Ten years ago today, Monolith Productions did not release a sequel to Shogo: Mobile Armour Division. Instead they embarked on a horror-filled first-person saga that would leave players questioning supernatural age of consent laws.
I won't spoil anything about the F.E.A.R. series here — well, any more than I just technically did, but not really. The original game came out at a time when narrative-driven first-person shooters were really coming into their own, and the final one — 2011's F.3.A.R. — came much later than it should have.
Here are the bits we skipped.
Interested in playing? I bought my copy off of GOG.com, which includes the original game and its two expansion packs.
Happy birthday, you creepy bastard. It's ok that you weren't a new Shogo game.
Not really.
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FEAR hasn't aged well visually.
The games 10 years old...at its time the graphics were amazing. I personally still think it looks okay.
Truth is, no game ages well visually lol
Monkey Island 3 still looks pretty nice.
I tried playing this recently, after having played through FEAR 2 and really enjoying it. I pretty much returned this immediately. The visuals are ech, which doesn't affect me much, but the gameplay feels so stiff and the controls feel like they were designed for a different era (I guess, technically they were, but zooming with RS isn't my cup of tea.)
Loved it back in the day. This was a nice bit of nostalgia.
I dunno about not aging well visually, I always thought it was pretty good... but mostly, I'm still impressed by the AI in that game. I think it's still surprising to find games nowadays without AI that good.
EDIT: Just watched the video, still looks pretty good for me for a decade-old game.
Last edited 19/10/15 11:17 amLiterally (not literally) die of boredom through every minute of the first 75% of the game. Loved it at the time but it really doesn't even begin to engage til the end.
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