Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has kindly supplied VideoGamer.com with a selection of exclusive F.E.A.R. 2 gameplay videos, featuring a host of the game's weapons and slow motion action sequences.
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.
Stephanie Burdo from The Koalition writes:
"With Halloween just around the corner, TheKoalition.com has decided to list some horror games which petrified us the most.
Please note that this list is in no particular order. Each selection has been made by individual writers who found their respective choice their most terrifying experience in gaming."
I mostly agree with those except with Alan Wake, it wasnt scary at all.
But a great list overall.
I've played all games on the list. Alan wakes was intense at certain moments not scary. Fatal Frame; I was quite young then it got me scared shit less(damn camera). The evil within was ok but Resident evil scared me more back in the day (maybe its because I got older, dont know).
As for PT? ok...I advice people NOT to use surround headsets whie playing this...Jesus... I could hear her moan behind me right on top of my ear at times and I could for the life of me turn around...mind f***
But my god does Alien Isolation raise my heart beat. When you're being chased by the xenomorph and you know you are totally defenseless against it can scare the bejesus out of you, things get worse when you realize that running for it when you encounter the beast makes things worse, yeah...
That said Silent hill 2 was scary as shit as well, especially when the Pyramid head chased you...
My first playthrough of Alan Wake was without HUD so the first couple hours was kinda kinda scary, occasionally being lost in the woods chased by possesed rednecks.
Alien Isolation was really intense and i'd say it's the scariest game overall i played. Sadly i haven't played PT since im PC only, but watched the first 15min online and it looks sick.
But the scariest moments for me were wandering at night in STALKER games, scarier than all the smeared guts on the walls and closet monsters of Evil Within and Dead Space. It has such an oppressive atmosphere that no game comes close, and that's whats missing in most horror games. Looks like a tough one to successfully pull off.
Real shame such games are so rare, out of hundreds i played only few were scary.
Hmm i need to play STALKER...
As for scary games not being that scary anymore \I thing its that we've seen it all and nothing surprises us anymore...
Now Alien Iso was scary not because it had the new thing, it was a cat and mouse chase on a spaceship again but the devs played with the sound in such a way that they breathed new life to a tired concept (cat and mouse).
Remember that time early in the game after that guy got impaled by the Xenomorph? Now from there we walked in the transit area and called the transit... smoke filled the dark area and a heart-pounding music started while we waited for the train car. Tell me that cant scare the bejusus out of anyone! I was literally waiting to get dismembered by the xenomorph while hiding like crazy! INTENSE. And that was just the start of the game!
Thats ^^^ what we need more of!
Here it goes... I guess I will have to get used to the fact that not everything can end up looking like KZ2 but this stuff is mediocre at best.
These physics or ragdoll effects were impressive about 3 years ago but now they look downright pityful! Not by the least stretch of anybody's imagination has the team of F.E.A.R put any focus on anything that this game stands for. It is basically an exercise in regurgitation, same density, color and smell.
I think that this is going to have a very hard time against Killzone 2 (I think FEAR 2 comes out about two weeks earlier).
Graphically it will be slaughtered, it looks like a mock-up video rather than an almost finished game. It is a bit unfair to compare to Killzone 2, but that is the comparison that will happen.
But who knows how the gameplay will be? It could be great. For some reason it really reminds me of Timesplitters.
Still the sales must surely suffer.
Where did you pull 5 years of dev time and 50$M from? Your ass?
KZ: Liberation was released late 2005 and the 'target render' trailer had been shown some months before. Do you really think they were working on Killzone 2 before that? I think not.
So if I'm not mistakened - late 2005/early 2006 to early 09 is ~3 years. Not 5 like you said.
As for the 50$M budget, I don't know where you heard about it. Latest time a figure was mentioned, they said 20$M.
Getting this for the PC, loved the first one. Might not wow you on the graphical front but the for atmosphere and story not many other FPS games can compete. I find it far more spooky than any Resident Evil/Silent Hill type game. Looking forward to it.
....it doesn't live up to Killzone 2 standards in terms of graphics lol. People saying its rubbish and will not pick the title up because of this are out of their mind.
The original FEAR had some of the best A.I seen in a game at that time and the creepy atmosphere in the game was second to none. If people keep having this attitude that if its not up to Killzone 2 standards graphically, it'll be rubbish, then i'm sorry but you will have a very limited multiplatform selection of games, and these multiplatform games can be fantastic AAA games.