Red Faction

I loved this game when I was a kid and bought it for a bit of nostalgia. I had to quit at after sabatoging the plant. The next area requires you to deploy a submarine into a launch bay from a winch. When you click the button to deploy it, the sub just blows up instead of deploying. It's a known glitch.

I missed this game back in th days and was curious to sse how it is and well, it's not really pretty. I don't talk about the graphics but the first thing that surprised me was the IA...or the "non IA". Red Faction was released three years after Half-Life but the enemies routine is just running around like headless chickens, making the shootouts a ridiculous festival of missed shots (avoid the rocket launcher, its splash damage are non-existent) BUT if you insist, it will become more tolerable once you get your hand on a machine gun, still a chore but less. At the time, the Geo-Mod allowing you to destroy some walls is in turn a kind of gimmick, since it becomes pretty useless after the beginning. So what remains ? A pretty cool storyline and "seamless branching" storytelling (there is no hub or chapters, you go non stop from a place to another) with few interesting variations like some "mini" stealth missions (which end up with guns blazing unfortunately) and, the best part of the game, some sections in a submarine or shuttle, giving a Descent feeling for a few moments (Volition going back to their roots). Oh and enjoy the very last moment of the game with one of the most stupid ideas I've ever seen (my thoughts are dedicated to those who will play on Impossible...).

Game is broken with and requires patches to run. Could not use latest version of Dash Faction patch with GoG version.

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..

Only first red faction is the best !