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Red Faction II for Xbox Original
Red Faction II for Xbox Original is a first-person shooter about an uprising against the dictator Sopot. You play Alias, a demolitions expert from a group of soldiers enhanced with nanotechnology. The story takes place on Earth, where propaganda and oppression dominate the Commonwealth. During the campaign, you work with other members of the group, but you control Alias. Objectives lead you through buildings and streets where soldiers, heavy weapons and unexpected attacks block your progress.
You use firearms, grenades and explosives to destroy opponents and certain parts of the environment. Geo-Mod creates holes in walls and other obstacles at designated locations. Not every surface can be destroyed; you need to recognise where destruction actually changes a route or line of fire. Vehicle sections accompany the regular gunfights. Sometimes you only operate the weapons while a teammate drives or flies; at other times, you control the machine yourself. This variety changes both your freedom of movement and your targets.
The story is a single-player campaign. Separate local matches support up to four players on a split screen, each with an Xbox controller. You can also add computer-controlled opponents and adjust their attributes. This lets you practise alone or supplement a match with friends. The Xbox disc does not offer Xbox Live or System Link matches; these battles against one another take place on the same console.
Region and language
Our Xbox Original games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Red Faction II for Xbox Original includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Red Faction II
Volition originally made Red Faction II for PlayStation 2 in 2002. THQ released the Xbox version in 2003, with Outrage Games as the studio behind the conversion. The April release announcement mentioned higher-resolution textures and additional multiplayer maps and character models for Xbox and PC. These are additions to the same original story, not the later approach of Red Faction: Guerrilla. The Xbox disc has its own console version of the local matches.
The series moved the conflict from the mines on Mars to an oppressed society on Earth. Alias and his nanotechnology-enhanced team turn the uprising into military action involving specialists. The destructible environment returned under the name Geo-Mod, but within defined levels and objectives. You do not roam an open world freely demolishing buildings. The design guides you from objective to objective and alternates combat on foot with heavy vehicles.
Outside the campaign, this emphasis on separate objectives is supplemented with configurable arena battles. Computer-controlled bots make those matches playable without other people and can appear alongside human participants. It is important not to confuse the Xbox edition with the PC version: four people can share a split screen on this console. That is a local match format, not a cooperative story campaign or a network connection between different Xbox consoles.
Similar games for Xbox Original
Halo: Combat Evolved and Red Faction II combine first-person battles with vehicle sections on Xbox Original. Halo allows larger battles to develop around alien opponents and shifting positions. Red Faction II leads Alias through concrete objectives in the conflict surrounding Sopot and uses destructible walls in certain places. The difference lies in what changes the space: moving through a battlefield or opening an obstacle with explosives within a focused mission.
TimeSplitters 2 and Red Faction II offer fast first-person combat and local matches with computer-controlled bots on Xbox Original. TimeSplitters 2 alternates between eras, characters and recognisable film genres. Red Faction II keeps its campaign focused on Alias and the uprising in the Commonwealth. Both give you configurable confrontations outside the story, but one uses a wide range of worlds while the other draws its weapons and enemies from the same science-fiction war.
BLACK and Red Faction II make explosions and destroying scenery part of their first-person action on Xbox Original. BLACK concentrates on a single-player campaign with modern-looking firearms and large gunfights. Red Faction II uses a future setting, Geo-Mod and separate local matches with bots. Both have you look for cover and a useful firing position, but only Red Faction II lets you continue that arena action with other players on the same console afterwards.
Project: Snowblind and Red Faction II give their soldiers technological enhancements within a first-person shooter on Xbox Original. Snowblind lets you use special abilities yourself, for example to gain protection or affect electronic systems. Red Faction II presents Alias primarily as a demolitions expert among specialised teammates. Both place a human uprising within a technological war, but one approach revolves more around personal tools, while the other focuses on firearms, destruction and vehicle sections.
Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death and Red Faction II take place in futuristic cities where a violent power struggle breaks out on Xbox Original. Dredd has you assess and arrest offenders as an authority figure; Red Faction II instead has Alias fight the existing regime. Both use first-person shooting, but your assignment changes how you deal with others. Arrests and the rules of the law provide a different objective from eliminating Sopot's troops.
