F.E.A.R. Review (Dababa007)
10/10 game. It's almost 2 decades old but it still holds up today.
The most talked about point in this game is it's AI which is simply better than the enemy AI in a lot of modern games. The enemies react to your flashlight, noise of footsteps, noise of melee smashes etc.
I won't go into the details because I would like you to see and figure it out yourself.
Secondly, it's one of it's kind of game. A horror shooter FPS set in a corporate setting. I know there are many horror shooter FPS games but none come close to this.
The sound design is on point and actually makes you $hit your pants during a jumpscare. The soundtrack and sound design is just pure eargasm material. Apart from that the environmental storytelling is great too, the piles of dead bodies and phone calls convey the backstory of the game. The environment is also quite interactive. Walls break off when you shoot them with really heavy guns or grenade launchers, shooting books causes small paper pieces to fly around, cups and glasses break etc. Glasses also produce sound when you walk over them.
There are two non canon DLCs for this game called the extraction point and perseus mandate which are installed along with the base game, it's the reason why the game's size is 16GB despite being so old. The DLCs are standalone non canon games.
The order is "base game -> Extraction point -> Perseus Mandate"
I would definitely recommend you to try out these DLCs since they are far superior than the sequels.
Extraction point is as good as the base game and takes about 5 hours to complete.
A lot of people hate perseus mandate which is kinda justified since it released in Nov of 2007, the same month the first crysis came out. The graphics of perseus mandate were horrible but if you want more FEAR after trying out the first one and extraction point, I would definitely recommend Perseus Mandate.
It has more enemy varieties than the other two games and more gun and I didn't face any bugs in it except two really minor ones.
The bundle goes for a really cheap price during sales. Do consider it.