Red Faction

Red Faction is an ambitious game whose execution doesn't quite live up to its lofty goals, but it reaches just high enough that it warrants your attention, and even a sequel. First the good: The overall concept of a miners rebellion on Mars is compelling, and both the gameplay and in-game narrative tools are solid in that derived-from-Half-Life sort of way. Volition also invested effort in advancing the capabilities of the Half Life source engine, adding variable gravity, drivable vehicles, some rudimentary stealth elements, and most impressive: destructible environments, which is definitely the most interesting innovation in the game, and one that is frankly underutilized. On the other hand, some aspects of the game feel undercooked. The most glaring one is the level design, which just feels like it was done on a budget. It's mostly geometry, with very sparse use of in-game assets, and that means you'll be walking through a lot of empty and generic corridors and rooms, that barely feel like real environments. The only thing that makes this somewhat believable is the industrial-mine setting of the game, where you can believe that the barren spaces are simply utilitarian. Nevertheless, the emptiness becomes hard to ignore after a while. Another issue is the lack of enemy variety. You'll be going through long stretches of facing the same enemies over and over again, and while there are story reasons for that, it nonetheless makes the shooting less interesting. The story itself is a kind of in-between for me: intriguing enough to keep you interested, but certainly isn't the best example of writing in gaming either. Overall, thanks to a strong foundation (Half Life), and an ambitious vision, this game clears the quality bar just enough for you to come out of this experience wanting to see a sequel that will properly realize the narrative ambitions of its creators. It has a solid Half-Life-on-Mars feel to it, and that would be good enough for most people.

Legendary game!

Al principio creí que era un FPS más de la época, pero al jugarlo más, se nota que fue hecho con cariño y que intenta brindar algo nuevo e interesante a la mesa. Esto es la destrucción ambiental, que puede parecer simplón al dia de hoy, pero piensen cuantos juegos tienen esa caracteristica. Eso y la posibilidad de manejar submarinos y vehículos, que está sin pulir pero está. La historia provee, es más como una película de clase B y no es mala pero no sale de los clichés ni desarrolla mucho. No llega a ser Half-Life, pero no se queda atrás. Tiene potencial, pero cosas como los niveles son simples y repetitivos, la falta de más variedad de enemigos, la linearidad (entendible) le sacan interés, aunque retoma un poco acercandose al final y demuestra tener algo más. Por cierto, es muy importante leer los dialogos o no vas a saber que hacer. Aún asi recomiendo Red Faction por lo que es, un juego que entretiene unas horas.

Its a great old school shooter however it has alot of bugs if it runs over 60fps so i reccomend installing something like Dashfaction to fix it

Nostalgia game and it's still soo good! It aged like a fine wine! And it runs perfectly on my ancient laptop!

Игра юности. Местами может конечно задушить, особенно под конец и особенно момент с разминированием бомбы, но в целом для своего времени это очень крутой шутер, который можно переигрывать и по сей день. Рад что комьинити этой игры до сих пор выпускает патчи и фиксы, а некоторые мододелы занимаются переводом и озвучкой

RED FACTION!!! *dies*

Reminds me of Half-life. Good classic game, though it has some unpatched bugs, I'd recommend getting Apline Faction if you're planning to complete whole game.

Volition made a BANGER

its okay