Um... This is literally the current commercial version, just altered for demonstration purposes and before additions were made. Seriously, you people are weird.
I cannot believe FEAR 2 was changed so much by the time it released that it felt like a lame COD clone. Everything from FEAR1 was downgraded in the final release version of FEAR2. I did research and it turns out most of the bad changes came in after Craig Hubbard and the lead level designer left the team around 2008, and also as a result of consoles just not running the game very well. Originally you had a PC version and a console version but I suspect some WB executive came in and forced the games to be merged and since the game was going to release day 1 on consoles you had to scale back everything since consoles by FEB 2009 had very little RAM compared to the PC of the time. It was a dark time to be a PC player after 2007 when Crysis came out as that was truly the last AAA game made on PC without consoles having to factor in and making the game being cut back. I remember playing all of FEAR 1 again a few days before the second game came out and I bought FEAR2 in release. I have never been so disappointed in a game.
The blood looks closer in this version to that of the original FEAR, like red mist compared to the release version which just looks like strawberry jam flying all over the place. The enemies look better too, as opposed to all the fucking glowing lights on the ATC security and Replica soldiers. It seems to match the mood and ambience of the original as well. Such a shame we didn't get this version. What I'd give to get my hands on a playable version of the E3 demo. FEAR 2 as it stands is a good game, but it could've been so much better if they'd stuck to this style, rather than making all of the "improvements" that made it feel like a CoD knockoff. Thanks for uploading these. I remember watching this on repeat as a teen, anxiously waiting for the next entry in one of my favorite IPs. It's a blast from the past.
Um... It looks just like the finished game. Why do you insist that this is better when it's almost identical? They just popped lights on the enemies and otherwise, it's nigh identical to what people played on release in 2009. You people are _weird._
@@NebLleb This beta version everything is better, the song, the slow motion, the sound of the shotgun, the lighting, the shadows on the objects, the effects, the animation when jumping objects and kicking, when the original fear 2 came out it was a huge disappointment , and I always hoped that they would make a mod for fear 2 so that it would look something like the beta but it never came out. I hope that one day they make a remake of fear 2 and it looks like the beta
@@tekanoo1 I disagree with you completely. I am so glad they adjusted and polished the game because this style in the demo fits Condemned series more. The final product has sharper graphics, shooting and movement feel faster and better overall.
@@daviddjurovic1998 polished the game? Fear, as its name implies, should generate fear. However, this version is more like a Call of Duty, with graphics that do not stand out. When firing, the absence of shadows is evident, and the explosions lack a visible shock wave. In short, it is a game where they improved the textures, but sacrificed both the visual effects and the feeling of terror.
@@tekanoo1 its nothing like call of duty. Visual effects are pure quality for that time, they might have reduced their duration for performance. Whats scary and what isn’t is for debate. The aesthetic of the first one gets boring really quickly while this one remains fresh and interesting throughout.
Not quite. The part of the retail game is different from what we see in the beginning of the video, altho we still have the leftovers, like vents where this crawler was supposed to go in beta -- except no blood now.
Biggest case of blue balls was waiting so long to get this game and then not getting it. The music was so good in this demo too and it never made it into the final game. Music guy must’ve quit.
@@appleleptiker It's not part of the actual game. Very sad we never got any of this, the only thing in the final game is the level build. Everything else was gutted hard.
Had they released the game in this form, it would have been outstanding. As it stands, it's a letdown for all FEAR fans. That doesn't make it a bad game, but you will be disappointed if you expected horror like from FEAR.
10 years ago you made this comment, dang! I hope you are still alive, lol. I agree if they had brought this to FEAR 2 it would have been outstanding. They gutted this demo and ruined everything that made it great after 2 years. It was so sad the final game was nothing like this.
Dude, this is literally what Monolith intended the game to be. Everything you see in this demo is what you see in the finished product, and yet you insist it's a letdown. You people are REALLY weird.
They took 2 years to make the final? What a waste of time. This build looks so much better with the lighting and shadows and they ruined it! I have to admit though that I liked the blood much more in the final. I think they should have just edited the blood and dust linger and left the rest alone -_-
the blood is 1:1 from FEAR 1, just saying. actually I just wish they kept the more harder weapon sounds and the impact feel, like the grenades feel also stronger...
