Red Faction

GeoMod let you tunnel through the level, undermining the designer's floor plan on purpose.

Released 2001 Developer Volition Publisher THQ Platform PlayStation 2 Genre First-person shooter Era Broadband & the console shooter

Mechanics this game introduced

These are recorded as first appearing here. Each links to a full history of where the idea went next.

Physics & Simulation · 2001

Destructible Geometry

Destructible geometry lets players remove or collapse parts of a level's structure during play, so walls, floors and c…

Origin: Red Faction

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Red Faction inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

True Polygonal Free-Look Space ~~1996~~Dual-Analog Move + Look ~~2000~~

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