Since the
last game in the franchise was released in the terrifying time before Joystiq (2003!), you were probably too busy fending off saber-tooth tiger attacks to bother acquainting yourself with THQ's sci-fi first-person shooter,
Red Faction. The series drew much attention to its use of "GeoMod" technology, a fancy bit of programming which enabled the real-time destruction and geometric alteration of specific and often rare in-game surfaces. A third game, unsurprisingly referred to as "Red Faction 3," has now been revealed to be in development for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.
Speaking in a
recent conference call, THQ CEO Brian Farrell noted that the game would once again be created by Volition, the same developer that's somehow responsible for both
Saint's Row and
Descent: Freespace.
Red Faction 3 is expected to further enhance the franchise's destructive tendencies through the aid of today's more powerful platforms (translation: bigger 'splosions plus bloom) and should arrive somewhere between April 2008 and March 2009.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Einhanderkiller @ Feb 5th 2008 7:13PM
I had so much fun with the first one on the PS2. Split-screen was awesome. I just picked up the PC version recently and am playing through the single-player campaign again.
Raikage (Wii FC 5508 0487 4434 0992) @ Feb 5th 2008 7:25PM
I remember playing a demo, on a disk...whaaa
Anyway I was quite amused throwing the remote mines on the guys head and watching him run around.
Ahhh.... good times.
marklar @ Feb 5th 2008 7:45PM
yeah - those were fun coop games!!
Cal @ Feb 5th 2008 9:17PM
Red Faction was my first 'real' FPS, was such a great game, this better do it justice...
LaughingTarget @ Feb 5th 2008 7:17PM
It was an entertaining title, but they killed the GeoMod so much. They had these demonstrations of water deforming into the holes you made yet it never made it into the final product. The implementation from the level design aspect was also weak. There weren't many uses for GeoMod beyond using a rocket to take down a tower instead of hitting it head on or a few areas where rocks chunked out when hit with a rocket. I was expecting a more natural level design that didn't funnel you around, but the game had too many indestructible areas.
I would love to see a more organic level design this time around.
Zoesch @ Feb 5th 2008 8:49PM
Awesome indeed... I loved RF and RF2, specially co-op though the final boss battles were a bit meh
Tom Brady @ Feb 5th 2008 7:23PM
i just nutted all over my computer screen! This is the best news ever. My friends and I were wondering why they never made a Red Faction 3 just a few weeks ago when we were playing a 4 player split screen deathmatch with bots. Maybe THQ had the room bugged & they heard how awesome it would be, especially if they added an online deathmatch mode. I CAN'T WAIT!!!
Noshino @ Feb 6th 2008 2:29AM
yah, but you bet there won't be a 4th one...
NaeemTHM @ Feb 5th 2008 7:27PM
Excellent news, the first two games where great.
DangerMouse @ Feb 5th 2008 7:29PM
Holy Shit, best news all day! I hope they go back to mars and skip over that RF2 story altogether. Red Faction 1 was excellent.
GET YOUR ASS TO MARS!!!
Phizzy @ Feb 5th 2008 7:45PM
I don't want it, someone tell them to make Summoner 3 instead.
Hashbrown_Hunter @ Feb 5th 2008 7:51PM
"How's you mind? Blown?"
Chintz @ Feb 5th 2008 8:26PM
I hope it's more like the first and less like the second.
Me @ Feb 5th 2008 8:28PM
There was nothing better then rocketing up some tunnels and sitting in there with that go through walls gun and picking people off. Fun times.
Deck @ Feb 5th 2008 8:39PM
Sweet!
Loved the first one! Played a bit of the second and it was good too!
Awesome news, and was wondering about this ever since it was mentioned on a podcast recently! (Can't remember if it was last weeks or the week before. Or was it even before that? Hell whatever, someone said something sometime!)
joshua @ Feb 5th 2008 8:50PM
The first game was a decent first-gen PS2 FPS, the 2nd game was terrible, but with hardware to do "Geomod" properly and some experience with said hardware hopefully we can get something better than decent.
refinedsugar @ Feb 5th 2008 9:02PM
They better bring back Parker ... and if they could get Lance Henriksen into the voice cast again for RF3, well, that would just be swell.
