And that's really how OXM feels about F.E.A.R. 2 as a whole. It's here if you want to play it, and it's well done in lots of ways. But it feels a lot like the last 007 movie: plenty of fun, but nowhere near as awesome as they hoped it'd be.
Pros:
* Intense combat with well-executed slo-mo powers.
* Respectable multiplayer.
Cons:
* Nothing to scare you here. Move along.
Questionable:
* Is this game trying to set the world record for most dead-ass corpses per square inch?
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Inspired by the J-Horror craze going on at the time, Monolith’s F.E.A.R. was a solid action fest of a shooter that entertained as much as it terrified. Bloody Disgusting goes back to see Alma ten years on from the launch of the sequel.
This game honestly killed all my interest in the franchise, I loved 1 and its expansions (even though they're technically non-canon now) but the sequel was such a let down.
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. "
Pros:
* Intense combat with well-executed slo-mo powers.
* Respectable multiplayer.
Cons:
* Nothing to scare you here. Move along.
...and they gave it a 7.5? :/
Whatever F.E.A.R is a good game.
Finally, someone had the balls to say that this game wasn't scary anymore. I've always thought the whole Alma thing popping up at random times was kinda scary in the first FEAR but keep doing it and it obviously gets pretty stale. I laugh so hard when people say that it was so scary, they couldn't finish the game or didn't want to continue. That is so freaking weak. I've played the demo as most of you have as well and not surprisingly, she pops up at random intervals AGAIN trying to scare you but that formula just doesn't work anymore. Also, fighting the same soldiers throughout the first FEAR was hella boring. Luckily in the demo, there was a few varieties of different enemies but I need to see the full game before making more judgment.
I didn't like the graphics on this one
I've always found the Condemned series more frightening then the F.E.A.R series, and no its not because of the frighteningly insane bugs in Condemned 2 either! :p
Played the demo, and I forgot how fun it was to kill in slo-mo. Looks like a solid rental...