F.E.A.R. Platinum

Game play - 4 stars , no compass Textures - old looking - 2.5 stars Average 3.25 stars

Admittedly yes i bought this a while back, but i have been trying off and on and i've had enough of this. The game wouldn't stop crashing after the second level, so i reinstalled it about 4 times, only to have it work and freeze about halfway through the 3rd level. Garbage. And it's a shame, because the game itself is excellent, i'm just sick of this version. And its weird, i can run the game on ultra it will just freeze up, so beware if you're on xp try at your own risk

On steam, first mission runs around 30 fps, the second around 20 and less.. here, im getting 7fps from the very begining :/ Damn, ive had a itch for FEAR, too bad.

After hearing so much praise heaped on this game (looking at you, GGGManLives), I finally decided to check it out and I wish I hadn't. Hardly anything worked for me. The levels are very dull, with most of them being the same office building over and over, and corridors set at 90 degree angles like it's still 1992. You can only carry three weapons at once, but then again only three or four are worth carrying. The music is just some barely noticeable buzzing and droning, the enemies are only three or four similar guys, the story only gets in the way of shooting, and the shooting is way too interspersed with wandering around and trying to find out what you're supposed to do next. There were a few good moments, particularly shooting a bunch of guys with a remote-controlled turret, but that only happened twice throughout the game, I think. And contrary to its name, the game is not scary in the slightest, all the attempts at horror fall completely flat. Overall, a really boring experience that I cannot in good conscience recommend to anyone.

Being a big fan of FPSs like Half Life and NOLF I was really looking forward to this one, but I found it boring to the max. Endless offices and industrial areas, same enemies over and over, highly linear. It may be that this is too "pure" an FPS for me - I like an interesting story, scripted events and that kind of thing to spice things up, and F.E.A.R. doesn't offer much of that.