F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon

F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon

Features:

• Face squads of tactical teams using coordinated attacks and flanking maneuvers to pin you down and take you out
• Take out high-tech assassins who cling to walls and ceilings and ambush you from the shadows
• Employ high tech firearms and classified weaponry such as the corkscrew missile launcher, rapid-fire battle cannon&sub-nuclear blaster
• Spectacular Situations - Experience a catastrophic helicopter crash entirely in-game and then fight off waves of enemy special forces; ride shotgun in a high speed car chase, pursued by assassins on motorcycles and enemy attack helicopters
• Features for Xbox 360 include - Instant Action Mode, ranking the top F.E.A.R. players; New explosive and deadly weapons for Xbox 360; Exclusive missions

Product Description
In F.E.A.R. you aren't a soldier -- you are a weapon. A paramilitary force infiltrates a multi billion dollar aerospace compound taking hostages, but issuing nodemands. The government responds by sending in its best special operations teams, only to have them obliterated. Live footage of the massacre is cut short by an unexpected wave of destruction that leaves military leaders stunned and in disbelief. With no other option, they send in the ultimate warrior: You.

Customer Reviews

F.E.A.R. (2008-11-17)
Great first person shooter. Played through it a little to quick.
Will start it again at the highest level. Great graphics.

Great game, needs more enviornments. (2008-09-13)
A great mix of horror and action. The graphics are pretty darn good (the environments are a bit repetitive) but the AI is where the game is great. The enemies wont run around like idiots, they'll dive, slide roll, jump through windows, take cover ,whatever it takes to kill you. The game hits some light creepy moments, but then there's plenty that make you jump. You'll think the game is letting up and next thing you know you're in a hallway knee deep in blood. The guns may seem standard from a screenshot glance but honestly they're cool, few shooters actually make a gun feel like one, this defiantly does it. A must play.

Long and repetitive (2008-09-04)
I know this is an old game so it isn't fair to compare to today's standards, but here are the high(low)lights:

-Weapons feel powerful especially the shotgun
-slow motion effect
-very long, I'm at level 8 and I finally gave up playing because I have a short attention span
-levels are very dull and similar as are the enemies
-graphics are okay for older game
-a little creepy, but it's mainly a typical fps

It starts off slow, then you get better weapons and you start having fun, then you keep doing the same thing over and over until you hope that it ends.

A lot of fun (2008-09-02)
Like all of it's predecessors this game is a lot of fun, it has it's limitations of course team ai is a bit dumb but the game is still a lot of fun to play.

Rock solid, highly polished shooter (2008-06-09)
I found a copy of FEAR for sale on the bargain rack at my local games store. I admit I thought it wouldn't be very good, since it was on the same shelf as dreck like Two Worlds. The game store I use is trying so hard to get rid of their last copies of that horrible excuse for an RPG that they've reduced the price three times. Last I checked it was ten bucks. I got my copy of FEAR for twenty. And let me tell you--it was worth the full sixty most games fetch these days.

I popped it in and started playing. At first I couldn't quite get the hang of the controls. Enemies mowed me down a few times and I had a bad experience with a game glitch at the end of the first level. It didn't load the cutscene, and I didn't know any better, so I thought I still needed to do something. I spent almost two hours going through that level, searching every nook and cranny, before it occurred to me to try and play the level through again. This time the cutscene played and I could move on.

And good lord I'm glad I stuck with it.

The story gets a little better with each chapter, though it's not the main focus (this is a pure shooter, after all). It's not bad. There are several paranormal influences in the game, and your character is subject to intense visions that are genuinely creepy at times.

The action, which is the core of FEAR, is GREAT. This game features "bullet time," in which you can slow down time enough to get the drop on your foes. The animation and graphics are so tightly executed that you really get your blood pumping in a firefight as bullets ricochet around you and kick up clouds of brick dust from walls and concrete.

The physics is excellent. I found the most satisfying thing in the game was to go into bullet time, move up on a foe, and blast him point-blank with a shotgun, then release bullet time and watch him get blown backwards over a railing by the slug. It's all very slick and entertaining.

While it's billed as being a horror experience, don't be fooled. It's definitely a shooter first with horror undertones. But those undertones are well-done, too, and you'll have a few anxious moments between the firefights.

You'll have a lot of fun with this game if you enjoy first-person shooters. I highly recommend it. If there's any reason why I didn't give it five stars, it's only because there is no one area in which it stands out. It's a shooter, plain and simple. In short, you've played this game before--but you'll still have as much fun this time around as you did last time, and the time before that.