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Oh my god, we had the same childhood. Me and my brothers would either play RF2 like this, or the old WWE Smackdown games, as kids. That was about it, no other games 😂
My family and my neighbors would gather to play this game. On PS2 with that multi-tap thing that allowed for four players. One of our favorite custom games was to go grenades only. The sticky grenades can bd place right in someone's face. If you hit someone with it all they can see is it bounce around taking up the whole camera.
I remember only playing the campaign to unlock stuff for the multiplayer. Despite that, i absolutely loved this game multiplayer. Tons of content, great maps, great modes and fun moments i had in this game with my cousin inside the split screen mode. I never felt how bad the gunplay was since i was in ps2 with the controller and the fact that i mostly played the multiplayer with bots and split screen.
Loved the shit out of this game. Played the campaign even over and over again. Multiplayer was sick, my brother and I played a billion hours of that, just us and bots. Fun times.
At 12:33 that isn't a shield. That's the Nanocore that was stolen at the very beginning of the game which housed tge very same nanotech that Capek made in the first game.
The clown closet is very popular in Call of Duty. You have to push forward or nothing changes. You are the only one who can progress the level. The AI just stands there and shoots till you do. That's where I thought it came from.
@@fadhilahzaidan4946 Dude combine the clown closets with something Treyarch never bothered to patch on Veteran and you get even more pain than dealing with the sniper jackals in Halo 2.
@Fadhilah Zaidan world at war yes. Not sure about cod 1 although I assume so. Friendly AI infinitely respawns. Enemy AI usually does, though sometimes they have a limited number of spawns (like the first part of war pig of cod4, the tank will move up when the enemy spawns are done). But it's fun on pc because you can fly around invisible and watch the ai fight!!
@@fadhilahzaidan4946 love COD 2003, bought it and it wouldn't launch on my pc. my buddy said I needed a new video card and it started my pc gaming journey
This game taught me a lot about not getting too hyped for upcoming games and being cautious about putting my money down for pre-orders. I loved RF1 but bounced off this incredibly hard.
I wonder if this game was rushed somewhat, since the game's demo has none of the celebrity voice actors and Shrike has a different personality. I could be wrong but RF1 had more consistent Geomod, as well as a bunch of secrets involving tunneling through rock to find goodies, even if it does basically vanish once the mercenaries show up, RF2 has more required geomod though. (But also, like with the explosive barrels, it's alot more scripted.) RF2 on consoles had split-screen but RF2 on PC just has a botmatch (not even online MP) and the MP uses weapon sprites for pickups and a different way more simple looking HUD.
Being rushed would be consistent when it came to the PS2. Hybrid control scheme for Mouse and DualShock and if you wanted direct weapon select you could also plug in the keyboard for the campaign. But, for whatever reasons, they didn't get game coding included to support Mouse and DualShock hybrid controls for player-2 which was a disappointment after I was so accustomed to the hybrid controls and was expecting it and when, comparatively, Unreal Tournament was able to support Mouse and DualShock hybrid control two-player splitscreen on PS2 and that was a launch title for the system.
I loved this game as a child so I was pretty excited to see what you had to say on it. Admittedly the multiplayer was better than the campaign and that's probably why I loved this game
No Doubt. On the PS2, the console experience was a pretty good multiplayer FPS for the system. Was disappointed that, given Unreal Tournament for the launch title for the PS2 and was successfully ported to support Mouse and DualShock hybrid controls for two players, that hybrid control scheme didn't get coded correctly for Red Faction 2 for player 2. Regardless, that didn't keep from enjoying so much of the variety in the maps and game modes that Red Faction 2 had to offer in multiplayer.
Easily my favorite game of my childhood. Playing split screen with my brother on the game cube, all the goofy bots and the Paul Verhoeven esque campaign. 10/10
This game was my childhood! I only just realised it's jason Statham's voice replaying it today !!!!!! I'll forever be quoting the campaign "The World has abandoned us, We fight alone against an insidious enemy, An enemy who would destroy the Commonwealth! Who would have our nation crumble from within! But we are strong enough to fight the Red Faction, We are strong enough to prevail. You asked for greatness... I have given it to you. You asked for victory. It is within our grasp, Do not ask me to surrender to our enemies, I WILL NOT! Red Faction fanatics would enslave our sons, And prostitute our daughters. I Sopot, And Patriarch of the Commonwealth, I dedicate myself to protecting the lives of our precious children. Death, Despair, Desolation, Chaos. These are what the Red Faction would bring the Commonwealth and its citizens. Our Soldiers fight for the glory of the Commonwealth, Our Workers labour for the glory of the Commonwealth, Our Children sing for the glory... Of the Commonwealth. Fight...Fight I say! Do not tell me that we cannot, we must, we must crush, The Red Faction! We cannot tolerate these Traitors in our midst. The lies of traitors weaken our nation, Destroy the Traitors! Destroy their Lies! Destroy the Red Faction!"
Even after two decades I still remember main villian because he shares the name with my city - Sopot. gunplay reminds me Fire Warrior for some reasons. Same weak stuff despite the size.
