F.E.A.R. Review
The F.E.A.R. Review covers the legendary scifi horror fps along with the Extraction Point and Perseus Mandate expansions. Fear the sequels.
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00:00 – Intro
1:02 – Game Premise
2:11 – Visuals
4:15 – Gameplay Mechanics
7:29 – AI & Level Design
9:30 – Horror Elements
12:04 – Issues
13:15- Story
13:44 – Story (SPOILERS)
16:01 – The FEAR Timelines
16:37 – Extraction Point Expansion
19:57 – Perseus Mandate Expansion
25:20 – Conclusions
26:24 – Credits
26:36 – The Nailgun
O H S H I T
FLASHLIGHT!
4:36 that spicy mix of a hilarious joke and a lifetime trauma
Jin dies in extraction point but is alive in fear3 so thats why also extraction point is not canon
And i liked perseus mandate i liked the new faction
FEAR in VR when?
16:15 oh shit, Ragnarok Online Payon Dungeon soundtrack
The AI reacting to the player coming in with a god damn minigun reminds me of Fallout 4….at one point.
See, i ran in with a minigun into a Raider camp, and one of the yelled out "oh fuck! that’s a minigun!" i cannot recall them Ever saying that again, either about the minigun or any other large weapon, like a Fatman or a rocketlauncher, but still.
I played the entire game without using the slomo, probably because I couldn’t find a way to remap it to a proper key
Excellent Iron Giant reference. Superb.
About the random jumpscares, i remember one scene in FEAR where you are climbing up a very long ladder and everything seems fine and you get to the top and Alma (the little girl) is standing right in your face, i jump out of my seat every time.
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The team work and aggression of your enemies were very good challenges. Unlike Bethesda’s "my ears must be playing tricks on me" cop-out the NPCs adopt to avoid combat. Unrealistic. Unbelievable. Not fun.
So this is the review that finally convinced me to get the game and try it. I gotta say, nice combat levels. However the AI is extremely basic: That part where the shelf falls over and the guy crawls under it? I tested it many times. It’s a script. The ai flanking around you? They are programmed to take those paths specifically. Usually they just run straight at you like any other shooter game. The only variety to their strategy is that they seem to be able to use cover but even then it appears that they are simply told to do it by the level designers, not because the AI decided on its own that this was the right choice to make.
Play through the same rooms taking different paths, weapons, and strategies each time you do and you will notice the AI has very little to no deviation in how they handle your presence.
The revolution that all the replicants are female and your explanation of the plot regarding them was simply the best thing I’ve ever seen on Youtube. Well done dude!
"The level designer and the AI designer were probably holding hands the entire time"
Something that clearly didnt happen in Half Life 2 and because of that some people think that the Combine Soldiers AI is from braindead to average
holy fuck dude learn to intonate differently. I thought I was having a stroke, every sentence has like the same number of words, same number of adjectives, and the exact same intonation and rythm for a full 25 minutes. It’s actually impressive, i couldn’t do that if i tried. Made me want to clay my eardrums out though
This was the game that got me into horror games when I first went to college. And yeah the controls feel awkward, but dammit you were a god when you got a hang of it.
12:00 the music is from a game called factorio, one of the best games of all time
Rabbit Respawn FEAR videos.
Just a little bit of advice on how to play FEAR and look good doing it.
For some fuckin reason Charlatan likes Perseus Mandate and dislikes Point Extraction….
I like you and him, Mandy, but idk who is fuckin bonked in the head after this. Is Charlatan weirid or you and Jarek are wrong… (Democracy says otherwise)
F.E.A.R. is amazing. Still great today.
This ai is good, but I’d argue the AI for the alien in alien isolation is better
I never touched the water at 10:40 I thought it will attack me lol
Seems to me like the UIU from SCP is based on F.E.A.R.
This was back when Monolith made awesome games.
Jango Fett and his friends (clone troopers) that killed me
TL:DR i just wish there’d be spinoff games that plays around a different F.E.A.R. squad on a different first encounters.
I think there is potential in a lot of otherworldly games in the title of F.E.A.R. , I can easily imagine a whole new game that has a vastly different story from this one which is simply a story of a different squad on a different mission,, and to keep the slow-mo mechanic, the F.E.A.R. group made it necessary for say, squad leaders to have heightened reflexes so they do some operation on them. The acronym just has a lot of potential to be a semi-realistic fictional shooter.
i feel like fighting the security guards makes the game feel less real. if they were working with you, it would feel like your part of a large group trying to stop the replicas instead of a game coming up with more enemy types
"The Pointman" is probably the most badass fucking name for a protagonist I’ve ever heard.
