Red Faction II
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| Developer(s) |
Volition, Inc. (PS2) Cranky Pants Games (GC) Outrage Games (Xbox & PC) |
| Publisher(s) | THQ |
| Series | Red Faction |
| Engine | Geo-Mod |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox, Microsoft Windows |
| Release |
PlayStation 2 GameCube & Xbox Microsoft Windows |
| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
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| Publication | Score | |||
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| CGW | N/A |   |
N/A | N/A |
| EGM | N/A | N/A | 7.5/10 | 7.5/10 |
| Eurogamer | N/A | N/A | 8/10 | N/A |
| Game Informer | 8.75/10 | N/A | 8.75/10 | 8.25/10 |
| GamePro | |
N/A |  |
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| Game Revolution | N/A | N/A | B+ | N/A |
| GameSpot | 7.3/10 | 7/10 | 8.3/10 | 7.4/10 |
| GameSpy | N/A | N/A | |
N/A |
| GameZone | 8.6/10 | 6.5/10 | 9/10 | 8.5/10 |
| IGN | 8.3/10 | 7.4/10 | 9.2/10 | 8.3/10 |
| Nintendo Power | 4.2/5 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| OPM (US) | N/A | N/A | |
N/A |
| OXM (US) | N/A | N/A | N/A | 8.3/10 |
| PC Gamer (US) | N/A | 72% | N/A | N/A |
| Entertainment Weekly | N/A | N/A | B+ | N/A |
| The Village Voice | N/A | N/A | N/A | 7/10 |
| Aggregate score | ||||
| Metacritic | 79/100 | 64/100 | 84/100 | 74/100 |
Red Faction II is a first-person shooter video game developed by Volition, Inc. and published by THQ for the PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox and Microsoft Windows. Red Faction II does not support network gaming, but provides some multiplayer-style games with 'bots'.
Lance Henriksen provides the voice of the squad leader, Molov, and Jason Statham voices the vehicle expert, Shrike.
On Mars in the year 2080, five years after the events of Red Faction, the nanotechnology developed by Axel Capek, the head scientist of the Ultor Corporation prior to its fall, has been claimed by the Earth Defense Force (EDF). With this technology, the EDF commences a reorganization of the Ultor Corporation with a particular focus on enhanced supersoldiers and suitable weaponry. However, the research that was done by Capek in his laboratories has been consequently stolen by other militant groups and assorted terrorist organizations. This has gone on for years; the research has changed hands in the criminal underworld many times. The player is introduced to their role as an explosives expert (codenamed "Alias") as he embarks on a special operations mission to claim the research data for the Republic of the Commonwealth.
Eventually, the research is successfully claimed by the elite forces of Victor Sopot, Chancellor of the dystopic military state known as The Commonwealth. Sopot uses the nanotechnology to enhance his already formidable military forces, and successfully creates the first supersoldiers with the research data. However, fearing the potential of his new supersoldiers, he orders them all to be hunted down, executed, and replaced with far less intelligent, mutated horrors known as "The Processed". Collectively betrayed by their leader, the player's squad flees underground and ally themselves with the Red Faction as mercenaries. The Red Faction at this point in the story is an organized resistance movement that is strongly opposed to the rule of Sopot and the skewed political tenets of The Commonwealth. The squad eventually pursues Sopot and neutralizes all opposition in their way as the Red Faction takes the conflict to the streets in a joint uprising against the rule of The Commonwealth. During the initial stages of the game, the Red Faction and the squad mutually support each other as they overcome shared objectives such as sabotaging propaganda installations. The uprising culminates in successfully trapping Sopot in his missile silo and executing him.
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