Bad or not I've got fond memories of RF2 being one of the first video games I ever personally owned and played as a kid..my mom refused to buy me any consoles growing up until I was like 12 or 13 maybe 14. So before that other than playing over friends houses, I played what I could on the family computer. Red Faction II...Beachhead 2002, Driver, Test Drive, Motocross Madness, NBA Live, SIMS, etc. Ahh man the nostalgia. Other than PC I did eventually get a gameboy color, and played plenty of games on that. Especially Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow. Man those were the days 😂
Nano GL is still one of my favorite grenade launchers in gaming. This was my first RF game, though, on the GameCube. I spent most of my time in multiplayer though
Lol that "shield" is the nanotech thing you just taken from the previous level and she's covering herself with it because it's too valuable to be destroyed
This is my favorite game from my childhood. I still go back and play this game from time to time. Everything you said is mostly correct about it except the graphics I still think the graphics are OK for its' time; but I will continue to look at this game with my rose tinted nostalgic glasses. I was only 9 when this game came out and I had it on the PS2. I was amazed by the destruction and game-play not in the single player but the multiplayer against bots. I'd grab the bolt-action sniper and just run around the maps trying to one shot kill bots. It was like Aim lab in 2002. This game was my first experience into crazy wacky weapons, and I loved it. Using the grenade launcher to gib people, the green grenade launcher to sticky grenade players, the one shot sniper kills, dual-wielding the red machine pistols and just running around the maps was a lot of fun.
i played RF2 so much when it came out. i was 13. i still play it from time to time for nostalgia’s sake and enable cheats to just mess around. i know it’s bad but i still love it.
I remember exactly, when i played RF2 for the first time with the age of 15 and was all like blown away!!! Being able to wield and fire 2 hand guns or 2 light smg's independently, because back the i was obsessed with "The Lobby" shootout scene from "The Matrix". About 2-3 years ago i replayed it out of nostalgia reasons and guess what... it opened my eyes and made me realize, what a 15 year old dumbf*ck i was, that hasn't reached puberty!!!! how in the actual f*ck, did i find this entertaining!? Because it's so boring, it sucks oragutan testicles through a 100 meter garden hose!!! Just like the 15 year old myself 😒 BTW Mr. Dragon. Thanks 4 keep making reviews of new & old, good & bad FPS games 👍
12:31 When I played this as a kid, I never thought it's a shield. I always thought that's the nano-thingamajig that you steal in the beginning of the game. Why is it valuable? No idea, but she uses it as a leverage more than actual protection.
@@PutkisenSetä oooooh, right, yeah, I remember that now. Haven't played the game for ten years or so, so the memory's blurry. Still, yeah, I do remember recognizing that thing as plot-important
@@Michael_Hunt 1. I literally edit videos for a living 2. I keep my messengers on my second screen so I can see more than just a full screen game. 3. You're needlessly hostile while having no clue what you're talking about
Heya, Jarek. If you're ever interested in an oldie of a Game, given Red Faction 1 and 2, there is a game called Command and Conquer Renegade, that's an FPS you might get a kick out of, set in the Tiberium Universe of the C&C Franchise. Could be worth a look on the First Decade set. Kinda sucks though there's no Renegade 2, but there's also the Mod called Renegade X.
12:30 Its not a shield, she is using it as leverage for him not to just shoot her and damage the Nanotech. That device is why they went to the statue to begin with. That phase rifle could harm the sample by shooting through it, the dude does not want to make bets with his Nano Elite sample. Tangier wants the sample destroyed at all costs, and she throws herself off the statue in an attempt to do exactly that. As a parting "fuck you" she throws that grenade. Arguably she should have had that grenade out at the beginning of the scene as he could have just shot her in the face. But again, He does not want to risk the only sample of his greatest weapon. Even with Alias and Tangier fighting him, he is a Nano Elite. They are bullet sponges throughout the game. We see that he had a fall back plan to pilot a mech, they'd have been risking the fate of the world if she didn't jump.
It made sense for the first game to be titled Red Faction, because the story takes place on Mars, which is literally called the Red Planet. The sequel might as bell be called "Grey Faction", because the story takes place in a dull, monochromatic city.
2:42 I would also like to add Medal of Honor Allied Assault & Frontline, No One Live Forever 2, Serious Sam The Second Encounter, Soldier of Fortune II, Unreal Tournament 2003.
I've tried to play this game many times and give up after about 30min. You called it boring. That's a great word to describe it. I have heard the multiplayer is fun though.
Bought this game at launch expecting way better Geo Mod tech. Was such a step back compared to RF1. Multiplayer had much more content and the 60 FPS frame rate made up for it. Overall I enjoyed the game but it left a lot to be desired
Being 11 years old when this came out. I actually liked the campaign and multiplayer. Sure I played half life on ps2, halo, time splitters 1 and 2. but still this game was alright. I bought it recently on steam and this game does not age well
I remember enjoying the campaign at the time but not loving it. The multiplayer however was where it was at. It was really my first introduction to an arena shooter and I had a ton of fun gibing my friends. I remember a really cool mechanic where you could make bots and the more you played with them the better they would be. So I upgraded a couple of them all the way and named them Kibble and Bits.
