Fear

blahblah06

Has anyone played fear ? whats it like and is it worth the 30 euro ?

KdjaCL

If your pc can handle it, its well worth 30 euor.

Where is it 30 euro assume online as game still have it for 50.

kdjac

blahblah06

ye on cd wow. ive an aw so no worries

Creamy Goodness

yeh, what's the deal with store charging 50 for pc games now, it wasn't long ago there were all 40 euros even in game.

sorry for off topicness, i'd love to get the game but it wouldn't run on either of my systems (desktop: p4 3ghz 1gig ram 9800pro)(lappy: 2ghz A64 1gig ram x700)

blahblah06

ive a gforce go 6800 that shud be ok ?

Pugsley

I found it the most mundane game in history, in comparison Doom3 is both prettier, scarier, and has more variety (the last 2 of which, Doom3 didnt have much of). I played about 6-8 hours of it, and have to date found 5 types of enemies, 3 are the same and have only met one of the others twice, and the other on maybe 3 seperate occasions. The guns are equally mundane, you only get decent amounts of ammo for the AR, SMG, and shotgun, the SMG is pants next to the assault rifle, so I cant say I ever really carried one around much. All the other guns you get here and there, but never with enough ammo to be of much notice. Id say ignore this game entirely, definately not worth €50.

blahblah06

nice review any one else. i need to buy a game

KdjaCL

Cremo wrote:

yeh, what's the deal with store charging 50 for pc games now, it wasn't long ago there were all 40 euros even in game.

sorry for off topicness, i'd love to get the game but it wouldn't run on either of my systems (desktop: p4 3ghz 1gig ram 9800pro)(lappy: 2ghz A64 1gig ram x700)

I got it running on an X300 @800x600 medium. 6800 will run it grand.
Search os broken here but there was a huge thread extolling its virtues but some just dont like it. Good solid fps with a few nice scary moments.



kdjac

koneko

Not sure what game Pugsley was playing, wouldn't use any of those descriptions for FEAR. Loved it myself, well worth 30 euros.

BloodBath

Pugsley is on acid if he thinks doom 3 is a better game tbh. Fear is a great game. The ai is superb, the particle effects ect are amazing especially in slow mo and it at least tries to create some atmosphere and storyline. Really how did you find this game mundane and repeditive and not doom 3? Probably the best fps since hl2 and it's well worth 30e.

JCDenton

Pugsley wrote:

in comparison Doom3 is scarier, and has more variety.

No way!

Doom 3 is neither scarier nor has more variety than FEAR!
In Doom 3 you walk into a room and you instantly know that you'll have to kill one monster in front, and then, surprise surprise, another will appear right behind you - over and over and over again.

To me, that's not variety, and not scary either

qwertz

€50? Game have all their new and newish releases on display for €55.

Cremo wrote:

yeh, what's the deal with store charging 50 for pc games now, it wasn't long ago there were all 40 euros even in game.

sorry for off topicness, i'd love to get the game but it wouldn't run on either of my systems (desktop: p4 3ghz 1gig ram 9800pro)(lappy: 2ghz A64 1gig ram x700)

SirLemonhead

I didn't find it scary at all, either.

Asok

Cremo wrote:

yeh, what's the deal with store charging 50 for pc games now, it wasn't long ago there were all 40 euros even in game.

sorry for off topicness, i'd love to get the game but it wouldn't run on either of my systems (desktop: p4 3ghz 1gig ram 9800pro)(lappy: 2ghz A64 1gig ram x700)

It ran quite happily on lowish detail settings (while still looking nyom) on my xp2000 1gb ram and 9800pro

TinCool

Yep, this is a great game, although I have put it on the back burner temporarily whilst I play my way through COD2, which is bloody great too I might add.

TC

AnCapaillMor

good game bloody tough at times too, i still have to use the slo-mo thing keep forgetting to use it.

TheStrandRoads

Cannot recommend this game enough. The AI is stunning. Gameplay top-notch. The music is also great. Doesn't play continously, instead builds atmosphere.

Definitely best shooter since HL2.

John

UberNewb

Doom3 is better looking and scarier but FEAR is a better game. The AI is excellent which makes the game for me!

I can't think of anything that really stood out graphicaly and I think both Doom 3 and Half Life 2 which are both over a year old still look alot better.

Kiith

Doom3 is neither better looking nor scarier. doom relied purely on darkness, and shock value. FEAR has tension, great athmosphere, and some of the best set pieces ever made...and it has a little girl in a red dress...nothing is scarier.

probably my favourite game of the year so far.

