Epic Fail ? No way !
Ill start from here:
Graphics: do im not a graphic addict it looks very spectacular, well if we put aside the Blur, Blood Spat on you're glasses, it looks better then in FEAR 1 do indeed the environment is not the destructible as before we still got variety a Hospital, an office Block, a School, a secret lab, a breath taking Ruined City and a few more.
Combat: I admit i miss the lean right and left at a corner ( Q and E) but the slow mo still gives you advantage against the enemy plus Kung-Fu melee. We got a wide selection of wepons Machine Gun Assault Rifle, Penetrator( or something that fires some steel bars at the enemy and hook them up a wall), Laser Rifle( no rely its cool you can slice the enemy in pieces), Sniper Rifle, Rocket Launcher, 2 Shotguns and something like the BFG from doom 3 the Pulse Rifle which fires a plasma like thing and incinerates enemy's in path and will blow up as it travels some distance.
Enemy's well we still have our old Military friends too bad we can't hear there channel like in FEAR 1, Thick Armored big guys and Ninja Assasins, well that's about it with "Normal" foes, we now got Specters, Ghosts( and rely they are creepy too) Abominations well some mutated freak's wich love nothing more then to slit you're throat, and the Remnants are ... well not sure if undead or alive but they raise bodies to fight again and usually run from you to raise more and if you get close he will make a sick scream which disorients you and then run again.
Gameplay: Well many hated the HUD because of the glasses you get interference, blood spats, water, and other stuff that annoys you're view, well i didn't mind actually it goes of in a sec, you have the Health Bar and Armor Bar one on top of each other, it may seam easy do that you take damage only at armor until its completely lost, and you only need one suit too go too full, the health is restored to full by Med Kits which you can carry up to 3 or by some Med Injectors found in many places and on enemy's. The grenades have a temporizer wich shows you when will they go boom and synchronize when you throw them.
Story+Scary: Well story is not that complex aldo you will be given some heads up on you're way, still the ending which i am not gonna tell you, but it will be a bit confusing and sinister. Ok the scariness is a bit lost except *SPOILER* At the very beginning you wake up in the APC see a weird old music box and as you stop it a frekin illusion of Alma takes you're hand and see her face, that which i almost jumped off the chair at that scene*spoiler end* it loses its scariness or its forgotten when you have to fight Replica or ATC forces. However you will have some direct attacks from Alma and have to right click fast before she kills you.
Overall:
This game is clearly underrated probably because of disappointing story, lack of Scariness, the Call of Duty aiming. But i see it as a respectable game, and dose ho would like a nice SF Shooter at least rent it , and dose ho like robots you're gonna love the AVM Armored Powered Mech, or as sole like to call it "Armored Death!"