F.E.A.R. Review (Resulito)
As you may have guessed, this is not a professional review but rather my own opinion, so read it like that. In the past, I heard about this game but had no courage to play it. After many years, thanks to the Steam Summer Sale, I bought the whole series. I am writing this review after playing all three main Fear Games, and I can say it's the best in the series. I am going to rewiew this game on three sides. Atmosphere, gameplay, and story.
Game Atmosphere feels good because it's suitable for the horror genre; it's dark but not too dark. They did a good job of creating a consistent atmosphere. I played very cautiously because of the dark atmosphere; it was tense, and while fighting enemies, you start to be careful for horror aspects because the game does not use cheap jump scares a lot. It depends on its atmosphere and other scary moments. Graphics are good for a 2005 game, and for me, it is as good as BF2 and Republic Commandos. Fear has more attention than Republic commandos and same as BF2
Fear 1 has great gameplay. You name it, it feels great to use guns; they are not clanky, especially pistols. I used my single pistol through my whole gameplay, except for mini-boss fights. You can understand if you use your pistol while ads and peeking at the same time. Even explosions feel awesome because if you throw your nade close, you will feel a satisfactory shake. It's not absurd from a gameplay aspect, and for that, I always played close quarter combat; for me, it was much better than distance combat. And with all that, you have a slow-time skill. Unfortunately, most of those aspects are not good in other Fear games, like Fear 2 and 3. I don't know why, but there is no peeking or quicksaving in other fears. If you play the fear games in order and consecutively, you're going to feel the same as me: Fear 1 is better in every aspect than the other main fear games.
Fear 1 has a good story. If I want to write about the short story of the game without spoiling much, I can say that You begin the game as a US Special Forces F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon) named Point Man, and you are given the task of capturing a Leader of special U.S. clone soldiers. The story can seem simple; you play as an ordinary soldier, but the story expends on those aspects in a good way and makes you feel satisfied not only with the plot but with the atmosphere.
Unfortunately, you can't play this game without patches, unlike Star Wars: Republic Commandos. Vanilla Fear doesn't support today's standard 1920x1080p resolution and has a low FOV. Other important issues are low fps and a small font for 1920x1080p resolution. I played Fear 1 with an Rtx 3060 laptop gpu, a 7 11600h, and 32 GB of ram, but with that, I could only get ridiculous fps between 10 and 30 fps. But fortunately, there is a patch for that. By the way, these patches only took 10 minutes to install and play.
At the end of this review, I m going to compare the three Fear games with each other.
Story: Fear 1>2>3
Gameplay: 1>2>3 (Btw, Fear 3 has good gameplay, but unlike previous Fear games, it takes more time to kill enemies, which is why 2 is better than 3 in my opinion.)
Atmosphere: 1>3>2
n overhaul Unfortunately, Fear 3 is not as good as Fear 1 and 2, but it's not boring to play if you want to learn what's going on in the story.
One last note is that the DLC of Fear 1 (Extraction Point and Perseus Mandate) is not canon in the story.