Project Origin has nailed so many aspects of what makes a good shooter and bested many of the current benchmarks. Monolith seems to understand the need for a balance between empowering the player and offering substantial challenge. Between narrative and interaction, variety and consistency, and suspense and combat. After the barrage of great shooters that came out towards the end of last year, many will have been left questioning whether or not 2009 was going to measure up.
It's incredibly gratifying, then, to find a game of such extraordinary quality appearing so early on. A game that, if taken as a measure of things to come, is already doing more than its fair share to make this year the best yet.
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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.
i feel sorry for fear 2 killzone 2 hype is killing this game.