It's been like 8-10 years since I last played this game but I just don't remember it being this bad in graphics, although the screams and deaths were funny at that time too. I just couldn't beat that tomboy chick in the campaign, so I loved the multiplayer bot massacre.
RF1 campaign was good because of that truly alone feeling it gives you as an enslaved employee trying to escape. Only RF2’s multiplayer is fun, unfortunately.
Frankly the Red Faction games should have been called Brown or Grey faction instead, becauce those are almost the only colours throughout the entire franchise.
I noticed that the solders you fight in the game don't dawn the unban camo until the second half, before that there all waring that woodland combined with desert camo throughout the city segments in the first half of the game, not that I'm complaining about that Uban camo is one of my favorites it's more intimidating than the others.
The Co-op was shockingly good! So, so good! The idea of changing the stats of the NPC bots was genius. Why can't we have that now?!! Local coop and NPC's that you could min-max on tonnes of stats?! Such a genius idea. You want a bot with only small arms but massive health?! You want a bot with insane accuracy and a sniper rifle but poor health? Off you go. Your choice. And everything in between.
Try the console version but only in split screen and with bots on the multiplayer side, it is very much amazing to dedicate the time with and the weaposn there feel slightly better than in the campaign.
I remember just using the cheat on ps2 and just wrecking things because i was a kid and it was funny to use the cheats like extra chunky. Just a simple triangle, triangle, x, x square, circle, square, circle and boom everything unlocked.
The DualShock+Mouse hybrid control scheme was really good for this and, if you wanted direct weapon-select in campaign or solo multiplayer with Bots, go ahead and plug the keyboard in as well. Unfortunately, even though Unreal Tournament supported Mouse and DualShock hybrid controls for both players in split-screen as a launch title for the system, the mouse+Dualshock scheme wasn't coded for player-2 ; yet, regardless, the maps, game modes and pick-ups along with just enough geomod made RF2 some of the best FPS multiplayer for PS2 especially when you plugged in the multi-tap.
I remember being excited for this game. I was a huge fan of the first red faction. It was very half-life 1 like but with a few interesting twists. And then I got rf2 and after the 3rd level I stopped. I was really disappointed.
Jarek I knew I made the right decision....to delete this POS from my Xbox One X once I played the first 30 minutes. It was free on "Games for Gold" thank God I didn't spend a dime on this trash.
I will never understand why they didn't make a great sequel. The potential of the franchise was huge. And then they released this shit.. sure its not super bad but damn if it isn't a great disappointment.
Was such a disappointment going from 1 to 2! I still have both on PS2 and rarely play RF2. Anyone seen the red faction movie? I thought that was pretty good. They kept to the storyline quite well. So glad the franchise improved with guerrilla and the one after it. Have spent many many hours on them aswell as the original. Multiplayer on RF was great too, even with all the hackers was so much fun to play. Does anyone know if any servers are still live?
Let me just say Red faction Armageddon is the closest thing we will ever get to a starship troopers game (until the actual starship troopers game comes out)
Me and my nostalgia goggles absolutely love this game, but that's from playing bot multiplayer with my dad. Warlord CTF is just so much fun. Eventually as an adult I played the campaign and it was alright, but nothing compared to Halo 2 or 3 which I also grew up with. Even more later I played the Original Red Faction's campaign and was blown away by how much more interesting it was by comparison (excluding the end which kinda dragged on). Looking back, I think RF2's multiplayer still holds up, but I always disable the railgun in bot matches. There is an excellent selection of maps, the bot customization is still a really cool thing, and the music man, the music is so damn good in both RF2 and RF1. Personal favorite for me is ruclips.net/video/aY6bgWQ5VlE/видео.html or simply titled 'Multiplayer 6'.
First half of the game, when you fight the military and then the junta, is actually quite fun and stupid non-stop action. The later part with mutants is repetitive and boring. Also the game has fantastic and original soundtrack. For those of you who is going to play the game on PC - soundtrack has low quality, but is easy to find and download the soundtrack from consoles with better quality, you can use it in PC game and also listen on your playlist
I'm currently playing it in Xbox One, I'm enjoying it so far. But the Shriek boss fight is a pain the ass, still haven't completed it. Too many zombies, railguns, and rockets!!
I never understood that the game is supposed to take place in the year 2080 5 years after the first game. But says the main character alias was born on 2137. Makes no sense
Molov couldn't shoot Tangier because she was holding the Nanotech. The Power Armor I'm not sure could be explained, but Molov does have ~250 IQ. He probably rigged something in the tower to bring it down after the grenade went off. Maybe not as fast as in the scene, but... Yeah.
I enjoyed all the Red Faction games! People didn't like the later ones? =/ I mean don't get me wrong, the latest two weren't amazing like the first one. But they were solid 7/10 games. Get on sale and play on a rainy Tuesday games.
@@Jarekthegamingdragon I'd say that's correct, they sort of went back to making a more Red Faction type game. I'm looking forward to your review of it! I think there's a lot to be said for just shoot and forget games, hehe.
Welp i just bought Red Faction 1 & 2 for like $2.50 a piece on PSN. I'm enjoying playing through the original again...just gotta remember to save often.
