Hardware Intensive

User Rating: 7 | F.E.A.R. PC
By vacuuum | Review Date:
This game was highly anticipated because of it's graphics and gameplay. However, it is too intense on hardware that it could not run smoothly on my Computer that has:

AMD Athlon 64 Processor
1.81 Hz 1024 RAM
ATI FireGL V3100 (128 Video Memory)

It pretty much crawls at 1024x768 resolution, lags on 800x600.
The game is horror based, and when "surpring" things happen, the computer needs about a second to load whatever it needs to show. This takes a away a lot from the gameplay. The game ran smoothly on 640x480 settings with all the options dumbed down.
So if you have a high performance computer, this will be a great game, but if your system is weaker than what I have, then you'll probably be disappointed. Sierra has been known for groundbreaking games such as Half-Life 1&2, Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay, and the S.W.A.T. series. This could've been more enjoyable if it performed like Half-Life 2.

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