FEAR

[EtaYorius]

GREATEST LEFTDOWN... i cant belive how dissapointing Fear was for me... since 2005 i been hearing all the good reviews, all people saying it was really terrorific and spooky... so i decided to get fear and have a taste of fear, but i didnt really played the game untill yesterday... and all i got to say its that is just LAME, the game itself seemed really really SHORT... just when i finish the game i was like what the... and all that time i thought i was arround the damn begging, heck i was expeting myself a little close to half the game... but no, it as extremely short... even bloodlines seemed longer in game hours... and i didnt had a damn good jump out of my seat... im sorry, but FEAR is a total leftdown and there was not even a single scary moment in the whole damn game... oh yes, there where few moments i thought the gory scenes where really cool, but SCARY? damn it... even in Doom3 i got surprised a couple of times, but not in these game... and whats with the little ho crawling in the vents, appearing and looking at me from far (that aint fucken scary!) running from one place to another in the dark... well a little girl running in the shadows is just not scary for me, but i had to admit there was a cool moment where i got into a kind of a dream and fell into some bloody water, then i tried to walk out of there and a skeleton rised under the water and tried to grab me, well at that time i knew nothing in those scenes could hit me, so i wasent really annoyed by that skeleton but it was cool though... and that commander who controlled the soldiers, he was cool, yes but why the fuck did he died like that? damn it! i wanted a fight! AND NOT JUST A FIGHT! i expected a cool fight! but oh God, he died right there in the dream... damn cheap... and Alice, after all i went through all that to save the little btch she got eaten by that MOFO... i even expected a fight with that sexy nude btch that send those monsters through dark portals (yeah i know she was the little ho, but at least she looked sexy all grown up) and the end was just LAME... how many times have we seen an end like that? come on, tell me? how many times have we seen a chopper flying from a big explotion? and how many times have we seen in movies and games the "Heros" scaping just to know the "Thing" is right there... and how many times did we seen people getting dragged to vents? (HalfLife1, Doom3 anyone?) damn it! i really thought i was half the game when that explotion happend, but when the scrolling text appear i was just amazed... i couldnt belive it... and whats worst, where the FUCK is the ending song in the scrolling text at the end!? GOSH! i would never play a damn FEAR tittle ever again.

Well all liked from the game was the damn AI, it was so hard i did enjoy getting in fights with the soldiers... so i praise the AI! maybe i had my hopes TOO HIGH in this 2 year old tittle... yeah i guess thats what happened in my case... i rate fear with a 6.8, because they just pretty much took many things already done and seen in movies and video games ("Ringu" go figure a little girl similar to that Japanese Movie).

[Javokis]

dude chill. Yes the game was rather short and I wondered why it takes up 5 gigs and takes only 2-3 hours to beat. I just think we're missing something.

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Other than it's 'first run' time length, I had no problems with the fact that the girl reminded me of 'The Ring' or 'Ringu'. I don't have any real problems with japan-anime culture.

I also thought the last part, though familiar in many ways, was still cool. I also never thought FEAR was scary. I thought it was intense.

[Bloodywolf]

try playing that... on HARD. and come again.

ant yet again to say: it doesn't have the same scaring technique as Doom³. Hence why its recommended to wait till its night, all the lights out and surround on max :-D

[EtaYorius]

I played this game yesterday arround 1:30 AM, haha no Javokis i wasent btching about the girl looking to the "Ringu" because it was Japanese, i was btching cause i think it was not original idea of a little girl identical to the ringu hehe.

By the way Bloody, does playing the game in HARD changes few scenes of the game into more scary or spooky? anyway the AI was already excelent in the normal difficulty, so i have no regrets in the AI.

By the way... i dont hate Japan, i actually like Samurais and their Codes, Ninjas, Resident Evil Series, King of Fighters and i even like Japenese girls, what i dont like is ANIME AND ANYTHING RELATED TO IT, hehe just had to make that clear, dont want people thinking im racist or something.

[Bloodywolf]

1. I tought you we're complaining also that you could play trough it too easy.

2. I don't think the devs wanted to make Alma like an anime char intentionally. No designs indicate that she's an anime char. Her eyes contain no anime flavor, and its not Scaryness they're trying but more like a stresses jump reaction. But maybe we're just used to all this scary things and we don't react much to it anymore :-p

What they could've changed tho is the thing that its like

Soldier <> alma <> soldiers <> alma <> ghosts <> robot <> soldiers <> alma


thing, It wold be much better while you're stressed from the fighting to suddenly scare ya with the girl.

[EtaYorius]

Again, this have nothing to do with Alma being Japanese or Anime... SHE JUST look to the girl in the "Ringu" movie, it´s just not an original idea of a little Ghost Girl with the hair in her face, she DOSENT look anime like, shes just not "ORIGINAL", sorry for repeating this... but i never typed anything related to her or anime.

By the way, how many of you seen this pics in the internet?

Well it was all publicity for the movie "Ringu", pics of these kinds where all over the internet... even a video of a little girl in japan in some parking lot that suddenly disspears, hehe they where all made because of the movie Ringu to give it a lot more publicity.

The movie "Ringu" was pretty cool, but "The  Ring" was a total btch, it was the american version of Ringu... and it pretty much sucked in my opion.

[Javokis]

Original stories bring too much risks to an expensive industry. They probably aimed for something tried and true sense they blew all their money on the next gen engine.