Red Faction

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Summary: It works on XP! Get it! Dammit!
Review: Red Faction is a wonderful game. The graphics are beuatiful but get blocked up some, but otherwise, they're good. The game lags a
bit----possibly because I use it on XP?
The story is amazing----with all the twists and turns you need,
you can hijack 5 vehicles!
Geo-Mod technology is amazing, blow up walls if the door won't open, overload gas and water systems.

Hijack these vehicles:
1. Driller--used for mining--run over guards and drill through walls.
2. Ultor Submarine--Steer through the water and luanch tracking missiles at enemy subs. (Careful, enemy subs have tracking missiles, too).
3. ATV--Dirve or use mounted machine gun. (You can't do both at once. So park if you want to shoot. (Later, going across a canyon, a guy named Orion in the rebellion drives and you use the machine gun.
4. APC (Armored Personal Carrier)--Blast machine gun fire at mercenaries, or blow them up with a missile. Not as fast as the ATV, but you could run down a merc, it's really heavily armored, too.
5. Aesir Fighter--Cool, fly and kill enemy fighters, guards and mercs, or fly low and behead them.

You get 15 weapons including.

Sub machine gun--cool, it has two kinds of amuntion
Flame thrower--it's funny when you set your enemies on fire, they scream and run around till they die
Rail driver--one shot kill, same for your enemies guns, infra-red scope--see through walls.

Theres much more. The game is long, first you riot against the guards, then a half mutated strong badass, Capek. Then face off with a hard, bitchy colonel, Massko. Kill her, decode a bomb the game is over.
Red Faction leaves you wanting for more----does Ultor die. (You don't face-off with him as Parker. What does Parker do? Do the mercenaries eliminate the rescue squad?
Does Parker like Eos?
Yes.

Overall the games good, Geo-mod teconology's cool. There's quite a bit of lag but nothings perfect.

Pros:
Great story...Vivid graphics...Geo-Mod technology is flat-out amazing...Control five vehicles...Use fifteen weapons

Cons:
Lag--(due to my XP?)...AI isn't heavily scripted, but hard to beat. (Espeicially the mercenaries.

Note: the defualt controls [stink], at least I think they do, adjust this, video, audio, see a game trailer and much more!

Anyway, it's a good game, definately worth picking up. (For those of you who like short games, like Max Payne, this is much longer and possibly more challenging. (I had it for four months and I only beat it today!

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Summary: A Change in Computer Gaming for the Greatest
Review: Imagine playing Tribes for the very first time. That feeling of ,"I didn't know computers could do that." The feeling of "...Woah..."
Red Faction is a first person shooter with mind blowing realism. The graphics are clean and almost near flawless. The gameplay is fast and difficult but is extremely addicting. One could play for hours and not even realize the time.
Red Faction has fast and explosive on-line play as well as a long and challenging game for off-line play. Both gameplays are amazingly fun. I have played many games on-line (i.e. Tribes 1 and 2, all Quakes, Half-life: Counterstrike, etc.) and none amount to Red faction.
Of course all on-line games have their ups, Quake's gore, Tribe's defense ability, and Counterstrike's adventure, but Red faction is an all around great game. Being able to plow through walls with amazing and fun weapons and interact with virtually all surroundings, only adds to the excitement.
I would strongly recommend Red Faction to anyone with a love for first person shooters or a desire for fun. Red Faction is the perfed addition to any gamer's library or the greatest beginning of one.

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Summary: A great 1st person shooter
Review: I bought this game recently, and I am REALLY satisfied. This game is great, especially now that its only $$$, it provides a great challenge, but not unbearably hard. it has many times of weapons, even a gun that shoots through walls. The multiplayer is also great, because there is always someone on it. The levels in it are also nice, some are big, some are small, and some are in between, and theres 3 game modes, such as Deatch Match, Team Death Match, and Capture the flag. Since this is only $$$ now, I would highly recomend it for anyone looking for a cheap 1st person shooter that is very good, I would also recomend it to anyone who just wants a first person shooter.

