an amazing game

User Rating: 10 | Red Faction PS2
this game is perfect in all ways, considering it was one of the first released PS2 games. It is awe-instiring to know that this great game was brought out so long ago and still beats most modern games, this shows the steady decline in innavitivness on PS2 as it is all moving on to next generation consoles. i truley hope thay make a third in the series for PS3. That would make my jaw drop! Any way back to the review lol.
this is an easy to play game that you can understand and the game is absilutely HUDGE, and with a wide array of weaponary to use against; civilians, guards, soldiers, aliens or doctors/scientists and vehicles. And with a fully destructable environment it tops the game to perfect. OHH! did i mension vehicles... their is also a good veriaty of land sea and air vehicles, sutch as ATV's (ATV's feature a standard 50.cal machinegun on tha back and a spare passanger seat... not to mension 2" of armour), Drillers (a mining vehicle, can dig through nearly any form of object of wall), Aesir Fighter (a tactichal bomber fighter used for mass inhiolation with weapons systems containing heat-seeking missles, ULT-AR4 steeleye Tandem Warhead and last but not least a gatling gun ULT-8CG 30mm 8 barreled monster of a weapon!), the submarine (featuring ULT-MK1 Passive/Active homing torpedo's) and finally the APC (since their are no tanks this substitutes for one, the reason being its absilutely massive array of deadly firepower and mass armour to hold back any attack! ULT-80mm motar cannon, ULT-6AG 20mm Chain gun with alternative fireing speeds to hoze down any foe, the ATV also has a nice kick behind the engin allowing it to ride up and over fleeing soldiers!)
the weapons consist of; the UCB- 24 control baton (a short range but leathal electic shock), the UBS- 4 riot shield (bullet proof and flame retardent makes for good defence, ony down fall is its attack you slam them with the full brunt of a hit on the shield momenterally leaving your self vualnerable to attack if you miss...), the USP- 16 12mm pistol (a semi-automatic heavy handgun packs a punch... and with 16 rounds a mag will pack a whallop!), the UAP- 32/20 submachine gun (same ammunition as the handgun but has an alternate firing made, it can be loaded with assault rifle rounds which are 5.56mm high velocity anti armour rounds making this gun lethat), the UAS- 10 automatic shotgun (every ones faverout gun! fires 10 guage buckshot shells and holds 8 of them, can be fires singley or you guessed it by the name, can be fires extremely fast at all 8 shells in 3 -4 seconds), the UAR-42 assault rifle (fires 5.56mm high velocity anti-armour rounds, comes with single and burst fire or my faverout the fully automatic. Its bulpup design gives the soldier wielding it a smaller and easyer to use rifle with short - long range usage and the same leathality as the longer and bulkyer version used on earth [earth veriation not in this game]), the USG- 50 sniper rifle (yes you guessed by the name again... its a 50. cal AP, thies rounds can pierce light armour vehicles and also kill any target fired at in the head or torso area... leaving a target critically wounded if shot any where else. The scope also makes corrections to wind and range, giving this weapon the longest ranged and most accurate and deadly solid shot firing weapon a unit can carry on the battlefields of mars!), the URC- 15 remote charge (basicaly a high explosice charge detonated by a remote detinator, can kill a man at 10 metres ever when wearing heavy armour.), the UHG- 90 hand grenade (comes with a handy timer device or a detinate on impact setting, giving it a kill radius of 5 metres), the UFT- 1 flame thrower (what can i say really... its a flame thrower great fun whatching your enemy burn for up to 30 seconds, also able to take the fule tank off and throw it at the enemy, acting as a napaly grenade.), the URL- 6T rocket luancher (a tactical rocket luancher nick named 'Big Earl', it is capable offiring a dumb rocket or a homing rocket if activated, the homing rocket takes 2.75 seconds to lock on to an enemy body release R2 and away it goes. firing 15cm high explosive rockets with a six round capacity its a sure way to go!), the FCA- 26 rail driver (this weapon uses very powerful magnets to luanch its solid slug projectile at super high velocity, penetrating anything! this weapon also has a scope that harnases the magnetic eneryg of the weapon to see through walls, allowing you to slightly see through the wall but perfectly seeing enemy heat signitures for miles! p.s. this weapon is a 1 hit K.O.), the MK/SG-1 defender precision rifle (fires 5.65mm explosive nibed rounds, a faveroute of the mercinaries on mars. it has a scope for long range destruction and also is only single fire but you may fire as fast as you like just press fire faster, only has a 20 round mag so dont exhauste the ammo too much.), the JF60- HMG / BF heavy supressive machinegun (this has got to be the coolest gun on the game, firering 7.62mm belt fed high velocity rounds... this the bigger brother of the assault rifle! handlin 99 rounds in no time, also by guessing from the name the 'supression' bit goes running through your head as you squeez the trigger creating death and choas through out your path of destruction!) finally the F- 1TL fusion rocket luancher (this is the mother of all weapons on mars! its a very heavy shoulder mounted weapon that fires a single shell and has a hudge reload time but looks emense... mind you it is emmense! it has to have such a long reload time because it would be to unfair on what ever you whant gone... this thing has a kill range or inexcess of 100m, it does this buy luanching a sub atomic shell into the area you fired it at... you can guess the rest.) That concludes the weapons and trust me its more fun using them than reading about them! this game is just superb what makes it better is its simplicity... their is only 3 items; the health pack, and enviro suit (armour) their are 2 different types of health so in all 3 items! its fast action packed fighting gets the blood gushing and also all over the floor... the game contains a tutorial, multi player and single player (campaign). + this game set the standard for brilliant games.
theirs really nothing more to say about this magnificent masterpice and its a must have. thank you for reading. =)
rating:
graphics 9.5
SFX 10
game play 10
overall 10!