DonkeyStyle \o/

BloodBath wrote:

Pugsley is on acid if he thinks doom 3 is a better game tbh.

tbh, I think you could be on to something here...
If Pugsley was on acid he'd have spent 10 hours staring at that cool burst-gas-pipe-shimmer effect in DOOM3, giggling and going "woah".
Where as the poltergeist girl from FEAR would have freaked him right the fuuk out. :eek:
Drugs 'r baad m'kaay?

UberNewb

I left out Far Cry, which is all so graphicaly more impressive and almost 2 years older than FEAR!

If you like Boxes you'll love the level design in FEAR.

Pugsley

I think you all missed the point in the comparison to Doom3, Doom3 was awful, FEAR, is worse

I fail to see this stunning AI either, they just run at you, and have a few scripted things to jump over walls and things, which they bugger up more than once, seen more than one guy get himself stuck when trying to jump over a wall. The problem with the scare tactics, is they used them all in the demo, girl appears, you hear voices, 'OH NOES!', then you see people who disintegrate when you run near them, oh the humanity, that really is about it for scare tactics (doom3 wasnt scarey either, but at least now and again it could surprise you). And as for graphics, while I will admit the models, both first and third person ones, do look very good, its ruined by boring mapping, it really looks like the mappers put in absolutely no effort to make the maps look decent, compare the maps to something like Quake4, and its simply funny how inferior to mapping is in FEAR, its awful, most custom maps look better, so while the graphics are good by and large, the maps are dire, and they make up about 90% of what your looking at.

ghost26ie

i think pugsley ur talkin out of ur a**e. the a.i. in Fear is the best i've ever seen. they simply just dont hop over barriers and such. they rush u, they use boxes and walls very well for cover and they attack u from differents sides at the same time and in numbers. listening to u, sounds like u never played it, had one look at the demo and made ur judgements on that. all doom3 did was look good.

DonkeyStyle \o/

I wasn't really taken with either game tbh... let's just agree to disagree about agreeing that they're both shíte.

Dooom

Anyone who said FEAR is shìte is silly.
Type of people who, when light transport get's invented and you can teleport to Mars in .5 of a milisecond, will say "Meh, I could probably walk it faster."

AI is the best I've seen in a long, long time. What Pugsley was saying about it is how it reacts (vaguely) on the easy setting. Boost it to hard and see how stupid they are.
As for the graphics, granted they "could" be better, but as it stands, I'd compare it to HL2 easily. Again, what the non-sayers are saying, is how it looks on the lower end of the settings spectrum.
Gameplay: Weapons are excellent. You may think that, eg. the SMG is a piece of crap, but when you start playing multiplayer (and even in SP a good bit too) you'll notice that the SMG is mighty mighty handy, it's light enough not to restrict you're running, and it's high rate of fire makes up for it's lack of power. As for lack of ammo, only once or twice have I noticed it, and that was me shooting at walls for fun aswell.

To sum up, this game kicks the bejesus out of Doom 3. Doom 3 sucked, like really, really sucked. I'd say Far Cry'd only be just below the level of FEAR, it is a very good game, but FEAR's better. HL2 is on par with it.

So to the OP, the game is well worth buying, a 6800 would handle it with a few settings turned down but still having it very pretty.

'Nuff said.

Sarky

Finished it recently on the second highest difficulty. I wish I'd gone for the highest, it still seemed a bit easy.

Anyway, a good solid game, I thought. Not a large amount of variety in the enemies, true, but they make good use of them. Those heavy armoured blokes with the pigsticker rifles are great.

And it was BLOODY creepy, but only when I was in the right mood. It's great with the lights down, sound up, and no other sounds in the house, late at night. I HATE that little girl. the wee b*tch popped up at the most inappropriate times, and at the end is really rather disturbing.

Wide open for a sequel, it seems. I shall be keeping an eye out for it.

BKtje

Its a good game but no where near as good as some people make it out to be.

Its ridculously easy (yes on the hardest setting) and i "jumped" in all of 2 moments in the whole game (1 near start and 1 in middle). Its not scary and doom3 created a much better atmosphere. The AI is superb and the graphics are fairly decent but the levels are very very samey. Even more so than doom for me. The story is okish but there was many a time when i couldnt be arsed going further anymore cos of the same old same old killing. Just too few enemy types really with not enough difficulty. Thats a quick rundown of what top expect.

Dont get me wrong, i did enjoy playing it but there could have been so much more done with it.

chump

blahblah I've been playing quake4 lately, and if like me you enjoy nipping in and out of a game and blasting things ... maybe 30minutes->1hour at a time I can't fault it...

Good old fashioned fun :v:

PixelTrawler

I was looking forward to fear for a long time but i was disappointed by it. AI is good no question ( except towards the end when there seemed to be none - if you finished it you'll know the sequence ) but it lacked variety both in terms of enemies and levels.

