Shooter

Red Faction

Single PlayerMultiplayer

Critic · Metacritic

3.9

Users · RAWG

2001

Released

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📅 Release Info

Release DateMay 22, 2001

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🏷️ Game Details

Genres

ShooterAdventureAction

Playable on

PCPlayStation

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PC (Microsoft Windows)MacmacOSPCPlayStation 3PlayStation 4PlayStation 2

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About this game

Red Faction revolutionizes gaming with Geo-Mod technology, the ability to completely alter and destroy the environment in real-time. Featuring 5 controllable vehicles, 15 weapons of mass destruction, unparalleled multiplayer action, and a setting on Mars in the midst of a deadly plague and rebellion, Red Faction sets the gold standard in gaming!

Pros & Cons

Pros

Geo-Mod lets players tunnel through and damage environments.
Varied arsenal includes the rail driver and remote explosives.
Campaign mixes firefights, vehicles, environmental interaction, and changing locations.
Mars setting features industrial mines and a rebellion storyline.
Multiplayer destruction affects combat and map traversal.

Cons

Destruction is constrained and not consistently useful.
Campaign repeatedly uses mine and corridor environments.
Conventional narrative and characters include an unmemorable protagonist.
Enemy tactics are simple compared with the game's environmental technology.

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