The Xbox 360 and PS3 era of video games was filled with countless titles chasing emerging trends, from the flood of games with massive open worlds to the increasing push for hyper-realistic graphics. Arguably the most fun of the half-dozen trends of the generation, though, were the games all about destruction, where you blow buildings, enemies, and everything in between into little bits. For a long time, Battlefield was the king of destruction mechanics, but in 2009, the Red Faction series exploded back onto the scene with one of the most maniacally fun games ever made, and nothing has topped it since.
