Red Faction Reviews

2001's Masterpiece (with some bags haha)

better than half life1 in my opinion

good

very good nostalgia

Before playng, I'd recommend downloading either Dash Faction or Alpine Faction, two community patches that fix various bugs and add QoL changes. If you don't want to use them, limit your framerate to avoid issues with submarines mysteriously exploding. That said, I enjoyed my time with Red Faction, although there are various rough parts that might bring it down for others. It was made originally for the PS2, so the shooting is fine, but not fantastic, and you'll have to deal with more loading screens compared to, like, Half-Life. The arsenal is kinda standard aside from the railgun that lets you see and shoot enemies through walls. The enviromental destructibility is there, with explosions making craters and blowing up some walls, but it's not as prevalent as in Guerrilla. There are a couple of stealth sections too, but they're not great: you lose all your weapons (and don't get them back after these segments) except for the silenced pistol and enemies spotting you means reloading a save. The second one is also annoying because you have to follow an NPC in order to get an item necessary to progress, but it's kinda easy to miss and the game lets you go to the next map without it, where you'll find more guards than normal and, if you avoid them, a roadblock that will force you to backtrack in order to get that item. The only saving grace is that these sections can be avoided simply by not picking up the clothes that will force you to stealth. The last leg of the game can be quite hard, since enemies get railguns that are as deadly as yours. The finale is also kinda underwhelming since, after fighting a boss, you face your final challenge: [spoiler]a time bomb that needs two randomized set of inputs.[/spoiler] Ending the game after the boss might've been better. It has its faults, but I did have fun with Red Faction even if it hasn't aged that gracefully. It might be worth a playthrough before jumping straight to Guerrilla.

[h1]Rating[/h1] 4/10 [h1]Intro[/h1] It feels like all they were banking on, was the Geo Mod engine, which allowed you to blast through structures. Except, it's limited to a few scripted sequences and secrets. Because besides that, progressing is a chore and the combat is lackluster, for reasons I've stated below. I recommend playing Half-Life (and its free mods) instead, which is where this game got most of its inspiration from. [h1]Positives[/h1] + Great weapon variety. + Weapons have good impact. + Good aesthetics and graphics. [h1]Negatives[/h1] - It's not made clear as to what you can destroy with explosives and not. - The game immediately kicks off with a shootout even though you're unarmed. I only managed to get through that, because I found C4 and threw it at an enemy holding a pistol. - Enemy soldiers move erratically while also being able to shoot accurately. There's also enemies later in the game with laser weapons that can penetrate through walls and hit you. Because that's totally balanced. - There's segments that take your weapons away from you and only let you keep your pistol in favor of stealth. Except, this is an early-2000s FPS. So, the stealth mechanics suck. At least they don't give you an automatic game over upon detection. - There's a lot of moments where you're not clearly shown where the way forward is despite its linearity. There's even a few timed sequences, where if I didn't make in time, the game would fade to black and throw me into the main menu for some reason. It's as if the game wanted me to quit, due to bad design. Alpine Faction: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Red_Faction#Alpine_Faction [b][u]Red Faction 2 review[/u][/b] https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198096811507/recommended/20550/

The best of the series -second best is Guerrilla...but damn, the rest are garbage...especially RF2 Such a shame the original is not more popular

I mean it's based cause its Communist so i can't hate on it too much but for modern standards it's slightly annoying with the saving system, you gotta save manually constantly and so it discourages proper exploration in this wonderfully made map cause you gotta save constantly to avoid having to re-do half of the game. but i understand the limitations perfectly since this game is older than me, and for it's age it's really good, the destruction system is amazing and the combat is somewhat good for it's time, overall my opinion of it is positive but if it was a modern game it would probably quickly become my favourite. ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☑ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☑ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10 Miners of Mars Unite

I never got to play it back in the days when it came out, so it was a long time wish of mine. It was definitely worth it. Even though the game would need some more cutscenes and explanations it was a lot of fun. Please note that at one point you will have to install an update in order to solve the issue of the exploding submarine.

Red Faction is generally enjoyable and entertaining with 3 hours of gameplay. soundtrack is good variety of weapons is good graphics could be improved with the Retexture mod and the eyes are not bothered And the problems of the game are: The enemy AI was very bad, the puzzle at the end of the game was annoying, most of the time the game did not guide the player well and I got lost in many places in the map and had to watch on YouTube and even in the YouTube video the player himself got lost in the map.