Red Faction

Red Faction is a first-person shooter computer game that was released in 2001 for the PlayStation 2 and PC by THQ and Volition. It features online play, but lacks a central server to communicate game traffic, therefore all games must be hosted at the cost of the user (whatever that might be).

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First-person shooter - Computer game - 2001 - PlayStation 2 - PC - THQ - Volition

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Monkeystone Games developed a version of Red Faction for the N-Gage that was published by THQ in December 2003. It has some features exclusive to the N-Gage version, but is also greatly trimmed down in other ways.

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Monkeystone Games - N-Gage

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The premiere feature of the game was its "GeoMod" technology which allowed the player to destroy the geometry in the game. For example, instead of opening a door, a player could blast through the rock surrounding the door.

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Red Faction came out of the ashes of the cancelled Descent 4 project that Volition had been working on. Many ideas that was originally for Descent 4 can be found in Red Faction, for example, Red Faction's 'GeoMod' graphics engine was supposed to be used in Descent 4, and the main character, Parker, was borrowed from Descent 4 as well. Many Descent fans consider Red Faction as Decent 4 even though the storyline and the game is totally different from the three Descent games.

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