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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You would be surprised - after all these years! Look, the game was published in 2001, and now 14 years later there is still faithful community which still releases its own patches (!) and you will always find someone to play with. Fantastic.
After downloading it from gog be sure to go to www.purefaction.org to download community patch. Then have fun!!!
I see many nostalgia driven reviews which praise this game here so I feel the following needs to be said: this game is full of glitches and flaws. Let me explain.
First of all, Red Faction was released after games like Deus Ex or Thief and it lacks a lot of stuff that was introduced into gaming by those games, like side dialogues, interacting with NPCs etc. Sure, you get the Geo-Mod which is pretty cool, but the rest of the physics feels way too old than it should. I got stuck between two objects a couple of times and ugh, that mission with driving a jeep... it's just horrible. Also, you can't move any crates or basically anything around and the NPCs in game are awfully stupid. Dialogues and responses are repetitive ("I'm on your side!" says the guy who just called the guards to kill me). The stealth mission is disappointing at best, especially compared to the above mentioned classics. The scripting is also a bit stupid: most events are triggered by walking into a given area which in consequence cause a couple of silly dialogues. Oh, and the plot is centralised around nano-engineered plague and evil corporation. Sounds familiar?
Ok, enough ranting. To make it short: I think the creators of RF wanted to achieve too much at a one time: if this was just a generic FPS but with vehicles and Geo-Mod, I wouldn't have anything against it. But after playing Deus Ex, Thief, Unreal, System Shock 2 and others... RF feels like a rushed rip off. There, I said it. Sorry, die-hard fans.
I enjoyed this game from the first second. The introduction video itself is fantastic, putting you inside Parker's head in no time at all, with all the relevant questions answered. The gameplay is superb, and the physics engine remains one of the most enjoyable ever created.
Back when Red Faction was released it was an amazing game, and was one of the best shooters at the time that combined both an interesting story, with fun and interesting gameplay and level design. Ridiculously topping far too many of the games ive played today that ive enjoyed.
Combat feels extremely satisfying, story elements are enthralling and voice acting is superb - and if your consider graphics an important feature then it looks quite good, not up to todays standards apparently but it definetly isnt an ugly game by any means. Please buy this awesome game if you like any game ever.
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