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Summary: this is one of the coolest games i've played
Review: i can't say much that hasn't been said in the other reviews..

Geo-Mod rocks.. the only thing is, in Multiplayer games, there comes a point where, after blowing the scenery away for a while, the walls won't Geo-Mod anymore.. i guess there's a limit to how much of the scenery can be destroyed at one time.. i don't know why, but i wish it weren't like that. another player and myself took it upon ourselves to collapse a bridge. we worked on it for a while, and just before we could get it down, the geo-mod stopped working.

anyway.. its a minor complaint, and i'm sure there's a way around it.. i just haven't found it.

I hope more people buy this game and the upcoming sequel i've heard about.. that way there will be more people playing online.. fun stuff.

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Summary: Red Faction
Review: I played this game for the first time at my friends house over a LAN/Network hookup, and it was so amazingly fun! The graphics are okay, but they are showing age. The weapon technology is amazing! Theres like 15 weapons and some of them are: Heavy Machine gun, Rocket Launcher, Precision rifle, Sniper rifle, grenades, and the best weapon is the Magnetic Rail Driver. That weapon drives metal slugs through the walls! The coolest thing is that when you right-click with the rail driver, you use an infrared scope (heat seeking) to see your enemies through walls! The single player part is alot like Half-Life, so itll be fun if you liked Half-Life. BUY THIS GAME AND GOOD LUCK>>> JOIN THE FACTION!

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Summary: Red Faction is a great game
Review: Red Faction has everything from fun, fast paced one player mode, to crazy, pshychotic multiplayer. There are only two things i didn't like about this game.

CONS-
1. I did not need to use Geo-Mod technology. Red Faction II uses it so much more. The times i DID use it were just to go back into a room i've already been to, and another time, to go in an underground cavern, just to get attacked by a big rabid...thing.
2. There could have been a bigger range in enemies. Guards, mercanaries, aliens. It gets a little boring after a while. But not so bad that this game doesn't deserve 5 stars!

Pros (theres lots of them!)
1. Great one player mode. Even though there are some boring stealth missions, overall, the one player is awesome. You get to pick up and drop bodies, fight endless amounts of enemies, and control cool vehicles and such
2. The weapons are awesome. Sure theres a boring little pistol at the beginning, but you can collect a huge rocket launcher, that can eliminate up to 5 or 6 people, sniper rifles, shotguns, flamethrowers, and one of my favorites, a rail driver. It fires metal rails nto a person, and has a scope that can see through walls to locate, and terminate your enemy even from far away. The flamethrower is cool, cuz when you fire it at someone, they run around on fire, screaming their lungs out. Or, you can take off the fuel canister and throw it as a bomb! FUN!!
3. The vehicles are fun. You can man a gun of the back of an ATV, drive a spacecraft with a chain gun and missiles, or launch torpedoes in a submarine.
4. The graphics are exceptional.
5. The diolouge is exceptiknal. The enemies yell threats at you as you fire at them.
6. Multiplayer rocks!! I suggest, Easy difficulty in the "warlords" environment with six bots. No second human player. Its like a mini war! really, really fun!!

So, Red Faction is a great first person shooter game, because of the weapons, levels and heart pounding game play.

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Summary: Cool game, a bit overrated but worth paying...
Review: Nice game, but nothing very special except the Geo-Mod engine that let's you GO YOUR WAY! In fact probably the best thing in the game. The gameplay is fun but not as addicting (for me)as let's say Unreal Tournament or Deus Ex. The overall look of maps (actually map, because of early demo) is good, textures a nice too. Speaking of weapons, they're somewhat regular to FPS games. The collision detection is quiet good and only occasionally you'll see the arm of a dead body going through a wall but they'll probably fix it in a next patch. For some reason however, models are really low on polygons. Probably under a thousand, and Unreal Tournament modeals look much better. The facial animation on the models is the other thing. Facial animation is good and looks very realistic. The system requirements aren't all that high for today's games. In fact RF run water smooth on my PIII with 128 megs of RAM and 32 meg GeForce 2 GTS with everything to the max and 1024x768 screen resolution (max resolution of my monitor). Anyway, if you changed your mind about buying this game after reading my review then just forget about it. It's a good game that's definitely worth buying so, go on and buy it! (or preorder...) Here's how I would rate it on a 10 point scale: Graphics: 7 Sound: 9 Controls: 8 Gameplay: 8 -- Overall: 8

