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The premiere feature of the game was its 'GeoMod' technology which allowed the player to destroy the geometry in the game. For example, instead of opening a door, a player could blast through the rock surrounding the door.
Red Faction came out of the ashes of the cancelled Descent 4 project that Volition had been working on. Many ideas that was originally for Descent 4 can be found in Red Faction, for example, Red Faction's 'GeoMod' graphics engine was supposed to be used in Descent 4, and the main characer, Parker, was borrowed from Descent 4 as well. Many Descent fans consider Red Faction as Decent 4 even though the storyline and the game is totally different from the three Descent games.
The sequel Red Faction II was released for PlayStation 2 in October 2002, and then PC, Xbox and GameCube. It also takes place on Mars.
Monkeystone Games developed a version of Red Faction for the N-Gage that was published by THQ in December 2003. It has features exclusive to the N-Gage version.