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The Story is unique for the series, it's like Doom, you play as a no-name soldier who's has his first day on the team known as FEAR or First Encounter Assault Recon, you investigate a mysterious Paramilitary force that has taken over a multi-billion dollar aerospace complex, you also track Paxton Fettle, a commander who's psychically linked to a battalion of Super Elite Clone Soldiers, but there's also other matters such as a creepy girl who walks on the roofs and cuts members of the Elite Delta Force unit into pieces, some voices are familiar, especially David Scully, or Sgt. Johnson from Halo.
The Sound in the game is settling, the music feels just like an action flick, the weapons sound real and really deliver when you get into massive firefights, the voices acting is well done, making it sound like a real military operation falling into place, the Clone Soldiers make the battles feel life-like with commands such as 'Search the other floor' or 'He's trying to flank!', but as always, being soldiers, they usually taunght, like 'Die Mother****er'.
The Gameplay is what makes FEAR a winner, simple firefighters involving three guys can feel like you're fighting against ten guys, they're just chaotic, and with the new physics engine, it really makes the game feel alive, if you're used to consoles, it'll take some time to get familiar with keyboard and the game is a little on the short side, spanning 10 hours, but if you take the game on a different route, it'll take a little longer, to say the least, FEAR is a winner and let's hope that Monolith carries on the series