07.29
So long, farewell… to you and you and ewe…
The Red Faction franchise is to be discontinued due to poor sales performance over it’s last few iterations, according to it’s publisher THQ.
With a proud decade of encouraging us to rebel by destroying buildings and stuff it is retiring to a lovely mountain cabin on Olympus Mons.
One can’t help but wonder if the demise of this specific IP is down to some long-term mis-marketing, as the games themselves are very playable.
Most often touted as a “shooter + physics”, it always seemed to feel like it was being pushed as a physics sandbox. Shame. We suspect it would have seen much greater numbers if sold as a straight “Original story based FPS with strong multi-player, featuring multiple game modes, exotic weapons & tactical options and fully destructible environments”… which is what it actually always was…
Well miss you Mars… long live the rebellion… down with Ultor…
– Richard “Rax” Burley
