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Visual masterpiece and downright scary at times

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: March 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have not enjoyed a game this much in a long time. Many games get too hard for me, especially if they linger too much on puzzles. I am 44.

It is very smooth on a SONY 2.0 gig Nvida dual core laptop. No lags at all. Yes, it is a gamers machine, and could hang up on slower ones. Controls are flawless.

The detail of even the walls and floor are astounding. The "Safety First" signs and various "Keep this room clean" items were amusing, after leaving an enemy soldier torn apart in a blood dismembered pile beneath it.

Just be sure you have the video card, speed, AND hard drive space - they are large. Also, younger children and squimesh adults should think twice.

Best PC Game to Date (next to Quake 4)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 14
Date: October 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

To say this game rocks would be an understatement. Sure you need a high end video card (GeForce 6800 - 7800 or Radeon X800+) but isn't that what makes us PC gamers? The Graffix are off the hook and the gameplay is amazingly fun. It deos get repetitive but what FPS doesn't? This game will scare you, this game will thrill you, what the hell else do you want!? If you don't buy this game then sell your PC, you don't deserve it!

F.E.A.R

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

F.E.A.R ( First Encounter Assault Recon ) is a psychic horror action fps title made by Monolith productions. It's like a Matrix meets The Ring meets Hitman meets DeusEx game. Fear has superb never before seen or played battles in an action game. Future fps titles should be like this. Close to being in a John woo action movie. No contest it is the best action game of the year and one of the best ever. Requiers upgrading to a shader hardware to play it. But it's worth it. Really worth it. I played it on my system. Windows XP with SP2, Pentium IV 2.4 Ghz, 512mb Ram, Asus GeForceFx 5700 256mb VRam at 1024 x 768 resolution. Believe it. Ofcourse most of the options were at minimum, Hardware sound and sound filters disabled in config.exe menu. Effects detail, Particles bouncing, Shell casting, corpse detail ect were at max because they are very important to enjoy the gameplay. I dont care about soft shadows, antiastropic filtering ect ect. The game looks great even at minimum texture detail. I did not experiance any crashes or frame rate problems with fear. Buy Fear. You will surely not regret it. It's one of the best action games you will ever play.

This game scared the heck outta me!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love this game, it's scared the crap out of me and it's really fun to play.

The graphics are awesome, and I love the sound. I defintely recommend it to the people who played half-life and other first person shooters. However, if you don't like being scared, don't play it. Because alot of stuff jumps out at you.

A game that lives up to its' name

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I don't play many games on my computer but this is one that will keep you playing. It can be as difficult as you want and challenges you on finding answers to move through the game not just blast the enemy. There is plenty of the "shoot to live" in the game but there are sudden on screen displays that makes the heart jump to the throat. All in all it is one of the best shooter games I have played.

F.E.A.R.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Installation was time consuming but went smoothly on a Dell Inspiron 9300 with Win Media Center Edition, but the game pauses slightly, periodically making me wait briefly for the game to catch up. The theme and game play are reminiscent of Half-Life. Except for the occasional choice of which area to explore first, which usually makes little difference in the end result, the game play seems linear. If you like searching rooms for items and alternate routes, interspersed with run and gun sequences and a few puzzles, you would probably like FEAR. Since I rate the game 4 out of 5, and I enjoyed Half-Life for a while, you can tell that I am easily entertained. The graphics are pretty good even on the notebook screen, but time to headache was considerably longer while using an external monitor with a large screen.

Great Game With A Few Shortcomings

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game overall is an excellent action/shooter. I truly enjoyed the plot and gameplay of it. The controls are very customizable and easy to use. Though the plot is somewhat confusing, I think it has a great originality to it. The graphics are excellent as are the game physics and AI.

There are a few problems in the game in my opinion. The first is the environments. Though the graphics are excellent, there seems to be a lack of different environments you play in. Each level seems to be only a minor variation of the last. They all have an industrial feel to them, and though this isn't a huge drawback, I felt some variety of environment would be good. The second complaint I have is the cookie-cutter enemies you face. They are all variations of SWAT looking commandos.

Now to the best part of the game. It is very suspenseful. I find most suspense movies rather predictable and bland, yet while playing this game I've found myself wondering through the levels with my heart racing and muscles tensed. I'll even admit to having to turn on the lights while playing at night once or twice.

A note about the graphic content of the game. FEAR does deserve it's Mature rating from the ESRB, and is filled with violence and gore.

Excellent FPS

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If your in the market for a great FPS, FEAR is waiting for you. Complete with everything an FPS should have: great guns, marvelling textures, lots of darkness and a scary little girl (:shivers:).

The story line, while a bit expected, doesn't hold the game back. Utilizing the Doom3 crap-your-pants-darkness, you'll find yourself creeping around corners carefully and ducking through the darkness waiting to see what comes at you next.

The only trouble I had with FEAR was hearing what people were saying. Uplink volume is extremely low, while the gun shots are quite the opposite. So you will commonly find yourself toying with speaker volume (especially if you have a sub) to keep in touch with the story line and out of touch with screaming neighbors.

Over all: Great FPS!

Unique and awesome game, but a system hog

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

F.E.A.R. is a very unique but powerful first person shooter. The game can be criticized for taking ideas from games like Half Life 2 and Max Payne, but by harnessing the horror that The Ring brought about, it succeeds as a great game. Whereas Doom 3 uses monsters and gore to scare players, I like how F.E.A.R. uses the image of a small telepathic girl and a cannibal man to give me chills. The DVD-ROM goes one step further by providing extensive director's commentary and more insight into Alma. The action is like a John Woo movie with good enemy AI to flank the player in a firefight. The ending is different than other FPSs as there isn't a massive `get all the ammo you can' to fight the big boss.

Like others, I wasn't happy that I had to crank down my graphics settings just below `High' despite having a Pentium 4 3.06 GHz, 1 GB RAM, GeForce 6800 GT card. I also agree that there isn't a good variety or quantity of enemies (though maybe that's because I just finished Serious Sam 2 before getting the game :). There are only a few types of soldiers to fight from ATC and the cloned soldiers. But the physics are still incredible though with decent frame rates and this game is well worth it. I will be playing it over and over for quite some time; still have to try multi-player.

Bad reviewing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 16
Date: October 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Its not helpful when people criticise a game and give it low rankings just because they have video card issues. A learned gamer knows his stuff and stays ahead of the game. If u don't update your video card for more than a year you can't expect it to handle the more demanding newer games. So critique just the game and don't bring us your video card issues because we don't care. The game is very good by the way. Most sophisticated AI i've seen in a game.

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