I play this game on xbox series x and I think this game looks much better now that compared to the PC version, witch I think is kind of backwards. Sorry if I spelled something wrong in this comment 😅
You know what I.P. Volition had that I wish they continued? Summoner. A fantasy RPG reminiscent of DnD. The first game was janky, but I played it on PS2 and enjoyed it. It was a launch title in 2000. Then they made Summoner 2 which wasn't bad, it had some interesting ideas and concepts, but I remember the story less than the first game. I still enjoyed it. Reason why I say this is because these games came out about the same time Red Faction 1 and 2 did. I love Red Faction 1.
Never played this of the first one, but I played the hell out of Guerrilla on the 360. That’s an all-time classic and more games should have built off of it
Dont play Guerrilla on hard, that game is super fun but the way they designed enemies is that they just spawn from nowhere without end like GTA cops, on top of that the higher the difficulty the more expensive it is to upgrade your explosions, and the game is only fun when things are exploding... which to be fair is not difficult at all to do.
In the interest of diversity of opinions - I would like to add my thoughts on the game. I thought the game was terrible. I'm glad I only bought it second hand for about £1
when i see screenshots of it i thought that this game is nice with good gunplay, but i couldn't launch it on windows 10, i glad that i didn't now, thanks for that
After watching this video, I‘m almost convinced that I didn‘t actually enjoy this game when it came out over 20 years ago, even tho I‘m pretty sure I did enjoy it then. 😂😂😂
Red Faction 2 truly was a dumpster fire after its predecessor was seen as contender for the FPS hall of fame, which is famously dominated by the likes of Half-Life and early id Software. And then came Red Faction 2. End of story, unfortunately. I really liked the setting and had to wait until Guerilla for my next fix, although it lacks the trashy 90s sci-fi feeling the first title had tbh.
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You wont discover fun until you play split screen in Red Faction 2 with big heads enabled and MKAP-97 Anti-personnel Weapon as default
Oh my god, we had the same childhood. Me and my brothers would either play RF2 like this, or the old WWE Smackdown games, as kids. That was about it, no other games 😂
Sounds like perfect dark 64 MP
On the map in space with the launchpads
My family and my neighbors would gather to play this game. On PS2 with that multi-tap thing that allowed for four players. One of our favorite custom games was to go grenades only. The sticky grenades can bd place right in someone's face. If you hit someone with it all they can see is it bounce around taking up the whole camera.
Disarm the Dictator. 😅 damn that was a long time ago
I remember only playing the campaign to unlock stuff for the multiplayer.
Despite that, i absolutely loved this game multiplayer. Tons of content, great maps, great modes and fun moments i had in this game with my cousin inside the split screen mode.
I never felt how bad the gunplay was since i was in ps2 with the controller and the fact that i mostly played the multiplayer with bots and split screen.
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I remember doing the same, me and my brother played the shit out of the multiplayer with bots in this game.
I also liked it for multiplayer on PS2
I had a blast with multiplayer and friends. 8000 years ago.
That was the only thing this game has over the 1st is its multiplayer. & Sopot’s unhinged speech at the main menu screen.
Fun fact: the blue haired guy is voiced by Jason statham and the final boss is voiced by Lance Hendrickson.
And the evil dictator is voiced by Bub the smart zombie from 'Day of the Dead'.
@@martincann5052 kinda miss this era in gaming when devs would get random celebrities to voice act in their games.
The voice actress of the Assassin Tangier is voiced by Cricket Leigh. She best known for voicing Mae from Avatar the last Airbender.
@@griz312 Never know that. One can learn a lot with only read the comments in youtube.
@@thehatalwayswins505 I still associate Marilyn Manson with Area 51 lmao. Was a great time
Loved the shit out of this game. Played the campaign even over and over again. Multiplayer was sick, my brother and I played a billion hours of that, just us and bots. Fun times.
I wish new games would have bots in them😢
@@trollingboy9729 yeah right? Not that hard to do. Would add a lot.
yea i miss this game too. i rememer killing bots with the rail gun a bunch lol
Never heard anyone say anything bad about the game…🤷🏼♂️
I just came to this video because my brother texted me to ask "what game did we use to play against the bots?"
I had to relive the glory.
At 12:33 that isn't a shield. That's the Nanocore that was stolen at the very beginning of the game which housed tge very same nanotech that Capek made in the first game.
The clown closet is very popular in Call of Duty. You have to push forward or nothing changes. You are the only one who can progress the level. The AI just stands there and shoots till you do. That's where I thought it came from.
It's one of the biggest reasons why I dislike COD campaigns.
@@Jarekthegamingdragon Even COD 2003 and World at War?
@@fadhilahzaidan4946 Dude combine the clown closets with something Treyarch never bothered to patch on Veteran and you get even more pain than dealing with the sniper jackals in Halo 2.
@Fadhilah Zaidan world at war yes. Not sure about cod 1 although I assume so. Friendly AI infinitely respawns. Enemy AI usually does, though sometimes they have a limited number of spawns (like the first part of war pig of cod4, the tank will move up when the enemy spawns are done). But it's fun on pc because you can fly around invisible and watch the ai fight!!
