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,...
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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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.
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.
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.
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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