Red Faction

Red Faction places you inside an Ultor Corporation Mars mine where conditions have collapsed into plague, brutality and revolt. Miner Parker is dragged into the uprising when he witnesses a guard's assault, and the rebellion spreading through the colony becomes the spine of a 20-level campaign.

Geo-Mod technology is the marquee feature - real-time arbitrary geometry modification, meaning walls, floors and ceilings can be blasted apart on the fly. It was unprecedented at release, and it shaped multiplayer strategy as much as single-player puzzle-solving. Players literally tunneled new routes through maps.

Fifteen weapons of mass destruction and five land, sea and air vehicles supplement the destruction. Advanced AI, real-time skeletal animation, dynamic lighting and a location-based damage system push the era's tech further still. Multiplayer support handled up to 32 players via LAN or TCP-IP.