In a few years me and some friends will be sitting on a stoop. Someone will say, remember the plot to FEAR?
FEAR stands for First Encounter Assault Response unit, I think. Who cares what it stands for, FEAR is great game. Despite requiring a gas drinker that you can't afford, a system built with most of last years goodies can run it with ease on Medium settings...Unless you have last years best of the goodies...
The most outstanding part about FEAR is the enemy AI. They'll throw everything at you, well mostly bullets and grenades, but they get the job done. They'll flank, supress, and surprise you. Enemy AI in this game is outstanding, it's pretty much the only reason to play since you wont understand the story.
FEAR attempts to have a good story. The characters in the game seem interesting to the point where slice bread is required to run this game. With that said Slice bread doesn't have much to do with this game, unless you're eating some while playing this game, the games story is just lacking plot. It has an ending thats would be good, and it would leave you to wonder what happens next, however you just wont care since theirs no point that leads upto this ending which is just too good for this story.
If you over look the story, and you just progress for the firefights, then you'll enjoy FEAR. FEAR is a wonder to look at, even at medium settings, it looks damn good...The sounds great too, and it's extremly creepy.
Turn the lights off, becuase Doom 3 has run away because it's afraid of FEAR. This game will make your spine tingle...It will make the hair on your body stand up and shake, it's realy creepy, so don't play it in the dark.
FEAR has more faults than it's story. You wont find a variety of enemy types here. Their are about 4-6 different type of enemies, which is sort of a drag since you can figure out how to kill each of them from the first time you encounter them.
The final draw back to FEAR would be the level design. You'll often feel like you're in the same enviorments over and over again, with only a different coat of paint on the walls of course. Sometimes becuase of the same enviorments you'll probably get tired of the enemy AI becuase it's like your always ontop of them...All in all it's still worth playing.
I recomend FEAR to anyone who has the system and the stomache to handle it...It's worth playing, however with it's bad story you may just not care to finish unless you want more of the intense fire firghts, in which case you'll play it again.