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Maynard
10-14-2005, 04:05 PM
Well as i posted before Gamestop sold me F.E.A.R early so I thought i would post a short quicky on how the game is from my point of view, not someone who is payed or works to review games. I am just a hardcore PC and Console gamer

NO SPOILERS I PROMISE
i would never ever do that for it is EVIL

The game starts off sort of like the demo with the bad ass intro, the 2 of guys, and girl, talking. Than your in the car and you get out and i was excited but anxious to get past all this B.S considering I had all ready done it in the demo. So i walk up ahead and what do i see? Something different! The demo was created specifically for a SP demo, and i know this for a fact cause the further i got in i recognized some area's from the demo but everything around them changed, so KUDOS to Monolith for not just cutting and pasting something from the game. So needless to say i was excited because all of this was new to me. I played through the whole first part and went to LVL 2 i guess you could call it, and man these guys are freaking smart! I usually if not always play my games on the highest difficulty setting, it just makes the game more worth it and i feel like when it takes me 22 hours to get through God of War on GOD mode and i beat it i feel accomplished. So i'm on extreme, and i highly reccomend if you play this to play it on that level. It doesn't really make the guys smarter, although they seem more aggressive to rush me and flank me VS when it was on moderate. But health drops faster and it seems more realistic. A bullet on Extreme does 35 through 60 damage, and on moderate it does 15 to 20, so meh to moderate yay to extreme. All i can tell you is that if you were wondering about the game in anyway shape or form, it is amazing. Half life 1 and 2 in my eyes are probably the best games i have ever played with GoW and RE4 follow closely behind. I have to say after playing this game that its almost ranked up there with HL. The scares are freaky, i have jumped probably 5 to 8 times already. Its the first game since i played Doom III where i was nervous about going around the corner or encountering the next enemy cause i was afraid of what would jump out at me next. I'll touch on the graphics and sound briefly but if you didn't already see screen shots or play the demo, this game is truly next gen, i mean its freaking gorgeous. Dynamic shadows, Soft shadowing, Self shadowing, and amazing physics to boot. You 100% KNOW this game will be showing up on X360 there is NO doubt about it. Sound like the graphics are amazing, i recommend nice headphones and darkness to play it, it just seems better that way.

Well anyway i really dont want to go into the story and everything because i dont want to ruin anything for you guys. Heres a screen shot and i'll post more in the next to or 15 min. as i continue!

MMMM SOFT SHADOWS

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v634/MaynardLD50/FEAR.gif

SO dead

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v634/MaynardLD50/FEAR2.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v634/MaynardLD50/FEAR3.gif

You should remember this from the demo!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v634/MaynardLD50/FEAR4.gif

well look whats after it NOW

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v634/MaynardLD50/FEAR5.gif


I'll post more if you want!

The VGM
10-14-2005, 07:07 PM
Fuck my shitty computer :bomb:


Just a suggestion, break up your big paragraph to make it easier to read.

RelentlessRolento
10-14-2005, 08:11 PM
err... isn't this supposed to be in the review section... even if it's before the game is released?

SteveMcQ
10-14-2005, 08:19 PM
What specs are your PC? I told myself I'm not buying anymore PC game considering I barely make a dent in them, but I have to try this out myself.

humidore
10-14-2005, 09:14 PM
Thanks for the info!

CaseyRyback
10-14-2005, 10:36 PM
What specs are your PC? I told myself I'm not buying anymore PC game considering I barely make a dent in them, but I have to try this out myself.

he is running dual SLI 7800's and a ton of other high end shit.

I pre-ordered mine in full today. Can't wait for this game to come out

Maynard
10-16-2005, 02:11 AM
AMD FX-57
4 GIG's Corsair 2 cas latency XMS ram
2 BFG OC 7800 SLI'd
74 GIG raptor
X-FI Creative SB sound card

and Watercooling to boot


Game = amazing

and my girlfriend in my avatar to power it :D

The VGM
10-16-2005, 02:21 AM
AMD FX-57
4 GIG's Corsair 2 cas latency XMS ram
2 BFG OC 7800 SLI'd
74 GIG raptor
X-FI Creative SB sound card

and Watercooling to boot

You're banned from this site, you rich bitch.

Ecofreak
10-16-2005, 02:53 AM
That first screen shot in particular looks mighty tasty.

