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Sun 01/07/01 at 08:57
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On Wednesday, I came home to find a package in the lounge. The package looked like a package I'd received before. My heart filled with joy-I knew what the package was.

It was a brown package.

So I brought it upstairs into my room, and marvelled at it's lovely, brown colour, and it's soft, smooth texture. After hours of endless fun, I was going to put it safely away in the drawer when I suddenly realised there was something INSIDE the package!

My eyes widened, and I put my left hand into the package. I also found out that the inside of the package felt even nicer than the outside!!
A few minutes later, I pulled something out of the package.

It was of a rectangular shape, and was mostly red. It also had a picture of a fist holding a sort of axe/hammer (can't remember what it's called.)

Puzzled, I looked at the back. In even bigger white letters it said, "JOIN THE REVOLUTION."

Suddenly, I knew. I knew what it was. I mean, c'mon, it's obvious! If you put the hammer/axe thing and the "JOIN THE REVOLUTION" bit together, then you get...

A PETITION TO SIGN FOR THE BANNING OF HAMMER/AXE THINGS, IN WHICH A REVOLUTION OF NEW HAMMER/AXE THINGS WILL BE MADE!!!

But wait...on the top it said, "PlayStation 2." I have a PlayStation 2. I opened it up, and there was some sort of CD inside.

I popped it into my PS2, and waited with baited breath for what was to come.
A few seconds later, a screen came up, with "RED FACTION" in the middle of it, and options to the side such as, "NEW GAME," "MULTIPLAYER," "OPTIONS," etc.

My apparently primitive mind overcame the concept of an 'interactive petition,' and finally realised that it was a video game, called Red Faction, which I had won on Gameaday on Special Reserve.

I clicked on new player, and a whole new realm of gaming begun.

Well, actually, the whole new realm begun later in a huge deathmatch against bots, as I got stuck on the first level of single player mode.

But nothing can match up to the experience of getting to the top of a 'fort,' finding a Fusion Rocket Launcher with a Kill Range of 10 metres, looking down onto all the little bots running around on the ground, and killing ALL of them with this massive weapon!!

Yesterday myself, Darkness_2K, my brother and my cousins spent the whole afternoon playing multiplayer Red Faction. It was one of the best gaming experiences ever, and that's all thanks to the great guys at THQ and Volition.

Right, I'm off to destroy The Lobby with a Rocket Launcher also known as the 'Big Earl.'

Thanks for reading, Ant.
Mon 02/07/01 at 20:40
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Glad you enjoy it ant. I have to wait till saturday to play it.
Mon 02/07/01 at 20:52
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"Eff, you see, kay?"
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Pagey, I doubt you are a console expert, you are just lieing and repeating technical phrases you heard somewhere because you have been backed into a corner.
Mon 02/07/01 at 20:56
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There is something I need to know about Red Faction:Are the controls fulls customisable. I ask this because after buying the demo of a game I have been looking forward to I was dismayed at the movement controls. It is probably just me, but I found the 2 choices impossible(I have gotten completely used to my highly customised Timesplitters controls and find it hard to adapt to such new ones. Please answer!
Mon 02/07/01 at 21:00
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Pagey, one of the first things to learn when using a forum is not to go around actively looking for and starting fights. It's obvious you aren't a console expert and I would greatly appreciate it if you would just go away.
Mon 02/07/01 at 21:05
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"I like cheese"
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Bewarethetoadsoffate wrote:
> There is something I need to know about Red Faction:Are the controls
> fulls customisable. I ask this because after buying the demo of a
> game I have been looking forward to I was dismayed at the movement
> controls. It is probably just me, but I found the 2 choices
> impossible(I have gotten completely used to my highly customised
> Timesplitters controls and find it hard to adapt to such new ones.
> Please answer!

Yep, I found the controls impossible, so I've completely changed them around.

I have having to use both analog sticks all the time!! So I now use one mostly, and the other occasionally.
Mon 02/07/01 at 22:07
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Sounds good, looks good, plays good (supposedly - never played you see?). Except, when reading a review of it it's supposed to get extremely annoying, the bots are really thick and yopu have save at every possibility!

However, that's someone else's opinion. I'll have to rent it out. Ant? Worth it?
Tue 03/07/01 at 11:17
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Ahh good old gameaday, my first win and I picked red faction and it has just arrived. Im going to go now and play it, i'll let you know what I think of it,but it does sounds good.

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