A shooter that combines gun combat and scares into one superb title.
FEAR stands for First Encounter Assault Recon, which is a special force trained to deal with serious problems. FEAR starts out with a guy named Paxton Fettel goes insane and gets control of a clone army. You, as point man of the FEAR squad most go in to try and stop him.
FEAR's gameplay is about gun fights. You walk into a room with a bunch of soldiers, and the heat is on. There spaying bullets all around the place while trying to flank you. When bullets hit things, they send debris every where. This making it harder to find an enemy target. The enemies are really smart and will try to flank you all the time. They will do various things such as kick down tables for cover or jump out of a room that you had just thrown a grenade into. This game really makes you feel like you are in and action movie, because you have action reflexes, which make everything move slow, and you have the ability to do some Kung Fu. One of the problems with FEAR is that you pretty much fight the same soldiers over and over. There are a few new enemies in the games, but not much.
The enemy A.I is good, but you have a bunch of powerful weapons to bring them down. The guns in FEAR are fun to use, and you fell strong with them, even with a pistol. You have dual pistols, sub machines gun, semi auto rifle, shotgun, rockets, and a bunch of other cool guns. Do be warned though, that the weapons are powerful, but they burn up ammo fast.
FEAR can get pretty scary at times, when you run into the strange little girl Alma, who can make soldiers dissolve with her mind. You see Alma in these strange visions, and sometimes you will see her, only to find that see in not there. You also come across some strange encounters with Paxton Fettel, who is a Cannibal. Fear always keep you alert, because, when every there is no gun fights, you are always looking around in dark places to see if some thing is there. The horror in FEAR is a lot like the horror in Japanese horror films.
Fears graphics look pretty good, but now they look a bit dated. Some of the character and look good, but some do not. The gun models look amazing. The environment on the other hand looks ok, but there are some parts that look bad. The environment can get really repetitive at time. You will go through a lot of identical environments, and it can get a bit tiresome.
The sound in FEAR is pretty good. The music can be intense when you are in a battle, but the sound can also be creepy when something strange is happening. You can normally tell because you hear screaming, or some laughing.
The single player takes about ten too twelve hours, but when you are done with that, the multi player is pretty fun. You basically just run around and shoot other players in multi player, like all multi player. The multi player does not do really anything new except that you can use the slowmo and Kung Fu in it. The multi player can be really intense like the, single player, and it is fun to use all the weapons in it. But FEAR's multi player is something that might keep you interested for a week or two, because there are far better multi player games out there.
If you want intense game play, with a little bit of horror, then FEAR is a must buy for you. Even if you do not like scary games, if you are a first person shooter fan, then you should still get FEAR for the intense gun fights.