Red Faction

This could have been so much fun: I really enjoyed the quick and simple shooting and I'll always hold these 90s/00s graphics and AI very dear, but in 2 hours of playing ive had multiple problems: workarounds, stuck in assets, doors that should open did not open (which is fine only when you have explosives, which at one point I did not) and now i have the explosive submarine bug...... I'm done

This is a great game overall. The graphics look like poop compared to anything recent. Even when it was released it didn't look great. The physics are fun. You can keep blowing huge chunks of the wall away until you discover hidden ares and items. Rigging explosives on bridges and waiting for enemies to cross was one of my favorite parts. The final boss battle is epic. It took me a few tries to even beat it. Once you do beat the game you can go on to the multiplayer part of the game, which is pretty good even now. You can collapse sections of the level on your enemies for kills, and the weapons are fairly balanced. Overall and awesome game with decent replayability. Lots of crazy antics to get into when you're bored. The enemies are halfway between frustrating as hell, and mildly retarded, and bosses are somewhat challenging. This game is well worth the money in my opinion.

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.

Sometimes the older shooters are the best ones, and this is among my favorites. If you are looking for a great first person shooter, this is it.