@@fadhilahzaidan4946 love COD 2003, bought it and it wouldn't launch on my pc. my buddy said I needed a new video card and it started my pc gaming journey
This game taught me a lot about not getting too hyped for upcoming games and being cautious about putting my money down for pre-orders. I loved RF1 but bounced off this incredibly hard.
Ditto. Such a letdown.
It's like they wanted to make Timesplitters, couldn't get the license and went for it anyway.
@@AParticularlyConcernedCitizen how good was timesplitters though, still got every one on PS2 myself
Did you enjoy Red Faction: Guerrilla? The sequel to that game Armageddon was disappointing as well.
Honestly I rate the game a hammer and a sickle out of 10
Gulag/10
Starvation/ 10
excecuting innocent people /10
Winnie the Pooh/10
Red Fascism/10
Look it up.
I wonder if this game was rushed somewhat, since the game's demo has none of the celebrity voice actors and Shrike has a different personality.
I could be wrong but RF1 had more consistent Geomod, as well as a bunch of secrets involving tunneling through rock to find goodies, even if it does basically vanish once the mercenaries show up, RF2 has more required geomod though. (But also, like with the explosive barrels, it's alot more scripted.)
RF2 on consoles had split-screen but RF2 on PC just has a botmatch (not even online MP) and the MP uses weapon sprites for pickups and a different way more simple looking HUD.
Being rushed would be consistent when it came to the PS2. Hybrid control scheme for Mouse and DualShock and if you wanted direct weapon select you could also plug in the keyboard for the campaign. But, for whatever reasons, they didn't get game coding included to support Mouse and DualShock hybrid controls for player-2 which was a disappointment after I was so accustomed to the hybrid controls and was expecting it and when, comparatively, Unreal Tournament was able to support Mouse and DualShock hybrid control two-player splitscreen on PS2 and that was a launch title for the system.
It has significantly fewer cutscenes than the first game - that says it all
I loved this game as a child so I was pretty excited to see what you had to say on it.
Admittedly the multiplayer was better than the campaign and that's probably why I loved this game
No Doubt. On the PS2, the console experience was a pretty good multiplayer FPS for the system. Was disappointed that, given Unreal Tournament for the launch title for the PS2 and was successfully ported to support Mouse and DualShock hybrid controls for two players, that hybrid control scheme didn't get coded correctly for Red Faction 2 for player 2. Regardless, that didn't keep from enjoying so much of the variety in the maps and game modes that Red Faction 2 had to offer in multiplayer.
Easily my favorite game of my childhood. Playing split screen with my brother on the game cube, all the goofy bots and the Paul Verhoeven esque campaign. 10/10
Comrade, guns fall under speech volume because they're making the voice of the revolution heard
This game was my childhood! I only just realised it's jason Statham's voice replaying it today !!!!!! I'll forever be quoting the campaign
"The World has abandoned us,
We fight alone against an insidious enemy,
An enemy who would destroy the Commonwealth!
Who would have our nation crumble from within!
But we are strong enough to fight the Red Faction,
We are strong enough to prevail.
You asked for greatness...
I have given it to you.
You asked for victory.
It is within our grasp,
Do not ask me to surrender to our enemies,
I WILL NOT!
Red Faction fanatics would enslave our sons,
And prostitute our daughters.
I Sopot, And Patriarch of the Commonwealth,
I dedicate myself to protecting the lives of our precious children.
Death, Despair, Desolation, Chaos.
These are what the Red Faction would bring the Commonwealth and its citizens.
Our Soldiers fight for the glory of the Commonwealth,
Our Workers labour for the glory of the Commonwealth,
Our Children sing for the glory...
Of the Commonwealth.
Fight...Fight I say!
Do not tell me that we cannot, we must, we must crush,
The Red Faction!
We cannot tolerate these Traitors in our midst.
The lies of traitors weaken our nation,
Destroy the Traitors!
Destroy their Lies!
Destroy the Red Faction!"
Even after two decades I still remember main villian because he shares the name with my city - Sopot.
gunplay reminds me Fire Warrior for some reasons. Same weak stuff despite the size.
You are from Poland?
Bad or not I've got fond memories of RF2 being one of the first video games I ever personally owned and played as a kid..my mom refused to buy me any consoles growing up until I was like 12 or 13 maybe 14. So before that other than playing over friends houses, I played what I could on the family computer. Red Faction II...Beachhead 2002, Driver, Test Drive, Motocross Madness, NBA Live, SIMS, etc. Ahh man the nostalgia. Other than PC I did eventually get a gameboy color, and played plenty of games on that. Especially Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow. Man those were the days 😂
Red faction 2 was so fun with friends, and making your bots and training those bots to make them stronger. The maps were amazing. Same as the guns
Nano GL is still one of my favorite grenade launchers in gaming. This was my first RF game, though, on the GameCube. I spent most of my time in multiplayer though
Scientist screams return as civilian screams, lol.
Can’t believe Jarek beat the final boss first try no deaths, went absolutely insano-mode on it tbh, the best skill I’ve ever seen.
