GamesRadar - FEAR: First Encounter Assault Recon

The secretly sinister storylines of your favourite games (Feature)

Jun 12, 2009

You never knew they were so wrong... ...

Five rules for introducing your girlfriend to gaming (Feature)

Apr 15, 2009

I’m not a miserable sexist ass; I’m just a practical observer. One thing I’ve observed is that men and women are different (I figured that one out pretty early on). Since I’m a rational person, I’m aware that nothing is entirely one way or another. Even the divide between life and death is ambiguous (uh, zombies, amirite?). ...

The Most Gratuitous Headshots Video Ever (Video)

Jul 3, 2008

Scary first-person shooter where you play a member of an elite assault unit on the trail of... a creepy little ghost girl?

The Most Gratuitous Headshots Video Ever (Feature)

Jul 3, 2008

Two minutes. One video. Fifty-five perforated skulls. ...

Best mods for co-op gaming (Feature)

Oct 5, 2007

Oct 5, 2007 This is multiplayer as it's meant to be played: your enemies are mute, you're all on the same side fighting for a common goal, and conventional games are taken into new and exciting territory. The world is always better served when we work together, and never more so than when we're fragging bad ...

The Professionals - Microwaves (Feature)

Feb 20, 2007

If you spent your childhood in fear, after your mother told you that looking at the food going around on the platform would make your eyes fall out, youre not alone. John Bows, a Technology Development Manager, knows all about microwaves - about the “instantaneous disruption of the electrical signals in the brain, causing loss of gross motor function,” and the “inevitable long-term loss of brain function as well as changed behavior patterns.” And it turns out that your ...

F.E.A.R. sequel talk re-emerges (News)

Feb 7, 2007

It's been nearly a year since talk of a sequel to Monolith's FPS F.E.A.R., but today it's been reaffirmed that a follow-up to the horror-shooter is planned. In a press release from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announcing that Monolith CEO Samantha Ryan has also now assumed the role of Senior Vice President, Development & Production at WBIE, it's mentioned that the company's "current production slate" includes "the sequel to F.E.A.R." Developer Monolith is owned by Warner ...

FEAR Combat is coming (News)

Aug 9, 2006

Vivendi has announced that FEAR Combat - a pack offering every multiplayer option for the supernatural shooter - will be available as a free download on August 17. Freeloaders will be able to square off with players who've ponied up for the retail release - but be warned, nooblets: this game has been out for nearly a year, so we predict a steep learning curve for new ...

FEAR: First Encounter Assault Recon (Screenshots)

Aug 9, 2006

FEAR goes co-op? (News)

Jul 27, 2006

A new teaser site for explosive horror-cum-shooter game FEAR has tongues wagging over the possibility of a brand new co-op multiplayer feature for the game - a feature that developer Monolith reportedly had planned for the original release of FEAR. The teaser site shows three words that have triggered a wave of fanboy fantasizing: "Combat is coming". Below, a timer ticks down, currently standing at 20 days, 08 hours, 05 minutes and 16 seconds - which wouldn't fit with the October launch of ...

The FEAR grows (News)

May 8, 2006

Monday 8 May 2006 An expansion pack for Vivendi's supernatural PC FPS, FEAR, is currently in development and is due for release this autumn. Called FEAR Extraction Point, the expansion is in development by TimeGate Studios in conjunction with Monolith, the creator of the original game. Extraction Point will pick up the action where the first game left off with the First Encounter Assault Recon team returning to fight supernatural minions in a destroyed city. The pack will include new ...

F.E.A.R. (Review)

May 5, 2006

About two hours into FEAR I find myself in an open area. A rooftop, to be precise, criss-crossed with metallic steps and walkways. And on every raised section I can see patrols. Handily, there's also a low, flat wall to the left offering enough cover for me to make some headway. I'm halfway along it when I hear a shout of "Grenade out!" and an ominous chink from a few metres behind. I run - into a little cubbyhole just beyond the grenade's blast. Now I'm in trouble. FEAR's levels are never ...

