Good start! Just not enough here!
I was excited to play this game! Took a while for stores to get it.
Graphics I feel are good for being Direct X9.c For some reason most of the game you feel like Half Life 2. I would say the graphics are still better then Half life 2, but not Crysis level. The "ghosts" effects in the game are done really well. Not seen in most games.
But they used Direct X 9 the game played really smooth, no problems at all.
Sound wise its just as good. Maybe not as intense of battles as there was in Fear 1. But close enough. But the sound and music keep your heart going at the right times.
I bought the game on Thursday (Feb 12) I played it for just over 3 days and have finished the game.
This is probably the biggest downfall off the game. Its just over 6 and half levels. Now each of these levels are done really well, and thought out. But the game ends quickly. There really is 7 levels but the last level isn't really a level just the last battle so its really just a half level if that.
This is probably the only bad thing about the game is I spend $50 on a game that took me maybe 7 hours to play. That just doesn't seem worth it. (I would hate for Xbox 360 and PS3 people that spend $60 on this game and not as good of graphics).
I'm probably going to go through the whole game again because it was so quick. (But thinking of playing through Half Life 2 first)
The other thing that I didn't like, but wasn't really that bad. In the Fear 1 you kind of learned more of the back story through different voice messages left on peoples phones. This one doesn't do that, there are these "intel" Items you pick up and read them to get the back story. This is the normal way of doing it in a game, but after the first one actually had voices doing it, its kind of a bummer they didn't find a way to keep this going. Even to the affect of having some small video reading it.
Over all a good shooter. Nothing new. Good graphics for Fear! Fun as always. Good level Layout. The biggest problem is there isn't much here! I hope they allow for a free download level at least!
I guess because this game attaches to your STREAM account I can't even sell it used? I haven't tried. But thats what I hear!
I would wait until this drops to $40 at least. I would say buy it used, but I don't even know if you can do that? Because of it tieing your SN to your Stream account.