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Worth the buy if you loved the first.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Fear: Extraction Point doesn't add much story to the Fear experience, but it certainly does add hours of great gameplay. It took me about 8 hours to beat - thats an approximation, including menu time. If you loved Fear, you should certainly get Fear: Extraction Point.

Satisfactory

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Played pretty well, as a mindless shoot'em up. There wasn't much development of the original plot. It took me 7-8 hours to finish, but I like to investigate every nook and cranny.

Mapes again??

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Great game. Love the effects and the lighting. The red eyed monsters are a challenge. What is Mapes doing here? I thought he died outside the vault from being shot<< that's the only odd quirk.
Buy this game!

FEAR less

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

As good as FEAR if shorter. Same great graphics and physics with a few new challenges and the hint of an expanding story; worth playing once anyway.

Great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

What can I say, it is more of a good thing. If you liked the original then buying this game is a no brainer. Great action and weapons(a couple of new ones) and some new enemies. You need a good computer to play it.

More fear please

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The only problem with this expansion pack is that it is too short.
Really a fun game, I hope they will be making another one ASAP

More of the same - and thats a good thing

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The purpose of an expansion is to build on the strengths of the original and give the fans more of what they want. FEAR: Extraction Point (XP) does, but could have been so much more.

The gameplay starts immediately after the original game ends, when the rescue chopper crashes and you are once again trying to find a way out. Game mechanics are exactly the same, no tweaks of any kind are noticable. I have heard that the enemy AI has been improved but I didn't notice, perhaps that is a testament to how good it is, that the enemies seem ok.

Expansion packs typically add new weapons and enemies but XP is curiously weak in this regard. There is a new auto-cannon which really helps when in a big area with lots of enemies coming at you. There is a laser-beam rifle but I only found two ammo packs for it in the whole game so it was essentially useless. There is a new gigantic machinegun, and thats about it. On the enemies side, there are some new invisible guys, only I couldn't tell if they were the same as the inexplicable invisible guys from the first game or different. There is a new machinegun heavy-weapons guy that is hard to beat, but nothing really memorable. In fact it seemed considerably easier than the original game. I went through a large portion of the game before even using one of the frequent med-packs scattered around, the game does get more difficult later on though.

Expansion packs also add new worlds to explore and discover. XP takes you away from the generic offices and wharehouses of the first game to subways, hospitals and generic offices. The new landscapes are a nice change and feature a good mixture of cramped twisting corridors and large areas filled with enemies.

Expansion packs are expected to further develop or continue the storyline of the original, here I think that XP really fails to shine. The original had a difficult-to-follow plot about the mom, little girl, you and the bloody guy. The expansion starts out promising with some genuinely interesting stuff going on but quickly degenerates into nothing but cutscenes of guys crawling on walls and blood, lots of blood. The amount of blood thrown on the screen is truely staggering especially in the hospital as everything seems painted red. Unfortunately the cut scenes lose their drama as nothing happens as a result of them! The cut scenes and wierd twisted stuff just goes away and you continue on shooting faceless enemies. I think the developers lost a real chance to add tension. The plot itself was unintelligable to me - and I mean that literally, the guy talking to you speaks in a low mumble and by the time I could reach over and turn up my speakers he was finished so I did not hear most of it, not that it mattered, this is a pure and simple shooter...if it moves shoot it.

With all that said, was it fun? For me the answer is yes, I liked the original a lot and this was simply another chapter. Was it worth the money? it depends on how much you liked the original.

More of the same - and that's a good thing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Yes as many reviewers below have negatively stated it's just more of the same. So what's wrong with that? FEAR was so great that more of the same is a good thing. The same characters, the same weapons and the same wonderfully dark ending. If anything this extension is even more creepy than the original. The only thing I didn't understand was how they brought Norton Mapes back, but the game is so good it matters not.

LOVE THIS GAME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This was my first new 1stshooter game since i got my new pc. its not strong but the game was awsome i actually bought my pc for this game, i wanted it badly since i played its demo with my old one, it was lagging like hell but i LOVED it. The story line is very twisty, it doesnt involve u in the start but later on u keep figuring out very wierd and twisted things, its very nice, i love the game. It freaked me out alot too :D.

more of the same (though not necessarily a bad thing)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

F.E.A.R. Extraction Point doesn't advance the story or gameplay of the original F.E.A.R. much, if at all. Many of the environments are similar, if not the same. There are some new enemies, but the novelty wears off quickly. The plot simply kills more people this time around.
The scare factor, though, is entirely different. Whereas the original FEAR would screw with your head, flashing apparitions and broadcasting static over your radio, Extraction Point is point-blank horror.

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