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55 of 67 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Shame on the big V for wasting your money, October 26, 2006
Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars
Where to start, I was expecting much from the addon to the great game FEAR. Instead you get little. They reused much of the same textures, dark area's, and characters from the original.
No new characters to speak off,non exsistent story line even weaker than the first. You will have a hard time finding much new here.
The game is far too short, you can finish in about 3-5 hours, and its too easy, even on the hardest setting.Ohh and to top it off it adds nothing to multiplayer at all, no new levels, characters or weapons, not even a new mode.
If you never bought the original, you can have the multiplayer for free! Truly there is no reason to pick this up at all. The game is still fun in the way the first game was fun, but feels less like an expansion and more like the last few levels they left out of the game :(.
Not worth 30 dollars in anyway shape or form. Best to wait and buy in the bargin bin for 10 dollars or less. In other words don't support developers who put this kind of "stuff" out at almost full game price, its a rippoff at best.
We need to Show big companies Like EA, Activision, and Vivendi that its not alright to rip us off, the only thing they understand is not buying their products. I finished this the first night I bought it in 3.5 hours of none too exciting gameplay. Then you can uninstall and use as a coaster, an expensive coaster.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
What can I say? I love that friggin Nail Gun..., January 6, 2007
Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
As a huge fan of the original FEAR, Extraction Point didn't need too many bells & whistles to get my attention. I loved the atmosphere, the visuals, sound, AI, guns... All very satisfying. The story was decent for a video game, but I read a book or movie when I want a good story. Games don't usually deliver for me in that category.
Extraction Point, like most have said, is more of what you liked about the original. The developers weren't very daring. They really didn't add much to the story, and they left the gameplay formula alone. 2 or 3 new types of bad guys- cool. Some new locales... sweet. The 2 new guns were very nice, but as someone else said, the ammo is scarce, which is a shame. It would have been a lot of fun to go on a total rampage with both of those guns for a decent stretch of time. For instance... one of my favorite game-moments was near the end of Half-life 2, when you have nothing except the super-charged gravity gun, and you are just going absolutely berserk with it. FEAR needs moments like that.
This expansion was brief, which some have complained about. It took me like 5 or 6 hours on medium, and that fit the bill nicely. Admittedly, I may have a shorter attention span then some, but I was satisfied.
Another thing that some have complained about is the system requirements. FEAR looked gorgeous and played very smoothly on my puter. Here, they ramped up output, and I had a pretty tough time tweaking it. This actually frustrated me until I checked online, and discovered that it wasn't just me. It picked a level of settings for me, and it looked real nice, but when a little action hit the screen, the game stuttered horribly. I had to sacrifice quite a bit of eye candy, to be able to make this game play well. Expansions don't usually challenge your system that much more than the original game.
Anyway... I am a big fan of that nail gun, and I was pleased to wield it once more. This game should have probably been priced a little cheaper for what they give you, but at least you can resell it!
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
No where near the original, October 29, 2006
Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars
Extreme disappointment is a good way to describe my view of Extraction Point. Now I'm a HUGE fan of the first game, one of the first truely creepy games since the System Shock series. Don't get me wrong I was not expecting vastly improved gameplay, all new enemies, or a new physics engine. What I expected is STORY, a good story can make a good game great! The story of Extraction Point has a chopped off feeling akin to watching the first segment of your favorate TV show and then your wife shuts off the TV. If the game would have been $19.99 and been named "F.E.A.R. Extraction Point: Episode One", that would have been ok. As is, this is like expecting a T-Bone steak for dinner and getting peanut butter sandwich. No I'm not hungry, but boy I'm not satisfied either. To give an real comparison of how short the gameplay is, it took me ~35 min to buy the game (long line at Fry's), 2.5 hours to get home (L.A. traffic), less than 30 min to load (had to reload F.E.A.R. first), and a little more than 3 hours to play. It took longer to get than to play.
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