  In the Faddeev formulation of gravity, the metric is regarded as composite
field, bilinear of $d = 10$ 4-vector fields. We derive the minisuperspace
(discrete) Faddeev action by evaluating the Faddeev action on the spacetime
composed of the (flat) 4-simplices with constant 4-vector fields. This is an
analog of the Regge action obtained by evaluating the Hilbert-Einstein action
on the spacetime composed of the flat 4-simplices. One of the new features of
this formulation is that the simplices are not required to coincide on their
common faces. Also an analog of the Barbero-Immirzi parameter $\gamma$ can be
introduced in this formalism.
