Loved RF1, completed it originally on PS2. Then eventually rented the 2nd one, sucked hard; it was a two days rental and I stopped playing maybe after 4 or 5 hours in on the first day.
I bought Guerilla on Steam, the original version, but never really played it much; tried it maybe 10 minutes really, never formed an opinion out of it. Just wasn't in the mood at the time I think. Then that version was updated at some point to remove something out of it or... can't recall what it was but it supposedly made the game better, or more stable, but I didn't play it at all when that happened. Then more recently there's been the "Re-Mars-Tered" version that came out (whoever came up with that pun needs to forced to suck on multiple donkey tits), it's installed, but I never bothered to launch it even one time yet. I WILL eventually play this game, even back then the reviews were mostly favorable; there's got to be something nice in that game at some point because it wasn't a commercial failure either, since we did get another game after that.
And to speak of it, I did buy Armageddon but... never got around to play it. Both Guerilla and Armageddon are part of my Steam library that's basically on [very long term] standby, it's only two out of maybe 30+ games I need to play to a good degree each to even have an opinion of that I never bothered either launching once or even install despite the fact that I bought them. I blame the couple of holiday and summer sales I went through over the years on that one.
To come back to RF1, I can recall one thing me and my cousin loved to do (tried it by turn to see which one would have better luck doing it). I believe it was the first map, the underground (mine?) level. At some point we find C4 explosives which can be placed onto NPC workers (or thrown? can't recall if was throwable or we had to go place it). When that happens they start running around in absolute abject horror yelling their lungs out, and keep on doing it pretty much non-stop until you decide to kill them by firearm or by detonating said C4 on the poor guy. Me and my cousin's "challenge" was to dig tunnels in the best straight line possible and the deepest we could by placing C4s on the workers at a specific location and manually detonating them whenever they happened to run into the newly-created tunnel.
I mean someone s'got to make those damn tunnels, no? They are workers after all? They were just doing their job.
Yep, it was a fun game. Also, at the time, the physics effects of breaking glass / windows was pretty much never seen before (not like that anyway). Same with smoke effects I believe. It was actually a pretty advanced game for its time. I often compared it back then to Half-Life which I had been playing for the first time also on the PS2 at the time (with the "Decay" chapter, unique to the PS2 version of Half-Life). I also loved the Total Recall vibe of the game, with a dose of Paul Verhoeven type of movie feel as well.
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