Red Faction II

It's not non-functional or unforgivably bad or anything, but it's just identical to other similar FPS games that released around the same time (like Project Snowblind). Unless you're playing for the (forgettable and uninteresting) story, I would just stick to Red Faction 1, which is a lot more novel and fun if you ask me. Not bad, just forgettable and not worth really paying attention to, sitting through, or paying for imo.

I played this game more than 20 years ago (that much I remember), but I didn't remember much - not how long I played it or if I finished it (I think back then I didn't). Just that you couldn't destroy as much as in the first game of this franchise and that I didn't like it as much. I recently (yesterday) started playing the game again and finished today (admittedly: with cheats). The game is a mess. In most parts of the game, enemies keep respawning again and again, which artificially raises the difficulty and forces you to constantly move on. On the other side the objectives and the direction to go are so poorly telegraphed even though the game feels much more linear than the previous game. The shooting and running is so monotonous and, as you can barely destroy any surroundings anymore, some tactical aspects are just missing. The story? Feels very chaotic and poorly told. You, the hero of the story, are a soldier of the evil dictator and only turn on him, because he turns on you. Very heroic. You mustn’t shoot civilians (that mostly seem to be collaborators without guns in my point of view…) or your karma goes down (no idea how it was measured). I killed quite a lot of them (because I couldn’t care less and also disliked them) but still got the “you are the good guy” ending (I was the hero and became the military advisor). Supposedly there are 4 endings, I have no idea how hard you have to try to kill civilians to get a worse ending… The graphics look less appealing to my eye than in Red Faction I. The cherry on top: you can’t really save where you want anymore. You can save/will have to start at the last checkpoint. Want to skip at least the irritating dialogue/cut scene that started at the checkpoint? Tough look, I didn’t see how that was possible. And no imagine dying 3, 4,… maybe 10 times, hearing again and again the same poorly scripted cut scene and try the same 5-10 minute segment again… Who thought that was a great idea? My guess is: the game development was rushed. That is how it feels. Similar to Blood 2 (which is better in my opinion – and that says something). Bottom line: If you think about buying this game as a standalone game, just don’t. If it is part of a bundle, just ignore it, the story (the little there is) has no importance at all for the third Red Faction game.

What a mess of a game. There’s a significant downgrade from the first Red Faction (which was a decent Half-Life inspired shooter) in almost every aspect. Story is very generic with forgettable characters, pacing of the game is all-over the place, graphics seems to be worse than in its prequel and gameplay elements like character movement or shooting are often more frustrating than fun. On top of that the entire game can be easily completed in less than 3 hours. The only positive that I can think of with this title is the weapon variety, there’s about ~20 different guns which is a lot for a game from that era. If you want to see this game for yourself make sure you download Widescreen Fixer, it will allow you to enable widescreen aspect ratio, high resolutions and with custom FoV.

I would have never expected to give this game a thumbs up. I disliked the precessor and this game is supposed to be way worse and has "mixed" reviews. But i enjoyed it. This short game entertained me and feels exactly like fps story shooters from that time. Destructible environments actually matter in this game. I don't understand people ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about the final boss. He isn't unfair or hard. He is a bit boring tho. Just walk in circles and abuse the wall in the room. but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ is this game weird to get running. I genuinely almost gave up trying to get this game running which is a decision i have never done before. Starting the game just gave me a blackscreen and every post in the steam forum told me to download a patcher for the exe. But this patcher just made my game crash on launch when i started the new exe. The only thing that helped me was using the d3d8to9 Wrapper from PCGamingWiki. But its only supposed to fix "script timing errors in cutscenes" so i figured out by pure luck that this also fixes the black screen on launch. Be cautious when buying this game because there might be a chance you genuinely can't get it running.

Playing this after Red Faction is like playing Deus Ex, and immediately playing Invisible War after it. The story is out of place in the series. The platforming in the game is meh. The level designs are meh. The poor color schemes make it hard to see what's what. The shooting feels worse than the first game. The checkpoint system is worse. It just seems a downgrade in so many ways. the GeoMod engine is absolutely over-rated at this time. It's nothing special, and had I bought this off of the advertising at full price...I'd be livid,. The game also broke for me near the end. It told me I needed battle armor to continue, but the door wouldn't open. While I don't get every platinum, I finish almost every game I buy. I got it for $2 to check it out. Don't pay more. it's really just a waste of time. Good riddance to you, as wasting someone's time is the worst thing you can do. Been playing games since '78, and I know why I missed this one back then.

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Vraiment déçu, je savais que cet opus était clairement inférieur au premier Red Faction mais après installation, j'ai un écran noir m'empêchant d'y jouer... j'ai eu beau changé des paramètres, rien n'y fait et cela ne vient pas de mon pc.. Dommage, j'aurais voulu voir le rendu et ce qu'il donne avec une retouche graphique.