Draw Me Backwards!: Red Faction

Rather RED than dead

Year: 2001
Platform: PS2,Windows, N-Gage,MAC, Mobile phone



Red Faction is a first-person shooter video game by THQ and Volition that was released in 2001 for the PlayStation 2, Windows.

Red Faction takes place on Mars in the 22nd century. Parker, a miner who helps lead a rebellion against the Ultor Corporation. The premiere feature of the game is its "Geo-Mod" technology, short for "geometry modification", which provided destructible environments, allowing the player to destroy certain sections of the scenery in the game. For example, instead of opening a door, a player could blast through the wall. The game also offerd a little various of vehicles. like a submarine, a jeep and a giant drill tank. Red Faction was called the Half-Life killer, it was a new engine and another fps game that offerd a great story and gameplay. Red faction was maby the first games that used the "geometry modification" technique. Other gam-es had take this to htere advantage, games like Bad Company for example. The PC version of the game included a online multiplayer wish the ps2 version did not have, but instead offers split screen and computer controlled bots for the players to battle with.


Red Faction takes place on Mars around the year 2158. Earth’s minerals are being depleted and humans need more of them to survive. The vast Ultor Corporation runs the mining operation on Mars. The conditions are deplorable, Parker, a downtrodden miner, came to Mars to make a new start in his life. After a routine day in the mine he witnesses the spark that starts a rebellion when a security guard kills him. Parker takes up arms, with the help of Hendrix, Hendrix tries to get Parker to join up with a group of miners who are about to steal a supply shuttle and escape the complex. Parker arrives too late. The shuttle takes off but is destroyed by missiles.




Parker traverses through the Ultor complex, eliminating any resistance Ultor throws at him, and even kidnapping a high-ranking Ultor administrator, Gryphon, for Eos, leader of the Red Faction. Parker learns from Gryphon about Dr. Capek, who created "The Plague". Capek has been experimenting with nanotechnology, and the Plague is a side-effect of injections at the miners' annual medical checkup. Hendrix directs Parker to Capek's secret underground laboratory, where he and Eos meet up and take down Capek. Before Capek dies, he tells Eos how to cure the Plague.[6] After sending a distress call to the Earth Defense Force, Parker stows away on a shuttle to an Ultor space station in Martian orbit to deactivate a laser defense system.

After destroying the space station, Parker lands back on Mars through an escape pod, Hendrix tells Parker that the mercenaries have orders to destroy the mining complex, covering up any proof of Ultor's wrongdoing, Hendrix is killed soon after this by the mercenaries. After fighting his way through the mercenary base, Parker confronts Masako, the mercenary leader. After he kills Masako, Parker sees that Eos is tied up and sitting on the floor next to the bomb. After deactivating it, the Earth Defense Force arrives just in time to save Parker and Eos. Eos tells Parker that an antidote for the Plague has been made. She also tells him she is leaving Mars, and that Parker should enjoy his new status as a hero.