Fun old-school shooter with non-stop action. Fun level design with lots of secrets and some platforming.
Great immersive sim, aged well.
Another entry in the red faction series with landmark real-time destructible environments. Unlike Guerilla, this is not an open-world adventure. It's mostly a 3rd person shooter in a mix of indoor and outdoor environments and with limited vehicle sections. Weapons are varied and fun, and are all viable. There's a few powers such as kinetic blast, a shield, etc. and they all share the same cooldown. The bad thing is that the game is held back by a file corruption bug on Windows 10. Your options and player progress (XP and ability upgrades) are stored in the same file, and it often gets corrupted. When this happens, all menu strings appear as IDs (e.g. pld_boot_screen instead of "Booting"", or MENU_OPTIONS_AUDIO instead of "Audio", etc.). It also causes cutscenes to have no audio. The fix is simply to delete the file and set your options again on launch...except that also resets all your XP and upgrades. Due to the aforementioned bug, I had to finish the game almost as a level 1 character with only a couple of abilities. This made a couple of end-game fights much, much harder than they had to be. I redid the last boss fight about 20 times. I only recommend this for diehard Red faction or Volition fans.
