Not to mention the debacle in which FEAR was rushed to market only to have its first official patch made available on the same day as the game's release.
They've done this knowing full well how problematic secuROM is, and indeed many legitimate purchasers of the game (including me) are now having problems launching the game because of authentication errors on our original CDs/DVDs. Secondly, and perhaps my biggest gripe, is the way in which the game's publishers, Vivendi Universal Games, have decided to use the secuROM copy protection system for the game. You really do need to pay attention to what the various settings do, and try some of the suggestions in this guide to make sure you get good performance, otherwise your FEAR will turn into loathing (and not just in Las Vegas). It takes a great deal of work for FEAR to run smoothly on most machines. Firstly, the game engine is a real PC-slayer. Now in the interests of not sugar-coating my introductions as much as I used to, let me quickly cover some of the drawbacks and problems with FEAR. Bottom line is that this game is the real deal, and well worth purchasing. Even though I'm not a big fan of the supernatural FPS genre, I like FEAR. The attention to detail in the environments is left nicely visible, and the special effects really blow you away at times. FEAR doesn't fall into the trap of being a Doom 3 clone with lots of pitch black corridors and rushing monsters. In FEAR, the gimmick is SlowMo mode - hardly new (bullet time in Max Payne comes to mind), but it is well executed.Īs for the graphics, physics and general atmosphere of the game.well they're pretty much perfect. In Far Cry, the gimmick was the tropical location, something which hadn't been used in any major FPS I'd seen up to that point. Just like Far Cry, there are two things which make FEAR stand out from the crowd - a gimmicky but genuinely fun twist, and amazing graphics. But after a few email requests from readers I decided to download the game and give it a try - and boy, I'm glad I did! It looked like another generic FPS-on-rails which would quickly slot in somewhere between Soldier of Fortune 2 and Doom 3 on the originality meter. When the FEAR Demo came out a few months back, I didn't even think about downloading it. Just like Far Cry, FEAR is one of those games that's taken everyone by surprise.
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