The level design was not quite as good as Doom3 in terms of how much is going on in the background but oveall FEAR is the better game.

Overall though it seemed a step backwards in the direction games were going considering the innovation that went into Far Cry, then Half Life 2.

It all seemed to lack a little atmosphere.

Also it seemed a little too hard on the system considering its visual effects. It seemed to be constantly pausing while fetching new textures.

Azza

Dissappointed with FEAR have to say although its still not a total write off.

Graphics did little for me other than the partical effects. Gun damage affects on a wall were grand until you looked at them a close angle. Everything else was just bland as was the enemies and guns. Story was all over the shop with mutiplay threads stop, start story telling but not not combining into a satisfactory ending or providing a satisfactory conclusion to a single story thread. Not even remotely frighting and ridiculously easy and I want true it on the hardest setting and was never really challenged. I don't recall repeating a single area more than twice. Game runs like a dog even on a good spec machine despite looking so so.

Least the firefights are quite enjoyable. Combat saves the days just about.
Best FPS since half life 2....I did not rate that highly either. Prefered other FPS in the mutiplayer arena such as BF2 and DOD Source...which regardless of being mutiplayer games are FPS all the same. I don't give an arse about those single modes....but thats just me.

BKtje

Azza seeing as you have a fairly similar view as myself, did ya ever play the mp for fear? I never could be bothered but am wondering if it was any better.

BadCharlie

JCDenton wrote:

No way!

Doom 3 is neither scarier nor has more variety than FEAR!
In Doom 3 you walk into a room and you instantly know that you'll have to kill one monster in front, and then, surprise surprise, another will appear right behind you - over and over and over again.

To me, that's not variety, and not scary either

I found doom scarie. I could never play the game any longer then one hour most times only 30mins and just needed to give it a rest. I know 2 other people that said the same thing so you must be hard as nails with the old nerves. I found it was all down to the sound in doom3 that shocked you. My sound is very good and also have headphones, the other 2 guys would also have the same sound set up as me.

Have Fear but as of yet only played 10mins of it. What i have seen is that the picture quality is not as good. But this i would think is down to the fact that i dont have all the settings up to high. My computer just can do it but as for doom and HL2 the settings would be at the top so they looked better.

JCDenton

True, I was probably a bit harsh with Doom 3 there. There were indeed moments where a monster leaping from the shadows made me jump - but like I said before; it just kept happening over and over again.

FEAR (to me anyway) is more of a hollywood, mindless action game, with snippets of "The Ring" and other films thrown in, to build up tension; not really the same idea as Doom's shock tactics.

I guess it just comes down to preference; a UT vs. Q3 argument.

I just prefer FEAR, that's all

koneko

Meh. Doom 3 wasn't scary. I played it in the dark, on my own, with headphones on, and it was only scary for about 30-40 minutes (and only because things jumped out of nowhere and made you jump), after that it was just repetitive monster-closets-galore. Cheap scares. It stopped being scary and became dull.

I guess it's up to preference really, but I'd pick FEAR over Doom 3 any day of the week.

Kiith

they both still have alot to learn from the freakiest game ever, system shock 2.

rabbitinlights

Kiith wrote:

and it has a little girl in a red dress...nothing is scarier.

Maybe a falling Elevator........ nearly fell off my bloody seat.


1st = F.E.A.R
2nd = HL2/FARCRY
3rd = DOOM 3

Kiith

i spilled my coke all over my keyboard that time you see her crawling from under the table on all fours...shudder. even thinking about it is freaking me out.

or when you see her near the end of the game too scary

Pugsley

Spike wrote:

AI is the best I've seen in a long, long time. What Pugsley was saying about it is how it reacts (vaguely) on the easy setting. Boost it to hard and see how stupid they are.
As for the graphics, granted they "could" be better, but as it stands, I'd compare it to HL2 easily. Again, what the non-sayers are saying, is how it looks on the lower end of the settings spectrum.
Gameplay: Weapons are excellent. You may think that, eg. the SMG is a piece of crap, but when you start playing multiplayer (and even in SP a good bit too) you'll notice that the SMG is mighty mighty handy, it's light enough not to restrict you're running, and it's high rate of fire makes up for it's lack of power. As for lack of ammo, only once or twice have I noticed it, and that was me shooting at walls for fun aswell.

Was playing on hard, and no the game isnt hard, if you compare the difficulty of this to the likes of Brothers in Arms (currently playing earned in blood), its silly really, in the 8 hours of it I played before uninstalling it (better things to put on my HDD's), I died a whopping once, and that was the first time I met a heavy, didnt expect it to survive a full clip from a shotty, however once you know how tough they are, you shortly figure out how stupid they are, they dont hide behind ANYTHING, even a box would cover about half of them, they just run straight at you at 0.5mph, generally I just ignore them, kill all their friends and just pick them off, if they even hit you once your doing something wrong.

