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Red Faction

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Red Faction
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In Red Faction, you play Parker, a weary miner who works for the corrupt Ultor Corporation. You reside on Mars, sometime in the future, and when a plague spreads through the mining community, some of the Ultor employees uncover a massive conspiracy. Thus ensues a battle by a group of lowly workers,...
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2001, Volition, ESRB Rating: Mature 17+...
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Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10, 2 GHz, 1 GB RAM, Directx 9.0c-compatible 3D graphics card with 256...
Time to beat
6 hMain
7 h Main + Sides
8.5 h Completionist
6 h All Styles
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Description
In Red Faction, you play Parker, a weary miner who works for the corrupt Ultor Corporation. You reside on Mars, sometime in the future, and when a plague spreads through the mining community, some of the Ultor employees uncover a massive conspiracy. Thus ensues a battle by a group of lowly workers, headed up by the educated Parker, to expose the deadly experiments Ultor has unleashed onto its work force.

Red Faction was a very big leap forward in the FPS genre. It introduced many new technical features such as location-based damage system, real-time skeletal deformation, advanced physics simulation, destructible environment and more. The unprecedented (at the time) interaction with the environment creates a very strong feeling of immersion that is very impressive even by today's standards.
  • Unique set of features such as location-based damage system, real-time skeletal deformation, advanced physics simulation, and destructible environment.
  • An ability to use land, sea, and air vehicles during your missions.
  • Compelling storyline (written by the creators of the famous FreeSpace series) that will keep you hooked for many hours.
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Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility

Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility

Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
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Time to beat
6 hMain
7 h Main + Sides
8.5 h Completionist
6 h All Styles
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Size:
817 MB
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ESRB Rating: Mature 17+ (Violence, Blood and Gore)

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Posted on: February 19, 2025

DaveTMonkey

Verified owner

Games: 193 Reviews: 9

The Revolution will be Red

A lot of heavily inferred plot but a solid engine, challenging difficulty and highly immersive approach really give this something to say. Not the best FPS going, but solid nonetheless.


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Posted on: August 20, 2023

BrootalGnome

Games: 34 Reviews: 9

The true meaning of underrated.

Unique game in many ways, should be known in the same category as Deus Ex or similar.


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Posted on: February 13, 2014

johnhostile

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Games: 317 Reviews: 2

Classic FPS, works in Linux with wine!

The game installs and runs perfectly well in Linux with wine, for those that are interested. The Pure Faction patch also works just fine with wine, so in all this is a great buy for Linux gamers. As far as the game itself goes, I had it when it first came out but never got around to playing it. Going through it now, I am finding it still pretty fun in a dated way.


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Posted on: January 18, 2019

eyerobot

Verified owner

Games: 29 Reviews: 9

Red Faction 1

I spent around three hours shooting my way through guards on this game. It is entertaining, Even with the ancient graphics. However, It has game breaking bugs that don't allow you to progress. If you make it to the sub bay after blowing up the geothermal plant, And have no explosives, your screwed! You cannot open the wall to get in the control room to lower the sub. There is no button on the girder to lower it either. At this point i'm just going to uninstall the game, Maybe someday i'll try it again, But i doubt it.


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Posted on: June 16, 2022

Oldgamer85

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Games: 178 Reviews: 5

Revolutionary tech, generic game.

I remember when this came out, it made quite a buzz because of their destructible environment tech. I got to get my hands on a demo of it and like everyone else was amazed at being able to create tunnels in the environment using a rocket launcher. The single player demo was pretty great and combined with this awesome new tech it seemed like the game would be a real success. Anyways the game starts you by getting you into a fight straight off the bat, there is no introduction sequences like Half-life, doom3 and other had which is a shame. You start with a pistol and shoot your way to the top literally. Along the way you'll be fighting guards who all sound the same and shout the same thing at you. Their A.I is fairly good and can offer a challenge, but it doesn't have the same kind of realistic presentation that you get with games like half-life and others. This is too bad because it would have livened this up quite a bit as this who you'll be shooting at for the majority of the game. The arsenal of weapons is stored similar to half-life which is great and it offers you a lot to use. The writing in this is not very good, and one of the main villains literally has plot armour in the form of a nano-shield just so he can introduce himself in a extremely boring manner. I'm not sure why people are giving this game 5 stars? Maybe I'm just missing something.


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