F.E.A.R. (PC Games, 2005)

I bought this game thanks to a killer demo I got my hands on. The demo scared teh crud out of me and I couldn't just let that go, I needed to see if the rest of the game was just as shocking.
Since you don't know me or my tastes, here is some background of my gaming in this genre...
Doom 3 - not very scary, more like a carnival ride than a trip through Hell
Halo and Halo 2 - both excellent in their own rights, re-defined the genre.
Half Life - pretty much a pile of poop. Boring, uninspired, terrible graphics and collision issues.
Serious Sam 2 - ummm, terrible game. Just terrible. Fun levels, fun weapons, but that's about it.

Okay, now for F.E.A.R.
This game is spot on in control, graphic, gameplay, sounds and pacing.
The ambient noise is well done, and with good headphones or decent speakers you will just be blown away. IF you can do surround, go for it and enjoy it.
The game is huge and does require a ton of juice to look great... I run an XPS Gen 4 topped out and it did just fine and looked smooth doing it.
The story is excellent and really makes the game. While the plot is not groundbreaking (the storyline has been done before in different ways) it is engaging and well presented throughout the game. In fact, the "delusional" scenes that tell the story to the player are some of the most fun and sweaty times I have had with a controller in my hands.
Expect to jump a few times through the gameplay as well.
What really sets this game apart is the fact that the frightening moments don't come from cheat carnival ticks (like Doom 3) but from genuinely subtle and scary moments. Again, this game feels more like the Ring than House of 1000 corpses.
I would only reccomend this game for mature gamers (ESRB rating M) and only for mature gamers who are discerning in their tastes, a Halo Fanboy won't appreciate this game to it's fullest.
The weapons.
The weapons in F.E.A.R. are outstanding and origional when they need to be. The Penetrator, a gun that shoots a 6 inch steel spike at high speed, is more fun than any weapon in any game in recent memory. The satisfaction of entering a crowded room, hitting the slo-mo and NAILING the badguys to the wall is just too much to express in words.
The guns all shoot and sound like they should in a game, as opposed to the sameness of EVERY weapon in Second Sight, Painkiller or Half-life 2 for instance.

Finally, the voice acting in the game is stellar and fluid. Sure, there are a few misses here and there, but oveall it is just fantastic. HIGH production values on this one.

F.E.A.R. has the best ending in video game history to date in my opinion. I won't spoil it here, but you should play the game and find out for yourself. It is really just a moment of sheer panic.
Buy it, play it, and enjoy it.
Just be sure you have a good anchor in reality before you get going!

This game is awesome, Excellent graphics and game play. A.I. is really good. And its pretty scarey on top of that. Keeps your attention very well.

"What a game!" At first; when you start the game, its like any other military game. Such as, Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Quake 4, etc. But as you get into the game, it will literally freak-you-out! I am 40 years old. I'm a Vol. Fireman who has been through gang-shootings, explosions, have had houses fall on me, fell through the floor many times of burning houses. I know what fear of life is all about. Even though this is a game, it amazingly sends shivers through-out my entire body. It is now June in Pennsylvania and while playing the game with the temperature at around 82 degrees, the game still gives you chills and you can actually feel your skin crawl and this game will give you goose-bumps. The graphics are incredible and the water reflections are incredible. Although, the game is for more mature audiences. A lot of swearing and the blood; from killing the enemy, splattering on the floor and walls look so real. But its only a game. The game is best played in total darkness, maybe with a little bit of light to see the keyboard for quick saving. And at least a 5.1 surround sound system for audio effects. I play the game at the hardest level for an incredible experience. Even though you know that its just a game and that it is fake, it will still send shock-waves through-out your body.Seriously! I would love to meet the people who created this game and congratulate them for a terrific game and concept. Just like the game Doom 3, it will scare you, almost to death. Good job guys!

F.E.A.R. throws you in a world of sheer chaos and depth. In the game you fight an unrealenting A.I. that won't stop until someone is dead! But you can't kill ghosts. Every turn of the gun you hope its and enemy and boom there she is demonic little girl that rips the flesh out of comrades and has a little pleasure for fire. Your not alone in this game.

This game is a category in its own been a graphically gorgeous looking first person shooter with very nice physics and special effects, sandwiched with an horror element in its story. The game can be finished relatively quickyly so it feels very much like a thriller. A year ago this game stressed the peas out of my system, very resource intensive game and enemy A.I. is quite smart. This game brings out something new such as the first person shooter with some kung-fu element (hand to hand combat and sliding kicks) and slow-motion. This game is however, very bloody and quite restrictive in terms of where you can go. You simply follow a one way maze to experience the game throughout from the beginning to the end. There is very little options in where you can go or how u start an attack
This again is one of those game that set new standards in something..highly recommended. Finish it like a thriller and you'll be happy

Great game, but terrible language, has all the bad words. Violent, mostly killing your way through all the bad people and mutant people that are always trying to stop you. Does drag at a few points when you back track because you have to find that one little spot under the stairs and crouch through/ bust out a grill to continue.

