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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.

Very disappointing...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 16
Date: November 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

F.E.A.R. was hyped to be one great horror shooter. It delivers some good visuals, good positional audio, but...

The story is way too poorly covered to convey any real sense of dread - OK, you're fighting evil, but how and when and why Alma became this evil agent is never really explained - nor is most of the rest of the story.

It's doled out piecemeal, as you'd expect with a horror game, but the first 80% of the game has 20% of the story, while the last 20% (when you get to the underground site) has about 40% of the story squished into a small timeframe and area. That's right - 40% + 20 % = 60%. So where is the other 40%? Apparently, hopefully, somewhere in the sequel.

The game plays like a cardboard cutout shooter, too. The weapons are wimpy (except one, which has too wide of an area of effect to use it for most of the game). The levels are very drab, run of the mill shooter stuff - big pipes and wooden crates are everwhere.

It's also very short, and the ending, because of the story elements left out of the game, comes up very abruptly.

This shooter is nothing new...sadly, it's the same old Resident Evil clone, dressed up in a 2004 era engine.

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!

The copy protection penalizes even those who buy it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 15
Date: November 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Don't really care about this game. Did not really play much of it because now with Sierra/Vivendi so concerned about the game being pirated, they not only have a key system in place, but also securom 7 and blacklisting of all emulators. I bought the game and imaged the dvd onto my hard drive so i would not have to deal with physical media. Anyone who has ever been at a lan party knows all too well how cd's/dvd's either get lost or broken at events like a lan party. Part of the reason i like to image the disc so i don't have to worry about what happens to the disc. This bit has now gone too far and I will never buy any vivendi/sierrra game again

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.

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.

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.

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.

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