WiiFTW @ Feb 5th 2008 9:48PM
RF was pretty much my first FPS. Lots splitscreen memories. "Try it miner!" The control baton (melee weapon) was hilarious because you could perform a normal attack or shock your target similar to a taser. Um, the heavy machine gun had little to no recoil and its bullets bounced off certain floors and surfaces. There was autoaim for some guns. The normal rocket launcher was the one involved with Geomod, while the "fusion rocket launcher," which had ridiculous splash damage, didn't damage the environment at all. The normal rocket launcher also could lock on using heat seeking, which was pretty cool. This could be used to make "bunny holes" as my friends called them which could be used to trap computer players and get free kills. Yea, good times, good times.
EMOruffino @ Feb 5th 2008 10:46PM
this is some of the best news ive heard in a long time...
capt_carl @ Feb 5th 2008 10:49PM
Meh, I'd rather see Descent 4. A new Descent game with that GeoMod technology would be orgasmic.
mergedwarrior @ Feb 5th 2008 10:50PM
I think I just had a digital orgasm.
mergedwarrior @ Feb 5th 2008 10:50PM
Oh yeah, ITS A TRAP!
Jonah Falcon @ Feb 6th 2008 12:54AM
Most PC users who tried Red Faction went "Blecch". It was a pretty bad FPS.
Ihavepants @ Feb 6th 2008 1:35AM
Well I only played Red Faction II, and while the environment deforming wasn't as good as it could have been, it was 100x better than not having any at all.
I enjoyed the game as a game. I can't and probably don't want to remember its story.
CBXweb @ Feb 6th 2008 12:58AM
DROP IT MINER! [Red Faction] Was one of those really enjoyable first generation games. Really washed the bad taste that Oni put in my brain. God that game sucked.
Ypocaramel @ Feb 6th 2008 1:11AM
While we're reviving Volition classics, why not Freespace 3?
FidliousWong @ Feb 6th 2008 12:31AM
NEVER ask a volitionite that. Why they cannot or will not do that is beyond my experience but there is a seething venom towards the concept of a Freepsace 3. My guess is they simply do not have the rights and they get tired of the constant barrage of emails demanding something they cannot do. Only thing I know for certian is, when meeting new people from Volition (I have a few friends in that studio), never bring up Freespace. It's an unspoken rule.
Noshino @ Feb 6th 2008 2:41AM
"Despite Volition's interest and desire to develop add-ons and expansions for FreeSpace 2, Interplay told them to stop. Volition was then acquired by THQ in 2000. As Interplay owns the rights to the FreeSpace series (as well as the Descent series) and Volition's owners, THQ, is only interested in pursuing development on what they own, Volition was unable to continue developing the FreeSpace franchise."
capt_carl @ Feb 6th 2008 9:12AM
Freespace 3 would be amazing, but I'd still rather see Descent 4 before Freespace 3. As an old-school Descent player, I'd kill for a new Descent game. I'd even scour the Internet to find a method to make my Sidewinder 3D Pro work once again.
xtremesniper @ Feb 6th 2008 9:41AM
I remember emailing Volition once about Freespace 3, and they responded saying Interplay owns them and I would have to talk to them about it now... That was so long ago.
I emailed Interplay but they never responded. My dreams were shattered forever. =(
Martez @ Feb 6th 2008 11:25AM
Just because they can't make another Freespace game doesn't mean they can't make a game that plays just like it. Space-flight sims FTW!
markhill66 @ Feb 6th 2008 1:45AM
This is crazy, weren't you guys just talking about this in the podcast? Coincidence? You be the judge.
-Mark
http://www.threevue.com
DeadPlasmaCell @ Feb 6th 2008 2:25AM
Damn, I never noticed how similar the 'Gears' Logo looks to this.
/Sorry if this was mentioned already
tropmug @ Feb 7th 2008 4:31AM
gears of war logo, mass effect font.
ChrisMC @ Feb 29th 2008 4:51PM
Okay, Me and my step-brother are probably the biggest Red Faction Fans ever. Played the first, loved it. The second has been around for a while, a long while, and we still play the hell out of it. We play on hard, with all the bots stats maxed out and we still get around 450+ kills. My highest is 506 Kills. My stepbrother's is 527. Beat that. Can't wait for the 3rd one to come.