| View Larger Image | F.E.A.R.: First Encounter Assault Recon | CD-ROMby Sierra
| List Price: | $19.99 | |
| | Publisher: | Sierra | | ESRB Age Rating: | Mature | | Platform: | Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 95 | | Model: | 72092 | | Operating System: | Windows 2000 | | Release Date: | 2005-10-18 | | Sales Rank: | 5,237th |
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FEATURES | - Hyper Stylized FPS Action
- Supernatural Storyline
- Larger-than-life enemies
- Advanced Graphics-Cinematic Special Effects
- Multi-Player Action
- Memory Card
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Product Description
F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon) is an intense combat experience with rich atmosphere and a deeply intense paranormal storyline presented entirely in first person. Be the hero in your own spine-tingling epic of action, tension, and terror… and discover the true meaning of fear. Hyper-stylized combat for breathtaking cinematic quality action Gripping supernatural storyline for spine-tingling intensity of play Multi-player action with multiple gameplay modes and all single player capabilities Advanced graphics and physics for visceral movie-like experience Enemies with special abilities and A.I. so intuitive it’s like battling living, breathing players. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 176 reviews)
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FEAR by Richard Silva (Victorville, Ca)  5 Stars
September 15, 2009
This game is fun. Kinda creapy at times. About the only negative is the fact that it can be finished in about a day and a half. It was nice being able to find it at a low cost.
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Very fun game by M. Simpson (Ft Meade, MD) 5 Stars
July 21, 2009
This is one of the first games I've played where it's actually aimed at scarring you and I didn't really think they could pull it off. Of course I was being very naive. This game is very spooky and scares the hell out of you at times. Highly recommend playing at night :) Online play with this game is a lot of fun and the scare factor is taken out, its all fighting. The scary stuff is only one player also if you only want online play then you can download it legally for free from Fear's website themselves. I played online first enjoyed the multiplayer a lot and then bought the single player version and was very satisfied.
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A Great Multiplayer Experience by DryvBy (Knoxville, TN USA)  4 Stars
July 10, 2009
Thank the heavens that Max Payne paved a way for slow-motion in gaming, or else, we might not have a game like F.E.A.R.. F.E.A.R. stands out from shooters today for it's ability to slow down time with the click of a button, and because it's really gory, which is a good thing. The graphics are superb and the audio is really amazing. Only downfall of having a high-profile game is it comes at a hardware cost. You'll won't be running this game on low settings with 256MB of memory (which why in the world would you only have that in today's world?).
The single player portion of the game is alright. There's nothing really exciting about it, especially giving the length in which to beat it. I beat it around 5 hours, which after playing many great first person shooters, such as Half-Life, you really wonder why they decided to make the game this short. Other than that, the levels are extremely linear, which makes the game really easy. I really didn't have any trouble knowing where to go next, which is a good thing and a bad thing. There should have been more puzzles laying around the game. The characters in the game are very limited as well. You'll fight a total of 5 or 6 different style enemies: humans, Robocop robots, flying robots, and some ghosts. There's nothing too special about them, aside from the robots are harder to kill. The good thing about the slow-motion is that you can literally aim better, as well as get a few cool looking shots in at the last moment. The bad thing is that the slow-motion makes the game extremely easy. The last really bad thing about the single player is the lack of an end-game boss. The game just sort of ends, after a short epilogue. Being it's a horror game, I'm really not sure what I was suppose to be scared of. I jumped once or twice, but that was pretty much it. The quality of the story was pretty good though. They have some good twist at the end, leaving you wanting more, which is exactly what happens.
As far as the single player goes, the game was very mediocre, at best. However, the multi player, is where it's at. There's a lot of options in the game types, such as your typical DM/TDM all the way to Slo-Mo DM, which is generally a mix of DM and capture the flag. You run and look for a device to slow down time, all the while fighting off everyone that's following your glow. However, if you happen to charge up your Slo-Mo, you can literally slow down time to your advantage, meaning you'll move slightly faster than everyone and shoot more accurately. There's plenty of really good maps to fight on as well. You'll recognize a lot of the single player areas in the multi player, which is pretty cool.
The only thing that really doesn't do it for me about the weapons is the lack of selection. There's some really unique weapons (the predator, or spike gun, to some), but overall, the weapons are just pretty boring. However, in the multi player, you won't really mind as much since one of your best weapons is going to be your melee combat.
I recommend this game for someone looking for some amazing multi player, but I really can't recommend the single player to anyone. It really feels like a console first person shooter, meaning it is shorter than normal, and very limited. However, I really don't even recommend buying the game unless you just want to support Sierra and Monolith. You can download F.E.A.R. Combat, which is the full multi player experience of F.E.A.R. for free on their website. Maybe if they release a platinum edition of F.E.A.R. (with both new expansions), I could recommend it as a purchase, but it's really nothing more than a few hours of fun, aside from the multi.
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Excellent but be warned by Godspanther (USA) 4 Stars
June 14, 2009
Be warned that with the hand to hand manuevers available to the character it would probably be better to get the console version rather that the pc version of the game. Aside from that however It is quite excellent
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Very good, with a few flaws by David Masters (Wilton, NH) 4 Stars
May 06, 2009
As far as PC shooters go, this isn't bad at all. Not perfect, but not bad.
Pros: top of the line graphics (requiring a maxed out video card), decent AI, realistic weapons and fighting. Freaky storyline.
Cons: very limited selection of environments - warehouse, office and research lab, repeated over and over. The method of climbing ladders... 'lousy' is a very mild word - games like "Far Cry" do it much much better.
You can play this on a mid-range machine - the requirements say a Pentium 4, 4.0 Ghz. Okay, fine - but you really should have something a bit more powerful. The graphics... they're good, but you'll need to break your wallet in order to get a maxed out video card - I wouldn't recommend any thing less than an nVidia 9500 with 1 Gig of memory, SLI ready, and Shader Model 4.0. Even if you have a monster fast machine (XP, /not/ Vista), a low end video card will make the game jumpy and slow.
Otherwise, it's a fairly standard shooter with decent AI and good graphics. The storyline will definitely have you jumping every once in a while with its paranormal elements (ghosts, bloody corpses, animated skeletons, etc). Parents should watch out because the gore and profanity cannot be turned off.
I'd definitely recommend this one to people looking for a decent PC shooter - that doesn't take place all in the dark - but it has its flaws, mainly in the realm of graphics requirements.
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