Ill agree the SMG has its use's in MP, MP in the game was actually quite fun, but utterly uninventive and just 'more of the same', but Im rating the game on its SP, which is what the game is designed around by the look of things MP was just added as an after thought, most of the maps are just modified areas of the SP game, and in SP, the SMG is pants beside the AR. And the lack of ammo comment, if you read it, was that only 3 guns get a decent amount of ammo (and they have infinate ammo, give or take), the rest of the guns you get scraps of ammo now and again.

As for the scareyness of Doom3, it seems to vary from person to person a LOT, mate of mine was scared sh*tless by it, yet most people arent really phased at all, apart from the odd shock moment.

angelofdeath

i really liked it, take out the slow-mo, melee and scare value and your left with an average game but those three features really make it a great game

i'm running a 6800 aswell and it coped really well with it, could play it on 1024x768 medium quality with a little bit of AA and still have high framerates

oh and the directors edition commentary was cool aswell

BadCharlie

well cleared fear now and i liked it. Did it in 2 days about 10 or so hours of play maybe a little more. Loved the music and just the game over all. Much better then Doom and im a big fan of Doom " Going to watch the movie when its out ".

Anyway its worth playing if you have not played it to date and if you love FPS.

azezil

Just got it for christmas, i'm having great fun with it! really intense, finding myself screaming **** OFF a lot lol

And that creepy kid, tried to pop a cap in her ass, to no avail :P


oh and runs fine for me on my, amd64 3500+, 1gb ram and radeon pcie 850pro on high detail ^_^

LegacyUser

azezil wrote:

oh and runs fine for me on my, amd64 3500+, 1gb ram and radeon pcie 850pro on high detail ^_^

GO GEEK FEATURES!!!!

Of course it would run perfect...look at your system. :rolleyes:

Vmaxer

I thinking of buying FEAR myself, will it run on a 6600gt..

Elessar

Is it really worth going through a second time? It was entertaining first time round but I know the plot and everything. Is there anything like a alt. ending I should be going for?

sprinkles

Dubsmax wrote:

I thinking of buying FEAR myself, will it run on a 6600gt..

works fine for me.

cregser

I got bored of this game pretty quickly. I had just finished playing FarCry and HL2 so my standards were pretty high (not to mention the pre-release hype). FEAR felt like a polished version of the bad parts of those 2 games.

Yeah the A.I. was decent but did feel scripted. I had played the multiplayer demo for a few weeks and absolutely loved it. But the final release had a few tweaks that just took the fun out of it IMO.

So I took it out of the CD drive never for it to return...

Slydice

It was a thriller game with scarey bits added on the edge. By no means did it scare me as much as The Grudge or The Ring but because of those 2 films I was a bit jumpy.

The slow motion combined with the hand to hand and scatter effects really worked well in places. I'd often find myself quickloading a part of the game to to try something in slowmo that I thought would look cooler. For example: rushing around a corner at a 3 man enemy unit, kicking in slowmo, tossing a grenade behind them, flying kick to the frontmans head gun to kill the second guy, turn off slowmo, then watch as the third guy falls to the ground dead from the grenade:)

The prequel movie and the game commentry on the CD were a good bonus aswell.

dent

Finished FEAR 2 days ago and was really impressed. The fire fights are brilliant, from the AI (Best since the soldiers in the original half life) to the dust thrown into the air when you hit a pillar.

The atmosphere is also class, they do a great job of building tension and more than once a shiver ran up my spine or I jumped out of my seat. Make sure you play in the dark

In saying all this it is a bitch to run and will stress you system. Lowering the graphics setting's make impact on your gaming experience.

Its defiantly in my top 5 FPS. Right up there with Half Life, Far Cry, Half Life 2 and Call of Duty.

jones

FEAR is excellent!! as stated before if your pc can handle it its a great game!!

RuggieBear

just started it.

like it so far but i found it a bitch to install...seemed to conflict with practically every virtual drive/nero thing i had.

christ copy protection pisses me off so much.

****ing easier not to buy the fuking thing and just download it

_CreeD_

I thought it was decent but predictable. Also while nice the vsiuals did not justify the resource usage imho. (It's kind've like when Doom3 and Hl2 came out, Doom3 was a bit more advanced visually but ran more slowly to a level that did not seem to remotely match the dif. in graphic quality). The whole young-long-haired girl appearing and disappearing thing is just too old imho. I guess if you haven't already watched a mash of japanese horrors it will grip you, otherwise it's yawn worthy.