F.E.A.R. Platinum

Great Game, Great Atmosphere. Just here to add that in my experience in 2024 that the securom issues other reviews where illustrating no longer seems to be the case.

One of the BEST shooters out there! Very decent, very polished! The platinum edition includes ALL extras and bonus content, such as the videos, the commentaries and trailers, from Director's Cut! The AI is awesome! Much better than that of its sequels, at least, for those nagging always. They are in teams, organized, use tactics and exploit your mistakes for quick, surprise attacks (flashlight!). A great variety of weapons, with stunning animations! Graphics are still pretty good to go. Explosions, gunshots, environmental damage (holes in walls, destructible items, breaking glass and various stuff!), even fatalities (stake gun headshots against a wall!), make up for a wonderful, gory, experience. Not too much of a scare, though. At least in comparison against other shooters, like "the suffering". The cute little girl is very beautiful and instead of scary, rather enticing! I loved her playful giggles and forced illusions, she is such a good kid to have around! Although she is not exactly a kid, but i am not going to spoil it! Those of you who got this game on steam, got scammed. Here, it is DRM-FREE, contains ALL retail extras (for free, too), is sold cheaper than there (at least for the time being), plus it is the very latest version of this game released up to now. Get it here, for the ultimate FEAR digital package ownership! The expansions are not considered to be canon, but they are very enjoyable and create a unique atmosphere. They have even more types of weapons, a new system of breaking and entering into places, new types of enemies, harder difficulty and of course, great story. Now, can we have a collective Alma action figure, please? Instabuy...

F.E.A.R. is an excellent, consistently replayable horror FPS. Its basic gameplay loop never gets old, with an incredibly realized direction and atmosphere. Anyone who is a fan of the FPS gente has to play it.

FEAR is what I consider the second best first person shooter behind the untouchable masterwork that is Perfect Dark. There's flaws to be sure. The environments are bland and repetitive (though convincingly, realistically mundane), the story is meh and the few horror elements there are were clearly tacked on late in development because The Grudge came out. But purely in terms of SHOOTING you just won't find better. The sound, the massive dust that blasts out of walls, objects falling over and being destroyed, big chunks being taken out of walls, the way the enemies react. And the AI. To this very day this is the best enemy AI of any shooter, if not for the Pawns in Dragon's Dogma and the Dwarf Fortress characters I'd say this is the peak of video game AI period. They'll work together to flank you, run behind cover, call out your position, knock over objects to slow you down, panic if you're too strong or surprise them, and more. Even just things like them being able to see your shadow or your flashlight and springing to action if you're not paying attention to the lighting. The AI is so detailed and good that you can play the exact same firefight several times and it'll be engaging and end up different. The pacing is absolutely stellar too, the gameplay loop of going from the most engaging combat encounters in any FPS to the more exploratory 'haunted house' segments works perfectly. It's a damn shame that the franchise went to crap, 2 had better horror but worse everything else. 3 isn't even worth talking about. And no other developer really picked up where FEAR 1 left off in terms of AI and encounter design.

One of the best 1st-person shooter horror games of all times!