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Best AI ever!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

i've played countless first person shooters now, and i have to say, F.E.A.R. is one of the best games i've played, if your looking for a challenge in shooting enemies then this would be it as it has the most impressive AI's a game can give, this is a MUST for 1st person shooters, don't miss it out!

Big Bang!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Awesome Graphics, Original Storyline, Great Multiplayer options, What more could you ask for! I played this game for ten minutes and got sucked in. . . The things that stand out most are awesome weapon power, SLOW DOWN TIME OR SPEED UP TIME DEPENDING on how you view that, Push the conrol button and speed thru the level massacring the enemy with any weapon. Millions of hidden items in this game, you'll need to find most of them to power thru the levels. And lastly, Finally a great multiplayer interface, makes this the icing on the cake. Awesome multi- levels, great hidding spaces, BIG BANG FOR MY BUCK. . . . 5 stars nothing less.

Gory, scary, ADULT fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Having a new dual core machine, 1gB ram and a ati radeon 1600xt 512 mb video card, I had to pick this much hyped game up to see how my computer ran the game. After turning down a couple settings just a hair, I had the game running consistently around 50-60 frames per second, and could easily tweak things higher. One of the things F.E.A.R. incorporates that should be in any shooter is a self-testing video that gives you frame rates and makes it easy to see what makes a big difference and what doesn't.
Now for the game itself. Wow. Scary as heck, and very, very gory. Downright disturbing. I wouldn't let anyone under 16 even think about this one. Language is adult, almost as many f-bombs as real ones in this game. The story gets so convoluted that it's easy to forget. This game is groundbreaking in the same way that the first Resident Evil for PS One was. Terrific gameplay, and difficulty levels, unlike some shooters (GRAW being the worst example), is spot on. I played it through on the "normal" level, and it was challenging but not too much so. I enjoyed the game enough to actually play it through again on the next higher level. I'm not an online player, so single player experience is of paramount importance to me, and this one delivers. I've gone on too long. Just pick this one up IF you are a fan of the genre.

Not Bad

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I didn't think this game was going to be that creepy, but it turned out to be more than that. It makes you jump when you least expect it too, but as some reviewers said, it doesn't amount to anything. Similar to Doom 3, you'll know when something "scary" is going to happen, but in this case, you don't ever get attacked by anything, just spooked.

The game's AI is very good, knocking down things to take cover, and they'll even try to flank you and trap you if you're not that careful. Sadly, there aren't a lot variety in the enemies. Later on in the game, you see the same soldiers attacking you, only they have more armor on. Environments do tend to look the same everywhere you go, too, and it's always night time. How else is the game supposed to be creepy, right? The "ending" is very disappointing, but that's why there's FEAR: Extraction Point. I don't have that one, but I heard it falls short as well, about a 4 hour game.

The sound in this game will show you how important it is to hear everything. If you have a good sound system set up, you'll definitely appreciate this, which brings me to the next topic: The Online Multiplayer.
If you have your headphones on, this game does a great job in picking up every footstep and everything minute sound your enemy makes. Therefore, not only do you have to listen for your enemies, you have to watch where you step and WHEN you move.
There aren't too many maps too choose from, but this game takes advantage of new ways of attacking, such as the jump kick and the kick slide, which gives you an easy kill everytime. Testing your skills against players from around the world will truly prove how good or how bad you really are.

Lastly, and probably most importantly, make sure your computer can handle this game!! If you don't have enough RAM or a good graphics card, this game will chug your system to its knees. No joke either. It's preferred that you have a dual core to have this game running smoothly, but that's not always the case. Just set your settings low, and you should be fine.

Overall, great game, although nothing too ground breaking. The sound is excellent, and if you have a good video card, the graphics are superb. Enemies are a bit repetitive and levels all look the same, but playing the game online will make you appreciate this game so much more.

F E A R

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

F.E.A.R. delivers outstanding first person shooting action with the thrills and chills that you get from movies like The Ring and The Grudge. The game is capable of freaking you out with moments that are inspired from those movies. But it's intelligent enemy A.I and good level design (though it has the tendency to have levels that are repetitive) that make it a great first person shooter. Enemies will use tactics and work together to take you down. You have the ability to slow down time, just like the Matrix. You'll need this in the harder difficulties when the swarms of enemies proves to be too difficult. Some levels are repetitive because they tend to go on too long. But the graphics are awesome especially if you have the specs to run it. Having a good sound system will definitely add to the chilly experience. Story-wise; it tries to be cinematic, but it's sometimes hard to follow. Basically, it's inspired somewhat by the The Ring. But put it in a military, scientific research type of setting. I had fun with it.

