shores, GSC Kiev, Bioware Edmonton, Ubisoft Montreal… you get the jist. Generally we don’t expect to find the studios inconspicuously stashed away in the centre of a relatively small town. But this is where we discovered Volition, inside a smart office block with no grand façade to speak of, in a backwater town an internal flight away from Chicago. But having visited, it seems appropriate for the Red Faction developer to be situated here. Champaign might sound like it was named by Hyacinth Bucket, but it has no delusions of grandeur; the majority of the town’s residents are Illinois University students who wreak carnage down town on a weekend.

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