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F.E.A.R. 2 Gold, Case File Video Released

You've got exactly two weeks till Monolith's next paranormal shooter hits shelves. Catch up with this handy video.

An email in my inbox says F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin has now gone gold, just in time for its release on the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360, two weeks from today on the 10th of February. It's from representatives of Warner Bros. Interactive, so we will treat it as "official."

If you're completely out of the F.E.A.R. loop or just can't remember what all went on in the original paranormal shooter, Warner has this remedial video to get you up to speed.


  


Man, I think I'm more confused now. I never played the original F.E.A.R., but I'm most certainly going to go back and give it a look before the new one comes out. This doesn't seem like the kind of story you want to pick up in the middle.

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An email in my inbox says F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin has now gone gold, just in time for its release on the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360, two weeks from today on the 10th of February. It's from representatives of Warner Bros. Interactive, so we will treat it as "official."

If you're completely out of the F.E.A.R. loop or just can't remember what all went on in the original paranormal shooter, Warner has this remedial video to get you up to speed.


  


Man, I think I'm more confused now. I never played the original F.E.A.R., but I'm most certainly going to go back and give it a look before the new one comes out. This doesn't seem like the kind of story you want to pick up in the middle.

Thoughts, F.E.A.R. f.a.n.s.?
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Can't wait for it, I loved the first one.

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never played F.E.A.R, is it any good?

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Yes F.E.A.R. was great.  Can't wait to get this on 360! 

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I have been wanting to go back and play the original again. To the Gamefly Q!

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FEAR was pretty cool, but it definitely peaked at the end. While everything before that was fun, it did get slightly repetitive. But all in all it's kind of an interesting and cool game. That being said, I played the demo for FEAR 2 and it basically seems more of the same. Which is good I guess, but I just don't really have any interest to return. I enjoyed Condemned more personally when it comes down to monolith games.

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I didn't liek the demo that much, as far as shooters go you can do better in pc, 360 and ps3

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Brad said:

Man, I think I'm more confused now. I never played the original F.E.A.R., but I'm most certainly going to go back and give it a look before the new one comes out.
  I think you should  give this article a read first !!!


Footage from wikipedia :


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F.E.A.R Plot summery

The story of F.E.A.R. is presented in such a way that only a few minor elements are presented in the game's beginning, thus allowing players to experience the adventure as "the hero[es] in [their] own spine-tingling epic of action, tension and terror".[26] The manual briefly mentions the player character's recent induction as "point man" to F.E.A.R., a secret special ops group of the US government specialized in dealing with paranormal threats. The character's extraordinarily reactive reflexes are described as well, hinting that the government is interested in his abilities.[15] When the game begins, the player witnesses a man named Paxton Fettel taking command of a battalion of telepathically controlled clone supersoldiers, seizing control of Armacham Technology Corporation (ATC) headquarters and killing all its occupants.[27]

Now fully in control of the Point Man, the player attends a briefing held by Commissioner Betters, in the company of his F.E.A.R. team-mates Jankowski and Jin Sun-Kwon. The team's mission is to eliminate Fettel, operating in conjunction with Delta Force.[28]

Fettel is located by means of a satellite tracking device and hunted by F.E.A.R. and Delta Force over several locations.[29] While the villain evades capture by the special forces, the player witnesses unexplained, and occasionally life-threatening, paranormal phenomena, including hallucinations that frequently afflict him, all of which are centered around a red-dressed little girl named Alma. Laptops found in the course of the mission, remotely hacked by Commissioner Betters, provide details regarding the background story; the player learns how Fettel was raised to become a telepathic military commander,[30] that he is the son of Alma, who is described as being a powerful psychic as part of Project Origin,[31] and the existence of another child of Alma, who was born before Fettel.[32]