Stream gang wya
3:55
Took the whole "I let my guns do all the talking" thing a little too seriously.
Lol that "shield" is the nanotech thing you just taken from the previous level and she's covering herself with it because it's too valuable to be destroyed
This is my favorite game from my childhood. I still go back and play this game from time to time. Everything you said is mostly correct about it except the graphics I still think the graphics are OK for its' time; but I will continue to look at this game with my rose tinted nostalgic glasses. I was only 9 when this game came out and I had it on the PS2. I was amazed by the destruction and game-play not in the single player but the multiplayer against bots. I'd grab the bolt-action sniper and just run around the maps trying to one shot kill bots. It was like Aim lab in 2002. This game was my first experience into crazy wacky weapons, and I loved it. Using the grenade launcher to gib people, the green grenade launcher to sticky grenade players, the one shot sniper kills, dual-wielding the red machine pistols and just running around the maps was a lot of fun.
Best part about 2 is the MP and MP bot customization. SP is really bad
i played RF2 so much when it came out. i was 13. i still play it from time to time for nostalgia’s sake and enable cheats to just mess around. i know it’s bad but i still love it.
PS2?
i actually really enjoyed this game growing up.
I remember exactly, when i played RF2 for the first time with the age of 15 and was all like blown away!!! Being able to wield and fire 2 hand guns or 2 light smg's independently, because back the i was obsessed with "The Lobby" shootout scene from "The Matrix". About 2-3 years ago i replayed it out of nostalgia reasons and guess what... it opened my eyes and made me realize, what a 15 year old dumbf*ck i was, that hasn't reached puberty!!!! how in the actual f*ck, did i find this entertaining!? Because it's so boring, it sucks oragutan testicles through a 100 meter garden hose!!! Just like the 15 year old myself 😒 BTW Mr. Dragon. Thanks 4 keep making reviews of new & old, good & bad FPS games 👍
since when do MOST people have multiple monitors?
Since over 10 years ago. Most PC gamers do.
Damn, I've never heard anyone shout out Powerman 5000 before, especially in a video about a game.
12:31
When I played this as a kid, I never thought it's a shield. I always thought that's the nano-thingamajig that you steal in the beginning of the game. Why is it valuable? No idea, but she uses it as a leverage more than actual protection.
You don't regen health in the first level of the game. Nanotech unlocks that from the second level onwards. It's a super soldier kit.
@@PutkisenSetä oooooh, right, yeah, I remember that now. Haven't played the game for ten years or so, so the memory's blurry. Still, yeah, I do remember recognizing that thing as plot-important
"most people nowadays" has still 1 screen and this will remain forever, lol
y tho
@@Michael_Hunt 1. I literally edit videos for a living
2. I keep my messengers on my second screen so I can see more than just a full screen game.
3. You're needlessly hostile while having no clue what you're talking about
Fun Fact: Lance Henriksen voices Molov and Jason Statham voices Shrike.
Heya, Jarek. If you're ever interested in an oldie of a Game, given Red Faction 1 and 2, there is a game called Command and Conquer Renegade, that's an FPS you might get a kick out of, set in the Tiberium Universe of the C&C Franchise. Could be worth a look on the First Decade set. Kinda sucks though there's no Renegade 2, but there's also the Mod called Renegade X.
12:30 Its not a shield, she is using it as leverage for him not to just shoot her and damage the Nanotech. That device is why they went to the statue to begin with. That phase rifle could harm the sample by shooting through it, the dude does not want to make bets with his Nano Elite sample. Tangier wants the sample destroyed at all costs, and she throws herself off the statue in an attempt to do exactly that. As a parting "fuck you" she throws that grenade. Arguably she should have had that grenade out at the beginning of the scene as he could have just shot her in the face. But again, He does not want to risk the only sample of his greatest weapon.
Even with Alias and Tangier fighting him, he is a Nano Elite. They are bullet sponges throughout the game. We see that he had a fall back plan to pilot a mech, they'd have been risking the fate of the world if she didn't jump.
It made sense for the first game to be titled Red Faction, because the story takes place on Mars, which is literally called the Red Planet. The sequel might as bell be called "Grey Faction", because the story takes place in a dull, monochromatic city.
2:42 I would also like to add Medal of Honor Allied Assault & Frontline, No One Live Forever 2, Serious Sam The Second Encounter, Soldier of Fortune II, Unreal Tournament 2003.
I was totally expecting the female NPC to say, “Way to go Step-Bro!”
I've tried to play this game many times and give up after about 30min. You called it boring. That's a great word to describe it. I have heard the multiplayer is fun though.
Bought this game at launch expecting way better Geo Mod tech. Was such a step back compared to RF1.
Multiplayer had much more content and the 60 FPS frame rate made up for it.
Overall I enjoyed the game but it left a lot to be desired
Being 11 years old when this came out. I actually liked the campaign and multiplayer. Sure I played half life on ps2, halo, time splitters 1 and 2. but still this game was alright. I bought it recently on steam and this game does not age well
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this part almost makes the whole game worth it lol
I remember enjoying the campaign at the time but not loving it. The multiplayer however was where it was at. It was really my first introduction to an arena shooter and I had a ton of fun gibing my friends. I remember a really cool mechanic where you could make bots and the more you played with them the better they would be. So I upgraded a couple of them all the way and named them Kibble and Bits.