I just love the F.E.A.R 2 pistol, its the ACM46 which is based on the Heckler and Koch USP, however it has that large metal sight thing on with the illuminators. Does anybody know where a pistol replica like this could be made?
Holy shit, I've been looking for this exact trailer since forever! I remember this blowing my mind but never actually playing it, even tho I played the absolute shit out of the first one.
I didn't understand, are you saying the first one was crap ? Are you serious ? The first F.E.A.R. was *the best of all* with its atmosphere, level design and unbeatable AI for 20 years.
Hate to say it but this is just far better then F.E.A.R 2 it holds the constant fear and tension of the original, I did not like the art take of F.E.A.R 2 far to advance and sci fi where F.E.A.R felt like a merge of modern and high tech, I would of loved if F.E.A.R 2 was this, sounds better looks better, has a more realistic look and feels far more scary.
That's because it was scripted for the demo at E3 to look more tightly packed with scares. A shorter presentation, with more scares in quick sequence. Works good for a demo. But, in a full length game... would start to wear thin. Lith even commented with the first FEAR that they had to pull it back, because if they put something scary in there over and over... the game starts to feel like a cheap haunted house ride. And it looses it's edge.
Well said. Was such a disappointment what we got when I was expecting this after watching this demo back in 2007. Biggest letdown was we never got to play this demo either, I wonder if it still exists. Wish those Nintendo hackers would hack Monolith and find this build of be game lol I think Damien is wrong tho if they had scares like this demo.. would have been amazing. They could’ve switched it up in other levels.
It’s shocking how the “improvements” they added after this version actually were to the games detriment. The worst you can say about the FEAR 1 engine is the movement is a little janky. This could have easily been fixed while still keeping the superior aesthetics and lighting of this version. Shameful.
@DrTmoney1 You know, I actually agree - the E3 Demo of FEAR 2 had this raw realism that I kind of like; despite being less finished as a polished product. Like take the shotgun, in the first fear [like you said] - it really has a kick, but here it's all a little underwhelming - quite a blow to a game that relies a lot on satisfying shootouts.
my first big dissapointment in gaming... i remember i saw this especting fear 2 to be like this... then the actual game came out and it was more action oriented
@Brupcat the action sadly wasn't, what? What?! FEAR 1's action and horror is still horrifying and very satisfying to play. There's nothing disappointing there at all.
@Brupcat It was confusing. You edit it for future readers but yes FEAR 1 does everything better and it's a fantastic game in of itself with great gunplay action and terrifying horror elements like scares and music.
@@Gadget-Walkmen I think he missed the good j-horror scares from the first game. The paranormal scares in FEAR2 were more hollywood like. You know, effects above suspense.
@@SadAndVengeful I MASSIVELY disagree that they were "more hollywood like" at all in FEAR 2 but if say they weren't as scary as the first game, that's fine to say as they were was a bit too much flashing lights in FEAR2 for the whole aesthetic of the game. They both used effects and suspense but the first game did it MUCH better overall.
The game we never got :( It sucks we never even got to pay this E3 demo, the music is what I am most disappointed about. It is so much better, the final game we just got crap.
Tweaked version of F.E.A.R 1? That would've been great, the lighting would be fantastic, although I do like some of the things they added in F.E.A.R 2.
Um... A lot of people here insist that this looks "better than the release version", but... I'm sorry. This IS the release version. All they did alongside polishing the finished build was add lights to the ATCs and Replicas, and limit the Child Alma design's appearance to the first level. The early builds of Project Origin are indeed what the finished game was intended as barring visual changes. You people are _weird._
I agree. This Video must be very old and back then it was pretty normal for game jounralists to film the material off of screens from e3 directly. Those videos dont show the actual game graphics. I think you could compare it to reshade, where the distortion of the image heavily changes the overall appearance. I can see some subtile changes in level lighting tho for example at 8:17 In the Release version, thjs room is enclosed or the windows are shut. There is no light coming from the sun wich looks like thats the case in this video. Overall - no the final game is not a letdown, I play it every few years and love it. Those e3 trailers always have some magic to them - you can say that for doom 3 too and many other games from this era.