All clues lead F.E.A.R. to believe Fettel is under control of Alma,[33] who was locked in the Origin facility when ATC closed down the project owing to the danger the woman posed; Fettel is searching for that same facility to free his mother.[34] The player takes the Point Man to the abandoned structure, fighting back both the clone soldiers and ATC guards, who have received orders to cover up the whole affair.[35] When the protagonist comes to finally face Fettel, he is drawn into a hallucination where the player learns how the Point Man is Alma's first son and is thereafter enabled to kill Fettel himself.[36] The story does not end here however, as Alma is nonetheless freed when her storage chamber is opened by ATC researcher and leader of Project Origin, Harlan Wade, who felt guilty over the company's treatment of Alma and who was actually her father.[37] The player is then called to sabotage the structure's reactor,[38] running a gauntlet against Alma's ghosts before the whole location explodes. In the aftermath of the detonation, a Delta Force Black Hawk helicopter extracts the Point Man from the rubble, rescuing him. While the player and the survivors of the F.E.A.R team survey the results of the explosion from the helicopter, Alma makes one last sudden appearance over the side of the helicopter, preparing to pull herself up into the cabin: the destruction of the Origin facility has not stopped her quest for revenge.[39]

After the game's credits, the player can listen to a phone call between a mysterious senator and ATC president Aristide, which offers some further explanation: the woman considers the project under control and deems the first prototype (ostensibly the Point Man) a success.[40]

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I want to love this game, but I played the demo. After 5 minutes, I think I crapped my pants......Twice.

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FEAR was excellent.  The story was dumb as hell though, I really wouldn't bother playing it for the story, just read wiki or something.  It was the feel of the shooting that made it so good - the firefights in FEAR still haven't been bettered imo.

Is there any truth in the rumour that the PC version of FEAR 2 doesn't support any monitor resolutions?

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I'm just glad it's allowed to be called F.E.A.R.

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I really liked FEAR.  I had no idea this game was right around the corner, so im super excited about it now.  Cant wait to soil myself again....

and people said that Q1 09 was slow!  Too many games to play!

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I liked the first so this should be good. I liked the demo and I need a scary game about now.

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I LOVED F.E.A.R. and the demo was pretty fun. I did have some problems though. I didn't really mind that all of F.E.A.R. took place inside office buildings, but people must have because the setting is completely different. One thing that is a plus for me and a minus for anyone who didn't play F.E.A.R. is that the story picks up IMMEDIATELY after the first. So anyone who didn't play or understand the first will be completely lost.  I'm interested to see how the new main character fits into the story, and I hope they just don't make it more complicated. One thing I'm upset about is that my computer won't run FEAR 2, and if it does it won't run it well at all, so I have to pick this one up for Xbox. Playing it on Xbox was considerably less scary, because when you play a PC game you are about 1-2 feet from the screen and with my xbox im about 6-10 feet away depending on what room I play this in. I'm super looking forward to this game, and I know they can do a good job with it!

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This is definitly a game to play, i loved it.

Will probably pick this up for 360 :)

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Alma wants your balls, that's all you need to know....

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FEAR 2 demo = meh.  I wish Monolith made Condemned exclusively, it's so much better

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To all asking if FEAR was any good: FUCK YES, it was good!

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i don't think F.E.A.R was that complicated, even with that dumb expansion. they've been writing a story at least.

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Loved the game, will surely love this one too.

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The demo is solid, I've heard nothing but good news about this game, and I'm super excited. I'll definitely pick it up.

The thing between Timegate and Monolith might not be on the same level as the Infinity Ward/Treyarch thing, but it's still pretty weird. Monolith has chosen to ignore all of the expansion packs that they didn't develop. As well they should, since none of those expansion packs were particularly good, and they obviously didn't continue the story as Monolith intended. I'll be happy to see the true continuation to the cliff-hanger ending that F.E.A.R. offered.

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FEAR had a pretty shitty story. The demo of FEAR 2 was pretty shitty. "Scary" little girls? Played out.

NEXT.

edit: Also, Monolith: MAKE A NEW NO ONE LIVES FOREVER, PLEASE. THANK YOU!

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well after playing the demo, i can safely say that killzone 2 beats it by a long shot. but that's no suprise, i'll probably give this a rent though.

