F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin - Gameplay demo video

Eurogamer has released a video from the gameplay demo of F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, PlayStation 3 version.

[freeman29]

The game is looking good but there are some slowdowns in the frame-rate on this PS3 demo.

[thereapersson]

I think you're confusing slowdown and framerate issues with the slow-motion effects in the game that are used intentionally.

The game actually appears to be running rather smoothly, especially considering how Godawfully bad the previous game's technical issues were. Still, I have a feeling that the 360 version will be the better of the two -- though it doesn't matter to me because I'm buying the PC version (I have the original on PC and it was a good game).

[solidt12]

I played the PS3 Demo twice last night and it ran as smooth as butter. Alot better than the original FEAR on the PS3. The Game is going to be great. The Enemies AI is very good and the Graphics are alot better. And it is fun to play.

[Fox01]

Since you've played the demo, which one do you think I should pick? FEAR 2 of Killzone 2 (never played Killzone 1 and I didn't play F.E.A.R 1 either)?

[tompoulo]

I don't own a ps3 but from what i've seen Killzone 2 will be the ultimate AAA game of this period(maybe even the whole year), FEAR 1 was pure awesome, but it doesn't mean that FEAR 2 will be awesome too.(we haven't seen much about this game other than some small trailers and this demo gameplay). So i would advise you to get Killzone 2!!!

[DA_SHREDDER]

I played Fear 2 last night, and was really impressed. It sorta plays like COD but Fear 2 has better graphics, and the game is scary as hell. The ps3 doesn't support 1080p though, and I had to play it on 720p. Im also skeptical on how good the online is on the psn. Im gonna get it on the 360 because I could play it on 1080p and cause of xbox live. The ps3 version will be good at least though for you ps3 only guys. The game has metal gear solid 4 graphics,, its pretty impressive.

If you had to pick between the two, get Killzone2. But if your a gamer like me you would just get both,, plus SF4,, possibly ShellShocked. March you would get StormRise

[solidt12]

Fox01 can't believe you asked that question. Look at my avatar. Personally i would buy both of them and I will. But if I had to choose I would be getting Killzone 2.

[PAPERCHASER0396]

WTF? You say that this game has better graphics than COD? The PS3 doesn't support 1080P? what are you talking about.... Sir you wrong in both cases even looking at game play during shoot outs in fear watch for bullet holes where are they? if you see them soon after they disappear and also blood. I know this is only a demo but we as Ps3 owners deserve only the best foot forward overall when it comes to games period and we expect the best all the time not just improvements.

[Blademask]

The textures detail is very reminiscent of Bioshock, and the sound design is just as amazing. Every thing you hit makes a different noise, and who the hell had time to sit and stare at the bullet holes? The lighting is very good, every light is a source that casts your shadow everywhere. The motion blur they have is very cod/unrealengine-y, but its still very smooth.

Slowdown in the demo? I didn't notice any thats worse than any other multiplat. And you do have a slowdown-mode.

Fear2's atmosphere is second to none, as the first one is. Its scary as hell, and its just a demo. The contrast in set design is amazing. The school/office/outeryard. They have totally redeemed their original set issues with a single demo, and im very happy that Monolith got a second chance. Unfortunately most of you weren't on top of FEARPC..

But it has a decent online community, the online for fear plays like nothing else really considering the first person hand to hand combat.

Demo is great, if people were smart they would be picking this one up. COD4/5 Are such underwhelming games both SP and MP, and graphically. You cant interact with anything in COD4/5 worlds, the lighting sucks, as do the textures, and the AI, the vehicles, and the gameplay. You've played COD4/5 before. You haven't played a game like Fear2, unless you play the first one. Fear2 is definitely a fresh experience, its going to be a great SP game, with good MP.

This is why as a gamer that thinks COD4/Halo/Gears is Sooo good, that you need to pickup Fear2:

1. Story/Atmosphere

Fear1/2 Plays out like a horror/action movie. Its never just a lose story around objectives. its Warner Brothers folks, they spent some time with this. The sound design around the game in surround is very creepy. It reminds me of Socom(sound)

2. Cover System

Fear2 allows players to knock over anything that they can, tables, vending machines, trashcans. All in first person, its as natural as just walking up and hitting a button, and crouching. No sticking to cover as some rigid system like Uncharted, KillSwitch, or Gears.

3. Graphics

Fear2's demo has honestly illustrated some lush very detailed graphics. The amount of detail is insane, not so much ... polygon level of just a TON of objects. But everything in the games world looks very realistic with individual textures. A book shelf has different books with different titles.. A projector has a name brand on it.. small details like this are overlooked by games that just throw a generic texture over everything, and call it a day. Realworld miscellaneous items are just strewn all over the sets, as you would find in life. Cups/papers/paintings/staplers mugs,telephones. Its just very very detailed, as soon as you guys get the demo, you will see exactly what I mean as far as the detail goes. Take a second, look around. Little Kids paintings in the classroom heh. And its all rendered with a very nice COD4-style Blur. Everything feels good.

