F.E.A.R is a game that I have been wanting to play for a very long time, and I am lucky to have finally played it. I was not disappointed! I am a big survival horror/scary game junkie. If I had to describe this game, I would say maybe Call of Duty with some horror elements thrown in?
Positives:
A really great story line, if you can follow it. I can understand how some people might find it confusing or hard to follow, but as long as you don't just play through the game without listening to the commentary, phone messages, ect., you will find it very intriguing.
A great selection of weapons, some seem reality based while some of the more damaging and advanced ones are really cool and fun to mess around with.
A great variety of locations and maps that the story is set in, which leads into:
A GREAT atmosphere. I'll get to scares and horror elements next, but I thought the ambiance created by the music, environment sounds, footsteps, and many other sounds (I won't ruin some of them for you) made for a very creepy game in that department.
A great variety of enemy combatants. There were two in particular especially, but I won't ruin that either.
The ending. Wait for it. All I will say.
Negatives:
I have two complaints about this game, nothing huge, but something I think is improved on in the sequels:
Firstly, when you are getting towards the end of the game, the just shooting everything gets a little old, I wish there were a few more scares and horror elements thrown in. There are some the nightmares or whatever they are, and whenever you see Paxton and Alma are very creepy, but not a whole lot in the actual game play is too scary besides the ambiance. This is all that kept me from giving it 5/5.
It wasn't overly challenging, there were two points in the game that I had to work at, but overall, it wasn't too hard to beat. Especially advancing through the maps, I had to search a little extra for a ladder or place to crawl through a few times, but I found it pretty easy to advance from Interval to Interval.
Overall, an awesome game to start off the series, I am a little through the 2nd one and I can already tell it is going to be downright awesome. Will post that review as well.
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