Red Faction III blasts to 360, PS3, PC

[Dark Drakan]

Red Faction III blasts to 360, PS3, PC

Been waiting for a new game of Red Faction series to be announced for years. They sold really well and were the first games to properly make use of Geo mod technology for those of you unfamiliar with the series. Could literally blow holes in walls and make tunnels to hide in with grenades, rockets, mines and everything.

Although publishers typically promote their upcoming games by showing them off at gaming events, arranging for preview coverage, or just blasting out press releases, news of THQ's soon-to-be-resuscitated Red Faction franchise has been emerging primarily from the publisher's investor-focused conference calls.

A return of the franchise--which hasn't been seen since Red Faction II launched on the PC in April of 2003--was first hinted at to investors in a conference call. Weeks later, a new Red Faction was then explicitly mentioned by management in a conference call. Months later, the publisher brought the project up again in a conference call.

Today, THQ CEO Brian Farrell brought up the new Red Faction in yet another conference call. The executive promised that more on the game would be shown in the coming weeks, but he did drop a few additional details today. Referring to it as "Red Faction III" for the first time, Farrell said it is being made by THQ's Volition Studios for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. As one would expect, it will bring back the series' hook of interactive environments, using the power of the new consoles and PCs to incorporate "more exciting destruction technology."

As for when gamers can expect to blast through Red Faction III, THQ is planning the game for its fiscal 2009, which runs from April 2008 through March 2009.

 

[Steve]

Re: Red Faction III blasts to 360, PS3, PC

Hurrah! I thought the multiplayer in the original Red Faction was great! I loved being able to use the Geo-Mod technology to create my own tunnels throughout the maps. The main campaign wasn't too bad either but it was so rare that you ever really needed to take advantage of Geo-Modding, unless it was essential to the progression of the game.

But I'd love to see how Red Faction 3 performs on the next-gen consoles.

 

[Dark Drakan]

Re: Red Faction III blasts to 360, PS3, PC

Hurrah! I thought the multiplayer in the original Red Faction was great! I loved being able to use the Geo-Mod technology to create my own tunnels throughout the maps. The main campaign wasn't too bad either but it was so rare that you ever really needed to take advantage of Geo-Modding, unless it was essential to the progression of the game.

But I'd love to see how Red Faction 3 performs on the next-gen consoles.

Yeah the Geo-Mod on the single player was seriously underused and the game itself was criminally overlooked in some cases. No game really took the Geo-Mod idea and ran with it afterwards and there have been very few games near the extent of it that Red Faction had. The multiplayer was great and i too would love to see what destruction the current gen is capable of.

 

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Re: Red Faction III blasts to 360, PS3, PC

I hear ya, but I think the engine was called Geomod, because deforming terrain at such a high level and scale did not exist before in gaming, so the developers created Geomod just to sound smart. Actually I'm also looking foward to Frature.

 

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Re: Red Faction III blasts to 360, PS3, PC

Looks like the new Red Faction 3 is called Red Faction : Guerilla

 

[Dark Drakan]

Re: Red Faction III blasts to 360, PS3, PC

Looks like the new Red Faction 3 is called Red Faction : Guerilla

Interesting choice of name if thats true.

 

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Re: Red Faction III blasts to 360, PS3, PC

Sorry forgot to add : Kotaku Magu: New Aliens, Red Faction Games Christened

 

[Dark Drakan]

Re: Red Faction III blasts to 360, PS3, PC

Sorry forgot to add : Kotaku Magu: New Aliens, Red Faction Games Christened

Very interesting indeed, not only a new Red Faction but a new Alien Game too... Aliens: Colonial Marines very interesting. +rep