D+PAD: Stomping around in mechanical power armour spending thousands of machine gun rounds and a few dozen missiles is undeniably a rush; it's only when the game decides to get spooky that we begin to lose a little bit of faith. It frequently breaks rhythm, which we probably wouldn't mind if it was genuinely tense or foreboding. It feels a tad disjointed, occasionally lacks the correct pace, and to make matters worse it's all a bit predictable. We don't need our HUD to flicker ominously or none of the lights to work to figure out that something scare-worthy is on the way. Save a handful of moments, very few of the 'ghost train' sections convince.
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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.