The FEAR of mod (News)

Nov 24, 2005

A software developer kit, or SDK, is now available for those who wish to create their own content for FEAR. With it, players can design their own single or multiplayer levels. Further goodies will follow in 2006 in the shape of new (official) multiplayer maps, game modes and a 'votekick' function for players more annoying than fearsome. The popular anti-cheat program PunkBuster will also be integrated to stop all those shouts of 'haxx0r' and 'n00b lol pwned'. Well, some of them.FEAR is ...

FEAR (Preview)

Aug 15, 2005

Despite FEAR being a frequent patron to preview pages since it was first announced just over 12 months ago, the game's storyline has managed to remain hidden behind an almost impenetrable veil of mystery.But now, after working our way through the paranormal first-person shooter's opening four missions, we've managed to uncover some plot details, while witnessing the unnerving atmosphere for ourselves.FEAR's protagonist is a rookie recruit in the First Encounter Assault Recon (a special unit ...

We've got the FEAR (News)

May 19, 2005

If there's been a theme at this year's E3 (besides new hardware announcements), it's got to be either zombies or first-person shooters. Falling firmly into the latter category is Monolith Productions' ultra-spooky PC gun-'em-down FEAR - of which you can see the very latest screens on the right. First Encounter Assault Recon (to give the game its full, slightly preposterous, name) sees an unidentified paramilitary force infiltrate an aerospace compound and take hostages - but issue no ...

More FEAR screens scream in (News)

Feb 17, 2005

You know all about FEAR. You've read all about its Thing-style , its brutally polished and its gorgeous combination of creeping horror and .Or if you haven't heard of it before, that little reading list should have brought you right up-to-speed on what looks like being one of the most exciting PC titles of the year. But don't worry, there isn't a test at the end of the page, we are simply sharing this info with you for your own benefit. And in that same spirit of giving, why not cast your ...

We've got the FEAR! (News)

Jan 21, 2005

Macs do it, PCs do it, even women in adverts for feminine hygiene products do it. We're talking about multi-tasking and now we want you to try it too. And the reason we want you to perform such brain-splitting activity revolves around Monolith's first-person shooter FEAR. Just a few days ago we told you about the game's new multiplayer options and weapons, while today we have yet more cracking screens to go with those facts. That is why we need you to focus your think-sponge on two things at ...

FEAR: Multiplayer mode revealed (News)

Jan 19, 2005

Monolith have a tradition of doing things differently. First they gave us the chance to scamper across ceilings as an otherworldly assassin in Aliens vs Predator 2, then to camp it up in No One Lives Forever before resurrecting the legendary light cycle races in Tron 2.0. But, despite making these three inventive and original first-person shooters, it is FEAR that looks like being their most intriguing game yet.It stars a genetically-enhanced and all-round butch bunch of soldiers, known as ...

FEAR (Preview)

Oct 13, 2004

We've been thinking rather a lot about fear lately - the emotion, that is, rather than the game. Because for all that Doom 3 made us jump with fright and surprise, true fear is a more difficult thing to provoke in a player. It takes timing. Suspense. Imagination.First Encounter Assault and Recon (F.E.A.R.) could be the most terrifying experience since Thief: Deadly Shadow's infamous Cradle level. Despite putting you in the role of a tooled-up terrorist-basher, the game pulls the rug of ...

We've got the FEAR (News)

May 21, 2004

In among the seemingly endless slew of sequels at this year's E3, one of the more discreet highlights of the show was first-person shooter FEAR, which is currently being developed by Monolith Productions - the people behind Aliens vs Predator 2, No One Lives Forever and Tron 2.0. FEAR (First Encounter Assault and Recon, in case you were wondering) is based around an "unidentified paramilitary force infiltrating a multi-billion dollar aerospace compound" in order to fend off some mysterious ...

Plasma Railgun (Cheat)

Oct 25, 2006