A battle for power and control that leaves the people of the Commonwealth in poverty. As not so ordinary citizens, a squad of super soldiers injected with nano-technology is formed. Fed up after years on the front lines each member vows to unify with the common goal of replacing the dictator.
Although, industry rumours suggest that an official announcement might be made at ECTS later this year. On our way back from the Sierra stand we were stopped by an overexcited THQ representative. Grabbing us by the elbow and steering us through to a private enclosure he whispered E3's biggest cliche into our ears: "Red Faction. We're really excited about this game.
We were shunted into a room the size of Ally McBeal's stomach and forced to watch a three-level demo of Volition's new FPS through the armpit of a sweaty American, who worryingly kept shouting "hell yeah" at the screen as the character blew a hole in the wall.
This is what's causing all the excitement: deformable terrain mixed with advanced physics courtesy of the new Geo-Mod engine , which means Faction's levels act as if they were real-world constructs. Through the mixture of sweat and grunting Americans this was the point that was drummed into our heads minute after minute after minute.
And if Volition can get it working well then it could transform the genre. We've just played around with the latest code and it all seems to work as advertised. In one level there's a lava flow pouring down a pipe, with a few carefully placed rockets it can be diverted to flow in order to help you tactically in the game. Using the thermal imager in your rocket launcher you can pinpoint opponents through walls, bridges and towers and take them out by collapsing structures.
It literally adds a whole new dimension. And that's not all. You can also look forward to an immersive singleplayer storyline with equal dollops of stealth, and full-on action, complete with location-based damage, and Volition is promising a whole slew of land, sea and air vehicles to command; we've seen one so far, an APC equipped with a chaingun and a grenade launcher.
It all adds up to a pretty ambitious attempt to take the genre one step further, but if anyone can pull it off so to speak , Volition can. Creator of the FreeSpace series, its master-coders are also responsible for Descent 1 and 2. Red Faction started out in life as Descent 4, but Volition quickly realised that what it wanted to do amounted to a completely new game. Keep an eye out for this one. It may well be big. Red Faction was easily the most complete FPS that we saw.
The big thing about it is the accurate deformable terrain - somewhat of a first in this genre. We had loads of fun burrowing under doors and through walls, but when it came to the actual combat, we weren't quite so convinced. However, the effects are incredible, and the weapons included some really heavy duty equipment, which will satisfy just about anyone with a love for mindless destruction.
As with several other FPSs on show, Red Faction will give you the opportunity to pilot a variety of vehicles. We tried out the assault helicopter, which was very easy to manoeuvre with the mouse and keyboard controls. This was by far the most amount of fun we had during the presentation, and while we left impressed, we were hardly blown away by the whole experience. Medal Of Honor. Return to Castle Wolfenstein and AvP2 might be the year's biggest shooters to come, but there's another single-player game just around the corner that you should keep one eye on.
I've talked about Red Faction in these hallowed pages before, but with THQ and Volition concentrating on getting the PS2 version out of the door first, the best incarnation of the new game has been conspicuous by its absence over the past few months. That all changed when the latest build arrived on my desk, including the full single-player campaign and 24 multiplayer maps including 18 straight deathmatch and six CTF.
So what's new? The unique selling point is still the Geo-Mod technology, which enables you to blast through most of a level's architecture, but now that we've had the benefit of the PS2 reviews a couple of interesting points have been raised. For a start, despite the existence of the Geo-Mod technology, criticisms have been levelled that the game doesn't make full use of it. In fact, it's only actually necessary to use it in a few sections in the game, which seems like a bit of a waste.
In one level you come across a couple of guards cowering inside a fortified room. Running up you can throw an explosive charge through a gap in the wall, kill the guards and then blow a hole in the wall before getting in and pressing the obligatory switch. This sort of thing is pretty basic when you think about the stuff that was being shown as part of a tech demo last year, with lava flows being diverted and the like.
Puzzles built around the Geo-Mod capabilities would have lifted the game above its FPS counterparts, but it looks like Volition isn't going to exploit this fully in its first title. The multiplayer side of the game is far more open to the possibilities of the new technology.
In one of the CTF maps we played, you can blow holes in the opposing fortress, leaving your opponents far more open to attack. Volition has cleverly introduced indesutictible meshes into walls, which means you can't blow every last brick away, although you can snipe through the holes with your rifle. Better news comes with the fact that the game is going to ship with a full editing suite, RED.
Because of the Geo-Mod technology, it might take a bit of time for the mod designers to get up to speed, but it should mean future mods will make more of something that Red Faction appears to have sidelined. Another issue with the game is its AI. Early on in the game, the guards you encounter show about as much intelligence as a paper cup filled with goo. Apparently this is deliberate - the early guards are intentionally stupid to introduce you into the game softly.
The fact that they don't appear to get any cleverer later on is a bit more worrying, although this may well change before the game goes gold. As with No-One Lives Forever, the guards do show some signs of basic scripting - running away when low on health and the like, but there's nothing that we've seen yet that's on a par with the best games over the past couple of years.
Even if the A1 isn't honed to perfection, there's still enough about Red Faction to make it stand out. Instead of having to trudge through it all on foot, you get to commandeer vehicles, including a submarine and a jeep. The range of weapons is good, and most come with a dual fire mode. The assault rifle, flame-thrower and rocket launcher should ensure your blood lust is sated. Geo-mod system doesn't sound exciting.
In fact, it sounds downright dull--like an option you'd hear "comes standard" on a car commercial. But what it represents makes Red Faction the most exciting thing to happen to first-person shooters since Quake took them online. Sure some games use bullet holes or scorch marks to show damage, but the Geo-mod short for Geometry Modification system in Red Faction takes that idea and runs away with it: You can actually blow real holes in the walls, floors and ceilings.
And this means more than just a nifty new layer of realism--it opens up whole new avenues of gameplay, as lead designer at Volition Alan Lawrance explains: "You can blow holes through walls to form escape routes or attack unsuspecting enemies. You can collapse structures to kill enemies that might otherwise be impossible to kill.
You can destroy the cover enemies are hiding behind, cause bridges to collapse, or burrow yourself a nice spot to use for protection.
The other thing that makes Red Faction so exciting: the physics. You're probably thinking "Physics?! That boring crap I have to sit through in third period? Check out all the cool stuff that Red Faction's super-physics make possible: When you shoot a window, it shatters out from the bullet hole into tiny shards that realistically fall; when you blow up a window, or a wall--or a group of bad guys, for that matter--the debris flies away from the blast, just like in real life careful, it can hurt you too ; fans and the wind outdoors effect smoke and slow-moving projectiles like tossed grenades, for example ; bullets ricochet off of metal surfaces at the angles you'd expect them to; water and lava pour and pool like real liquids; it's all very kick ass.
But take away the Geo-mod and the fancy physics, and what would you be left with? Actually, Red Faction would still be shaping up as an excellent first-person shooter. Let's go down the shopping list for what makes any fps worth a damn:. Cool story line: check. You play Parker, a miner on Mars and employee of the Ultor corporation. Horrible working conditions and a mysterious mutation-causing disease known as "the plague" have the workers ready to revolt.
As a member of the underground resistance group Red Faction, your goal is to discover what's behind the plague and bring down Ultor. You'll travel through subterranean mine shafts, over the Martian surface--even up to satellites orbiting far above the giant red planet. Scripted events a la Half-Life : check. And not only does stuff happen as you're playing in the levels to advance the plot, often times you can alter the course of the game by your actions.
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