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FEAR: First Encounter Assault Recon

Also known as: F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon, FEAR First Encounter Assault Recon [UK]

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Overtime is truly hell

Words: Tim Edwards, PC Gamer UK
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F.E.A.R. is hilariously, absurdly violent. It's a shooter set mostly in a single skyscraper block, where genetically modified soldiers and psychic monsters have invaded a biotech firm. And you've got it made, because you're just as modified as the men you face. At any moment, you can slow down time, duck behind a pillar, peep out and take away a soldier's legs with a single blast from the shotgun. "Holy shit, he's flanking us," they scream, as you empty clip after clip into their faces, leaving decapitated corpses spitting blood. Heads are literally rolling. "We got him," they rejoice, as you hit the wrong button again and select the now empty sub-machine gun. Uh-oh...

This should be brilliant. The mix of ideas are so perfectly balanced: high-action Hollywood gunplay, and a horror plot that’s clearly ripped from The Ring. Following you through the building, both tormenting you and leading you on is Alma, a similarly modified little girl wearing a blood red dress. She’s the focus of F.E.A.R.’s horror interludes. She’ll turn the corridor you’re in into a blazing inferno, walk on the ceilings and torment you with visions.


 
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freekingenius  - 1 year 1 month ago 
FEAR was an edge-or-you-seat thriller, that created suspence around every corner. the game was for frightening when there were no combatants around, because you were free to roam around and see all of the strange happenings.
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FEAR: First Encounter Assault Recon
FEAR: First Encounter Assault Recon

Genre: Shooter
Expected release date: 03/13/2007
Developed by: Monolith Productions
7 GOOD
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