Good shooter to keep you busy in Feb.
Just finished F.E.A.R. 2 and enjoyed it, not the best shooter out there but enough to keep my attention all the way to the end. The whole horror angle didn’t really work, it wasn’t really scary. Only once did I get surprised by Alma, turned around once in the game expecting a soldier and it was Alma. That was a perfectly placed event, but for the most part the bodies flying around, furniture getting moved and ghostly people were just interesting to look at. I think the best game so far I played to set this sort of mood is Deadspace.
But I did enjoy the game, read thru a bit of the intel as I went thru and really enjoyed the parts where you got to man a turret and power suit. I can’t tell you how much fun it was to jump in the suit and just utterly rip the environment and enemy soldiers up. When I got to the end of a killing spree in one of those things it was quite the disappointment to have to jump out.
Also the AI that everyone talked about in the first game and this one is fun to go up against. Not the normal wait and shoot the guys head when he pops up. They run around, retreat, pull up cover and flank you. Some times I would get in that mode where I would be waiting for a head to pop up and the guy already sneaked his way past me and was behind me shooting. Awesome! Best part of the game in my opinion.
Tried the multiplayer too at the end and that was a big disappointment, I think I played capture the control point and really don’t see this as a keeper if your looking for some fun multiplayer. Gameplay was laggy and I found it hard to tell your team from the other and would sometimes come into a room where there is one guy from the other side just ripping everyone up and they are standing there not able to see who is who.
All in all a fun shooter, not sure of the replay ability but something definitely to check out.