Definitely one of the best FPSs ever.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

FEAR is simply one of the best first-person shooters I've ever played. It combines a creepy (and at times jolting) atmosphere with incredible gun fights with great particle effects and amazing graphics. I almost completely agree with everything that the review at http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/fear/review.html says, so I'll refer you to that review rather than rewrite it. My only difference is that I really liked the story even though some things go unexplained (hopely on purpose for a sequel).

now I just need a video card....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

FEAR single player is pretty darned cool - definately worth the price of admission. Multiplayer seems to run pretty well with DSL (i.e. not as demanding as Quake 4). IMHO FEAR multiplayer is not as quite as good as my favorites (Quake 3 and CoD). Not bad mind you, just not outstanding. Thus the 4/5 overall rating.
FEAR comes with a niffty utility to scope out your video card ... it laughed at mine (256Mb Radeon X600) and configured everything for lowest settings. I've stopped playing about 1/2 way though the single player - want to save the rest of the game for a better video card.

Short, but sweet....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'm not the hardcore gamer but when I saw this I had to play it. Overall, the game is different and sometimes not in a good way. You can read everyone's reviews and basically get an overall idea of what it's about so I won't repeat it. The only complaint I have is that the game was pretty easy to beat, not really that challenging and the ending was not as good as it could have been. I was expecting a better "revelation"! On the other hand, the multiplayer mode is a lot of fun, respawning is quick and the action is better than the story mode. I highly recommend trying it! Overall, a good, not great game, but worth checking out.

FEAR...if you got the muscle to run it

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

FEAR is your standard FPS type game with a few options thrown in..although not quite revolutionary in terms of it's own bag of tricks, it still manages to improve a few gaming innovations we've seen in the past. I did enjoy the game, beating it in two days which is a big letdown.

To run FEAR you need to have a muscle PC. If you have a 128mb video card, you'll have to think about getting a more powerful videocard, somewhere around the 256mb to 512mb GEforce cards. This is a must. On top of this, you'll need some extra memory to run this smoothly, a 2gb memory should do it, and at least a 3.0ghz processor. Now...just to warn you, these recommended upgrades I mentioned will only run the game to at least medium texture quality with shaders. No doubt the game shows some potential in the graphics department. Lighting is well done..thanks to the Direct 3D Shaders capability. I still think the Unreal Engine is still the best graphics engine out there, followed by a close second from Half-Life's Source-engine. One major gripe about FEAR's graphics engine is it's complete lack of curves. Shapes lack curves. Most of what you'll see are sharp corners with no smoothing. Objects and corridors are boxey and completely linear making the environment seem amateurish compared to Unreal or Half-Life's dynamic and smooth graphics.

FEAR attempts to create a suspense-horror FPS type of environment. It tries but fails to capture the horror-effect found in two classic games i.e. System Shock 2 and Clive Barker's Undying. A few scary moments do come up like the image of a child standing by the corner in a dark corridor but these are effects that we've seen and have grown accustomed to after watching The Ring and The Grudge. Nothing new. The game starts out with a scary suspense roll but eventually grows stale and predictable as you get deeper in the game.

Gameplay is a mix. Again, nothing revolutionary but like improvements from effects we've seen from other games. One effect is the bullet-time effect ala Max Payne and Matrix. It does it with some fantastic display of graphics that actually shows a slowdown in real-time, an improvement to a revolutionary idea from Max Payne. But still, this grows stale as the game progresses.

My biggest gripe is the length of the game. It's short. A novice can easily cut his way through the game in four days; for an expert, this is a one day affair.

So it is a good game? I would say YES. But you need to have a powerful PC to get this running with decent framerates. Is it worth the $49.99? Yes but don't expect much in the way of story development and game time. Eye-candy is worth the money you pay plus the few minutes of scare-factor. My advice...wait for the price to go down.

Fun game, BUT......

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

it just couldn't hold my attention. I guess I still hold all 1st person shooters to the Half Life 2 standard.

The graphics are good, but not great. Certain things look good from a distance, but not up close-even with the anti-aliasing turned all they way up. The sound is o.k. The gameplay is somewhere in between good, and o.k. There just wasn't enough about the game to make me keep playing. Luckily I bought the game used.

The only gripe I have is that I cannot access the special features on the DVD. Vivendi customer service was no help, so I just gave up. It is nice having the game on one disk, but I would like to get EVERYTHING I paid for.

All in all the game was o.k., but not ground-breaking like it has been described as.

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