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Creepy FPS

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

F.E.A.R. is honestly a great FPS. When I first played I was overwhelmed by the creepyness in the game. Were these images I was seeing a direct threat to me, or were they just for sure? It was hard to tell. That added to the intense gameplay because you're forced to always stay on your toes because you just never know what or when something will attack you. This game reminds me very much of FPS's from the 90's. Games like Doom, Strife and Eradicator. Not sure if the creators were going for a retro feel but if so then they succeeded. I'd say the one flaw with F.E.A.R. is that the maps are too repetetive. Most levels are either abandoned offices or industrial compounds. Spooky yes, but spicing things up a little with the locales wouldn't have hurt. Multiplayer is simple, but a blast! The soundtrack is also very eerie.

An Okay Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

FEAR in my opinion is an Okay game. I might even go so far as to call it Good, but it's nothing to get really excited about.

Before I bought the game, I read the reviews on the Internet. I was under the impression that I would be "hooked" on the game, playing it for hours on end, with the hair on the back of my neck standing up at all times.

When I actually started playing I think I fell asleep after the 2nd Interval of the game. It took me about 2 months of on/off/on/off playing to finish the game. I was never hooked at any stage of the game, well maybe a little bit when I felt like I was finally near the end of the game. I was just anxious to get it over with I think!

In contrast, Gears of War kept me on the edge of my seat and took me 2 days to complete. (But was good for countless hours of fun in Co-Op, Multiplayer, and Challenge Modes)

At no point during FEAR did I ever actually FEAR anything. Neither did I really feel scared or even slightly nervous. Honestly, through most of the game I felt a degree of bordem and a general feeling of indifference except when I thought of wasting $50 by not completing the game.

If you've played Gears of War, Half Life 2, Quake, Doom, Call of Duty, Dead to Rights, or any other number of top tier titles, then you've already played this game in a much better form, and it's better to leave it on the shelf until it's in the bargain bin.

Okay, I guess I can say something positive on it's behalf... The visuals are good although it falls short of what the 360 can produce. The Audio is very well done, the music and voices are very good. The guy you are chasing does a good job of making his voice-overs sound very haunting. The weapons are fun to use, although through most of the game you just have the standard shotgun, machine pistol and automatics. But sometimes you get a partical weapon or rocket launcher that's fun to use.

BTW, this game makes use of the F-BOMB very often... everyone says it, not just in cut-scenes either. So I would not send this as a gift to little nephew Tommy for Christmas either.

Pretty good game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty cool. It is a little repetitive at some points, but the action is pretty good. The enemy AI is better than most games I've seen. You can here them talk to eachother and say things like "covering fire" and have their squad fire at you so another guy can get in position. The enemy is very liberal with their grenades and they are pretty acurate.

As far as the scare factor goes...The game is a little unnerving at times. Lights flickering, images pop up on your screen from time to time, and that creepy a$$ little girl walks around slowly...I hate her. There is also some shadowy figures that walk slowly in the distance and when you get there....there's nothing there.

All in all...the game is pretty good. It has some good action and just enough creepy stuff to keep you looking over your shoulder when you walk to bed after playing.

Get FEAR and Get Afraid

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

FEAR is a solid Xbox title. Lighting was done wonderfully, and I actually jumped a few times at the ghosts 'n freaks lurking around. Making a scary video game is hard, but FEAR puts the fright in you. I also loved the chatter among the enemy, how they cursed and talked to each other as I shredded them with lead and frags. I'm only half-way through the game so far and like what I see. There are a few problems with the controls sometimes. Characters jerk around, and the guy at one point wouldn't stop jumping up and down until I picked up a new weapon. Minor stuff though. Get FEAR and get afraid.

It's an OK FPS

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game starts off pretty good, intense, great graphics, and then you notice the repetitive nature. I found it lacking action as well. I am almost finished with this game, and it seems your in the same building, just walking down different hallways, most of the time with very little action. The slo-mo effect is great, and i found it to be suspenseful and and times pretty scary. The action scenes are fun and somewhat well thought out. It's fun, FPS fans would like it. Not a must have. Reminded me of Soldier of Fortune for the PC. I will prob buy the expansions, but I might wait for them to drop in price first.

