
When a mysterious plague breaks out, tensions run high and conflicts between miners and guards increase. Once there, however, he discovers the mining company, Ultor, is running a corporate slave camp where guards are as brutal as the mine conditions. Red Faction is the tale of Parker, a young man who opts for adventurous mining on Mars over attendance at a stuffy Ivy League school.

While the story is standard science fiction fare that degenerates into a regular turkey shoot, the extra elements of Red Faction deserve a look from fans of the genre and designers alike. Sadly, the FPS style of action has been mostly mined out.

It introduced many new technical features such as location-based damage system, real-time skeletal deformation, advanced physics simulation, destructible environment and more. Red Faction was a very big leap forward in the FPS genre. Thus ensues a battle by a group of lowly workers, headed up by the educated Parker, to expose the deadly experiments Ultor has unleashed onto its work force. You reside on Mars, sometime in the future, and when a plague spreads through the mining community, some of the Ultor employees uncover a massive conspiracy.

In Red Faction, you play Parker, a weary miner who works for the corrupt Ultor Corporation.
