Posted on: March 1, 2024

GOGBuyer

Games: 298 Reviews: 2

Some stopping glitches

This game has some problems on modern systems. There's a sequence where the player must lower a submarine into the water and the sub blows up. Fortunately, there's a god mode development cheat that can get players past the sequence. Further in the game, the player must activate an elevator that opens one set of doors and closes the other set of doors at the same time, making it impossible to proceed with the game. There are some saved files from other player's games on the web that could get me past the point I'm stuck; but, I'm leery of using them. If the game worked correctly, I'd give it about 3 1/2 stars. It's not particularly memorable; but, it's a solid game that won't leave you bored.

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Edited on: September 18, 2025

Posted on: October 13, 2015

tgw105

Verified owner

Games: 127 Reviews: 24

Still great

I've just played this game again after many years, having downloaded from GOG. In terms of the game, i haven't tried MP but have played through the SP campaign again and for the most part really enjoyed it - i love fast-paced shooters and while it's fundamentally linear there are different approaches to be made to some of the maps. There's a decent variety of weapons and enemies and whilst some others have said the dialogue is repetitive (in which game is it not?!) i actually think the NPCs have more to say than in some more recent games. In some ways it reminds me of Far Cry 1 without the tropical island - even the 'helper' who talks to you on the comlink, and as with FC1 there's some amusing taunts - "Try and take ME, miner!" and my favourite "It's just you and me miner!" The blasting of holes in walls is also fun and innovative at the time Of course the graphics are dated but perfectly good enough, in fact i'm quite impressed with the characters' faces. There is one glitch i can find when the submarine you're supposed to use blows up but you can find a solution (not a cheat) by googling. But overall this is a great game and assuming you understand the concept of this site and really enjoy this...

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Posted on: August 13, 2022

LATESTACORONATA

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Games: 741 Reviews: 231

Innovative but not that fun

Red Faction is one of those games that challenged the genre by bringing a truly destructible environment, but in any other department was simply ''ok''. Basically, an FPS that allow s you to create holes in the map and possibly to dig your way out of certain situations (which was unique at the time), as long as you have any explosive ammunitions available. However, anything else is simply average: enemies, level design ( twisted and not at all well designed) and weaponry ( never saw a worst shotgun, and the overall accuracy of the weapons is laughable). So, worth buying? eeeeeh I would say yes but I am a true fan of FPS genre ( BoomerShooter in particular) and had nothing to play. So take this yes with a grain of salt. P.S. a ''good'' Red Faction with a similar destructible feature is '' Guerrilla'', try that one if you want something similar worth playing.

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Posted on: June 12, 2022

admw3455

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Games: 28 Reviews: 3

On par with the original Half-Life

Red Faction is up there with the original Half-Life and easily beats the add-ons made for Half-Life such as Blue Shift. For better or worse, the type of story in the original Red Faction does no longer show up in video games. It is simply about a group of people working in a mine on Mars under slave like conditions until they have enough, i.e. the story is very black and white with a bad guy you have to take out. Red Faction is a solid FPS with vehicles, snipers and destructable walls. The game was ahead of it's time and altough it didn't go completely under the radar when released, it is IMHO still vastly underrated. It is good fun. I encountered one game breaking bug in which I could not interact with a vehicle. The solution could be found on google. Otherwise the game ran flawless without any mods.

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Posted on: May 12, 2015

deadletter

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Games: 144 Reviews: 2

Explosions

I remember following this game for an entire year before it's release. When it did come out I was blown away by how destructive you could be. Even today as old as this game is I'm still impressed with the destructive glee that a missile launcher causes. Does have it's faults but I think that these are out weighed by the games cheesy total recall type story and happy go boom boom game play.

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