Red Faction 2

Throughout my few decades of fairly heavy gaming there are a few games which stand out as "worst use of game engine", this obscene piece of garbage is one of them, Dues Ex Invisible War won PC Gamer's award for that but this is much worse. I loved Red Faction 1, the terrain deformation was neat, I remember spending an hour tunneling through large rocky areas then scrubbing levels of all explosive ammo, also liked the setting, themes, and the campaign wasn't too bad for its time. Coming from that this, sequel is an even bigger failure. The most attractive feature, terrain deformation was barely used, and the campaign/canon theme was inverted into a fascist propaganda piece. I take that as an obscenity in context of parallels to US historical labor struggles where workers were routinely worked to death by the hundreds so rich industrialists could get richer, this game seems to claim if the poor are not being worked to death for profit by the rich will result is communism, which will evolve into some Stalinist regime.

this game is utter poop! You start this game after playing the first game which could be a masterpiece until the bomb disarming. THEN you start the game - the intro video is bad af. Looks like all boring Just Cause games and the gun gameplay is boring. It feels like a smartphone clone of Halo without fun or console port like Deus Ex 2 but less fun. It is not clear what to do. No one says you can destroy walls like in the first game. It is a cash grab (back in the day). Do not buy it. It is a waste of time.

however it is still quite a good bit of fun. A nice weapon variety, sound design and smooth graphics engine. You could be playing ALOT worse then Red Faction 2.