Red Faction: How Volition (Briefly) Conquered Mars

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  • Опубликовано: 12 сен 2022
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    From 1999 to 2011, Red Faction carved a unique piece out of the open world, FPS, and third-person shooter genres, providing unparalleled destruction with Volition's Geomod technology. However, since the release of Red Faction Armageddon, the franchise has remained dormant. What happened to Red Faction?
    Sources:
    Descent 4
    web.archive.org/web/200702220...
    Mutual Split, Red Shift:
    www.eurogamer.net/the-making-...
    Kotaku Retrospective
    kotaku.com/red-faction-starte...
    Guerilla Concept Art
    web.archive.org/web/200909130...
    Guerrilla Interview
    www.destructoid.com/interview...
    How Red Faction’s Geomod’s work
    web.archive.org/web/201001090...
    Red Faction B.E.A.S.T.
    www.unseen64.net/2009/01/11/r...
    Armageddon Interview:
    • Red Faction: Armageddo...
    Developer on Armageddon’s Failure
    www.vg247.com/volition-consis...
    Insane Cancelled:
    www.polygon.com/gaming/2012/8...
    Closure of Locomotive
    www.gamesindustry.biz/article...
    Koch Acquires Volition
    www.polygon.com/2013/1/23/390...
    Nordic getting a lot of THQ’s assets. Also references a quote from Mike
    www.polygon.com/2013/4/22/425...
    Evolution Leak
    www.pcgamer.com/red-faction-e...
    Where was Red Faction at 2019 E3?
    www.gamerevolution.com/guides...
    IP Franchise Swap
    www.videogameschronicle.com/n...
    Red Faction II Development
    • Making of - Red Factio...
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Комментарии • 38

  • @LuckStat
    @LuckStat  Год назад +2

    Thanks for watching, be sure to check out Cult of the CyberSkull:
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  • @mrsaintsgodzilla21
    @mrsaintsgodzilla21 Год назад +6

    Excellent video! I just want to mention that you can see early footage of RFG that was still in first person in Greg Donovan's Vertical Slice challenge GDC presentation. You can see the video on GDC's youtube channel around 23 minutes into the presentation.

    • @LuckStat
      @LuckStat  Год назад

      Good looking out! Always appreciate seeing early footage of RFG!

  • @brokeneffect7464
    @brokeneffect7464 9 месяцев назад +4

    Red faction guerrilla was and is one of my all-time favorite games, I started a new play through yesterday, and I am still enjoying so much

  • @ostapchovgan1115
    @ostapchovgan1115 Год назад +11

    Loving the high quality content, how does this not have more views?

    • @k1rkpad
      @k1rkpad Год назад

      My face when this video has only 600 views!!! Wow.

  • @olli-pekkapauna8079
    @olli-pekkapauna8079 Год назад +3

    Binged your stuff after getting the Criterion video recommended. Great content.

  • @CultoftheCyberSkull
    @CultoftheCyberSkull Год назад +7

    So, as someone who hasn't played this series at all, you've not only piqued my interest (especially with the first game because of course I'm a PC dinosaur), but you've done a really great job of offering a really solid, condensed history of the franchise so that someone like me who is completely in the dark gets to know it way better. I'm digging your retrospectives a lot, dude!

    • @Sub-vl5mz
      @Sub-vl5mz Год назад

      hope you got around to playing the first RF. A personal favorite of mine

  • @danielm8068
    @danielm8068 Год назад +3

    Criminally underrated channel!, stunning work!

  • @letsgoforaspin
    @letsgoforaspin Год назад +2

    Loved the atmosphere of the first Red Faction.

  • @Eleven17Studios
    @Eleven17Studios Год назад +3

    I'm still working on beating all the games you reviewed in college. Gotta say I'm excited to get to Red Faction

  • @joseybryant7577
    @joseybryant7577 7 месяцев назад

    Man, the memories! I used to play Red Faction with my cousin on our PS2. How time flies...

  • @attackofthecopyrightbots
    @attackofthecopyrightbots Год назад +1

    I remember this game getting a webseries at one point

  • @k1rkpad
    @k1rkpad Год назад +1

    Possibly the first channel I've ever clicked the notification bell on. Your videos are EXCELLENT. Great stuff.

