It's scary, gory, beautiful, fun and it's the best PC game of the year! If not the best game on any console this year.

User Rating: 9.4 | F.E.A.R. PC
Even before it got it's rightful praise this year at E3, I've had my eye on VU Games gothic FPS known as F.E.A.R. or First Encounter Assault Recon. It's hard to know where to start the game is beautiful, fun, scary and very gory, and it is the first time I've ever screamed the words "Holy S..." while playing a game. I mean I've played Doom 3, all the Silent Hill games, both The Suffering games, and until now I've yet to experience the sheer terror that is F.E.A.R.

The game's visuals are the best I've ever seen in any PC game, ever. The amount of detail that went into this game blows me away, the smoke from bullets when they hit the wall, to the sparks that fly off pieces of metal when they are shot. The character models are bulky, and move in a very life like way. It's difficult to describe how incredibly good this game looks, but to run it you will need a very state of the art machine. I'm running on 1GB Ram, 3.4 Ghz processor, with a Nvidia 6800 and I still cannot top out the game without significant slowdown, so be pre-warned, you will need a very very powerful machine. But that aside, it is definely worth every penny you will need to upgrade as this along with many other games like it need a powerful machine.

The games sound is also very moody. When you shoot a gun, it sounds like you are shooting a gun. The game's sound design is on par with Doom 3, so just expect a lot of scares and jumps along the way.

If you a fan of FPS's or just games in general, I think this will be a hard game to pass up at any cost. As a warning, if movies like The Ring scare you, you might want to approach this game in caution as it bares an uncanny resemblance. As I thought the movie to be quite ... well not very scary at all, it was remarkable that the game has gotten to me like it has. Best PC, if not best overall game this year. Rounds of applause for VU Games!