[Fury]

Anyone else played this yet?

What I can tell from the demo, the game is gonna rock.
The creepy little girl is way more scary than any Doom 3 or Half-Life 2 monster. Finally another first person shooter that actually seems to have a plot.

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

I would try out the demo, but my comp is just barely above the requred specs. I don't want to play a game that either looks totally crap or runs very slowly. Or both.

[Tieowbeijas]

Played the demo, and placed a pre-order at the place I usually buy games from.
This is the second game that has actually been scary too me, the other one is Eternal Darkness on the Game Cube, since I don't find the "*zombie/creature/whatever jumps out* "BOOH!" deal really scary. Sure, I jump the first time it happens, but not on the second time. Eternal Darkness on the other hand was scary the fourth I played through it simply because of the scaryness not being dependant on the "boo!"-technique.

[CP5670]

Played it and it looked pretty good, although not exactly scary. It runs like complete crap though; I had to play on 800x600 to get it running decently on a oc'd 6800GT. I hope they optimize the engine better for the final product.

[Fineus]

Turn off/down some of the settings - you don't have to run everything at full you know

[Fury]

I have a Radeon 9800XT 256MB and the demo played relatively smoothly at 1024x768 while everything was on medium. EAX 2.0 and HD was enabled as well.

[CP5670]

Turn off/down some of the settings - you don't have to run everything at full you know

Doesn't help much. The framerate still drops down to the low 40s every now and then on 1024x768 with several of the details turned down. This demo is just badly optimized and a lot of people are having the same experience. The full game will probably be better though if past demos of other games are anything to go by.

[Fury]

Yeah, most likely. Demos usually tend to play the role of public beta test for the developers anyways.

[Fineus]

Strange, I found everything incredibly smooth and well optimised.

[Rott3]

True. For that kind of graphics it runs suprisingly good at 1024x768 and everything on max except textures, AA and no soft shadows. And i'm not going to tell you the specs because i'm evil

I forgot one thing - the game is uber

[Ransom]

Finally, a real horror FPS. I was getting sick of all the 'boo!' tactics in games recently.

But yeah, if the demo is any judge it should be great. There aren't many games I get excited enough about to pre-order them, but this is one of them.

[Rictor]

Yeah, it ran crappy for me too, until I found out that it defaulted to insanely high quality (8x AA) and turned it down.

Enjoyable game, though the little-girl-in-horror-environment is too cliched. As if the mere fact that she a kid is supposed to be frightening.

Nice to see games with liberal use of swearing for a change.

[Yogert]

Originally posted by Rictor
Yeah, it ran crappy for me too, until I found out that it defaulted to insanely high quality (8x AA) and turned it down.

Enjoyable game, though the little-girl-in-horror-environment is too cliched. As if the mere fact that she a kid is supposed to be frightening.

Nice to see games with liberal use of swearing for a change.

I believe the little-girl-in-horror-environment is supposed to represent the perversion of innocence; kind of like the number 666 is considered evil. Adds to the atmosphere of evil and horror and what-not.

[Mefustae]

I believe that F.E.A.R. is definitely a major step-forward in the evolution of - not just First Person Shooters - but the entire Gaming Industry, not for the beautiful graphics, cool story, or great sound and music (seriously, the soundtrack to the opening 'cinematic' is just awesome in my book), all of those are good, but their not the reason why this game is going to be so damn revolutionary...

...this game is revolutionary...for the simply reason...that this is one of the only First Person Shooters...that the player can...



...SEE HIS OWN FEET!!!... *Dun dun dunnnn (Dramatic Percussion)*

Seriously, any game that had a large rifle that shoots 15 Centimetre long Steel Spikes at people, thus allowing you to pin them to walls, is bloody alright in my book ...

[CP5670]

Tribes 2 already did that some years ago. But yeah, it's crazy how almost every FPS game forgets about this. Not being able to see your own feet is probably freakier than anything else you will encounter in a game.

[Dough with Fish]

Originally posted by Mefustae
...this game is revolutionary...for the simply reason...that for once in a FPS...the player can...



...SEE HIS OWN FEET!!!... *Dun dun dunnnn (Dramatic Percussion)*

See Halo 2.

Back on topic, wow..... all I have to say for the demo..... The textures, on the walls especially, I wanted to reach out and touch them and that has never *ever* happened in a game before. And the weapons, man talk about kick-ass. Hell, the I scored a headshot with the pistol and it took the guys head clean off. And the bullet-time dealy feels right at home. I for one cannot wait.

[CP5670]

The textures do look quite good. Almost as good as the original UT with the S3TC packages. This is very good to see since games have regressed quite a bit with texture quality in the last few years.

[Turnsky]

i've played it.. it was good.

[SadisticSid]

Seemed to run pretty well on my Radeon 9800, the only problem was an annoying pop in the sound. The horror scripting was very well done, making it creepy as opposed to shocking (always a plus in my book). Reminds me a bit of the XFiles

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by SadisticSid
Seemed to run pretty well on my Radeon 9800, the only problem was an annoying pop in the sound. The horror scripting was very well done, making it creepy as opposed to shocking (always a plus in my book). Reminds me a bit of the XFiles

it ran okay with my radeon 9000...

and it is brilliant, one guy mentioned to me that he turned it off half way through, saying it scared the crap outta him.....pansy, this game is clearly the best scare in a game since "Clive barker's Undying"