Red Faction

     This game is probably coming up to it's tenth birthday by now, and I still recall how fun it was to play in a destructable environment. Through the magic of Steam I can go back and play it again. With Armageddon coming out I truly wished to see where it all began again. If you ignore the awful audio sync, the blocky graphics and the fact that it doesn't automatically autosave, the game is great fun. For a game with such a great destructable environment, far ahead of it's time, it did have a few bad sides. I still think it's great, though, and quite nostalgic.
     The vehicles are great fun to drive, too. They are a little slow, but they're great to drive. From the submarines to the drilling machines, tanks to cars, theres so much to do and try. Weapons weren't in short supply back then either. The voice acting wasn't too great, though, as characters were never surprised. The autosave thing bugged me a little, as I often forgot to save for some time, died, and had to start 5 or 6 areas back, if not more.
     The guns were fun to use, they often went well with the destructable walls, I especially enjoyed the "heavy machine gun," due to it's high power and bountiful ammo supply. The weapons could have used recoil, though. The sniper rifles didn't have any recoil at all, rather annoyingly. I would still love for a lot of games to have such a great environment, I can just imagine something like Call of Duty or Brink with a destructable environment.


Ingenuity-8

Graphics-4

Story-5

Overall-6