F.E.A.R.: First Encounter Assault Recon | 
| From: Sierra
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  176 reviews
Sales Rank: 4789
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 95
Genre: Action Games
ESRB: Mature
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 1.3
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MPN: 72092
Model: 72092
UPC: 020626720922
EAN: 3348542195851
ASIN: B0000ZUGZ4
Release Date: October 18, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Hyper Stylized FPS Action | | • | Supernatural Storyline | | • | Larger-than-life enemies | | • | Advanced Graphics-Cinematic Special Effects | | • | Multi-Player Action |
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Product Description
F.E.A.R. You are not a soldier. You are a weapon. F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon) is an intense combat experience with rich atmosphere and an engaging story presented entirely in first person. Be the hero in your own blockbuster action movie. The story begins as an unidentified paramilitary force infiltrates a multi-billion dollar aerospace compound, taking hostages but issuing no demands. The government responds by sending in special forces, but loses contact as an eerie signal interrupts radiocommunications. When the interference subsides moments later, the team has been obliterated. Live footage of the massacre shows an inexplicable wave of destruction tearing the soldiers apart before they can even react. As part of a classified strike team created to deal with threats no one else can handle, your mission is simple: Eliminate the intruders at any cost. Determine the origin of the signal. And contain this crisis before it spirals out of control. Fierce Enemies Squads of tactical teams use coordinated attacks and flanking maneuvers to pin you down and take you out. High tech assassins cling to walls and ceilings and ambush you from the shadows. Heavy armor units that soldiers will advance behind and use for cover. Cinematic Special FX An advanced Special FX system showers you in sparks, smoke, and debris, making combat as intense and exhilarating as an action movie. State of the Art Arsenal You will employee high tech firearms and classified weaponry such as the corkscrew missile launcher, rapid-fire battle cannon, and sub-nuclear blaster that turns enemies to pillars of ash. Spectacular Situations Experience a catastrophic helicopter crash entirely in-game and then fight off waves of enemy special forces. Ride shotgun in a high speed car chase, pursued by assassins on motorcycles and enemy attack helicopters. Advanced Game Technology The latest in DirectX 9 rendering technology uses real-time per pixel lighting, shadow volumes, n
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 176
 FEAR September 15, 2009
Richard Silva (Victorville, Ca)
This game is fun. Kinda creapy at times. About the only negative is the fact that it can be finished in about a day and a half. It was nice being able to find it at a low cost.
Very fun game July 21, 2009
M. Simpson (Ft Meade, MD)
This is one of the first games I've played where it's actually aimed at scarring you and I didn't really think they could pull it off. Of course I was being very naive. This game is very spooky and scares the hell out of you at times. Highly recommend playing at night :) Online play with this game is a lot of fun and the scare factor is taken out, its all fighting. The scary stuff is only one player also if you only want online play then you can download it legally for free from Fear's website themselves. I played online first enjoyed the multiplayer a lot and then bought the single player version and was very satisfied.
A Great Multiplayer Experience July 10, 2009
DryvBy (Knoxville, TN USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Thank the heavens that Max Payne paved a way for slow-motion in gaming, or else, we might not have a game like F.E.A.R.. F.E.A.R. stands out from shooters today for it's ability to slow down time with the click of a button, and because it's really gory, which is a good thing. The graphics are superb and the audio is really amazing. Only downfall of having a high-profile game is it comes at a hardware cost. You'll won't be running this game on low settings with 256MB of memory (which why in the world would you only have that in today's world?).
The single player portion of the game is alright. There's nothing really exciting about it, especially giving the length in which to beat it. I beat it around 5 hours, which after playing many great first person shooters, such as Half-Life, you really wonder why they decided to make the game this short. Other than that, the levels are extremely linear, which makes the game really easy. I really didn't have any trouble knowing where to go next, which is a good thing and a bad thing. There should have been more puzzles laying around the game. The characters in the game are very limited as well. You'll fight a total of 5 or 6 different style enemies: humans, Robocop robots, flying robots, and some ghosts. There's nothing too special about them, aside from the robots are harder to kill. The good thing about the slow-motion is that you can literally aim better, as well as get a few cool looking shots in at the last moment. The bad thing is that the slow-motion makes the game extremely easy. The last really bad thing about the single player is the lack of an end-game boss. The game just sort of ends, after a short epilogue. Being it's a horror game, I'm really not sure what I was suppose to be scared of. I jumped once or twice, but that was pretty much it. The quality of the story was pretty good though. They have some good twist at the end, leaving you wanting more, which is exactly what happens.
As far as the single player goes, the game was very mediocre, at best. However, the multi player, is where it's at. There's a lot of options in the game types, such as your typical DM/TDM all the way to Slo-Mo DM, which is generally a mix of DM and capture the flag. You run and look for a device to slow down time, all the while fighting off everyone that's following your glow. However, if you happen to charge up your Slo-Mo, you can literally slow down time to your advantage, meaning you'll move slightly faster than everyone and shoot more accurately. There's plenty of really good maps to fight on as well. You'll recognize a lot of the single player areas in the multi player, which is pretty cool.
The only thing that really doesn't do it for me about the weapons is the lack of selection. There's some really unique weapons (the predator, or spike gun, to some), but overall, the weapons are just pretty boring. However, in the multi player, you won't really mind as much since one of your best weapons is going to be your melee combat.
I recommend this game for someone looking for some amazing multi player, but I really can't recommend the single player to anyone. It really feels like a console first person shooter, meaning it is shorter than normal, and very limited. However, I really don't even recommend buying the game unless you just want to support Sierra and Monolith. You can download F.E.A.R. Combat, which is the full multi player experience of F.E.A.R. for free on their website. Maybe if they release a platinum edition of F.E.A.R. (with both new expansions), I could recommend it as a purchase, but it's really nothing more than a few hours of fun, aside from the multi.
Excellent but be warned June 14, 2009
Godspanther (USA)
Be warned that with the hand to hand manuevers available to the character it would probably be better to get the console version rather that the pc version of the game. Aside from that however It is quite excellent
Very good, with a few flaws May 6, 2009
David Masters (Wilton, NH)
As far as PC shooters go, this isn't bad at all. Not perfect, but not bad.
Pros: top of the line graphics (requiring a maxed out video card), decent AI, realistic weapons and fighting. Freaky storyline.
Cons: very limited selection of environments - warehouse, office and research lab, repeated over and over. The method of climbing ladders... 'lousy' is a very mild word - games like "Far Cry" do it much much better.
You can play this on a mid-range machine - the requirements say a Pentium 4, 4.0 Ghz. Okay, fine - but you really should have something a bit more powerful. The graphics... they're good, but you'll need to break your wallet in order to get a maxed out video card - I wouldn't recommend any thing less than an nVidia 9500 with 1 Gig of memory, SLI ready, and Shader Model 4.0. Even if you have a monster fast machine (XP, /not/ Vista), a low end video card will make the game jumpy and slow.
Otherwise, it's a fairly standard shooter with decent AI and good graphics. The storyline will definitely have you jumping every once in a while with its paranormal elements (ghosts, bloody corpses, animated skeletons, etc). Parents should watch out because the gore and profanity cannot be turned off.
I'd definitely recommend this one to people looking for a decent PC shooter - that doesn't take place all in the dark - but it has its flaws, mainly in the realm of graphics requirements.
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