Red Faction (video game)
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| Developer(s) |
Volition Monkeystone Games (N-Gage) Blue Beck (Mobile) |
| Publisher(s) | THQ |
| Producer(s) | Robert Loftus |
| Artist(s) | Frank Capezzutto III Adam Pletcher |
| Writer(s) | Michael Breault Jason Scott Maureen Tan |
| Composer(s) | Dan Wentz |
| Series | Red Faction |
| Engine | Geo-Mod |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2, Windows, OS X, N-Gage, Mobile |
| Release |
PlayStation 2 Windows OS X
Mobile
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| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Review scores | ||||
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| Publication | Score | |||
| mobile | N-Gage | PC | PS2 | |
| AllGame | N/A | N/A |    |
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| CGW | N/A | N/A | |
N/A |
| EGM | N/A | N/A | N/A | 8.67/10 |
| Eurogamer | N/A | 5/10 | 7/10 | 9/10 |
| Game Informer | N/A | 5.75/10 | 8.75/10 | 9/10 |
| GamePro | N/A | |
N/A | |
| Game Revolution | N/A | N/A | B | B |
| GamesMaster | N/A | N/A | N/A | 90% |
| GameSpot | N/A | 3.4/10 | 7.9/10 | 8.8/10 |
| GameSpy | N/A | |
89% | 84% |
| GameZone | N/A | 6.5/10 | 8/10 | 9/10 |
| IGN | 6.4/10 | 7.3/10 | 8.8/10 | 9.1/10 |
| OPM (US) | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| PC Gamer (US) | N/A | N/A | 85% | N/A |
| X-Play | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| The Cincinnati Enquirer | N/A | |
N/A | N/A |
| Playboy | N/A | N/A | N/A | 90% |
| Aggregate scores | ||||
| GameRankings | 64% | 57% | 78% | 88% |
| Metacritic | N/A | 55/100 | 78/100 | 88/100 |
Red Faction is a first-person shooter video game developed by Volition and published by THQ for PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Windows in 2001, and OS X in 2002. A version for the Nokia N-Gage was developed by Monkeystone Games, and the Mobile version was developed by Blue Beck. The game was inspired by several works of contemporary science fiction.
Red Faction takes place on Mars in the late 21st century. The player controls a miner named Parker who helps lead a rebellion against the Ultor Corporation. The premiere feature of the game is its "Geo-Mod" technology, short for "geometry modification", which provided destructible environments, allowing the player to destroy certain sections of the scenery in the game. For example, instead of opening a door, a player could blast through the rock surrounding the door.
On November 29, 2016 the game was made available for the PlayStation 4 through the PlayStation Network with added features such as trophy support and uprendered resolution.
The main selling point of Red Faction was the game engine's GeoMod technology, which allowed players to significantly alter and otherwise affect the surrounding terrain and buildings, either with explosives or otherwise. Past games had allowed limited alteration of the environment through scripted means, or special triggered areas which would add or remove certain predefined level elements. Red Faction was the first video game that allowed players unscripted level-altering possibilities.
GeoMod allows the player to alter the environment so significantly because of the way it designates altered (or "GeoModded") areas. Whereas other game engines would have to modify the shape of the altered object to create a similar effect, GeoMod creates special objects which represent empty space. When, for example, an explosion blows a hole in a rock wall, the GeoMod technology creates an "empty space" object which is the approximate size and shape of the explosion. The training level uses a much larger "empty space" object than the rocket launcher is able to produce in other circumstances, simply because tunnelling is required to complete part of the level.
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