F.E.A.R. Platinum

Overall, the first two missions would be a 4/5 for me, but the missions after all have issues that are killing me. The SloMo is very fun to use at first, but almost every encounter is stale and plays out the same for me. The enemy variety is lacking, with 90% of the roster you fight being grunt units doing the same thing again and again. My biggest problem with the game, for me, has to be the maps. Very unintuitive, with no clear progression or objective. I've probably spent 1/4 of my playtime walking around, trying to figure out where to go. So far, the first two missions were worth it, as I got the game at a good sale price, but finishing this game is a chore to me.

I waited to review these games until I beat all of them and in the meantime spent months in-between mostly to avoid burning out, so I may have forgotten some aspects of the first two titles. The base game I give 5 stars and wholeheartedly recommend. My only complaint is that it can be a bit easy despite putting it on hard or the third difficulty. I barely had to use the slow-mo mechanic, but getting into gunfights in this game is something I wish more games would put effort into. I had no problem running the game, only getting few dips here and there. It is a gorgeous game to boot. It's well paced even if it the last few sections kind of drag on a bit. Basically think Half-Life clone that's actually good. Extraction Point is also very good, if a bit short, but that's expansions for you. It builds off the game and actually gives much needed level variety, and is much harder to boot, and tops off the story satisfactorily. Its biggest flaw however is that it is not optimized for 1080p, isn't actually a default option and I had to go into the files to force into 1080p, and my PC could barely just chug along certain sections. It's not a great PC. Perseus Mandate on the other hand is basically just more FEAR. I'd give it 2 stars if I had to review it as a standalone product, but bundled with the rest it's alright if mediocre. I didn't hear good things about it so while it starts off bad, a boring ugly mess, it actually gets better in the latter half. Story is fanfic levels of bad and I'm not surprised it's not canon despite the cliffhanger, not that FEAR goes on to be better as a whole anyway. Overall, it's a great game, a great expansion, and a mediocre expansion that starts off bad but then actually gets better.

И вот я все таки добрался до первой части. Мое впечатление немного попортило, то, что я ее прошел во времена когда иновации в игре это уже не что то новое и впечатление немного испортило прохождение последующих частей до первой. Тем не менее бои в игре очень динамичные, враги постояно меняют укрытия, переговариваются, кидают гранаты. Взры гранат в помещение это вообще велеколепно сделаная вещь. При взрыве гранаты начинаю качатся подвесные лампы которые отбрысывают свет, по комнате все разлетает от взрывной волны, это нужно видеть. Вообще первая половина игры очень затянута и размазана, нужно немного "перетерпеть" и события начнут развиватся более стремительно. Есть два дополнения и они вызывают только вопросы(Дальше немного спойлеров) Кто в эвакуации управляет клонами? Фетталу вроде чердак пробили пулей. Что за прозрачные "сущьности"? Откуда у ГГ в персеи способность по ускорению?

I am bad at doing reviews but this game is just still one of my favorites.

The game is legendary at this point. It's from the golden age of the mid 2000s. If you like horror or shooters, this is one of the best of both. Feel free to wait for a sale though as both vivendi and warner suck, and monolith has been confined to the brand mines for over a decade.