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The Worst Game Ever!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Fear Effect is by _far_ the worst game I have ever played.

There are 3 playable characters - you start off with Hana, then Glas, then Deek. Instead of a blood meter you have a fear meter, which is green when you're calm and goes to red when you're afraid.

You can be killed with one shot when it's at red, but it goes to red as soon as you're in a fight! Which is why you die every 30 seconds and then it takes forever to reload.

This game is unbelievably difficult. You die over and over again just trying to get up a ladder, or some other simple task which they make nearly impossible. And the puzzles are so complicated you have to use the cheat codes to solve them. For instance, in the "disarming the bomb puzzle" there are several different colored wires and you have to clip them in the right order in only a few seconds, or *boom* and load saved game. Which gets to be very, very annoying.

The zombies on the 2nd CD are a joke, they're bright green with cut off jeans and occasionally take naps on the boardwalk (fetal position) The only thing scary about this game was its awfulness.

The last CD takes place in hell (which isn't as fun as you'd think.) In the final fight you choose between 2 characters, with different endings. Both of which are a let down after all you've done to get there. And the fight is also lame, instead of getting more ammo for hurting the Boss, you get paper bullets which you have to burn in a nearby fire to get the ammo. Even though you had to do this in hell, it's silly when you have to do it while fighing the ultimate monster.

Finally, even though there are 4 CD's the game is really short. It's just the continuous dying and reloading that makes it seem long.

~I would give Fear Effect 0 out of 5 stars if it was possible.

AND I THOUGHT TOMB RAIDER WAS THE BEST

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I loved this game and so far have found it to be the best most original game I ever played. I loved Tomb Raider and thought it was the best until I found FE. The cinematic graphics and being able to play with multiple characters at any given moment was great and very smooth. This game kept me on my toes. The weapons and saves were plentiful. I can't imagine why more games are created using the same type of graphics.
The game play was short but in my humble opinion that's b/c I couldn't put it down, the story line was so interesting. Definitely not a game for children.
I hope Eidos comes out with a part 3 and I can't wait to play part 2.
The one downfall about gaming are the female characters are always half dressed! Maybe the designers need a girl friend but PUT SOME CLOTHES ON THESE WOMEN.

Not so impressive

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I may be in the minority when I say that I am not a fan of Anime. Granted, the stories in Anime are usually superior, however, I consider the style of the art a very angular, one dimensional form, with liitle aesthetic quality. I also consider it a very over-rated form of animation in short, and Fear Effect falls perfectly into this scenero. The game certaily presents a very interesting story, however; it is difficult to calculate, and falling prey to death at such a consistant manner tends to be more than a little frustrating. Also, the dark animation tends to make the scenes more abtruse than they would otherwise be, thus making it at times impossilbe to view what articles need to be picked and/or utilized. I can get over my dislikes of the animation, but the game itself was not as fun as I thought it was going to be. Giving the gamer a challenge is one thing, but to play successfully at Fear Effect, you need lots of walkthrough help, and that's never fun if you have to refer back to it often enough during play time.

DISSAPOINTING

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The game is ok, gameplay wise. The controls are a little awkward, and it may be annoying to switch through inventory while fighting compared to pausing, then switching a weapon. The controls are like those of many other action games, such as Resident Evil III and Galerians. They can be really awkward when solving the first puzzle in-game of the game. You always end up dying before you master the controls. It is really easy to die, and it is annoying that the Fear Meter gets worse if you are closer to an enemy, making it even easier to die than before. The first boss is nearly impossible to defeat if you dont have fully loaded mach pistols, and even then he is nearly impossible because he can kill you in two, sometimes one hit.It is MUCH MORE frustrating than challenging. Another flaw: this game can be beaten in less than five hours. i beat it the first day i rented it.

Good, but not great........

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: August 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you want a simple description for the feel of this game, think "Blade Runner" meets "Resident Evil." However, the game has several flaws which take away from it's beautiful backgrounds, and scenery. First of all, thi sgame should have had some live action in game movies. This would make the story, and gameplay more fun. Second, it is way to easy to get killed. This is soooo not fair. When your fear meter gets red, you can die with one shot. And no continues? What's that all about? These are just to name a few flaws. This game would be much better if it was rented at Blockbuster for the weekend. Once you get going, the game is pretty simple, and short, but too many flaws take away from it's over all presentation.

Definitely Exciting

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: March 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Fear Effect is something new that has not been seen before in the survival horror genre. The animated graphics clearly stand out over other types of horror games. The graphics are sort of like Dragon's Layer, but the game itself plays nothing like it. There is plenty of action and an intense story line to keep you busy for weeks. The only complaints are that the controls get a little tricky at times, but that can be overlooked because of the quality of the game. Also the targeting system takes a little practice to get used to. If you are tired of the Resident Evils out there this is definitely the action horror game for you.

okay i agree with every body this is well this game is ahem

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: September 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

tha itself is quite fustrating and very hard if you dont have a stratigy guide you will end up taking tha game back and for getting about but im a person that ganna tell about tha facts im not a opinioneer becouse it start drama so imma take it easy it can get hard if you dont have a stratigy guide for this gameand you realy have to pay attintion to this game in order for you to beat this hard game here are some tips so you can can beat tha game okay go to cheatplanet.com or gamewinners.com or gamerevolution or cheatcc.com for your stratigy and cheats for any game needs but go back into fear effect2retrohelix tha game should get lots of credits becouse it pretty darn good game i mean becouse its a challenge but the game can get very carried away with challenge but i all so think retro helix is one of those game many like others leave you with a good feelingg in side like yeah i accomplish somethingbut many people just doesent have tha patients to hang on to tha game it very good and very exciting and funny and fun but this game has a lot of gayness in it but with girl yes i said girls its realy crazy but it seems every one likes it but also it has a real good storyline in it tha game was game of the year last year guys come on tha games good im not telling you my oppinion becouse it not its just i like it but there is its pros and cons thoe you knew that was coming did ya pros good graphic good voice acting did you know that wendy lee plays tha voice of hana that same girl that played tha voice of fay valentine in cowboy bebop on adult swim listen to her the n go to you game fear effect i tell people fact noyt fiction im very in telligent and im single and looking for young girls 13 to 14 cuz im 14 oak that yall just joking but i would buy this game now cons is no replay value and it a fustrating game a two wrongs cant make no right on this game plus you die alot too
so get ready for that

graphics problely 9 becouse it pretty good graphics its show what playstation and eidos can do when thay put there heads to getther

gameplay... 8 becouse it can be better now i will put my oppinion in once and only once becouse look for best not worse

voice acting... 10 good i must say

should i buy..... up to you thats why we live in such a free country of america

thats my review see yaaa

and to all the victems of 911 we stand strong god bless america peace and love

ANNOYING!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game BAD! In fact, it's the worst game I have ever played! I totally wasted "My money"! The ending is bad and two main charachters are killed because of the ordinary and dumb storyline. Every enemy is annoying and stupid. I definitly do not recommend this game to gamers.

sweeeeeet

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

this game is awesome here r the pros and cons

PROS1:sweeet graphics 2:awesome story 3:relalistic gameplay 4:good characters 5:.................... 6:real guns 7:good bosses

CONS 1:controls r kind of quirky but u get used 2 them 2:too short 3:uh nothing elese

No good at all

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: December 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This was my first playstation game, and I ended up returning it to the store 30 minutes after playing it. The control is horrendous, the puzzles irritating, the difficulty frustrating, and the game just not really satisfying at all. You might say that the control takes time to get used to, and I've played games with similiar control like Silent Hill, but it's such a flaw that I couldn't get past it. If you are interested in this game, rent it first.

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