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F.E.A.R. 2 out this week: YOU CAN STILL KICK PEOPLE IN THE FACE
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I think it's going to be leaning again.
I think leaning works much better in FPS's like this anyway. I've never really been a fan of skipping in and out of 1st person, and giving the character a view around the corner without exposing yourself.
Back when I was playing FEAR combat, the leaning functionality just looked and felt right to me. It just seemed to flow with the combat better.
Welcome to the world on this side.
Fortunately neither were made by Monolith.
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Oh, and how about we get a black character who doesn't make me roll my eyes so hard that I sprain them? Thanks?
I did love the fact that you could kick open doors. Nothing says awesome like busting down a door and getting on with the lead spraying.
That was something I was really hoping they'd keep for the sequel.
And the environments are fine. To be honest, I got so caught up in the shooty-shooty-slowmo-shooty bits that I didn't even think about how repetitive the entire game was. Shit, now I can't stop thinking that. Dammit scarab D:
Can't really talk about Alma since I've not yet seen how she's used in the new game but the original definitely could have utilised her creepiness more. I found the human enemies far more terrifying.
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If FEAR 2 can deliver like the previous, then it's gonna be hella fun times.
edit: I generally used the big assault rifle that you get fairly early on (not the SMG-like one) and that felt tactile enough for my liking.
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F.E.A.R 2 will be well worth the 50 bones.
I usually have a hard time caring one way or another about most FPS characters, but he was probably the first character that genuinely wound me up so much that I ended up just wanting to chuck him out the nearest window. Not because he was an escort character or sidekick with dodgy AI, but because everything about him just made you want to punch his fat face into a wall.
One of my favourite bits in FEAR is one time when you're walking through a corridor you see a discarded cheetos packet on the floor, and that music cue plays, and you just know who's going to be around the next corner corner.
I remember seeing screenshots of a dude wearing a Shogo T-shirt, I figured he might be filling that role this time around.
Seriously that was the coolest part of the first one.
I never asked for this!
Although as long as the shotgun is there things should be ok.
Is it worth borrowing and playing?
Yeah that does suck... one of my favourite things to do in FEAR was a no weapons run on the hardest setting... so awesome flying kicking and roundhousing to victory, and then having a heavily armed squad fleeing in terror from your ninja skills.
Just borrow the first one. The expansions are just filler made by some other guys. And to be honest you'll get enough offices, warehouses and treatment plants without playing them
At the very least I'll be waiting for it to come way down in price because fuck rewarding bad decisions.
Also I feel culturally removed from you guys as I just found Norton funny (and slightly disgusting) like a big ol clown. I didn't particularly want to kill him.
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http://www.gametrailers.com/player/44533.html
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/44535.html
Oh, and that quote from PC Zone since people keep asking about it:
So yeah, that sucks. I suspect that whatever the "electrical" grenade is going to be, it's not going to be enough to replace slide kicking a dude's shins.
Oh well, more grenade abuse then. My brother will reach new epic levels of douchebag.
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I'm expecting the "surgery" scene that we've seen in the trailers and has him getting implanted with something early on has something to do with his having abilities along those lines.
I put the flashbacks down to the 'gifted' thing that all the members of his squad were. And the new guy also has high reflexes so that's out. but really, what concerns me is...
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huge spoilers from the wikipedias:
After the game's credits, the player can listen to a phone call between a mysterious senator and ATC president Aristide, which offers some further explanation: the woman considers the project under control and deems the first prototype (ostensibly the Point Man) a success.[40]
you should have paid more attention.
The PC Gamer UK guys on their podcast basically said, wait until you read the review before buying this game. Which usually means it's not that good.
It's all there if you're keeping tabs on things, but most importantly during the last segment.
You're always hearing Alma crying for them to give her back her baby, during the final vision encompassing this it's pretty heavily implied that baby was the player character, and you hear her say "I know who you are".
As for why this new character shares similar attributes, like I said, I'm almost certain it's going to come down to what those docs where doing to him very early on in the game.
e:ha, im so late