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Gag Gifts, Occasion Gifts - F.E.A.R.: First Encounter Assault Recon
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List Price: $19.99
Our Price: $19.99
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Sierra
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Amazon Maximum Age: 20
Amazon Minimum Age: 204
Batteries Included: 0
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Sierra
EAN: 0020626720922
ESRB Age Rating: Mature
Feature: Hyper Stylized FPS Action
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Sierra
Manufacturer: Sierra
Model: 72092
Number Of Items: 1
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Sierra
Release Date: 2005-10-18
Studio: Sierra
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Features
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Hyper Stylized FPS Action
Supernatural Storyline
Larger-than-life enemies
Advanced Graphics-Cinematic Special Effects
Multi-Player Action
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Editorial Reviews:
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F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon) is an intense combat experience with rich atmosphere and a deeply intense paranormal storyline presented entirely in first person. Be the hero in your own spine-tingling epic of action, tension, and terror? and discover the true meaning of fear. An unidentified paramilitary force infiltrates a multi-billion dollar aerospace compound, taking hostages but issuing no demands. A Special Forces team is sent in by the government to contain the situation, but contact is severed as an eerie signal interrupts radio communications. When the interference subsides moments later, the team has been obliterated. Live footage of the massacre shows an inexplicable wave of destruction tearing the soldiers apart before they can even react. In light of the desperate situation the F.E.A.R. team is assembled. As part of this elite classified strike team created to deal with the most unusual and shocking of threats your mission is simple: Eliminate the intruders at any cost. Determine the origin of the signal. And contain this crisis before it spirals out of control. Requirements - US version of Windows 2000/XPwith latest service pack installed / DirectX 9.0c or higher / PC with Intel Pentium 4 1.7 GHz or equivalent / 512MB RAM / 64MB DirectX 9.0 compliant video card with pixel shader support
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Are we all playing the same game?
Comment: Okay, what I want to know is this:
All you five-star raters out there, are we playing the same game?
This game has got NOTHING on Half-Life 2, and it is so incredibly mundane.
I felt like I was on the same level for the entire game...same rooms, same enemies, same crates. Yes, someone else's review alluded to the crates everywhere, and that person was perfectly correct. There are stupid crates everywhere.
The game-play is WAY to easy. As a matter of fact, I got so tired of hiding behind walls and boxes and CRATES and such only to defeat the enemy with such ease that it didn't matter if I had been hiding or not. So I just slapped it in God mode for a few levels and wasted my time that way, which was much more fun than fighting the minimally challenging resistance over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.
Basically, I didn't like it. Here are some adjectives to describe it:
Boring
Monotonous
Mundane (Already stated)
Humdrum
Stodgy
Dull
Wearisome
You get the picture.
Try Fallout 3, or Quake 4, or Half-Life 2, or even Crysis!
P.S. Under the "Fun" stars, I accidentally clicked on three; it should be two stars.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Well executed combination of horror and fps
Comment: This is the first game I have ever played that really made me jump in my seat. I have always considered horror and fps to be a fun but silly combination. If the demons of hell were unleashed upon the human race I dont think they would come bearing automatic weapons. F.E.A.R. gets around this by creating the clone army whose dna source lies at the heart of the story. That said, F.E.A.R. does an excellent job setting a mood with light and shadows and a plot unfolds that gradually carrys you to a conclusion. Its not going to spell it out for you but the conclusion is worth the time and effort. It is a little repetitive in the middle which many people complain about and I would have to agree but overall if you like games with a horror theme its worth the time.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great action game.
Comment: This game is spooky and creepy but also filled with action.I think this combination works well.The game should only be played on the two highest difficulties or with slomo off in the lower difficulties.
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Summary: Remember, its just a game!
Comment: I bought this game used thinking it was going to be your run of the mill shoot `em up game and the first thing that got me was the blood and guts in this game. This game is not for the weak at heart and even if you are playing in GOD MODE, it's more of a physiological thriller than a game.
In the game you are the newbie on the team and they throw you in to hunt down this guy who controls a cloned army with his mind, and to top it off he is a cannibal. From the very beginning he starts playing with your mind and the ending of this first part is simply mind blowing, where you are no longer fighting bad guys, but ghosts and every other scene is a physiological mind screw where you have to keep on telling yourself, its only a game...its only a game. I have seen horror movies that didn't scare me as much as this game did. I've yet to play the two expansion packs and I do not know if I can.
The graphics are good, and the better your card the better the game will look. Expect a lot of blood, swears, and sneak attacks. I ran this game on my laptop and it ran ok, at certain point it was choppy but it was minimal or and considering that I have an ATI READEON Mobility 300 built in card it ran fantastic.
For entertainment value I gave it 3 stars because it runs more like a horror movie than a game. Overall 4 stars based on the story and game play. Remember, its only a game.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Tense, creepy, and great fun, but a little on the short side.
Comment: Combine the tense military fire-fights of games like Half-Life with the creepy atmosphere of the best Japanese horror films, and you get F.E.A.R.
The only real gripe I have with it is the length. I fully expected to spend a good month or so going through the game (at about an hour a day), but ended up completing the game on the regular difficulty in just over a week.
Everything else about the game is excellent. The debris and gun smoke obscuring the battlefield, the wickedly designed enemy AI (IMO, the best in any FPS game yet), and the well-designed weapons all make for an incredibly satisfying shooter. The little girl ghost will make even the most hardened horror veteran check the dark corners of their home and shut the closet door before going to sleep.
The multi-player mode of the game does not include any of the horror elements from the game, unfortunately. Despite representing only one side of the game, I found the deathmatch levels to be quite well designed, and the pace fast and furious. A downside to multi-player mode is that it REALLY takes a lot out of your system. I'm running a 3.2 GHz CPU with 1 GB RAM and a GeForce 7600GT, and multiplayer COOKS my system. If I play too many consecutive rounds, my PC is so overheated that the game hangs between maps.
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