Red Faction 1 hour and 36 minutes in impressions

Hello All, It has been a while since I have posted anything informative here but as I havent seen any red faction impressions i Shall give mine.
First off the game has atmosphere to the brim, Right from the opening movie and the story of why parker is coming to mars you just want to play this game to see what happens. As a matter of fact the game starts with you just getting off of work.
  I would have to say the graphics are every bit as good as anything out right now in the fps department, even though the framerate is at 30fps. I think alot of it has to do with the whole atmosphere of the game. Every where you go there are posters from ultor or graffiti on the wall and you can here helpless miners pleading for mercy from what seems like an eternity away. As a matter of fact I have always arived to late to save one of the helpless souls so far. The controls are tight and highly customizable and the interface is actually quite slick.
GEO MOD God love geo mod. I didnt think you could use it every where until i was in teh guard training quarters and manned a rocket launching turret (oops hope i didnt give anything away) I completely obliterated all the guards and half of the quarters along with them Actually it kinda scared me as to why i kept firing for a minute or 2 after they were all gone... anyhow. I have gotten to man 2 vehicles, the sub and a mining vehicle. I havent found much use for the mining vehicle and will probably have to go back to find out what i missed but hte sub is da bomb. I guided it throuygh training and the cavern was filled with stalagtites and stalagmites. I used torpedos which sounded eerily real to clear a path even though i didnt need to. It was cool how you could shoot the bottom off of one and then it would be just hanging there and one well guided torp to the top would send it crashing down and breaking up realistically. I spent a good half hour destroyiong this room You can also climb fences, duck jump, swim ect ect.. But the story thus far is very very good.
You also at times have to hide bodies ala mgs 2. Even tyhough you dont see them once you pick them up because it is a fps, you still throw them back down pretty violently, almost as if he is pissed to have to have lugged them around. You can also look in lockers and go to medic stations. Medics are real people in the game who will run from you if you dont holster your weapon, but since they are sworn to help anyone even rebels they will go into an animation which shows them giving you something similar to a hypo spray.
God I Love this game and I think It is going to be long too. There is slowdown btw but it never detracts from the game and is usually when you fire a rocket into something that is geo modable (is that a word) It doesnt even happen all the time maybe 50 percent  and when it does you are to busy looking at the fruits of your labor to care. There is also an auto lock on that kinda reminds me of tomb raider in a fps sense. You can disable it in options but its nice to have until you get a feel for the game.
whew. Plkeas feel free to ask any questions as i will be online for a while until i cant fight the urge to lead the rebels once again
mike

WoW!! Nice game impressions!  I have one question to ask you, do you know when you\'re at the level where you get the sub.  How do you get out with the lock door?  

hey pstwo, i havent got to the sub in actual gameplay yet , only in the training mode (you are told quite smugly that it was stolen from ultor)
I have been playing the game on and off nad have had my g/f getting into it also. Thats why my impression is kinda limeted.
Although I am sure you can uses the torps to blast around the door maybe?
I forgot to say about sending a guard and a mining vehicle to their death too.  I was in an area where you are overlooking a mining vehicle being escorted by 4 or 5 guards over a long bridge. I used the remote mines and threw them as high as I could to blow the walk open and sure enough the vehicle went tumbling into oblivion. I also used the rocket launcher to blow apart pieces of said bridge to strand a guard on a very unstable piece of rock then i accidentally hit l1 and blew the remaining piece away sending the guard tumbling to his death on top of the rock... once again geo mod rules

Thanks!! I didn\'t get the game yet but someone needed to know how to get out from that sub level.  

yea i did that too - man that was so cool

until i died shortly afterwards - curses

well its almost time to try again

hey sublime, long time no see.  I still crack up every time i see your pic over on my forums
p.s. if anyone wants to chat about this game or in general my icq is 100607284 or msn messenger is jeepnrocks21

To get the first sub, you have to BLOW up the wall with the locked door.
I think that is the question you are asking.

thanks faithdies, I have been playing a little more and have found the gameplay to get even better. At one point you have to jump into a bucket and ride it up. this takes a small ammount of timing but it makes the game so much more fun than simple death match fps. Although I have found the deathmatches to be fun and the one area i played was geomodable as hell...but did have its limitations. There was a stone platform that was connected by 3 small bridges to the side of a canyon. no matter how hard i tried i couldnt destory the smaller bridges and cause the whole thing to drop if any of you guys did let me know how you accomplished this because i think it would be vvery intense  to see

I\'m 6 hours into the game and I never saw the sub.

Some how I ended up in the area just after the sub ride ya took in the demo version but never had to use the sub to get here

or is the sub ride further in the game ?????



The reason I bring this up because it would be cool if I found a completely different path then others had

How long does it take for a "good" gamer (like me ) to beat the game?

Originally posted by ddaryl

Some how I ended up in the area just after the sub ride ya took in the demo version but never had to use the sub to get here or is the sub ride further in the game ?????

 

no, I thought the same thing when I saw that. The final game is much different from the demo. The changed alot of it around. THey must have taken bits of peices of the levels they though were good to put in the demo. Also, the sub ride is further in the game, but you wont see your friend in red, you\'ll see someone else standing there instead..............

This is very cool. I haven\'t seen this many people convergeron a game in a long time. I know where I will be coming when i get stuck. (i am where you slow the fan down and walk onto it right now)
well gotta go work on my car (dead cylinder, possibly a valve or hole in the piston )
later
mike

Welp I\'m past the wlak onm the fan portion of the game but not by a whole lot.


I\'m starting to enjoy the game a little more now that I\'m a little ways in, which is cool.

The game is not perfect but so far very worthy

wow... sounds great, is the multiplayer any bit worth it? or is it slow and crap?

Actually... the multiplayer is MUCH better than U thought... its not like TS multiplayer where the bots know where you are even WITHOUT radar.. you can sneak up on them and everthing.. the levels are ok.. i only did two, the lobby and the one with teh "W" But Its pretty good so far.