F.E.A.R.
“Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can’t get out of it if we would.” ― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Wow, has it really been 15 years since this classic hit our gaming libraries? I must confess, some games do not age well, but F.E.A.R. is not one of them. After all this time, it still is one of the best horror fps titles around, by even establishing some ground rules for the genre and introducing the best A.I. ever in horror fps. Let’s take a close look at Monolith’s timeless masterpiece, then.
– Real player with 31.5 hrs in game
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This game is a fu*king masterpiece! After so many years, the only thing that has aged badly is graphics. Compared to modern standards it is ugly…
but the game is so much fun that I dont mind it!
The physics is great fun, the AI is still very good, they flank you they hide and shoot from cover.
The guns are awesome and you can feel ‘the joy’ when you kill your enemies with them I personaly love dual pistols, shotgun and… NAIL RIFLE, a rifle that shoots big metal bolts, kind of like wooden stakes for vampires but a bit smaller and metal, and every enemy you kill with it is literaly… nailed to a wall or any other surface behind him and stays that way, which is great as the engine keeps the bodies on map for a very
– Real player with 31.3 hrs in game
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
Introduction
What is F.E.A.R 2? What is the story? What timeline do the events take place in? All of it will be mentioned here but before we begin I will give you a warning
WARNING: This review is written keeping in mind you have played F.E.A.R 1 and you’re following the series in a chronological order if you haven’t played F.E.A.R 1 don’t read this review play F.E.A.R 1 first there is no point in playing F.E.A.R 2 without playing F.E.A.R, Read my review for F.E.A.R here , Now lets get back to the introduction.
– Real player with 18.0 hrs in game
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I find it’ll be easier and less messy if I just put this as a Pro’s and Con’s list rather than an essay type review. At least for the most part.
The Pro’s:
-The graphics are quite good (player models, environments, etc), even by today’s standards.
-Similarly, lighting and shadows are similarly fantastic.
-The voice acting is quite good as well. Notable actors such as Jen Taylor (Halo Series), Phil LaMarr (Halo, Metal Gear Solid Series) and John Patrick Lowrie (Half Life 2, Team Fortress 2) make an appearance in this game.
– Real player with 17.7 hrs in game
CROSSBOW: Bloodnight
CROSSBOW is fun, but it has some serious flaws when it comes to the late-game. Fun casually, but grinding the game competitively to climb the leaderboard gets boring quickly.
I made a knee-jerk review about this game after having played it for 2.5 hours where I dissected the problems with the game and didn’t recommend it. I scrapped that review, and having played it longer, reaching a score of ~1350, I can say that there is a good game underneath the problems I see. I have certainly gotten my share of enjoyment out of the amount of money I spent on the game, and I think the devs are open minded enough to update their game.
– Real player with 35.1 hrs in game
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The Short of it: A challenging arena FPS that reminds me of Devil Daggers, but ups the interaction factor based on the variety of ways to use your weapon (shotgun blast, full-auto stream, explosive AOE). I had fun =)
Reminds me of: If you liked Devil Daggers, Doom, or Hexen, there’s a good chance you’ll like CROSSBOW: Bloodnight.
– Real player with 8.9 hrs in game
El Paso, Elsewhere
El Paso, Elsewhere is a supernatural neo-noir third-person shooter. Hunt werewolves, fallen angels, and other damned creatures in a vivid slow motion love letter to action classics. Fight your way through a reality-shifting motel, floor by bloody floor. Save the victims of Draculae, lord of the vampires. Destroy the villain you loved–even if it means dying yourself.
Somewhere in El Paso, Texas, a three-story motel gained another 46 stories… all below ground.
So, yeah.
This is going to get loud.
FEATURING
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Original hip-hop soundtrack.
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Molotov cocktails filled with holy blue flame.
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A fully-voiced neo-noir story campaign set in a reality-shifting motel full of monsters.
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Hordes of destructible physics objects; for shooting.