  • @oldmanonyoutube
    @oldmanonyoutube Год назад +1

    RIP Volition. "Embracer Group has moved SaintsRow developer Volition away from Deep Silver The studio has become part of Gearbox Software (also part of the group)."

    • @LuckStat
      @LuckStat  Год назад +1

      Ah, I hadn't heard that. That's a depressing end for all of this

  • @ScottsGameAsylum
    @ScottsGameAsylum Год назад +1

    "Armageddon is like Dead Space" Hmm now i am interested!
    RF was a cool series but the celling for what it could be was very apparent, even on the ps2. That said, i cant help but feel nostalgic for the janky bint.

    • @LuckStat
      @LuckStat  Год назад

      Miss that era of b-game jank, I tell ya what

  • @RautaMakkara
    @RautaMakkara Год назад +1

    very good video, could have potentially mentioned how red faction guerrilla got "remarstered" years after it's release

  • @edwardmorrissette5817
    @edwardmorrissette5817 Год назад +4

    I would kill for another open world red faction game. Guerrilla is one of my comfort food games

    • @LuckStat
      @LuckStat  Год назад +4

      Mine too, just endless amounts of pure fun

    • @edwardmorrissette5817
      @edwardmorrissette5817 Год назад

      @@LuckStat a fellow man of class 😎

    • @kiwikemist
      @kiwikemist 2 месяца назад

      Open world ruined red faction. The first game was excellent, the second meh. The rest suck

  • @NewOrderOfAlexandria
    @NewOrderOfAlexandria 5 месяцев назад

    I really think if Volition took the customisation of Saints Row 2 and the destruction of RF:Guerilla we could've had something really special. It's sad they ditched the original Saints Row timeline which prequeled Red Faction (featuring Ultor in SR2)

  • @vMadMatt
    @vMadMatt Год назад +1

    I've never seen Armageddon before, but that game wants to look like Gears of War so bad

    • @LuckStat
      @LuckStat  Год назад

      But not even a cover system, like why even bother?

  • @TheBoneHeadClan
    @TheBoneHeadClan Год назад +1

    It looks like some of your oldest videos have very little views. I bet though now with your consistent view count and amount of subscribers you can just straight and reupload them and I bet they get a lot more views.

  • @dylanstoudt6499
    @dylanstoudt6499 Год назад

    In before the channel blows up

  • @OneWingedRose
    @OneWingedRose Год назад

    I disagree about the last entry.
    I actually think its destruction was a spectacle much more impressive than guerilla's, and I think that's very much likely due to its linear nature allowing the devs to craft less stale environments around the player, rather than the many-same-piece-objects on hills and plains affair that guerilla's design had.
    Guerilla's a fun game, and definitely impressive in its own right, but Armageddon I personally found to be the more enjoyable experience from what I was looking for (a fun sci-fi shooter with crazy destruction).
    Fun video though, and I never played the first one, didn't know it was immersive-sim like, I'll have to check that one out now!

    • @LuckStat
      @LuckStat  Год назад +1

      Honestly, really excited to hear someone positive on Armageddon. Definitely think it was a victim of my own pre-release hype and expectations after Guerilla, and I definitely get where you're coming from!

  • @CEEPMDEE
    @CEEPMDEE 10 месяцев назад

    They blew it by getting rid of Parker

    • @LuckStat
      @LuckStat  10 месяцев назад

      And then again by getting rid of Alec

  • @roguerifter9724
    @roguerifter9724 Год назад

    IMO II is the low point of the main series (I'm not certain if I played Battlegrounds but I think I vaguely remember playing at a friend's house. Not clear enough to rate though) I rate the series
    Guerilla
    I
    Armageddon
    II

    • @LuckStat
      @LuckStat  Год назад

      That's for sure how I feel as well. While I think Armageddon is a bigger disappointment than II, I still think it's the better game

  • @nameless5413
    @nameless5413 Год назад +1

    Its sand, not dirt and its not particularly red, its atmosphere makes Mars appear red from outside of it, look on any photos FROM the surface.
    RF only had 2 good games RF1 and 3. 2 and 4 were bad and atrociously bad.
    Yeah when taking a risk series may become good, or it cam become an insult (right saints row ?)