Red Faction
Posted by @ 6:55 PM, EST
Volition recently released some new screens of its PC/PS2 first-person shooter, Red Faction:
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The Daily Telefrag smacked up an interview with James Tsai, Assistant Producer for Red Faction.
A slice:

ALIEN: You selected Mars as the scene of action. Why? Any specific reason? And will we meet any aliens or UFOs on the planet?

James Tsai: Setting the game on Mars gave us the creative latitude to incorporate everything we wanted to into the story. A mining colony with deplorable conditions, advanced weaponry and vehicles, freedom in designing compelling environments for the game's levels, and a foreboding sense that you're stuck in unfamiliar (or alien) territory, among other things.

Another element of the story-driven orientation that will set Red Faction apart from simple shooters where you just blast anything that moves is the substantial use of voice acting, both to move the central story forward and to help build atmosphere. According to Alan Lawrence, the game will ship with some 500 lines of "persona" or built-in voice messages in addition to regular conversations. These will include assorted combat-oriented remarks such as "cover me" or "I'm going in" along with some that provide the player general albeit not plot-critical information about the planet, different places, the Ultor Corporation, various characters et al.