If you aren't scared of little girls, you won't get that much out of this. But it's still worth a try for fps fans.
My main issue with Fear was that it didn’t offer any variety in enemies or surroundings. I quickly became bored to the same office surroundings and grey hallways that haunted me throughout the game. So even though the graphics are very good, they aren’t really utilized fully in the game, the level design is very bland and the same goes with the enemies. Weapons on the other hand are quite successful, only the shotgun feels a bit underpowered, and due to poor environments there isn’t much use for a sniper rifle either, but spraying around with assault rifle is very fun. I also disliked the slow-motion effect, well not the effect it self, but the idea of adding “slo-mo” to this kind of game, that is all about the”tactical” combat. It only manages to make the otherwise so fun combat too easy, and thus predictable and boring.
There is some sort of story hidden in Fear, but it’s not really carried out well. Reading some text from a laptop screen in the game or listening to phone messages is a very tedious way to involve the player in the story. Despite its name Fear didn’t manage to scare me much, except in few occasions when a truck ran towards me in an alley, or enemy suddenly fell through the ceiling in front of me. But Alma, the little girl which I guess was supposed to be the scariest thing in the game never really creeped me out.
The multiplayer aspect of Fear was quite disappointing as well, it suffers from the same issues as the single player campaign; boring maps.
With some improvements this could have been a great game, but the lack of variety ruins it. Combat is good, but there are too many pauses between the action scenes for it to carry through the whole game. And since neither the story, nor the scare effects impressed me, it just lacked the forward thriving force that most first person shooters should have.
But still the fact remains that Fear delivers a solid gameplay, graphics and sounds, and is at least worth a shot to all FPS fans.