4. Gameplay

Fear2 combines a slow-down max payne style function to aid you when the odds are tough, med kits are rationed out to you. The game is still your standard FPS, but the AI dynamic makes playing the game different every single play. Ai is very advanced, as was the AI of Fear1. More advanced than COD4/Halo/Gears. AI will listen for you, and look for you. If your flashlight is on, you get a MGS style "A flashlight!", if you knock over a glass, or knock over a trashcan "what was that? Go check it out!". Your health is low, you get a "Hes hurt, move up!" The Ai doesn't do your standard pop in and out of the same place, they go all around to take pot shots at you, and they will flank you IF they can. You can see them working in Rainbow6 style attack patterns to where one guy moves up, others stay behind. You literally can't just aim at the same place, knowing the AI will pop up there again.(If played on Hard). You panic in the game, and thats what Fear relies on, because during the combat with the soldiers you totally forget the horror part of the game until you are running down a hallway, and all the doors slam and someTHING throws a desk across the level. Oh yeah, and theres a Mech suit & the game has Multiplayer.

Fear2 is going to be like playing Killzone2 in a Haunted House :)

[thereapersson]

What the hell are you talking about? Do you just pull this sh1t from your and try to pass it off as fact?

[DA_SHREDDER]

Yo, im sorry I said it wrong. I meant to say that Fear 2 doesn't upscale to 1080p. Not that the ps3 doesn't upscale. Again sorry about that. I had my 1080p checked mark only, so that it wouldn't do 720p or 1080i. Just like motorstorm 2, it doesn't upscale past 720p. At first I was pissed cause the game looked ugly when I first played. It was because it was only in 480p. It goes to 480p at default if the ps3 only has 1080p checked and if the game doesn't support it. Im wasn't rambling anything. I just wasn't paying attention to what I typed. Again, sorry.

[Mandaspt]

I didn´t play it but it seems another average FPS game for PS3.

[OrganicMachine]

no

[solidt12]

Not a average shooter. Shooter/Horror with some of the best AI I have seen so far and the Graphics are pretty. The gameplay is really good to once you get use to the controls.

[Ghoul]

Fear is one of the best immersive shooters i have ever played.

and i played nearly every shooter that made it on the market (and some that didnt or got canceld)

[Chubear]

To me, to whole series is very average for a shooter. The first one had ever mundane and bland gamplay and this one seems to be the same. The pacing of the game is just plain straight, almost rail like, shooting.

and yes, the demo on the PS3 has framerate issues. I've been gaming for longer than most here have been alive and I know the difference btw tapping the triangle button for slow down and framerate issues. Plus, I had numerous instances where the sound would cut out or go all wonky.

I'm not here trying to convince anyone who likes it not to like it or stopping anyone else from being interested in the game but rather stating my own view on it. I find it so crazy how the general gaming public will damn a different game for framerate issues cause editorial reviewers said so but see NO framerate issues for a game (demo) that has OBVIOUS framerate issues and worse framerate issues than the every game they damned for having it.

It's like people just pick and choose to dogg on whatever however but won't judge the other games they like by the same standards.

[Ghoul]

"I've been gaming for longer than most here have been alive and I know the difference"

well me too over 20 years and counting but claiming that fear has bland gameplay proofes that you never played the game longer then 10 minutes.

Sorry, fear has very good balanced and innovative gameplay. gears of war is more of a railshooter then fear.

[Marceles]

Chubear you have no idea what you're talking about. If you've truly been gaming for over 20 years you wouldn't be looking into the framerate of a game, especially if you've grown up in the 8-bit era, and you would notice the difference between a unique and average shooter.

The framerate of the game shouldn't take anything away from you being able to enjoy the game. There's games with way more framerate problems. The framerate does drop down when alot of action and explosions occur, but there's plenty of games that do that. You act like it's a new problem in gaming, but you should be used to stuff like that by now.

FEAR is far from your average FPS. What FPS do you know brings you Japanese-like horror that messes with your mind? Here's a really good question because I bet you have some funny games to bring up...what game do you know has AI on par with FEAR? Put FEAR on Hard difficulty and you'll see some incredible AI, and even on normal the AI is great. The music, audio, and atmosphere is great as well, and it has a pretty good storyline for being an FPS. The graphics are great too...if you're comparing FEAR 2 to Killzone or Crysis then all of a sudden you've been become a spoiled graphics whore gamer...I shouldn't even put the term "gamer" in there. You're just a graphics whore. FEAR is a PC shooter at heart ported to consoles...maybe you hate PC gaming? I don't know..but it just sounds like you've never played FEAR, or you picked it up later when it came to a console and totally flopped it for whatever twisted reason you have.

I really want to know what FPS is great in your opinion if you think FEAR was a bad game. 20 years of gaming my ass...