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More slow-motion dives than you would think it is humanly possible to fit into a single video game.
F.E.A.R. 3
Every time I see FEAR 3 on sale I see people bashing it as the worst in the series, but the meta score is actually not too bad 74/100. Unlike the first 2 FEAR games, FEAR 3 has one of those regenerating health systems where you just hide under cover for a few seconds and you recover back to full health. No need to scrounge for med kits or armor. Also, the game seems built around 2 player co-op, which I like in first person shooter games (when I have someone to play with).
Spoilers ahead
FEAR 3 takes place an unspecified amount of time after the events of FEAR 2. Alma is pregnant and getting ready to give birth, as a result her psychic power is tearing up the city (possibly the world). Again the main opposition is the private military contractor Armacham, who seems to have become 100x more powerful than they were in the first games. Even without their clone super soldiers from the first games, Armacham seems capable of overrunning and occupying entire cities with soldiers, aircraft, and power armor. You play the Point Man protagonist from the first FEAR game (the guy you play in FEAR 2 also shows up briefly) but this time you have an “imaginary” friend Paxton Fettel (Bad guy from the first game). Your primary goal this time around is to reach Alma before she gives birth and deal with her once and for all. Unfortunately for you, Alma’s psychic pain has summoned nightmare creatures and twisted the surviving civilian population into crazed psychos.
– Real player with 156.1 hrs in game
The history of F.E.A.R’s development has swapped hands through practically every expansion and installment and which each one, a new take on the franchise was created. Most, if nearly all, fans of the series consider the first F.E.A.R to be the ‘best’ due to its thick, tense atmosphere and and engaging combat and I agree to a point. F.E.A.R 1 still out plays most shooters and horror games today!
So with that legacy and high standard already set from the get go, it’d cetainly be a challenge to meet it again, especially in the hands of a different developer! As a result, many people tend to look down on F.E.A.R 3 as being a ‘generic’ CoD clone and this couldn’t be more of a lie!
– Real player with 57.7 hrs in game
The Purge Day
Pretty awkward and bad. It’s a stationary shooter, and you’re exposed to strange polygonal creatures that come at you from the distance. The first level (I could not complete) had aliens, which was nice, but they just come at you, and if they touch you once your dead. The game is therefore you making sure they all get shooted in the head from a distance, and you have to use a bad non-VR conducive cross hair. Ideally, the game would be better, and more dynamic, and you’d aim down the sights like a real gun, like every other VR shooter does.
! Reminds me of Area 51 from back in the day, but that game was better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkECztX1rMQ
– Real player with 4.1 hrs in game
Great game, Well worth the $3! Works really well with the oculus rift and doesn’t require the use of Steam VR (My Steam VR doesn’t work, So any game that works without Mandatory SteamVR support is awesome!).
It’s real fun and my nephews enjoy playing this game a lot!
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
Aeon
Kinda fun VR shooter.
Time warp/bullet time was great. I’m no twitch player, and being able to treat a shooter more like a tactical game is just my speed :)
BAD GAME for completionists and achievement hunters since to get 100% you need to play through it six times, once on each difficulty level. Nope. Nope nope.
Very short game, though - three levels. I played through it in two evenings, and have 7 hours playtime on it after exploring a third evening exploring the “Endless” mode. I tend to play slowly, so that’ll be an upper bound for how long most people play it.
– Real player with 7.5 hrs in game
Played on Oculus Rift w/ Touch
Verdict: buy on sale
Summary: short 360 degree node based wave shooter that’s a mix between Superhot (bullet time) and Robo Recall (mixed pistol and melee) but more basic than either
Pros:
- auto saves at each node in the level
– There’s a few points that took me a while to figure out and if I’d had to restart the whole level I’d have Hulk-smashed my room and rage-quit half-way though (last node of level 2…)
- bullet time makes the dual wield pistols practical
– Real player with 3.8 hrs in game
HEVN
I can’t recommend this game at the moment.When it’s finished it will be OK.I will be reluctant to buy any game in future on first release.Basically you are paying to test the game.Wait until the game has been updated as mentioned in other threads and then buy it.
