OXM UK writes:
"'What scares me? I think it's standing in a pitch black room not knowing quite what's going to happen. It's about having no expectations to hold onto.' Dave Matthews, primary art lead on F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin doesn't look like he scares easily. In fact, anyone making a game this blood-curding and suspenseful must have a taste for horror.
Alma, the malevolent little girl from F.E.A.R. is all grown up now, and freed from the confines of the Armacham research laboratory. As the title suggests, this game delves more deeply into her sinister upbringing and the reasons why she became evil incarnate.
Without spoiling too much, the first ten minutes of this FPS will definitely make you jump. Alma's ability to get inside your character's head and cause hallucinations left us constantly on edge. She has an uncanny knack of springing up when you least expect it. Thankfully, Monolith resisted the idea of giving her Freddy Krueger-esque one-liners. She's still a mute and her origins are revealed very subtly through the locations you visit. One of these is her creepy kindergarten school."
Inspired by the J-Horror craze going on at the time, Monolith’s F.E.A.R. was a solid action fest of a shooter that entertained as much as it terrified. Bloody Disgusting goes back to see Alma ten years on from the launch of the sequel.
This game honestly killed all my interest in the franchise, I loved 1 and its expansions (even though they're technically non-canon now) but the sequel was such a let down.
WTMG's Kyle Nicol: "Whilst F.E.A.R 2 wasn’t the masterpiece I remembered from ten years ago, with its combat and level design being worse than the original, it is still a fun game that is well worth playing through today. "
PSU writes:
PSU continues its look at the horror genre over the past 20 years on PlayStation platforms, with our latest entry looking at the tail end of the PS2 era and into a new generation with the release of the PS3. Resident Evil 4, Dead Space, Siren: Blood Curse, and F.E.A.R. are just some of the pant-wetting pleasures you'll find in part 3.
