F.e.a.r.

**sloth** · 03-12-2007 04:17 AM

I've been playing this for a while now. That's where I've been the last few days. I always end up reformatting my hard drive before finishing the game, so I always have to start over, but I don't mind.
I have always thought that this is a very nice game.

COMPLAINTS:
Shadows - When people are walking on overhead grating, you can see the person's shadow, but not the grating's shadow. This makes it appear as though the person is walking on air, if you are judging soley by the shadow. Usually I get frightened when I see this, and turn my computer off.

Sound effects - Are disproportionate. Say you are walking along, and you happen to knock over a ... a dust bunny. When the piece of dust hits the ground it reports with a horrible crashing sound that makes you wonder just what the gravity is like in the FEAR world. This happens with everything. Cups, chairs, hammers... Every object makes terribly loud noises when disturbed. And when you are checking the answering machines that are scattered about, you can't help but wonder if the caller is screaming into his phone during the recording.

Physics - Are actually just fine, but do not compare to Half-Life 2. lol

Modding - Could be easier. Blech.

COMPLIMENTS:
Concept - is actually very original, and unexpected. It's not like this was bound to happen, and I don't believe a game like this; a mixture of paranormal and FPS, has been done before.

AI - The enemies are impressive. They don't usually just run up to you, arms flailing, as with a lot of FPS. They duck behind objects, sneak up behind you, and communicate with one another. Unfortunately they can't shut the hell up, and they don't know how to whisper.

Language - It may sound silly, but the fact that the enemies use very vulgar words actually does add to the realism. I don't like when you blow off someone's head, and his buddy says, 'Oh, fiddlesticks!'

Control - Other than the fact that running is a toggle, the controls are exactly as they should be. Fully customizeable.
The mouse can be inverted, for those of us who have been playing the same way for twenty damned years and don't feel like completely changing our controls just because some lazy programmer didn't feel like spending five minutes adding an inverted mouse feature.
In my opinion, any FP game that does not have an inverted mouse option, needs to be recalled until the development of the game can be COMPLETED!
Leaning left and right is almost standard now, and so is aiming down the sight. Thanks, Sierra!
It even has several melee moves that seem like their missing as soon as you switch to another game that lacks them.

Slow Motion Feature - Yeah!

Limbs - Yes. You can see your own arms, legs, and shadow. Imagine that!

Engine - Code is clean. Not many bugs that I can see.

Weapons - A wimpy shotgun can make the entire game suck. I use the shotgun as my primary weapon in every game. I like it to pack a punch, while still requiring skill. Nothing is finer than those times when you shatter someone at point blank, and they dissappear into a cloud of fine blood mist, or when the top half of their body flies in the opposite direction than the bottom half of their body. What a rush! Or when you use the nail gun, and actually pin a guy to the wall, upside down! As far as I can tell, most of the weapons are fun to play with.

This is still not my favorite game, but I did have the most kickass moment of my gaming life with this game.
I walked up to three men standing around a table. I went slo-mo, and jumped into the air, shooting the first guy with my shotgun. He flew back, with his finger on the trigger, inadvertantly shooting one of his comrades right in the face. I landed on the table in a slide kick, which knocked out the guy on the far end. As my feet hit the floor, the third guy let go of his gun, and I grabbed it right out of the air. Three kills in one second. How sloth..

So, anyway.. What are your thoughts?
Wanna fight?

-sloth

Edit: I deleted other people's rude ass posts.

**blindfold_off** · 03-13-2007 07:11 AM

F.E.A.R. is an awesome game. I especially love the intense gun battles. Extraction Point(the espansion pack) is awesome too.

**Merlock** · 03-13-2007 07:23 AM

It's the most horrible game ever. The entire story-line within it, the graphics, the enemies, the AI, etc. - no matter how great, are made utterly worthless by the ending...or rather, lack of it.