Maynard
10-16-2005, 03:04 AM
YOU GUYS REMEMBER THAT ONE TIME WE WERE PLAYING AND I ICED YOU WITH THE NAIL GUN AND PUT YOU THROUGH A WINDOW OF A DOOR AND YOU LANDED THERE AND STUCK UP THERE UPSIDE DOWN!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v634/MaynardLD50/FEAR6.gif

more pretty lighting

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v634/MaynardLD50/FEAR7.gif


while i'm here, i want to add that the further i get the scarier the GOD damn MUSIC GETS! I seriously dont want to go around corners because the music is freaking the fuck out, plus you have to go into water sometimes and i'm not a big fan of water in freaky ass games.

PS ROFFLE i just had the first encounter with the guys who can cloak themselves.....all i'll say is i pretty much shit my pants and held down the S key running backwards shooting like a maniac. Probably one of the scariest moments in my gaming life.

SteveMcQ
10-16-2005, 03:32 AM
Well, I guess this isn't a game for me then. I can barely get through 10 minutes of Doom and its monster closets. Freakin' zombies and hell demons.

Maynard
10-16-2005, 03:42 AM
omg if you can't stomach doom i cannot explain to you in words how scared i am playing this game. The guys from the demo that bust through the doors all crazy like called "Heavy Armor" well they come again and again after they debut and every time they BUST through a door and it scares the bejeesus out of you. Secondly let me mention that the A.I in this game is the new pinnacle of AI that i will be judging A.I on. On the extreme mode the guys that have more than 3 guy to back them up are aggressive. The heavy armor guys are FUCKING crazy!!!! They just bum rush me when i'm trying to hide behind a corner, earlier i was in a big open outdoor place, and i was going to throw down some nades. So i wait a couple seconds and whats this a heavy armor guy is walking around the corner just shooting like mad and i die. Man these dudes are not going to wait to die they flank you they run and hide from you so when you come out you think your clear but than 2 guys will pop up from behind boxes and start shooting. I was seriously like wtf is going on. Earlier i ran outdoors again and two guys were communicating there tatics to each other and i couldn't figure out where they were. One guy was trying to run around and confuse me while the other guy snuck up behind me and shot me to death. Crazy ass A.I.

The VGM
10-16-2005, 03:47 AM
You get scared of guys popping out of doors? Time to do some growing up...

Maynard
10-16-2005, 03:49 AM
no its the manner that its done in you cock gobbler

The VGM
10-16-2005, 03:52 AM
cock gobbler

Good one :roll:

SteveMcQ
10-16-2005, 03:54 AM
You get scared of guys popping out of doors? Time to do some growing up...
Right....

The AI does sound great and I do prefer games set in a realistic setting against human or human-like enemies. I just envision some horrifying freak out moments, like I round a corner and that freaky looking girl fills up my whole screen screaming some sort of hell on me.

Maynard
10-16-2005, 03:56 AM
heh, well theres one part where your crawling through a vent and all the sudden she pops out in a fast ass crawl like a dog almost crawling towards you, man at that moment it is horrifying.

P.S vgm if you have nothing to say about the game just shutup your pc can't even run this child, so go ask mommy and daddy for one for christmas and why do you care about this game anywho you have to have an adult with you when you get it you minor

The VGM
10-16-2005, 03:59 AM
P.S vgm if you have nothing to say about the game just shutup your pc can't even run this child, so go ask mommy and daddy for one for christmas

You sir are a genius. Your posts rival those of slidecage.

Metal Boss
10-16-2005, 04:08 AM
wow, looks dark

SteveMcQ
10-16-2005, 04:11 AM
heh, well theres one part where your crawling through a vent and all the sudden she pops out in a fast ass crawl like a dog almost crawling towards you, man at that moment it is horrifying.

P.S vgm if you have nothing to say about the game just shutup your pc can't even run this child, so go ask mommy and daddy for one for christmas and why do you care about this game anywho you have to have an adult with you when you get it you minor
Holy crap...that's what I'm talking about. She probably has her head down, hair covering her face, then the camera zooms in, she raises her head to reveal her face and I die of a heart attack.

Saw a video where your guy rounds a corner and a random image of a dead and mutilated man covers the screen for a split second. And I'm guessing the surround sound work is excellent so I can really hear whispers behind me. Turn around a few times to see nothing and the next I turn around and see that damn girl. *I just looked hesitantly behind me just now just to make sure she wasn't there.* AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

This game sounds really great.