Imagine this:
X-file meets "The grudge" and toss in some "matrix" action.

The Good: Graphic is top of the line, pretty much the same type of graphic that would made it to E3 (It was at E3 2005). Enjoyable and workable story/plotline. Each battle could be your last because the A.I. is exceptionally smart and life-like. This game also included something similar to "bullet time".

The Bad: A bit too linear for my taste. The actions only limited to urban. Not enough types of enermies (although they are really smart and you would be paying attention more on fighting them off). Multi-playing game is not recommended.

Conclusion: Even which some of the rough spot, This game is still on my harddrive after a year. This game worth its value in entertainment.

This game has very intense action and gore in it. I recommend playing it at night with your volume on high. The very first time I had played it, I was having chills down my spine. This game has very nice graphics, even on Minimum setting, the graphics are still very decent. On Maximum detail, the game is too amazing to believe. Very nicely done. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin is incredible as well. Recommended to play F.E.A.R. 2.

F.E.A.R. is an excellent choice for an eleven year old kid who has bed wetting problems. Nah I'm just kidding. This game can be very creepy, and that's why I loved it. Your basicly exploring this nearly abandoned building looking for certain answers and such. And during your adventures you catch glimpses of that little girl from the cover, who reminds me of my little sister's friend which brings the creepyness factor to a whole new level. This game was an excelent first person shooter for it's time (I loved the slow motion, it made it seem I didn't suck as bad as I actualy do when it comes to this genre). It may seem kind of blocky at some points, for example: the phone cord. But come on, it's a cord and it actualy has physics applied to it. The only bad thing that I found while playing is the sound of objects falling on to hard surfaces, even if I just touched it it would loop an impact noice for a second. It can get annoying.
I would suggest this game if you enjoy being creeped out and/or like first person shooters. I bought it because I wanted to get creeped out while blowing the brains out of some dude, and I was satisfied. I hope you are too.

I'm just going to use the game to get into benchmarking. Just bought some new parts and I want to see how they excel. This is a bit of a system hog but it sounds like a good game

F.E.A.R. is a first-person shooter for the pc. In spite of the genre it comes from, F.E.A.R. includes a number of features that make it stand out. For one, the storyline is straight up supernatural science fiction and the setting is full of scares coming both in the form of the very determined A.I. and a pair of ghosts that haunts the player throughout.

Additionally, F.E.A.R. gives the player a number of melee attacks which, while limited in their usefulness are no less fun to perform. The player can aim with the weapon in order to increase accuracy, although this does take time out from the action and leaves the player open to attack.

F.E.A.R.'s game play is fast and furious, with AI opponents waiting in ambush around every corner. Radio transmissions clue the player in to when an enemy nearby, but once you're spotted it's on! Enemies will come from unexplored areas of the level and chase the player attempting to flank him. The shoot-em-up element of the gameplay does require clever play, such as the use of cover, reloading when it is appropriate and learning which weapons are the best for any given situation. This can be frustrating for casual players such as myself, but the challenge curve is navigable with some practice.

This game comes with no shortage of scares; not only is the ambient sound engaging while the player explores, but sudden explosions, rattling sounds or voices can disrupt the relaxed mindset and cause a jump out of the skin.

A great selling point for F.E.A.R. is that it is not too demanding on your hardware; I run the game with all settings cranked up to the max on my Geforce 9800 GTX card and it runs beautifully.

F.E.A.R. will take some getting used to for non-veterans of fps gameplay, but is well worth the frustration. An engaging plot, a healthy dose of supernatural horror and tons of action make the game an excellent addition to any gamer's library.

Good first person shooter !!! Has some really good features like the slow motion feature that was new to me and took some time to learn to use, and you need to learn to save really often as you can get over run pretty quickly some times. I have not played online so can offer no feed back one way or the other about on line gaming.
This game bares some resemblance to Halflife 2 in some of the back ground but the guys you have to kill are pretty varied and some of the big guys take a few tries, and some times you have to back up a few check points and change your weapons in order to continue on, as a dart gun with several clips is of no use againt a 7 foot robot, but a rocket launcher with 4 or 5 rounds just might be the equalizer you needed. Then other times you you find you need accuracy and the dart gun or the sniper rifle is best. Hide and pick them off!!
I have yet to complete the game but can say it is addictive, and some what repetitive as are most shooter games. The story line is somewhat blurry "as with most shooters", but it is fun and I am enjoying it!!! I think you will too. Get your frustrations out by bumping off a few bad guys...

I had this game recommended to me by a couple of friends that already had it, telling me that it made the hair stand up on the back of their necks. I laughed but after playing it for a just awhile, I had to admit it had the same affect on me also. Now I'm not a kid, I'm in my 50's so it was a great surprise to have a video game have that kind of affect. Kudo's to the creators of FEAR, they did a great job with it, making sure to insert alot of bumps in the night type of distractions all throughout the game. I'd give it an overall 8 out of 10 possible points. Good game to play when you're all alone. lol

This is an awesome first person shooter. The graphics look great. The story line is pretty good. I have jumped a few times already.