The game has no ending! No last boss to waste all your ammo on, no enormous monster, ghost, phantom or whatever to annihiliate in an epic battle that causes an explosion. Oh, sure, the explosion happens but from what...?
You fight some blasted ghosts that advance upon you and you don't even get to kill them, just run from them while shooting them away! Then suddenly...the game ends!

Blasphemy, I say!

**Neruo** · 03-13-2007 09:30 PM

F.E.A.R was okay, but way overrated (just like far cry was). I mean boo-hoo, good A.I.? I still take 3 bullets in the head, so who cares? The grapics where average, try playing it on 'low' settings, it is like playing Super Mario Bros 1.

The story was... okay. I rather had they used a 18-year-old dead girl so I wouldn't feel like a pedophile-necrophile, but just feel like a necrophile.

Nah. But I do have to agree it seriously lacked a good ending. The cliff hanger-ending was... funny. That is all.

Also: Dammit, I read everywhere that the story took place in a sky scraper. Lamest. Skyscraper. Ever. Really, it was boring, they should have used way more glass and cooler offices and decors, hell, put in a shopping mall.

**sloth** · 03-14-2007 12:24 AM

Well I liked it.

I haven't gotten to the end, so I didn't know it sucked.
But what FPS has better A.I., better concept and storyline, other than HL, of course?
That's an honest question. I'm looking for a new game. If this game was weak in your opinion, what game IS cool?

**King and God** · 03-14-2007 12:32 AM

I have played it a little bit. The graphics are great, but I don't like it so much despite that. I prefer zombie or deathmatch games when it comes to shooters.

**Neruo** · 03-14-2007 12:40 AM

Originally Posted by sloth

Well I liked it.

I haven't gotten to the end, so I didn't know it sucked.
But what FPS has better A.I., better concept and storyline, other than HL, of course?
That's an honest question. I'm looking for a new game. If this game was weak in your opinion, what game IS cool?
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Deus Ex has the best story line I ever saw, I am not shitting you. However, it is old, and DAMN, does the A.I. SUCK!

Besides that Thief2, not really a FPS, but still a good story and a very good/cool thieving vibe. Middle ages-woo-woo.

Painkiller is a Kickass FPS. Okay, maybe it is a bit shoot-Everything... but hey, the story isn't even that bad, it has a twist, and it just plays brilliantly.

And UT2004 is a great shooter, but that doesn't have any story at all

I guess if you want story and A.I., I don't really care for A.I. personally, you might want to play RainBowSix or stuff like that? Too serious? I agree.

How about Halo? I played it on PC (when the hell is halo 2 coming by the way), and it has a great story, grapics, gameplay, and A.I. Too I would say.

Everything I named I personally liked better then fear ^__^ (except for rainbowsix, that this is laaaame)

**sloth** · 03-14-2007 12:42 AM

I'm so bored with deathmatch. Don't get me wrong, I have a lot of fun, for a few years. But that was years ago. Since then they haven't changed... at all.
I could be easily swayed again, though. I just need a new concept. I'm tired of running around, shooting each other. Add something interesting to it.

**Neruo** · 03-14-2007 01:10 AM

Originally Posted by sloth

I'm so bored with deathmatch. Don't get me wrong, I have a lot of fun, for a few years. But that was years ago. Since then they haven't changed... at all.
I could be easily swayed again, though. I just need a new concept. I'm tired of running around, shooting each other. Add something interesting to it.
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Hm? Only UT2004 is the only one I adviced because it has kickass deathwatch, the rest isn't great because of deathmatch, it just is good.

**King and God** · 03-14-2007 07:41 PM

I think hldm is the greatest. It kicks ass flying around the map with bunnyhop and the gauss gun.

**badassbob** · 03-14-2007 08:34 PM

Yeah, FEAR's probably my second favorite game. It's for the great atmosphere as much as anything else. The way you switch between those amazing intense gunbattles and the eerie silentness of the rest of the game is great. I do have to agree with Merlock about the cliffhanger ending though.

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