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Fun but kind of repetitive

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Fun first shooter game. Graphics are excellent. Background music and sound is gripping. The setting is mostly dim, so you have to turn out the lights and turn up your monitor to see what the heck you're doing. In lot of ways it's similar to Doom, but with a lot more variety of enemies, weapons, and environment. The stuff you do in FEAR is still fairly repetitive. Game is easy even on the hardest setting. I do not know how one can consider this a short game. It took me 2-3 hours per night for a couple of weeks to finish it.

The storyline is the biggest downside of the game - it is paper thin. I still could not figure out the story after beating the game. Ending was sort of dissapointing. Ironically, it was by far the easiest part of the game. The programmers trick you into giving you endless amounts of health kits, but no big bad enemy at the end.

System requirement is high, so be sure you have a powerful computer and video card. I'm running an Athlon 2 GHz with GE Force 7600GT 256MB VRAM and 1 GB RAM. Graphics is mildy choppy when I first play, but it disappears within a minute. Overall I recommend the game.

Overall a good game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

For anyone who likes FPS games, this is for you. I personally loved the storyline and the gameplay, though more varied environments were needed. The game has great slow-motion action, and if you look carefully you'll be able to have a whole lot of slow-mo bar by the end of the game. The game is pretty linear but it doesn't appear that way - I often found myself wondering which way to go (which would lead to more ammo, power-ups, etc). The weapons are great and seem very realistic, despite the futuristic look to most of them. You will definatly love the AI of the enemy soldiers. I'm sure this has been gone over many times, so I won't repeat everything they do, but it's just great. FEAR is relatively short, but you will enjoy the time you have and may find yourself playing it two or three times.

Most respectable shooter since half life 2

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Utilizing the best elements of multiple genres of play, Fear sadly underplays it's horror aspect and definitly overplays it's visceral gunplay, if that can even be a bad thing. Perhaps it wouldn't have mattered, had the game not actually tried to diverge from the stock shooter fare, and become the more paranormal, psycological game that it can be..Let us hope if there is a sequel that game will try to lead players in the direction they hinted upon with this game, and not relegate itself to another half life homage.

Great Game play but too short and slightly random

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

F.E.A.R looked as if it was going to be awesome and it didn't dissapoint in the early stages. The surreal interludes were chilling and very well done. The enemy AI worked well but had a very half-life feel about them (as did the graphics). Typically you would hear the enemy before you saw them so you got chance to quick save before the action began.

The "bullet time" was lifted straight out of Max Payne and was near essential towards the end of the game. It was nicely explained as "lightening reflexes" but I prefer the "Assasin Rush" from Fable or "Force Speed" from the Jedi Knight series, where you move faster rather than them moving slower. Of course Fable also has the "slow time spell" for good measure...

As the game went on there was more of the 10 minutes skulking around corridors followed by 2 minutes of intense action. There was a good mix of puzzles but the best part was where the level designers bothered to give you choices as to how to approach the enemy. This didn't happen enough but when it did it was really satisfying to do. One particular example was a place where if you followed the obvious route you would walk through a door into an ambush, but if you back-tracked you could find a ventilation duct which brought you out above the enemy and it was like a duck shoot - brilliant!

For me the worst part was the end, particularly as it came after only 16 hours of of non-hurried play. It was just like the team ran out of steam (or money). At the very end you are dumped in a room with just you, your pistol and the end of game baddy. Having managed to do the whole game without pressing shift (which makes your aim more accurate) It took me about 10 attempts to realise this was the only way to inflict enough damage before you were got - lame or what!

To summarise, fantastic graphics, good game play and AI, good mixture of intensity and anticipation but looses the plot (literally) towards the end.

A great game ... until the end

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are awe inspiring. The game play is smooth. The weapons are fun. The mood is downright creepy. The AI is fairly decent. It's everything that it has been hyped to be.

But as you play, and play, and play, you find something missing ... boss fights. And then you get near the end and that ammo stockpile you've been saving up for a boss fight vanishes and you start over with a pistol. And then again. But hey, it's okay that you have no more cool weapons. Why? Because there IS no boss fight at the end. Well, okay, so there kind of is, forced to be done with a pistol, and easy as sin. It's so stupidly simple that it's very hard to actually count as a boss fight.

