F.E.A.R.

Experience the original F.E.A.R. along with F.E.A.R. Extraction Point and F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate.

F.E.A.R. is a horror, fps and action game developed by Monolith Productions, Inc. and Timegate and published by Warner Bros. Games and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
Released on May 21st 2010 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 15,834 reviews of which 14,844 were positive and 990 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 1.79€ on Steam and has a 80% discount.

The Steam community has classified F.E.A.R. into these genres:

Horror FPS Action Bullet Time Classic Singleplayer Shooter Atmospheric Gore First-Person Psychological Horror Dark Story Rich Sci-fi Jump Scare Great Soundtrack Survival Horror Old School Thriller Multiplayer

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Operating System: Windows® XP, x64 or 2000 with latest service pack installed
Processor: Pentium® 4 1.7 GHz or equivalent processor
Memory: 512 MB of RAM or more
Graphics: 64 MB GeForce™ 4 Ti or Radeon® 9000 video card; Monitor that can display in 4:3 aspect ratio
DirectX®: 9.0c (August Edition) or higher
Hard Drive: 17 GB free Hard Drive Space for installation; Additional hard drive space for a swap file and saved game files
Sound: 16-bit DirectX® 9.0 compliant sound card with support for EAX™ 2.0
Multiplayer Requirements: Broadband or LAN connection for multiplayer games

Reviews

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Oct. 2024

For 19! years old game F.E.A.R. aged extremely well, especially gameplay. Still, kinda sad how games that doesn't need remasters/remakes (looking at you horizon zero dawn) get them and this modern classic completely forgotten by Monolith & WB.

Oct. 2024

To Make the Game Work FEAR and the expansions all require this patch to play smoothly on modern hardware. https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/789-directinput-fps-fix/ The base game and Perseus Mandate can run without any problem with the patch. However, I still experienced issues with Extraction Point, including no 2560*1440 resolution (require manual modification to game file), the bug “disconnecting from server”, stutter and crashes. I got by just fine by relaunching the game, but there are multiple fixes online you can try if they bother you. Gameplay FEAR is a horror and tactical shooter. Players are to investigate a gruesome paranormal incident as a military specialist who can enable bullet time with super reflexes. Players have this crucial edge otherwise are in plain field with enemies as both only take a few shots to go down. As enemies powered by smart AIs constantly outnumber players, it is necessary to peek through corners and deal with enemies beforehand, where the claustrophobic environments play an important role - tight rooms, narrow corridors and obstacles can be your advantage as concealments and your disadvantage as hinders of sight, creating a thrilling, tight paced, lifelike tactical shooting experience. Of course, you can always make your life easier with bullet time, and the slow-motion effect combined with the powerful punch from shotgun is immensely satisfying. Environement Design This game has quite an achievement with the environment. Not only does it help shape the gameplay, the art direction also gives the game a timeless look, with impressive environmental destruction for its time and some amazing light effects even for today. More importantly, the environments are so good in building the atmosphere: the combination of claustrophobic environments, desolation and a greyish color tone generate a bleak and dreadful vibe; and the clever use of darkness and shadows with some old but gold tricks, such as ominous music and grotesque bodies, makes an unsettling ambiance. While the game may not be the most terrifying, it gives players a great taste of unnerving. As great as it is, environmental design is not without its shortcomings. While the game uses a lot of tricks to successfully make levels not feel as linear as they are, environments are repetitive and lack variety. This reminds me of why Resident Evil always has distinct environments in different parts of the games, because looking at the same environment too long causes fatigue, especially for games like FEAR that primarily happens in small space, it can be very depressing and exhausting. It is even worse playing the base game and Extraction Point back-to-back, where the environment is equally if not more closed up and depressing. Therefore, it is relieving and refreshing that Perseus Mandate has players in more open and bigger space throughout the game. Another problem is that the spooky sequences heavily rely on players looking at the right place at the right time, otherwise they might completely miss it. Additionally, after a while, it becomes predictable as players start to see the pattern of shooting level then spooky level, where players never get hurt, subtracting lots of tension. Story As far as the story goes, it depends on missable audio logs to supplement the details and the presentation is not as cinematic as modern games. With the subtitles too small for modern resolution monitors (fixable with a patch), the story requires some attention to follow, otherwise there is nothing particularly noteworthy. On a side note, the stories of Extraction Point and Perseus Mandate are considered non-canon. I am glad they are because their stories can cause continuity issues with the base game. Verdict Despite the flaws, FEAR is still a classic with exciting tactical gameplay. It got me hooked in the singleplayer tactical shooter genre and I would love to see the series's revival.

Oct. 2024

Game is fun thus far, but has some sort of FPS bug. If your going to get the game, follow this guide, otherwise your likely not going to be able to get above 40FPS https://steamcommunity.com/app/21090/discussions/0/343785380897389173/

June 2024

F.E.A.R is Master Piece which has set benchmark in many aspects when it got released, Gameplay and story is nice, just sit back and enjoy game, worth experiencing this amazing game. Graphics is still good, back in 2005 this game graphics was top notch.

April 2024

Great game but you should be able to purchase it all separately and for far less.

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-80% 8.99€ 1.79€

9.1

14,844

990

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Developer

Monolith Productions, Inc., Timegate

Publisher

Warner Bros. Games, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

Release 21 May 2010

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