It's been like 8-10 years since I last played this game but I just don't remember it being this bad in graphics, although the screams and deaths were funny at that time too. I just couldn't beat that tomboy chick in the campaign, so I loved the multiplayer bot massacre.
The multiplayer is insanely fun I would play it with my friends even with just bots I loved it
It's a fantastic alternative to TimeSplitters 2, I'll have you know.
This game was a defining game for me, loved every second of it...except the sub mission.
RF1 campaign was good because of that truly alone feeling it gives you as an enslaved employee trying to escape. Only RF2’s multiplayer is fun, unfortunately.
Frankly the Red Faction games should have been called Brown or Grey faction instead, becauce those are almost the only colours throughout the entire franchise.
Haha, you get that it was set on Mars right...
I noticed that the solders you fight in the game don't dawn the unban camo until the second half, before that there all waring that woodland combined with desert camo throughout the city segments in the first half of the game, not that I'm complaining about that Uban camo is one of my favorites it's more intimidating than the others.
The Co-op was shockingly good! So, so good!
The idea of changing the stats of the NPC bots was genius. Why can't we have that now?!! Local coop and NPC's that you could min-max on tonnes of stats?! Such a genius idea.
You want a bot with only small arms but massive health?! You want a bot with insane accuracy and a sniper rifle but poor health? Off you go. Your choice. And everything in between.
I short - the WHOLE game was the local coop
Try the console version but only in split screen and with bots on the multiplayer side, it is very much amazing to dedicate the time with and the weaposn there feel slightly better than in the campaign.
I remember just using the cheat on ps2 and just wrecking things because i was a kid and it was funny to use the cheats like extra chunky. Just a simple triangle, triangle, x, x square, circle, square, circle and boom everything unlocked.
The DualShock+Mouse hybrid control scheme was really good for this and, if you wanted direct weapon-select in campaign or solo multiplayer with Bots, go ahead and plug the keyboard in as well. Unfortunately, even though Unreal Tournament supported Mouse and DualShock hybrid controls for both players in split-screen as a launch title for the system, the mouse+Dualshock scheme wasn't coded for player-2 ; yet, regardless, the maps, game modes and pick-ups along with just enough geomod made RF2 some of the best FPS multiplayer for PS2 especially when you plugged in the multi-tap.
I remember being excited for this game. I was a huge fan of the first red faction. It was very half-life 1 like but with a few interesting twists. And then I got rf2 and after the 3rd level I stopped. I was really disappointed.
Jarek I knew I made the right decision....to delete this POS from my Xbox One X once I played the first 30 minutes. It was free on "Games for Gold" thank God I didn't spend a dime on this trash.
4:06 It's because your guns do the talking... Duh!
I will never understand why they didn't make a great sequel.
The potential of the franchise was huge. And then they released this shit.. sure its not super bad but damn if it isn't a great disappointment.
They did, it's called RF: guerilla .. just think of RF2 as an anomaly haha
I remember being so disappointed of RF2 back in the day... :(
Was such a disappointment going from 1 to 2! I still have both on PS2 and rarely play RF2.
Anyone seen the red faction movie? I thought that was pretty good. They kept to the storyline quite well.
So glad the franchise improved with guerrilla and the one after it. Have spent many many hours on them aswell as the original.
Multiplayer on RF was great too, even with all the hackers was so much fun to play. Does anyone know if any servers are still live?
Let me just say Red faction Armageddon is the closest thing we will ever get to a starship troopers game (until the actual starship troopers game comes out)
A starship troopers game actually exists. It was made in 2005. I want Jarek to review this game
Me and my nostalgia goggles absolutely love this game, but that's from playing bot multiplayer with my dad. Warlord CTF is just so much fun. Eventually as an adult I played the campaign and it was alright, but nothing compared to Halo 2 or 3 which I also grew up with. Even more later I played the Original Red Faction's campaign and was blown away by how much more interesting it was by comparison (excluding the end which kinda dragged on). Looking back, I think RF2's multiplayer still holds up, but I always disable the railgun in bot matches. There is an excellent selection of maps, the bot customization is still a really cool thing, and the music man, the music is so damn good in both RF2 and RF1. Personal favorite for me is ruclips.net/video/aY6bgWQ5VlE/видео.html or simply titled 'Multiplayer 6'.
Im currently playing on hard difficulty and am stuck on the last boss battle and has given me incontrollable rage
First half of the game, when you fight the military and then the junta, is actually quite fun and stupid non-stop action. The later part with mutants is repetitive and boring. Also the game has fantastic and original soundtrack. For those of you who is going to play the game on PC - soundtrack has low quality, but is easy to find and download the soundtrack from consoles with better quality, you can use it in PC game and also listen on your playlist
I feel bad for anyone that grew up with this, and I grew up with Goldeneye for the Wii...
Goldeneye... for the Wii? Man I feel bad for you, growing up with that poor imitation of a game...
