F.E.A.R.: First Encounter Assault Recon | 
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| From: Sierra
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy Used: $5.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  221 reviews
Sales Rank: 3767
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows 2000
ESRB: Mature
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 1.4
MPN: 82394
Model: 72092
UPC: 020626720922
EAN: 0020626720922
ASIN: B0000ZUGZ4
Release Date: October 18, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: just like new
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| Features:
| • | Hyper Stylized FPS Action | | • | Supernatural Storyline | | • | Larger-than-life enemies | | • | Advanced Graphics-Cinematic Special Effects | | • | Multi-Player Action |
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Product Description
F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon) is an intense combat experience with rich atmosphere and a deeply intense paranormal storyline presented entirely in first person. Be the hero in your own spine-tingling epic of action, tension, and terror? and discover the true meaning of fear. An unidentified paramilitary force infiltrates a multi-billion dollar aerospace compound, taking hostages but issuing no demands. A Special Forces team is sent in by the government to contain the situation, but contact is severed as an eerie signal interrupts radio communications. When the interference subsides moments later, the team has been obliterated. Live footage of the massacre shows an inexplicable wave of destruction tearing the soldiers apart before they can even react. In light of the desperate situation the F.E.A.R. team is assembled. As part of this elite classified strike team created to deal with the most unusual and shocking of threats your mission is simple: Eliminate the intruders at any cost. Determine the origin of the signal. And contain this crisis before it spirals out of control. Requirements - US version of Windows 2000/XPwith latest service pack installed / DirectX 9.0c or higher / PC with Intel Pentium 4 1.7 GHz or equivalent / 512MB RAM / 64MB DirectX 9.0 compliant video card with pixel shader support
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| Customer Reviews: Read 216 more reviews...
 Fun but bloody and vulgar July 17, 2008
It's a fun game, but the violence is quite gratuitous, and there is far too much swearing. It's entirely unnecessary to hear the worst swears in the English language every other time you start shooting at an enemy. Also, the ending requires you to kill a helpless, unarmed person. Even if he has done evil things, there should be another option to continue the game other than shooting or hitting someone who is not offering resistance.
Basically, it's fun, but check your moral compass.
 F.E.A.R. Indeed July 14, 2008
F.E.A.R. is an FPS, and it does a fine job at that. Next, it's a scary/horror kind of psychological thriller. And the storyline, well, who plays FPS for story line? Although yes, the story line is decent or better.
PROS:
Visuals: Mind you, this game was made in 2005, but even now, 2,3,4 years later, the game still looks good. The slow-mo Max Payne kind of thing, looks absolutely great. The environment is well made and detailed. Almost nearly everything is tangible and can fall, and what-not.
Gameplay:
Well, it's an FPS. The recoil and everything is just like it's supposed to be. Not too much of a variety of weapons. But then again, it isn't Counter-Strike, and being realistic and all, you wouldn't have that much of a variety in an abandoned aerospace building. Don't worry, you won't need that many for this game.
The A.I. is absolutely wonderful. They will try to flank you, take cover, hide in spots waiting for you to come out or waiting for an opening. There was an instance where one went all the way around the building, crouched underneath the garage door, to shoot me from behind. If you're trapped in a single location, they might even nade you, right where you're at.
Storyline:
It keeps you on the edge of your heavily-padded gaming chair with wheels.
Your eyes will be so far into your monitor that by the time you're done, you'll be blind. It intrigues you from the start, and the story unfolds as you go along. The story unfolds in a perfect, subtle, smooth transition way. Not only relying on cut scenes, but through narration, and through blurred vision moments, as well as cut scenes, and more.
The Horror:
Yes there's gore, it's a mature game. It's creepy too. Random boxes will fall, or paint buckets will fall near you. Or you'll hear crying, or you'll see flashes of the evil guy through the corner of your screen walking pass a door. Lots of other things are happening. The main evil guy is a cannibal after all. The evil ghost girl Alma will freak you out, indeed. Prepare yourself.
I highly recommend this game. It leaves your nerves, mind, body, everything just tingling with adrenaline. It will keep you on the edge of your seat, while looking beautiful doing it. Great FPS, with awesome A.I. Great storyline being unfolded in a variety of ways. Great creepy/horror feeling to it. The environment is well-detailed and is very interactable. The slow-mo is well used in this game, and serves a great purpose and it looks great.
Overall: A
 Lousy Story July 1, 2008
I thought the gameplay was great, but the story was awful. Play Half-Life 2 for five minutes and you quickly have an interest in the story and the characters, but after finishing this game I didn't care at all what happened to the story or the characters. I thought when they brought in some npc's that they would start to develop those things, but I was to be disappointed. The environments aren't anything interesting either.
If you don't care anything about having a good story and are only interested in a decent fps, then go ahead and try this. Otherwise, skip it.
This is a Great Game Overall!!! June 4, 2008
F.E.A.R in my opinion a great game overall. This game has amazing graphics that can blow away any game that was made when this game came out.
The sound is great. I was blown away by the AI at times.
It is very fun to play and the levels are well designed.
I am trying to think of a con for this game....Oh yea, I found one. Just trying to wait till Project Origin, comes out.
waiting and waiting and waiting. You get my point.
Great first person shooter May 28, 2008
I played it to the end four times and want to keep it. It gets more exciting the more the game goes.
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