Cellfactor: Revolution Review - PC

At first glance there's not much out of the ordinary about Cellfactor: Revolution. It's a first-person shooter - so far so normal. The backstory is usual enough - you find yourself in a post-cataclysmic world dominated by a super-powerful conglomerate which is pursuing technological advancement at all costs, leading to the world you find yourself in having a tendency to bend the laws of physics. Again, nothing terribly out of the ordinary here. But you may be surprised to find that the game is free - and you don't get a free game very often. You will also find that to enjoy it to its full (and to unlock all of the levels) you will need to have a PhysX card in your PC. So what's the verdict? Read our full review of Cellfactor: Revolution to find out more.
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Cellfactor: Revolution Review - PC
We find it a little hard to take Cellfactor seriously. Originally billed as the game to really demonstrate what the Ageia PhysX physics processing card could do, it rather lost its edge when enterprising hackers modded its beta to perform its Newtonian tricks without a PhysX board. Now, it’s rather like a stage magician who got rumbled, with the mundane secrets behind his greatest stunt revealed to the world. Everyone knows it’s all trickery done with wires and magnets – why should we believe him this time?

They were great tricks, though. Mountainous piles of crates and boxes sent tumbling like dry leaves in the wind. Physics! Limp-as-jellyfish ragdoll bodies grabbed and flung with telekinetic powers. Physics! Vortex effects that suck up surrounding scenery, breaking it down into hundreds of tiny fragments. Physics! The Guardian and the Black Ops get to drive a few roboty vehicles, which unfortunately aren’t much hardier than frail flesh. And all, as it so happened, entirely possible on a mid-range CPU. Oops.

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