The years haven’t treated this FPS particularly well. The graphics are still passable, although the animations for the human characters is quite hilarious, reminded me of Woody in Toy Story to be honest. The controls are pretty simple, not too dissimilar to today’s shooters so can’t complain on that front.
Where it did get frustrating was the number of times you would insta-die, especially once the Railgun became a weapon prevalent amongst the NPCs. You basically have to Quicksave your way every couple minutes just so you don’t lose too much progress when an unseen enemy Rails you through a wall. The guns are fun, I did end up using most of them at one point or another, although the ability to use certain weapons to blast your way through walls seemed more gimmick than anything. There didn’t seem to be alot of point to it unless you had to blast a hole somewhere in order to progress.
Finally the story was pretty bland, the ending in particular seemed very ho hum (I won’t spoil it). And the randomness of the final activity was extremely frustrating. There are several more Red Faction games, my experience with this one hasn’t totally put me off yet, although I believe some of the later ones leave a lot to be desired.
