Thick game that runs thin.
Crazy already ?
Without giving any plot away I'll just say the game is basically The Ring with a dash of Tom Clancy-esque narrative.
Graphically the game is superb. Boasting some of the best visuals based around the Doom 3 style and showing them off at every chance. The animation and gunplay is pretty much on par with most first person shooters if not a little more impressive.
The sound fx are just right for the guns and for theo people as well so this gives that game the extra oomf it needs to make it more then what most other first person games offer audio wise since every sound is basically perefect.
The best part of F.E.A.R though is the fear. The intensity of the firefights is matched by the mental state you are in which the game takes advantage of at every turn. What's bad about this is the game started to lose it's more Fearful touch after a while and plays like an average FPS with nothing really over the extraordinary occuring other then checking phones for story revealing messages and so on. This isn't to say these all aren't nice and interesting it's just that maybe adding a Ghost like effect as seen in System Shock 2 or something of the other may have been more Fearfully interesting then answering messages.
The story is your normally over the top action shooter story with super powered soldiers, massive over the top weaponry and special little moments ( in this game ESP moments) and is more often enough just enough to induldge you into the game.
What's with the burly men posters and calenders everywhere anyway? Signing off now.