THQ Wednesday announced that Volition’s Red Faction franchise will make its next-generation debut with Red Faction: Guerrilla. Set 50 years subsequent to the original Red Faction, the third-person action-shooter will return to Mars and once again attempt to redefine the limits of destruction-based gameplay. Guerrilla is in development for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, and is scheduled to ship in THQ’s fiscal 2009.

Players will take the role of an insurgent fighter with the newly re-established Red Faction movement as they battle for liberation from the oppressive Earth Defense Force. Throughout their fight for freedom, players will carve their own path, wreaking havoc from the desolate mining outpost of Parker to the gleaming EDF capital city of Eos. Utilizing improvised weapons, explosives and re-purposed mining equipment and vehicles, Guerrilla allows players to tear through fully destructible environments. Red Faction: Guerrilla will also feature a multiplayer component, including several modes focused on destruction-based gameplay.