[freeman29]

The PC version will rock.

[Rocky87]

it rocks!

[kewlkat007]

I didn't mind the first one..

[freeman29]

The first FEAR was real impressive :).

[reelife]

Gief!!! Loved the first FEAR to death!!!

[beavis4play]

meh.

[pwnsause]

the game is great. I played the Demo last night. If you played the first one on the PC or consoles, you'll love this game. BTW: play the first one if you want to know about the story. this game picks up on the story were the first one left off based on the Demo Qore Subscribers played yesterday.

[heylo]

FEAR 2 is the only real competition for KZ2 next month
the first one was a BLAST!

[OrganicMachine]

nope.. by a mile..

[Rocky87]

I agree with you. If FEAR 2 is as good as the first part it can keep up with KZ2.

[DELTABOY04]

it was great! weapons feel good and the enemy AI is also great!

[solidt12]

The Sniper rifle in the demo is incredible.

[Apocwhen]

Glad to hear the demo is impressive on the Console. I loved it for PC and have really been looking forward to the sequel. Is the Demo that has been released single player only?

[fossilfern]

:O only saw like 20 seconds of it didnt want to spoil it for myself becuase i want to keep the game as fresh as i can. Absolutly loved teh first one and i was stupid enough to buy the expansions lol but this game looks amazing i cant wait just under a month left :D

[gta2800]

I downloaded this yesterday and let me say. I haven't played Killzone 2 yet but after watching videos and reading previews, it has definitely raised the bar for me. I had a hard time playing F.E.A.R. or any FPS for that matter. They all seem so generic compared to the footage I've seen of Killzone 2 and will most likely be that way after playing it. I'm not kissing Killzone 2's ass. It's an honest opinion. I don't really think I'll be playing another FPS till I see something better than Killzone 2.

[OOG]

o pfft please.......

Graphics are not everything....especially since Fears AI is probably the best in any FPS game.....your not a true FPS gamer if your so easily taken by only 1 game that you havnt even played yet.

[gta2800]

Well, I know graphics isn't everything and Killzone 2 isn't just only good graphics. I kind of made it seem like in my opinion the game sucks, but it doesn't. It's a huge improvement from the first one and it looks pretty good. It seems pretty fun from what I played in the demo. However, it still seemed generic to me, or at least compared to Killzone. That's all. It's probably still gonna be a good game nonetheless. As for the Killzone 2 only thing. That also applies to the fact that I won't be playing anything other than Killzone 2 online for next, who knows how many months.

[Ju]

The video isn't full HD, but I think this feed is pretty impressive. Nice environment, effects etc. I think the first didn't look to bad either (but I don't know, played that 2 years ago, or so. My perception has obviously chance since). The first one freaked me out, though. I am not sure if I can handle this. (Yeah, yeah, I'm a sissy :)

[Lastlivingsoul]

Okay Killzone2 is gonna be great. But that should not keep you from picking up fear2 as well. The demo was...well to be honest with you maybe the first demo I downloaded and then wanted the game more. Fear is an FPS but there are enough differences to make it worth getting on it's on. I'm really hoping a few people will be playing it online. I heard that you can use mechs in deathmatches.

I will definitely be getting Fear2, Killzone2, and RE5, all on day one.

[Serjikal_Strike]

But did anyone else notice some similarities to killzone2 in f.e.a.r.2?
Look at the enimies=they have small glowing eyes
The snipers got the hooded trenchcoats
The blood effects
The ragdoll effects when they get shot
Especially the grenades!!!

Dont get me wrong I liked it but it looks like a killzone2 ripoff!
BTW the mech at the end of the demo is cool as hell

[Ju]

I don't think so. Except maybe the blood effects. But the enemies get highlighted as a whole. That's kind a weird. The lightning is maybe, which makes it look similar, though. I think it has a very good lightning (and particle) engine. But the rag doll physics is nothing like KZ2 (at least not the variety of possible animations). They still look bulky to me here.

[gta2800]

I thought the same too. Even the mini boss that bursts through the door seemed like a rip off of Killzone's mini boss with the mini gun.

[tudors]

or did you use that quore thingy.

[dkgshiz]

As of right now.

[LONEWOLF231]

Sweet stuff peeps! Yet another Developing Company that knows how to Code for the PS3, yes granted they dropped the ball with the first FEAR but now things will be different!
So this basically takes place right after the Heli crashed at the end of First part. FINALLY the story continues!

[Apocwhen]

They didn't port the 1st FEAR game to the PS3. It was done by another 3rd party. Almost the exact same situation as when EA ported The Orange Box to the PS3, it wasn't done by Valve.

[JonahNL]

I watched the first minute and then closed the screen! It looks gob-smackingly awesome, but I don't want to spoil all the fun for myself! =P

[Rocky87]

I really loved FEAR (1). I've played it over and over again. The enemies were so intelligent.