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F.E.A.R.: First Encounter Assault Recon | 
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| From: Sierra
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy Used: $4.22
You Save: $15.77 (79%)
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Rating:  173 reviews
Sales Rank: 1154
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Xp, Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows 95
Genre: Action Games
ESRB: Mature
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 1.4
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MPN: 82394
Model: 72092
UPC: 020626720922
EAN: 3348542195851
ASIN: B0000ZUGZ4
Release Date: October 18, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Hyper Stylized FPS Action | | • | Supernatural Storyline | | • | Larger-than-life enemies | | • | Advanced Graphics-Cinematic Special Effects | | • | Multi-Player Action |
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Product Description
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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| Customer Reviews: Read 168 more reviews...
Excellent but be warned June 14, 2009
Godspanther (USA)
Be warned that with the hand to hand manuevers available to the character it would probably be better to get the console version rather that the pc version of the game. Aside from that however It is quite excellent
Very good, with a few flaws May 6, 2009
David Masters (Wilton, NH)
As far as PC shooters go, this isn't bad at all. Not perfect, but not bad.
Pros: top of the line graphics (requiring a maxed out video card), decent AI, realistic weapons and fighting. Freaky storyline.
Cons: very limited selection of environments - warehouse, office and research lab, repeated over and over. The method of climbing ladders... 'lousy' is a very mild word - games like "Far Cry" do it much much better.
You can play this on a mid-range machine - the requirements say a Pentium 4, 4.0 Ghz. Okay, fine - but you really should have something a bit more powerful. The graphics... they're good, but you'll need to break your wallet in order to get a maxed out video card - I wouldn't recommend any thing less than an nVidia 9500 with 1 Gig of memory, SLI ready, and Shader Model 4.0. Even if you have a monster fast machine (XP, /not/ Vista), a low end video card will make the game jumpy and slow.
Otherwise, it's a fairly standard shooter with decent AI and good graphics. The storyline will definitely have you jumping every once in a while with its paranormal elements (ghosts, bloody corpses, animated skeletons, etc). Parents should watch out because the gore and profanity cannot be turned off.
I'd definitely recommend this one to people looking for a decent PC shooter - that doesn't take place all in the dark - but it has its flaws, mainly in the realm of graphics requirements.
 F.E.A.R. is a real P.I.A. to install but fun to play! January 15, 2009
Kay Hayes (San Jose, CA USA)
Although this game is fun to play, it is a nightmare to install. My husband spent several weekends trying to get the game to install and play without crashing even though we more than exceeded the minimum requirements. After countless hours with tech support and on gaming forums, after my husband pulled what was left of his hair out (just kidding) and cursed and threatened and verbally abused the game and it's developers (not kidding) F.E.A.R. is finally up and running.
Once installed, the game is a really fun - but linear - FPS. With headphones on and the lights out, some parts are really creapy (in a good way).
 Are we all playing the same game? January 7, 2009
Jelly Jar (Fairview Heights, IL USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
Well executed combination of horror and fps December 2, 2008
azande
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.
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