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Summary: Not much here that you haven¿t seen already
Review: Red Faction is THQ's futuristic, Mars-theme first person shooter game. Over all it is a pretty ordinary shooter with one or two twists. The first twist is the underutilized "Geo Mod" engine. The Geo Mod engine The purpose is to make blowing stuff up more meaningful by letting craters and holes form from explosions. The idea is that you can blast through walls, or around locked doors. It's a good selling point, but there is hardly any use for it in the game. Once you get past the first mission, you never use it. All of the doors are basically unlocked for you anyways, so what's the point? The other twist is the use of some really cool vehicles. This was my favorite part of the game. Flying around or driving around in an armored vehicle and mowing down bad guys with a heavy machine gun is good mindless shooter fun. There are also a couple of points in the game where you pilot a submarine or an aircraft.

There is a good variety of weapons and ammo in the game, all of which are useful at some point. Red Faction does a better job than most games of getting all of the weapons into the game. Enemy AI is tough, but still at the right level.

Other than that, the game is pretty "blah". The environments are as repetitive as you can get. You are on Mars - everything is either an underground installation or a rust-colored cave. The graphics are decent, but not great. The storyline is an unoriginal mix between "Deus Ex" and "Total Recall". Add to that, it's somewhat poorly done. Also, for some reason, THQ decided to include a couple of contrived, bad stealth missions in this game. They are more annoying than anything. The game gets extremely hard about halfway through, and towards the end of the game, you will find yourself wearing out the quick save and quick load keys. This is due mostly to one annoying and overpowered weapon that allows enemies to shoot you through walls.

Red Faction isn't a bad game. I found it in the bargain bin and I don't regret buying it. It gives you one fun play through, and that's probably it. The game probably won't knock you out of your chair though.

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Summary: Really Great FPS ( First Person Shooter )
Review: Red Faction is 1 of the best fps of 2001. It has an exciting story that gets you hooked. It has tons of fun wepons for all your fragging needs. THis game has a exciting new game engine called GEO-MOD tech which basicly means that u can blow up the environment. Some fun things you could do with this is make a foxhole, blow holes in walls to get to secret areas, or even blow up a bridge to stop movimg tanks or forces in their tracks! This game is very good at lighting and visual effects too. This game has many fun and exciting secrets and mysteries to find. Just for a little tidbit the funniest thing i saw was lighting bots in multiplayer on fire with flamethrowers! They run around screaming like little girls until u see their burning corpse drop to the floor!!! I would recemend this game to anyone who enjoys action/adventure, first person shooters, or just blowing stuff to oblivion!!! :)

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Summary: A Change in Computer Gaming for the Greatest
Review: Imagine playing Tribes for the very first time. That feeling of ,"I didn't know computers could do that." The feeling of "...Woah..."
Red Faction is a first person shooter with mind blowing realism. The graphics are clean and almost near flawless. The gameplay is fast and difficult but is extremely addicting. One could play for hours and not even realize the time.
Red Faction has fast and explosive on-line play as well as a long and challenging game for off-line play. Both gameplays are amazingly fun. I have played many games on-line (i.e. Tribes 1 and 2, all Quakes, Half-life: Counterstrike, etc.) and none amount to Red faction.
Of course all on-line games have their ups, Quake's gore, Tribe's defense ability, and Counterstrike's adventure, but Red faction is an all around great game. Being able to plow through walls with amazing and fun weapons and interact with virtually all surroundings, only adds to the excitement.
I would strongly recommend Red Faction to anyone with a love for first person shooters or a desire for fun. Red Faction is the perfed addition to any gamer's library or the greatest beginning of one.