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Shame on the big V for wasting your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 52 / 65
Date: October 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Where to start, I was expecting much from the addon to the great game FEAR. Instead you get little. They reused much of the same textures, dark area's, and characters from the original.

No new characters to speak off,non exsistent story line even weaker than the first. You will have a hard time finding much new here.

The game is far too short, you can finish in about 3-5 hours, and its too easy, even on the hardest setting.Ohh and to top it off it adds nothing to multiplayer at all, no new levels, characters or weapons, not even a new mode.

If you never bought the original, you can have the multiplayer for free! Truly there is no reason to pick this up at all. The game is still fun in the way the first game was fun, but feels less like an expansion and more like the last few levels they left out of the game :(.

Not worth 30 dollars in anyway shape or form. Best to wait and buy in the bargin bin for 10 dollars or less. In other words don't support developers who put this kind of "stuff" out at almost full game price, its a rippoff at best.

We need to Show big companies Like EA, Activision, and Vivendi that its not alright to rip us off, the only thing they understand is not buying their products. I finished this the first night I bought it in 3.5 hours of none too exciting gameplay. Then you can uninstall and use as a coaster, an expensive coaster.

DO NOT LOAD DEMO

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

A demo is to show you what the game is like.I loaded it and crashed my PC.It was so BUGGY it was unplayable then it crashed my PC to the point I had to reload windows from my recovery disk.DO NOT TAKE A CHANCE WITH THIS DEMO!!!!!!!!!!.I WILL NEVER BUY THIS GAME.

No where near the original

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: October 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Extreme disappointment is a good way to describe my view of Extraction Point. Now I'm a HUGE fan of the first game, one of the first truely creepy games since the System Shock series. Don't get me wrong I was not expecting vastly improved gameplay, all new enemies, or a new physics engine. What I expected is STORY, a good story can make a good game great! The story of Extraction Point has a chopped off feeling akin to watching the first segment of your favorate TV show and then your wife shuts off the TV. If the game would have been $19.99 and been named "F.E.A.R. Extraction Point: Episode One", that would have been ok. As is, this is like expecting a T-Bone steak for dinner and getting peanut butter sandwich. No I'm not hungry, but boy I'm not satisfied either. To give an real comparison of how short the gameplay is, it took me ~35 min to buy the game (long line at Fry's), 2.5 hours to get home (L.A. traffic), less than 30 min to load (had to reload F.E.A.R. first), and a little more than 3 hours to play. It took longer to get than to play.

No where near the original big disappointment

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: November 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Extreme disappointment way to describe my view of Extraction Point.
first it was way to short to finish . have spent many hours playing and the original F.E.A.R .this version took me abount 2.5 to 3 hrs to finish and at the end when you helicopter gets blown up you think your going to another level and game ends. graphic are very good. just up to par with first one.do not wast your money on this it is not worth buying not enough level like first one. To spend 30.00 on this game not worth it.
look for it used if you have to have it . i am shore you will find alot of them selling on ebay and other sites. i just hpoe they come out with another expansion pack that is as good as first one

not payin for much

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: November 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

sadly no matter how you fight it and argue. a game can be fun and look good but you also pay for something that will last you longer than a movie. face it, it's an expansion, no extra work for graphics or gameplay. so basically they just had to think up more story... that's what you paid for, for them to sit around and think up a story that only last a couple hours. no more to say.

Nothing new and very short!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: November 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The game by itself is good on the action, but nothing new! The same clones and more of the weird stuff. Nothing new... I total rip off and the ending was horrible and left you hanging just like half life 2...A total rip off. I want my money back.

Great for horror fans

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

F.E.A.R. Extraction point was a great game except for one thing: plot. there was a very stretchy plot throughout the game. a great shooter game, and a great game if you enjoy not sleeping at night (like me)
I'd have to say this game is as scary, if not scarier, than the first.
my one big problem is this: the last few minutes in the game leave you with more questions than answers.
if you enjoyed F.E.A.R. for the storyline, and want to find out the answer to a ton of questions, THIS GAME IS NOT FOR YOU. if you like finishing games and feeling perplexed, confused, and ripped off, by all means, purchase this game.

Almost...but not quite.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: October 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

F.E.A.R. Extraction Point continues to provide about another 6 hours of good solid F.E.A.R.-style gameplay. However, I found the added weapons to be near useless and played most of the game through with my standard combo of shotgun, assault rifle and 1 special (usually plasma rifle or HV penetrator). Plasma rounds were particularly hard to come by. (That's ok, it's a really powerful gun) The chaingun was sort of fun but not as much as I had hoped, and the laser carbine was just sort of silly. Turrets weren't as much fun as I had hoped, but they do make the final fight cake.

The Alma story was continued but not really to the end that I thought. (or I just didn't get it, that's possible too) A large portion of the creep-sequences were not as well scripted as in the original. I missed the visuals on a good number of them b/c I was either not looking the right way, or far more often, b/c I had hit the trigger pt. but since I wasn't charging into rooms blindly, didn't get to see the visual. This was disappointing, since it was a good chunk of what made the original so good. Didn't think much of the ending.

Music was too loud (trying to be dramatic) when launching several 'staged' fights. Which is a pain when you're trying to hear which way the bad guys are going so you can do what you got the game for. You know, shoot them.

Overall: If you liked F.E.A.R., like the smart AI but wanted different weapons or some different buildings to play in this may be for you. Otherwise replay the original or go buy something else. I just replayed the original for the third time right before this came out and I enjoyed it quite a bit more than this expansion. I don't think TimeGate quite 'got' exactly the mix that made the original as good as it was.

Slightly over-priced but it does deliver more FEAR

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: October 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Compared to the FEAR itself, this expansion pack will be some what disappointing. Overall, I thought it is a worthy product. It should be about $25 or even $20...not $30.

PROS -
A few new weapons.
A few new bad guy characters to fight.
In some ways, scarier than the first.
Same FEAR style, feel and game play.
Nice amount of play time, 6-10 hours, depending on your style.

CONS -
The new weapons are a nice additions, yet they lack a certain PUNCH!!! The turrets were cool, but wimpy. They should have made the turrets really awesome and just provided fewer of them throughout the game to keep things balanced.

I thought this could have been scarier than the first FEAR, except many of the scary moments either happen to fast or you miss them because you are facing the wrong way. I had to keep quick saving so I could replay the game if I missed a scary moment.

SUMMARY -
In the end, I really liked this add-on to FEAR. It does have its rough edges and is lacking in some ways. The ALMA story continues, just not in the way you think...which is cool. It took me over 10 hours to finish. When I play FEAR, I go slow and enjoy every fiber of the game. Yes, you could blow through this in 4-6 hours, but you will miss out on the visceral experience the developers are trying to give you. Save the "RUN AND GUN" style for games like Unreal Tournament. FEAR should be thoroughly absorbed and digested...piece by piece. Considering the lack of good 1st person shooters out there currently and the lame attempt by VALVE called EPISODE ONE..a crappy, dull, feeble add-on for Half Life 2...you will be glad EXTRACTION POINT has become available!

Disappointing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

As others have said: Don't expect much new from the pack. You have a few new weapons, but the story is very weak (bordering on non-existent for the most part). I would recommend it for a $20 purchase, but at $30 it is over-priced for what you get. Expect to play it once through and never fire it up again.

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