How would you like to play a game where a little girl appears throughout the game that looks like the female from the movie The Grudge? This supernatural game is scary with its special effects. Play it with the lights out.

This is a fantastic game --- I love the play action and the realistic feel of the layout -- we have also bought the expansion pack --- very highly recommended --- the online play is out right addictive --- if you suspense then this is an extra bonus for people like me --- the hair raising experience is awesome around almost every corner - I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS GAME , AND THE EXPANSION PACK -- I have no complaints about this game --- I am ready to move on to the next level --- In the online feature there are several options of play -- in my house some of us (we all Play this game) death match , others like tag team , and still others like Elimination --- there are 8 game modes for online play ---- we love it --- our rating is EXCELLENT for First Encounter Assault Recon --- BEST GAME OF THE YEAR AWARDED IN 2005 --- AND IT HAS MY VOTE AS WELL

I love this game just for the fact it's like a video game collides with a scary movie it's packed full of surprises that will make you jump out of your seat. The graphics are breathtaking as is the sound. You also can play multi player against people all over the world who owns this game! The only downer on this game is the fact you are asked to download the update (please press yes) if you do not download the free update you may experience some freezing in the game. I did so I downloaded the update and it has been fun since!

I bought this game thinking that it would be an O.K. game, some scary points, some blood but NOTHING like what I actually experienced in gameplay. This game has TONS of extremely great points to it. First off... There's an expansion pack so if you beat all the levels of the original game then you can just purchase the expansion pack for $30! I personally hate first person shooters but when I played this game, I didn't even really recognize I was playing an FPS because it is so detailed in graphics and so well encorporated. I also really like that the main publisher is SIERRA because all I knew of them before this game was smaller MAC games but this one just blew me away, the one player as well as the multiplayer... The online multiplayer for this game is free and jam packed with goodies. You play on maps that either SIERRA made that come with the game or you play CUSTOM made maps that you or someone else makes! This software doesnt come with the game but you can download it for free online. I would also like to bring up the weapons. The weapons used in this game are pretty realistic... except for the penetrator and the 3 "special" weapons. You can use dual pistols, single pistol, assault rifle, combat shotgun, penetrator, asp rifle and the 3 special weapons - I'll let you find out what those are on your own :P. All-in-all this game has brought many excellent features although there are some that I would like to get rid of... PUNKBUSTER!! This online mechanism automatically boots players that don't meet the game creator's criteria and it's really annoying, you can spend 30 minutes downloading 60 maps and oops... PUNKBUSTER was on, I guess you can't play those afterall, better luck next time! Punkbuster is used by many online hosts in F.E.A.R. but some host's are better than that and they actually handpick who to kick, host a vote and a certain number of people has to vote you off. LAG isn't too big of a problem in fear. The mass multiplayer that so many fear players use is full of players that came to play and not lag, yet there are those few that still do, I love it!
All in all F.E.A.R. is an excellent game and recommended to ANYONE who loves playing games that freak you out or just love games that has blood and guns THIS is your game. A+ for F.E.A.R. & F.E.A.R. Extraction Point (expansion set)!

F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon) is a horror-themed first-person shooter computer and video game developed by Monolith Productions and published by Vivendi.

The graphics of the game is stunning, you would have to play it to see it. Also the artificial intelligence is one of the best if not the best out there. The bots will try every method possible to kill you without getting killed themselves. They are communicate with each other, use grenades to flush you out etc. They can also hide, jump, crouch, take cover etc.

A feature of this game is the 'reflex time' where the point man's (the person who you are controlling in the game) reflexes are so good where everything has to be slowed down so you to play it properly. Gamespeed should be approximately slowed down to 4 times slower than the normal speed, which makes me think its some kind of 'matrix mode'.

Weapons of this game includes pistol, rifles, sub machine gun, particle beam weapon, repeating cannon, rocket launcher and shotgun. Each weapon will differ in strength, power, range etc.

The horror theme of the game is inspired by Japanese horror. However in my opinion the story is quite hard to catch up and players might miss it. The storyline is great for developing The main source of the game's horror is Alma, a ghostly little girl. Who takes who took out an entire Delta Force squad. At the start, a little of the story is shown, leaving players to play and discover the sotry behind this game.

One minor drawback of the game is a short playtime, I managed to complete the game within 2-3 days even though I was playing quite slowly.

This game scores in gameplay, graphics, A.I. and storyline. This makes up for the short playime. I highly recommend readers to get this game and thus scores a 5/5 for me.

Its no wonder why this game scored eighty-eight percent out of one hundred on Game Rankings.

You must Buy This is the best shooter out there right now and with the f-bombs, it's not for kids.Ok

This game is very scary , especially if you play it alone and in the dark, It is very well recommended.

nice deal worth it...i try to buy it here but was not to fiind good shipment so i accept the deal worth to buy it goood quality

The game has great graphics, if you scare easily then you might not want to play. I have all of the games and i absolutely love them. Nice fights and never boring. Always keeps you waiting to see what is next. I don't think there are any negative aspects to the game.