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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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Windows (7, 8, 10, 11)
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{{'2001-09-18T00:00:00+03:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0300 ' }}
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Size:
817 MB
Rating:
ESRB Rating: Mature 17+ (Violence, Blood and Gore)

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Posted on: August 1, 2025

psytrakked

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Games: 42 Reviews: 7

Better physics than anything in 2025

Almost totally destructible environment; you can blow holes between areas of the map that are not pre-calculated. This is a lot of fun; I wish more games had this. The game itself is an OK shooter which holds up averagely for a game of its time..


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Posted on: August 16, 2025

RysiekH

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Games: 69 Reviews: 27

Best Red Faction

Only first red faction is the best !


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Posted on: September 25, 2025

Whitechapel_1888

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Games: 173 Reviews: 5

Awesome game with lacking options

Red Faction, the game with destructible environments! It's still as fun as I remember it when it released. Runs good, too! Unfortunately, this port's launcher doesn't offer higher resolutions. In fact, you can only select three 4:3 resolutions. Highly recommend playing this via Dash Faction, which will also apply community patches and enable borderless windowed mode, among other features this port should have had from the beginning. Still worth getting though!


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Posted on: April 28, 2024

weirderal1337

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Games: 515 Reviews: 4

Fix and please also add subtitles

I understand if asking for subtitles is unreasonable for old games, but just because they forgot about accessibility then doesn't mean we can't have it now. Same thing that prevented me from playing Assassin's Creed. More importantly--for the gameplay that feels fairly tight even now in 2024, my game came to a smashing halt when trying to lower the submarine continually led to the submarine exploding. If this is a known bug, why does it still have it? I don't want to have to mod the game or download some fix from a 3rd-party website to continue.


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Posted on: June 8, 2025

jokeofasite

Games: 49 Reviews: 8

I gave up.

Was fun until stealth level. Even if you are noticed by guards/cameras you are stuck using the pistol even if the guards you kill drop different weapons or you find the security/armory room. I only got it because it was cheap, I paid £1.79 and got maybe a couple of hours out of it. I downloaded something called Alpine faction to play it with modern resolutions.


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