Play-mag writes: "Be afraid. Be very afraid. The First Encounter Assault Recon team is back in the follow-up to one of the most chilling first-person shooters of all time – but the most terrifying thing about Project Origin may be Monolith's decision to cut back on the horror elements that made its original such a terrifying experience. Perhaps worried that the balance between fright and fight was in danger of doing both a disservice, the developer has made sure Project Origin is packed with satisfying combat and exciting set pieces, ensuring the game competes with other contemporary shooters – a genre well represented on PlayStation 3 at the moment. The good news is that the end result is a polished, entertaining experience, which retains the series' power to make grown men blub like little girls."
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Following on the coattails of the highly successful First Encounter Assault Recon, or F.E.A.R., Monolith Soft and publisher Warner Brothers released the highly anticipated F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin.
Set immediately prior to the finale of Point Man’s adventure in F.E.A.R., Project Origin tasks the player, one Sergeant Becket, and his squad with the retrieval and protection of Armacham’s Genevieve Aristide. Shortly after you battle your way through her apartment complex, a mushroom cloud explosion blasts through the city, successfully incapacitating Becket. While passing in and out of consciousness, Becket sees his journey from Aristide’s apartment to a hospital bed where he hallucinates being torn asunder by demons. Upon awakening, Becket finds himself pitted against a team of special ops soldiers cleaning up Armacham’s involvement from the original F.E.A.R.
Hahahahha. But seriously, I love this friggin game. Played it from start to finish about a dozen times since it came out. I wouldn't mind a Remastered Trilogy.
Direct2Drive has given Monolith's shooter F.E.A.R. 2 a significant price cut down to $20. The title ran $35 on D2D before the cut and currently runs $50 on Steam.