This is one game that was somewhat influenced by the original half life with how the soldiers act in that game. monolith made the ai seem really good by using the same technique valve did with hl1’s marines. There aren’t a lot of notable examples of hl1’s influence but this is technically one of them
Don’t forget the game would try to unnerve you before jumping you with a ambush.
Btw, the game’s for dirt cheap on steam right now
https://store.steampowered.com/app/21090/FEAR/
Includes the complete pack
I loved the fear games loved the shooting and AI but fuck me did it scare me as a kid.
‘I think they’re all clones, too’
Jesus Mandalore, you’re supposed to be the family friendly one!
Another thing about the Ai I found to be really good in this game was their response to certain acts you’d do catching them off guard. Like if you run shooting crazy or jumping like a mad man they panic some bolt backwards or they say he’s too fast etc. Also they’ll run backwards shooting blindly if you run at them like you have nothing to lose always find this AI to be life like I miss it. The gunplay never came back from most games I play with all the particle stuff and sounds.
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F.E.A.R. on GOG: https://www.gog.com/game/fear_platinum?pp=ea44f9f30a420daae75cc97b35ace35e373be70a
Steam only sells the ENTIRE TRILOGY of games as one package now. You can’t buy the 1st game +expansions standalone anymore, which sucks.
Fyi its pronounce fet tel not fet tal
How did you leave out the bolt gun that you can pin people to walls. Sound is really good with surround.
Unironically one of the best shooters of the decade.
You should review Dragons Dogma, Mandalore.
Like to those who support the motion xd
Ralph like this game:)
Having now played Extraction Point and been immensely disappointed, I can see plenty of reasons to make it non-canon (not that FEAR 2 & 3 are an improvement but still). I wouldn’t call this "FEAR Crusader"; I’d call it "FEAR Blue Shift".
– Maybe they don’t want Paxton Fettel to return out of nowhere mere hours after his death saying, "this makes no sense but nothing does anymore, lol!"
– Maybe they don’t want Alma to have split personalities and child/adult Alma to be retconned into her good/evil halves, respectively. Maybe they don’t want a pseudo-profound scene in which these two halves merge, symbolising absolutely nothing because neither actually represents anything of relevance to the game.
– Maybe they don’t want Fettel spouting lines about Point Man’s role and mysteries he’s yet to grasp, which don’t actually come up in the game and clearly hadn’t actually been thought up yet.
– Maybe they don’t want their protagonist to spend an instalment wandering around aimlessly with no goal except "get out" (like Blue Shift, if it had starred Gordon Freeman).
– Maybe they don’t want a cliffhanger about a great war coming in which one side has no motivation and the other side is completely nebulous.
7:46 CENSORED HANDHOLDING
lewd
I remember playing the office building level, with enemies crawling over the walls and on the ceiling, and thinking that they really messed up the atmosphere in that place – everything was brigtly lit, and the dark enemies stood out clearly over the white walls, so there was no tension. But when I came back to the game on the next day, it turned out that somehow ALL LIGHTING BUGGED OUT on the night before, and small moody desklight were blasting with the power of the sun – now that I restarted the game, the place was pitch black and scary as hell. I’m kinda glad it bugged the first way through, because I was a big wuss, and that level was chock-full of jumpscares.
factorio music in the background lol
FEAR’s AI was a talking point because… well… other games have done it better. But FEAR did it FIRST. After years of FPS with pretty standard AI, I still distinctly remember the first squad of enemies I came across in FEAR. I used the tactics I’d learned from other games. I got into cover. I stepped out of cover, knowing that the enemies would be poking their heads above boxes waiting for me to do so, and I just had to be faster than them. Except… they weren’t. I moved forward, wondering if I’d found a bug, and holy fuck they’re behind me, they flanked me as a squad because I’d assumed they’d act in the same normal corridor shooter manner as most previous FPS I’d played. They didn’t have their preassigned piece of cover to hide behind and they were pretty damn lethal when they caught you unawares.
your reviews are technical and funny at the same time. i dont know how u do it
the only story contradiction was jin surviving , they could have used the expansions too. oh also , i believe in scarface the world is yours , the fire extinguishers also killed you
Game needs rtx support