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Why Robin Makes Batman Better As previously announced, developer Monolith Productions is back with a new F.E.A.R. game, but it’s not called F.E.A.R. 2. And we had a chance to check it out at this year’s E3. Since publishers changed during development, the game is now called Project Origin. Different titles aside, this actually is the sequel and is set in the same world F.E.A.R. was — though the game does follow Delta Force sergeant Michael Beckett instead of the mysterious Point Man. The devs are thinking of giving Beckett the same slow motion that Point Man had in the original game.
This week Yahtzee takes on the latest F.E.A.R. expansion. And take it on he does. Think of this something to hold you over while he gets around to (hopefully) an Assassin’s Creed review.
Xbox 360 owners are swimming in demos this week. Following up on yesterday’s release of The Simpsons Game and Conan demos, the Marketplace welcomes two newcomers, Project Gotham Racing 4 and F.E.A.R. Files: Extraction Point, the latter of which I really enjoy typing. PGR4 is fortunately available worldwide and weighs in at 1.27GB, so clean your internet pipes for maximum downloadiness. The demo features three cars, two bikes, and two tracks. That’s value.
The other demo, which I simply cannot be bothered to type out again, comes in at a more trim 584.87MB, but thumbs its figurative nose at anyone not in Canada and the U.S. Sorry, rest of the world. You’re going to have to settle for PGR4.
With Vivendi retaining the rights to the F.E.A.R. name, developer Monolith Productions needed something unique, something catchy, something that’s not a four-letter acronym for the follow up to the spark-filled first-person shooter. What did they wind up with? Something that’s definitely not a four-letter acronym. What would have under normal circumstances been dubbed F.E.A.R. 2 will now be known as Project Origin. Memorable isn’t it? Wait, what was it again? Right, Project Origin.
Sure, it may not have the sex appeal of Dead Echo, but at least it’s better than the rejected Blood Let: Drenched in Desecration, isn’t it? Project Origin is planned to hit the PC, Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 at a mysterious future date. Try to remember the name when it comes out.
F.E.A.R. may be the Xbox 360′s least talked about first-person shooter these days, what with the BioShock demo blessing Marketplace with its presence. That doesn’t mean that Vivendi has forgotten its legion/smattering of F.E.A.R. fans, however, as a totally free new multiplayer map pack has made its way to Xbox Live today. There’s a promise of “lush vegetation”, a “dilapidated building” and “twisting tunnels” that will make the download easy to visualise while you wait for everyone to wrap up securing the BioShock demo.
Sorry continent of Asia and country of Mexico, but you guys and gals are barred from this free multiplayer fun.