– Real player with 15.3 hrs in game
Its a bit rough around the edges but the devs are very responsive to feedback and eager to fix bugs. Some parts were a bit of a drag and some parts really engaging especially the end. Overall I enjoyed the experience. I think its value for money especially considering the recent price drop.
The good stuff
I thought the world building and lore were excellent; really immersive. Voice acting was decent and graphically its very nice. I also had no problems with performance and there was a recent patch to improve performance even more.
– Real player with 11.2 hrs in game
Until Last Breath
Until Last Breath is a one-man project, one I thought I was not going to like. I was worried this was going to be a complete asset flip, which thankfully it’s not completely an asset flip. There are Unreal Engine assets used, there is some effort put into this, but I was still worried. I got the game from a bundle so thankfully I didn’t spend too much money just in case.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2570071999
The screenshots and video is slightly outdated. Some things have changed. The enemy is not a zombie soldier but just a normal-looking zombie, but there is only one enemy that scales in health and speed as you progress in waves. Some parts of levels have way more detail and junk laying around. Weapon sounds are very lame and don’t sound good. I am running an older PC so I had to drop the settings down to mid/low. I did enjoy the music track, even though it’s just one track. The enemy AI is really basic and the pathing is questionable, especially when the enemies tend to get spawned pretty far away. Death is temporary as you will just respawn, you lose your equipped weapons and get the 2 starting weapons, which is useless in later waves when they deal no damage. The game also has no pause menu, so hitting the ESC key closes the game.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
Very early access but very good for what it is. Obviously not the final product as the creator works alone and is trying to improve it by letting others play and give feedback on it. I really enjoyed running around the expansive map looking for different secrets and all the while being chased by waves of the un-dead. There are already so many cool things about it. Unique weapons, secret areas, secret weapons, outfits to find. A variety of different areas to fight in like close quarter hallways or an open parking lot.
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
LA ULTIMA COMIDA
Our protagonist returns to his town the same day that a very important local holiday is celebrated, when he is about to arrive there is a strange and completely abandoned police blockade, he goes down to check what is happening and he is enveloped by a group of very aggressive people being able to flee until entering the nearest compound in search of refuge.
HISTORY:
#La ULTIMA COMIDA.- At a culinary festival in a small town, someone has mistaken a very powerful and evil ancient spell for a food recipe, whose spell seems to rip out the souls of certain people turning them into real zombies.
The Player must survive this nightmare and escape to safety.
MISSION 1 - The Factory:
Your mission in that factory will be to eliminate all the Zombies while the factory security guard who is the only survivor, prepare everything you need to leave that factory in search of a safer place, as you increase the number of zombies They will be stronger and faster, but don’t worry, your new friend will lend you his weapons so that you can face those hordes of zombies.
MISSION 2 - The village:
Your mission in that town will be to find refuge and defend it from all the Zombies that try to destroy it, and you will also have to gather clues to find out what happened.
Although the zombies are increasingly abundant and strong, you should not worry, in this town you will find an armory and artifacts that will greatly increase your chances of surviving from this nightmare.
GAME MODE:
You have at your disposal 6 firearms, 1 melee weapon, 4 objects that you can place on the stage, on the first map you have a mix of gameplay between waves of enemies, defend objectives and solve puzzles with the final Boss in the final horde.
The set contains:
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First person gameplay
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6 Weapons (2 pistols, 1 SMG, 1 Automatic rifle, 2 Shotgun)
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1 Laser Gun
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Flashlight on long guns
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Claymore Trap
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Barbed Wire Trap
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Wooden barricade
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Decoy music box
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Incinerator
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Automatic turret
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Zombies
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Bosses