The Let's Play Archive

Red Faction 1

by Lazyfire

Part 7: Episode 7: Capek

Episode 7: Capek

We've cornered Capek in his research facility and we're determined to get answers. On the way we start to get a sense of what a bastard this game can be when it wants to. While the hard and fast rule of the game is to always use the most powerful average weapon you have, there are times where switching to something that seems less useful is suggestible. An attempt to show off how useless weapons become after a time turned out to be what I needed to successfully clear a section of the game that I thought was just difficult for the sake of being difficult, and then throwing caution to the wind trivialized a boss that frustrated me to no end in the test run.