Difficulty:

Easy

Time Spent:

10 Hours or Less

The Bottom Line:

"Old-school"

Now game developers can impress me with shnazzy graphics and **** stories, but sometimes who really give a good @#^*? Red Faction is one of those games that decides not to offer a great story or any real revolutions in gameplay, but you know what, that's not a problem.
Yeah, the story's not much to speak of. It's your standard one-man army taking on an evil corporation that opresses its workers and happens to have evil scientists killing them off, blah, blah, blah, this game is just an exucse to shoot bad guys.
The gameplay is your standard shooter with handguns, assult rifles, railguns, and then some. But the controls are familiar to the touch allow anyone to pick the controls just to have a good time shooting up some mercenaries. But for its time, the AI is impressive. The guards duck and run for cover, while others run and hide only to return with a full clip of ammo.
The games main selling point was the fact that you could destroy practically anything in the game. Whop de do, I probably only used that once. It would've been nice to see more of that "Geo-Mod" tech put to good use however.
All in all, what can I say. You'd probably be better off buying Metal Gear Solid or Resident Evil, but if you have the game hiding in your game collection, it's worth firing up here and there, just to reminded that some shooters don't have to take themselves seriously.