Great...For the Last Generation Consoles

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If this game had come out for the PS2 or Xbox, I would have given it five stars. It is everything that was awesome in FPS games a couple of years ago. However, the graphics and gameplay do not live up to the current generation of gaming consoles. It is enjoyable enough for those who really need an FPS fix (I don't know how anyone could need that right now) but I've found that I don't care about the story. I'll pick the game up now and then and continue it, not really caring what I have forgotten about the story. The slow-mo affects are well done, but not unique either. In short, nothing really new, but a decent game if you can pick it up cheap and want some horror-action to distract you for a bit.

This is a very good game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

now, most people buy it for the "scary" because this game can be very scary at times, but i guess the game designers didn't want the the whole game to be scary or that will lack the point of action. so this game is the perfect mix. if you want a good FPS with a scary theme and lots of action, get this.

Great game! BE SURE TO HAVE A MEMORY CHIP-NOT JUST AN HDD

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game. Very fun, never gets old, but doesnt save right on an HDD. My secondary memory unit is a 64 MB chip, and I use it for a lot of stuff. You can get one off Amazon for about $20. Overall, exellent game!! Great choice of Weapons. Its realistic how you can have 3 guns(or 5 if you dual weild the Pistol or Machine Pistol) instead of just 2 like you get is COD, and Halo, which I cant get over saying how unrealistic that is. But anyways, great enemies, great story, but multiplayer needs a lot of work. But I would reccomend this to anybody with a PS3, 360, or PC. BUT BE SURE TO HAVE A MU OR ELSE IT DOESN'T WORK!!!

Not much to fear in F.E.A.R.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought F.E.A.R. instead of Gears of War because I thought it looked scarier based on the screen shots of it I saw. I'm really into horror games like Resident Evil & Silent Hill, and I expected F.E.A.R. to be like a cross between a horror game & a war-based FPS combat game, similar to Resistance: Fall of Man, but it's not... F.E.A.R. is more suspenseful & nerve racking than it is scarey. The creepy environents, dark corridors, and the presense of a creepy little girl with psychic/pyrokenetic powers make the game seem like a horror game from a distance, but once you play it there isn't much horror there...

The emphasis of F.E.A.R. is focused more on action than horror.

Pros: Great graphics!
Incredibly detailed partical effects & destructable environments, when your bullets hit something it reacts just as it would in the real world. Bits of cement, wood, metal, and dust go flying when an object is pelted with heavy fire!
Good voice acting.
Intense FPS combat!

Cons: If you're expecting a horror title, F.E.A.R. probably wont be what you're looking for..
There are no monsters, no aliens, no zombies, and no demons in F.E.A.R. Just a cannibal, a creepy psychic little girl, and an army of clone soldiers.
The game is tense and creepy, but not really what you'd call scarey... At least not in the same sense as other horror titles out there.

The games environments look so creepy, but there's nothing creepy lurking within... The most common (and pretty much only) enemy you face in the game is the Clone Soldier. A guy in army fatigues with a gun wearing a fighter pilot's helmet, nothing too scarey about that...

In short, F.E.A.R. is a good action game, but not much of a horror title.
I was expecting something else from F.E.A.R. and thus was disappointed by it... However, that should not suggest that it's not a good game, just not what I expected it to be.
I would've liked to see afew zombies... Or at least a light saber to go with all those clones and the little girl who uses the force.

Look elsewhere

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

First Encounter Assault Recon, or FEAR... The worst acronym in a gaming title yet, and a game that couldn't decide if it wanted to be first person shooter or survival horror and ultimately failed at being both of them.

The story is unoriginal and poorly executed, the level design and enemires are monotonous, the controls are terribly awkward, and there just isn't that much action. This game also contains the most anti-climactic ending in game history.

As far as the horror aspect of this game goes, a few things jump out at you every now and then which is pretty cheap but still fun for horror fans like myself. There are also some flashback/telepathic state type parts which involve some weird reality shifts and lots of blood and creepiness and so forth and are reminiscent of those paranormal moments in The Suffering in how they are executed and quite similar to The Ring in terms of their horror content. While these parts are pretty awesome, they probably make up about 3 minutes of the total gameplay which isn't really enough to warrant this game as a horror must-have.

If you're into first-person shooters in a big way and think the sound of a small injection of horror would be right up your proverbial alley, this game might be for you. However anyone looking for a serious survival horror game on XBOX 360 (no, Dead Rising doesn't count) should be patient a little longer, and anyone looking for a decent FPS should definately look elsewhere.

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