Highly Anticipated, and it delivers all I wanted.

User Rating: 9.2 | F.E.A.R. PC
The first time I saw a preview for F.E.A.R. , I was both excited, and saddened. At the time, late last year, I still had my old Dell with only a 1.6ghz, 384 mb ram, 40gb HDD and a GeForce FX5200. I knew it wouldnt run, and if it did, it would look horrible. I'm sure glad it was delayed a few times, since I had time to get a new PC that could play it nicely.

The Gameplay:
Great! The battles are intense, as the AI is extremely smart, they'll flank, use objects to take cover, shout orders to each other. It feels as if you're really in this game, wondering "Which side are they coming from?" listening to their orders being barked out, hoping your surround sound system isnt failing to tell you where exactly they are. The SlowMo option is helpful and quite entertaining. You can alter time, slow down the world around you, as you stay the same speed. Allowing you to mow down severl enemies without taking barely any damage...it also looks really cool too.

The Graphics:
One of the most attractive parts of the game. Better be sure you've got a nice GPU and CPU, the high detailed surroundings, lighting effects, physics engine, particles of debris everywhere will really tax your systems resources. The light reflecting off of a painted brick wall looks as real as it can be, the large amount of blood shows realistically what it would look like if a massive amount of deaths and carnage just hit the scene. Throwing a grenade causes a great ripple effect through the level, that look very nice with slowmo activated.

The Sound:
Another good part to this game. Nothing extremely special, but it keeps up with the rest of the games high quality. The guns sound good, the screams, voices, and creepy music all sounds great and leaves you checking over your shoulder in your computer room...

If you're into arcade style shooters with tactical touches, this is for you. The story contains about 11 main "levels" with a few missions in each. The entire game is from a FPS view, everything you see, if through your character's eyes, even the creepy "dream" style sequences. I'm extremely pleased with the game.