Played the 1st F.E.A.R like x years ago plus all its bastardized offspring that claimed to be expansions.
Enjoyed them even if they were just a seemingly endless corridor with some blood here and there and the odd poorly made special "horror" effect.
I think I mostly burned through them, not because I was gripped and enthralled by the game play or the story, but because they were just so familiar... in a way.
They were easy to play but offered a challenge. If you had switched them out for some hypothetical S.W.A.T game I would have still played it (and probably enjoyed it more) because it was just something mindless to do for a few hours between waking up and lunch.
I start this thread because I completed F.E.A.R 2 earlier and I found it to be exactly the same as the first one. I mean literally.
Granted the faceless gun you play the part of now has a name but the voice acting was so hurried and poor that it felt like a £3 Gamestation "on Sale to get it out the shop" title.
The poor voice acting was accompanied by something I only noticed once I got to the... erm... 3rd or 4th grey, underground, broken fort with the same metal grating for the floors that it dawned on me.
Apart from the 1st and 3rd levels, pretty much the entire game is spent in 1 long underground tunnel...
It also lacks reason for most of its actions.
Why were their dissolved corpses in EVERY SINGLE AREA in the game. Yeah Alma does that as her party trick but there was more than a few that were out of place to the point of me thinking, "Yeah some dev dumped that in there just for a bit of scenery,"
Its like there was no passion put into its design.
Now F.E.A.R 3... Sorry F.3.A.R is out (I get the vibe that was named by a 12yr old COD player) and it claims to be have a more involving story with 2 characters to play as.
I want to like this series. The subject matter is a really good idea.
Psychic little girl uses her telekinetic powers to cheat death while controlling an army of clones who are fighting a corrupt bio / weapons company who are also PMC's
Thing is, its being handled so badly I actually feel bad for original concept designer who saw what could have been a work of gaming art become...
*sigh*
Its too bad the game became something you play to kill time instead of something you play because you enjoy it.
Can anyone give me any intel on FEAR 3?
Is it worth buying?
Can it redeem the series?
Enjoyed them even if they were just a seemingly endless corridor with some blood here and there and the odd poorly made special "horror" effect.
I think I mostly burned through them, not because I was gripped and enthralled by the game play or the story, but because they were just so familiar... in a way.
They were easy to play but offered a challenge. If you had switched them out for some hypothetical S.W.A.T game I would have still played it (and probably enjoyed it more) because it was just something mindless to do for a few hours between waking up and lunch.
I start this thread because I completed F.E.A.R 2 earlier and I found it to be exactly the same as the first one. I mean literally.
Granted the faceless gun you play the part of now has a name but the voice acting was so hurried and poor that it felt like a £3 Gamestation "on Sale to get it out the shop" title.
The poor voice acting was accompanied by something I only noticed once I got to the... erm... 3rd or 4th grey, underground, broken fort with the same metal grating for the floors that it dawned on me.
Apart from the 1st and 3rd levels, pretty much the entire game is spent in 1 long underground tunnel...
It also lacks reason for most of its actions.
Why were their dissolved corpses in EVERY SINGLE AREA in the game. Yeah Alma does that as her party trick but there was more than a few that were out of place to the point of me thinking, "Yeah some dev dumped that in there just for a bit of scenery,"
Its like there was no passion put into its design.
Now F.E.A.R 3... Sorry F.3.A.R is out (I get the vibe that was named by a 12yr old COD player) and it claims to be have a more involving story with 2 characters to play as.
I want to like this series. The subject matter is a really good idea.
Psychic little girl uses her telekinetic powers to cheat death while controlling an army of clones who are fighting a corrupt bio / weapons company who are also PMC's
Thing is, its being handled so badly I actually feel bad for original concept designer who saw what could have been a work of gaming art become...
*sigh*
Its too bad the game became something you play to kill time instead of something you play because you enjoy it.
Can anyone give me any intel on FEAR 3?
Is it worth buying?
Can it redeem the series?