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cant wait. the demo ruled my ass.

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I thought the FEAR 2 demo showed that the game was solid in all the right places. All this crap about it not be scary is BS, because forming such a view solely on the basis of a short demo is BS.

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FEAR is a creepy fucker.

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I liked the demo. Playing through the mech section just makes me think they really *might* be gearing up for another SHOGO game.

I also ran this demo on the PS3 and a PC that is almost 4 years old. It looked just as good on the PC and ran arguably the same, if not better than the PS3. In addition it will likely be cheaper on the PC, and it controls better. I'm voting PC on this one.

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I adore F.E.A.R. I played the demo for the new one earlier in the week, and despite the total linearity of the enemy placement/level design being a negative taken over from FEAR 1, I wasn't let down much at all. I hope the full game is scarier than what they've showed though. All I got from the demo was a couple of cheap shocks.

But what sold me was the mech. Oh my God. First person, clambering in, slamming the hatch, waiting for the systems to power up, and zooming in to a soldier running through rubble and pockmarking his cover with chainguns. Totally sick.

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H.O.L.Y. S.H.I.T.

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Loved F.E.A.R. Although, the machine I'm running now is in no way equipped to handle the sequel. So, I think I'll grab the 360 version this time around.

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RawShark said:
"I adore F.E.A.R. I played the demo for the new one earlier in the week, and despite the total linearity of the enemy placement/level design being a negative taken over from FEAR 1, I wasn't let down much at all. I hope the full game is scarier than what they've showed though. All I got from the demo was a couple of cheap shocks.

But what sold me was the mech. Oh my God. First person, clambering in, slamming the hatch, waiting for the systems to power up, and zooming in to a soldier running through rubble and pockmarking his cover with chainguns. Totally sick."
Really now? Interesting. I enjoyed the demo for sure, and I'm buying Fear 2 day one, but I thought the mech park was like the 500 other games that have done that already and just totally stale.

Anyway just to let everyone know if you care: This is the direct events/sequel to the first FEAR, the 'expansions', were made by Vivendi when they owned the name, not Monolith, and they are trying to make sure everyone knows that those expansions are not actually a part of the story at all, and should be discounted. So if anyone wants to go back and play the first FEAR before this one comes out, you only need to play that to be caught up.
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I played the Demo (on console) and it gave me a headache. The Mech part was mostly meh! and kind of lessened my appetite for a similar section in a similar type game coming next month.

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Demo was just ok.Framerate droped constantly and really ruined it.I felt like i was playing crysis on my computer and thats pretty bad.

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FEAR was awesome.  I loved it.  I can't wait for FEAR 2.

Its good to see some FEAR 2 news on the site!  Remember 2005?  FEAR was a VERY BIG DEAL!  And GB has not been covering the run up to the sequel at all.  Now, two weeks out, we're finally getting some news.  I was starting to think that Jeff was intentionally burying the story, because he didn't like the original FEAR.

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F.E.A.R. made me get a boner whenever I booted it up.

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"Framerate droped constantly and really ruined it.I felt like i was playing crysis on my computer and thats pretty bad."
What? Crysis - even Warhead - had WAY higher reqs than the demo. I can't even run Warhead with everything on 2nd highest, but the FEAR2 demo was silky the whole way through with everything maxed ('cept AA).

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simonbuchan said:
""Framerate droped constantly and really ruined it.I felt like i was playing crysis on my computer and thats pretty bad."
What? Crysis - even Warhead - had WAY higher reqs than the demo. I can't even run Warhead with everything on 2nd highest, but the FEAR2 demo was silky the whole way through with everything maxed ('cept AA)."
Yeah I would have to say you have something on your PC that's messed up, BigBoss(unless in general your PC just isn't that great, then tune the settings to medium or something.) If you however can play Crysis nearly fine and not this game, its definitely not the game.
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I loved the first F.E.A.R

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I'm sure that F.E.A.R wasn't this complicated when I played it four years a go.

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Watching that video highlights just how convoluted the storyline is.

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