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Overrated

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 21
Date: October 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is getting rave reviews from many gaming critics but I have not idea why. There is absolutely nothing innovative about the gameplay. The story is confusing and nonexistent. Replay value isn't great since mulitplayer is rather uninventive and mindless. This game has extremely steep hardware requirements so if you want to run the game at high resolutions you'd better have a pretty powerful videocard (6800gt-7800gtx) . If you're a fanboy you'll probably not recommend my review but if you haven't purchased this game I'm truly against getting this before it hits the bargain bin. Be patient and wait for Call of Duty 2 or try Quake 4.

a waste of time and money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 22
Date: November 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I am really sorry to have wasted my money, and especially my time on this stupid game. First, I don't play the multigame version but had to sign in to the invasive programs like Gamespy Arcade, which were difficult to get rid of even after deleting the game.

I spent hours trying to load and play this game. After loading from the disc I went to the website, which doesn't seem to have anywhere to get the updates. There were some suggested sites for updates, so I went to one and guess what, they wanted to charge me for the update. After I gave that up I tried to play the game, but the start menu told me there was a new version available. That took almost forty minutes to download.

The game loads each scene really slow, and you have to go through a cumbersome clicking process to skip all the cinematic stuff. Then the graphics were screwed up, and I could not play through the second scene. I was not about to spend another two hours trying to reload the game to see if that worked. A game should be easy and non-invasive to load... but it seemed to me like these jerks just want to shake you down for more and more money. My advice, be afraid, very afraid!

Copy protection killed the product

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: November 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Original copy protection in the game was ok, but after updating to the latest version (I believe 1.2), the copy protection is so intense that the game will not even start. They claim it's finding DVD emulation software, but I have none installed. They have basically crippled the game. It's too bad because it was very interesting until they decided to tell me I could not play it any longer.

not very good

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 20
Date: November 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this game has old graphics, a lame story, and is very buggy. it has lag in single player mode, i have updated it, still lags. I have a very high end machine and I am very disappointed in this game. Buy half life2 or quake 4 for a sci fi F-P-S or Call of Duty 2 for just a awesome F-P-S.

why need a high end grahpic card

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: November 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have a geforce 6600 card and still playing the game in low resolution and low graphic setting. Couple people said this game is super good because they work for seirra. If you designed a game why need only high end graphic card. you guys should concern the mid-range level card which owned by some poor students. They are also your market too. I can play Farcry with max resolution and max graphic setting and can only play FEAR in lowest resolution with lowest graphic setting.. it is a joke. I feel so sorry on those guys who owned 6800 below graphic card people..no you can't play this game.

It's not what you're thinking

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 15
Date: October 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is so popular only because of advertisement. Just think about these facts: the single player is so short that it take no longer than 4 hours, and the story is extremely stupid, especially the ending when there is nuclear explosion, and our hero flyes out of there on helecopter!!!
The multiplayer is one of the worst FPS multiplayers. Coupal weapons, similar maps, same skins and few stupid mods.
The ONLY thing about this game is its graphics, but they ain't looking SO good, it just will be VERY laggy, unless you have the BEST video card.
+It is secured by securom, which means if you have ANY cd-emulators installed, this game WILL NOT WORK.
Will say something like "security modul cannot be activated". If you ever had this problem with any games, you definitely will have it here.

Not up to snuff

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: February 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

As a rabid First Person Shooter player I was a little dissapointed in this game. The main problems I had was the sluggish movement controls (as compared to other FPS games) and quite frankly, the weird story line which, I hasten to add, may be attractive to some people.

One or two good points, but a loser overall

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: June 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

In fairness, "F.E.A.R." excels in several areas. First, the combat style is innovative and fresh, even though it wears thin after a while. The slow-motion option is a nice touch, but the programmers should have let you use it only in certain situations. As it stands in the game, it's far too easy to slip into slow-mo and eradicate enemies without much problem. The game would have been ten times more difficult if this ability had been limited. As it was, even while playing on "hard" level, I died only once or twice and beat the game in a relatively short period of time. Secondly, as noted by other reviewers, the sound and lightning effects are superb. The shadows are especially good and can lead to some scary moments. Third, it's nice how the programmers included a function that lets you "test drive" the graphics frame rate prior to actually playing the game. This lets you determine which bells and whistles slow down your system and which do not.

Unfortunately, the good aspects noted above cannot outweigh the bad. First off, the violence and language are taken to a ridiculous extreme. Thankfully, you can reduce the gore (somewhat) in the game menu, and there is a patch that removes most (though not all) of the foul language, but that's not sufficient to salvage the effort. The game would have been just as good -- even better -- without all of the needless violence and potty mouths. Other games, especially those in the adventure genre, create legitimately scary atmospheres without resorting to cheap horror movie tricks (remember, the best selling PC game of all time is a non-violent point-and-click adventure game that is truly unique). The key to creating a sense of scariness is to leave most everything to the imagination of the gamer. "F.E.A.R." does this well in some instances, but in others it jumps overboard and drowns.

In terms of story and level design, the initial missions are quite good, but the novelty quickly wears off into boredom. One of the good things about "Half Life 2" is the level variety. There is constantly something to engage your mind, not just your trigger finger. In "F.E.A.R," the levels are basically the same and the pattern grows tiresome. The story is pieced together in a fragmented way. I had to search online to figure out what exactly happened in the end. The system requirements are also way off the charts. I have a fairly decent computer (2.8GHz Pentium 4, 1.5GB PC3200 RAM, GeForce 6800GT graphics), and I could not run the game on high resolution without getting significant lag. Even with the graphics turned down, I could only get an average of 35 frames per second, which is not the best. Perhaps it's due to poor programming, since "Half Life 2" provides equal graphics without eating your computer's hardware.

While there are some fun aspects, overall the game gets a losing score due to needlessly excessive violence and language, a terribly plotted story, and boredom-inducing levels.

most overrated modern game there is

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: July 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i've seen a LOT of overrated games, but this one amazed even me.

take max payne. remember how it was really hard without bullet time? ok. take away most of the bullet time, turn it into an FPS where you die every time you run out of bullet time (oh, excuse me, "slow-mo due to your guy's amazing reflexes"), include a bunch of super-standard guns and environments, and voila, a highly rated, great-selling game.

why do people love it? one word: GRAPHICS. yeah, those bullets look so amazing whizzing by you in slow-mo... who cares? looks don't make a great game. gameplay does.

A new kind of horror

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: February 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Si Doom 3 te parecio poco preparese para ese nuevo FPS. FEAR es un juego reciente ke porta no solo uno de los motores graficos mas exquisitos, sino tambien una tematica de survival/horror nunca antes vista digna de una produccion de hollywood. La accion y el miedo se combinan perfectamente para proporcionar una experiencia llena de adrenalina.

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