@@_Braised Nah the single player was decent and with a pro controller the multiplayer was pretty fun, could have been way worse
@@ZiggityZeke True, at least it's no 007 Legends or Rogue Agent. Not a patch on OG Goldeneye or Agent Under Fire tho
I'm currently playing it in Xbox One, I'm enjoying it so far. But the Shriek boss fight is a pain the ass, still haven't completed it. Too many zombies, railguns, and rockets!!
I remember being super excited about this game coming out in 2002. I loved the first. I remember being so disappointed when i got it.
This was a fun game back in the day, but the multiplayer is where its at.
I never understood that the game is supposed to take place in the year 2080 5 years after the first game. But says the main character alias was born on 2137. Makes no sense
Molov couldn't shoot Tangier because she was holding the Nanotech. The Power Armor I'm not sure could be explained, but Molov does have ~250 IQ. He probably rigged something in the tower to bring it down after the grenade went off. Maybe not as fast as in the scene, but... Yeah.
Happy New Year, Jerek
Looking forward towards more of your content here once again this year
Will you review Hrot when it comes out?
Just finished Red Faction 1 first time ever, was so hyped to play second game and damn this reviews was really sad, first game is masterpiece.
I enjoyed all the Red Faction games! People didn't like the later ones? =/
I mean don't get me wrong, the latest two weren't amazing like the first one. But they were solid 7/10 games. Get on sale and play on a rainy Tuesday games.
Every one seems to really like guerilla. The most common opinion I was picking up on in my chat is that it's the best one.
@@Jarekthegamingdragon I'd say that's correct, they sort of went back to making a more Red Faction type game. I'm looking forward to your review of it!
I think there's a lot to be said for just shoot and forget games, hehe.
Welp i just bought Red Faction 1 & 2 for like $2.50 a piece on PSN. I'm enjoying playing through the original again...just gotta remember to save often.
The best split screen fps to PS2.
As an FPS for that era it's pretty decent but for a Red Faction game? nah. You expect the sequel to improve the destruction not damn near remove it.
I play this game on xbox series x and I think this game looks much better now that compared to the PC version, witch I think is kind of backwards.
Sorry if I spelled something wrong in this comment 😅
I love red faction 2 for Gamecube 🔥🔥🔥
I actually enjoyed this game, but every thing you had to say was valid... that final boss though was definitely awful.
I freaking hated the final boss. I had to turn down the difficulty to Easy just to beat him. I was that frustrated.
You know what I.P. Volition had that I wish they continued? Summoner. A fantasy RPG reminiscent of DnD. The first game was janky, but I played it on PS2 and enjoyed it. It was a launch title in 2000. Then they made Summoner 2 which wasn't bad, it had some interesting ideas and concepts, but I remember the story less than the first game. I still enjoyed it. Reason why I say this is because these games came out about the same time Red Faction 1 and 2 did. I love Red Faction 1.
Never played this of the first one, but I played the hell out of Guerrilla on the 360. That’s an all-time classic and more games should have built off of it
Guerilla corrected the sins of this game ten fold
This is my childhood game I love whatever it is
Gunshots and speech are on the same audio volume slider because shooting is how guns talk.
Dont play Guerrilla on hard, that game is super fun but the way they designed enemies is that they just spawn from nowhere without end like GTA cops, on top of that the higher the difficulty the more expensive it is to upgrade your explosions, and the game is only fun when things are exploding... which to be fair is not difficult at all to do.
Only thing I remembering liking the game for was for having Jason stantham in there
In the interest of diversity of opinions - I would like to add my thoughts on the game.
I thought the game was terrible. I'm glad I only bought it second hand for about £1
OG Red Faction and RF 2 most underrated features = The Splitscreen multiplayer and its bots.
i actually liked rf2 at least as much, if not more than rf1. i know. i‘m weird.
Why does the villain sound like Tim Curry doing his Red Alert voice? 🤣
I am waiting wen you make video on Red Fraction Guerrilla 🔥😎
red faction 1 and 2 was the best for PS2. hopefully someone can make a community online PvP on RF2.
when i see screenshots of it i thought that this game is nice with good gunplay, but i couldn't launch it on windows 10, i glad that i didn't now, thanks for that
Biggest issue with this game was it as a poor quality console game and the port was horribly translated to PC.
i thought it was pretty decent back in the day, played it again a year or 2 ago and though it was way shorter than i remembered but still ok
Basically like DMC 2
After watching this video, I‘m almost convinced that I didn‘t actually enjoy this game when it came out over 20 years ago, even tho I‘m pretty sure I did enjoy it then. 😂😂😂
If you enjoyed it over 20 years ago, I don’t think your experience will be the same now.
I loved this game in the day. Why would people hate it? Beyond me.
Respawning enemies?! ARGHH! 😡
Red Faction 2 truly was a dumpster fire after its predecessor was seen as contender for the FPS hall of fame, which is famously dominated by the likes of Half-Life and early id Software. And then came Red Faction 2. End of story, unfortunately. I really liked the setting and had to wait until Guerilla for my next fix, although it lacks the trashy 90s sci-fi feeling the first title had tbh.
You should review project warlock