The first 90 percent of the game is just great. It's the ending that just really kills it. It leaves you feeling cheated, like they just forgot to include the actual final level or something.

And, of course, there are a number of annoying bugs, even after the patches so far. But then for a PC game, that's expected these days. (As sad as that is.)

If you've got some serious gaming hardware (which you'll need to run it with decent graphics settings) then buy it. It's a great game. But be prepared for one seriously anti-climactic ending, which seems to come all too soon.

Outstanding game -- big time hardware requirements

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I just finished this game last week. This game is one of the best fps games I've played. I don't want to compare it to HL2 because they are equally great and a bit different. The storyline in FEAR is outstanding. Rarely does a fps game make the hair on the back of my neck stand up and give me chills, but this one did.

I gave the game 4 stars overall because it can't be played in it's full glory on most computers. I played the game on an Athlon 64 3000+, 1GB RAM, and a Radeon 9800 PRO 128 MB video card. I kept having to tone down the resolution and detail. I was able to get through the game at 800x600 with low detail, but still had some lock-ups. I would like to see it on a Radeon x850.

Overall, great game. Definately not for kids. Worth the hardware headaches.

Scary

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game is cool as far as the graphics and special effects. However the controls feel a little awkward when you try to maneuver. The story line and cinematics are great -though I have not finished the game yet.

Multiplayer feels like CounterStrike.

Be prepared: this game has scared the c[...] out of me to the point I have to play it during the day.

Very Good

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Very intense and scary in some points. Alittle too short but fun none the less if you like pc games like I do this is a must have for your collection!!!

Dark but fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have enjoyed this game very much. The only problem I have had is it is so dark even with the flashlight on it can be very difficult to see. I don't understand why the flashlight has such a short period to stay lit I think they needed to go shopping at Home Depot before going on the mission and getting a flashlight that would stay lit a little longer.
Overall a fun game.

F.E.A.R rewrites the "true" meaning of fear, does it deserve the hype?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

As you have heard, F.E.A.R (AKA First Encounter Assault Recon) became the game of the year; its graphics, intense fire-fights, some interesting bits of multiplayer, and horror all managed to be rolled-up into a bizarre though interesting game. First, lets have a look at what this flick is about!

You play a new recruit into the secret goverment team known as First Encounter Assault Recon (AKA F.E.A.R). Now, a whacko cannibal known as Paxton Fettel (Hannibal possibly) escaped from the ATC Security building and programs a group of cloned soldiers to break havok across this American city with no name. Because you are able to with-stand Fettel's mind-raping tricks (Ringu, The Ring; note that parts have been borrowed from The Shining possibly), you were sent to take care of this trouble and find out a few plot twists along the way.

For a game that intense, it is pretty short. But it is still worth the hype it gets. Now, a note here is that F.E.A.R is very bloody though not as gory as other titles like *cough* God of War or Doom 3 but it still has a medium-sized amount of the red stuff. Also some dismemberment can occur with some of the weapons (someone exploded with one shot of a pistol at one point; very pointless. Not really gory but still suggestive). Also, the cut-scenes can be disturbing to some people but nothing really too graphic. You will also need a good computer to experience this game but you'll probably need a vista or a good XP.

There are rumors that F.E.A.R is flooded with "strongest of language" but I am happy to say that there are moderate language involved. There are F-words and S-words but very minor considering the rating they got (and it deserves the strong language note). Almost every character uses these words (how did the cloned soldiers learn them? :P) but like I said, not very frequent.

And for you horror fans, F.E.A.R has have creepy though not scary scenes. You'll encounter a strange girl known as Alma who can appear anywhere when you least suspect it (I really mean it). In my case, I didn't call it scary, but just eerie. Since it borrows themes from Japanese horror films and the famous "The Shining"; F.E.A.R managed what Doom 3 has failed to be.

The A.I in FEAR is legendary. They'll hide somewhere and attempt to flank you while you aren't paying attention. They will also kill you easily if you don't hide and shoot (happened to me several times.) FEAR is not a run-down-and-shoot game but to answer that, you can use SloMo action for a brief moment to take on certain enemes (The Matrix or Max Payne).

Is it worth it? Yes it is but take my words with caution! And some teens won't be able to handle playing FEAR at night but I luckily managed to do so without scare, though creeped out.

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