All they did? They completely knee capped the lighting. Pretty much every light casts a shadow in the demo which adds a lot of atmostphere and makes the game scary and stand out. The release version looks terrible in comparison. It looks like every other game from that time. This demo looks good even by 2024 standards. Its very very very rare to see a game where almost all the lights cast shadows and it just makes it feel interesting
I honestly like the weapons and stuff better in FEAR 2 than FEAR 1, but it would've been great if they kept some of the old stuff like the huge dust clouds that lingered after a firefight.
@@TokenChineseGuy lol what? The F.E.A.R. 2 guns look like Halo knockoffs. With the exception of the sci-fi weapons like the beam rifle and the penetrator, he first game's guns were literally real-life ones, just renamed to avoid trademark issues.
And those gun sounds were amazing. They made too many changes over two years since this demo first came out and second guessed themselves into blue ball heaven, ruining the final product in the process
@DrTmoney1 You mean the "Combat System"...? What do you mean, they changed it...it's just more polished in the final game. This was further away from the original FEAR than FEAR 2.
It's because they decided to put this on consoles. Pretty sure that's one of the reasons we never got this version of the game but a watered down crappy version of FEAR 2 that doesn't stand up to the test of time with no horror and downgraded everything.
I think you can tell he was using a controller and that scared me because I had a feeling they were going to ruin this game to put it on consoles. Probably why the lighting and physics were so much worse in the final game.
Over 2 years of second guessing themselves and changing things from no outside input, gave us a terribly disappointing product in comparison to what they showed 2 years prior at this E3.
@twin10broter FEAR used to build dedicated for PC first (2005) then ported it to Console(Xbox version in 2006 and PS3 version in 2007). So these guy have a point, a multiplatform released-focus ruined every demanding project of the game rather than just focus for 1 platform first before thinking about to downgrade and porting the game to others.
My biggest gripe about 2 is that it reminded more of a superficial resident evil knockoff, along with how strangely cheesy & basic some overall themes and direction with sound, story & atmosphere design etc etc.. it felt so uninspiring, no more than that, the graphics, music, physics, so much about it is so underwhelming, cheap, rushed.. have you seen the marketing for this game? Talk about being guided by the wrong hand.. F.E.A.R 2 could’ve been revolutionary, but Warner bros apparently ruined it. The first F.E.A.R set the tone of its unique atmosphere well just like how the Dead Space series did so, but F.E.A.R 2 (WB) killed any future this series deserved. It could’ve been the HALO of the horror FPS..
Funny how when you take a good game and then have the sequel "made for console" it gets much worse than the original product. This is what drove most games into the ground (F.E.A.R 2 and Crysis 2 being prime examples) First games were outstanding being made for computer, but when they decide to "invest in a larger audience" and then market the sequel for console in which they have to greatly cut back the content and dumb down the gameplay.
I agree in some parts tho, but the real reason why those sequels were disapointing (Specially F.E.A.R. 2) Was not about "Console Makert" and Yes "Industry Standards", Call Of Duty Modern Warfare came out the same year as this presentation, and then everyone wanted to be "Cool Military Shooter" and failed misarable, not just disapointing the OG Fans but taking a dump on the core gameplay. Not to mention, most of those sequels had development hell and most of the Original creators leaved. (Sorry about the broken english btw :D)
5:30 listen to that music we never got in the actual game.. it sounded so much like Fear. The Music and atmosphere and blue tint from this demo never made it into the final version. They changed gun sounds and in the 2 years it took them to finish the game after showing this demo, the graphics didn’t change at all. The game looked amazing for the time this demo came out, but by the time the game was actually released the graphics were already starting to become dated. This demo and what we finally got was the biggest case of video game blue balls I’ve ever had in my life. There was no atmosphere in the final game except for the school level. All the talking over the radio instead of silent creepiness like in this demo really killed the mood. I was so hyped when I saw this demo.. waiting OVER TWO YEARS later to play the finished game and not even playing something similar to this demo? Killed my love for the game. Fear 1 still fantastic, FEAR 2 the biggest disappointment in gaming history to me. I couldn’t wait to see what they’d do for scares and horror after I saw this and the finished game didnt scare me at all except for that school level. replacing the blue tint for an ugly glow on every enemy for console players and removing the lean function from the first game was such a terrible idea too.
@@Scarecrow9714 Yea, maybe they could have taken some of the hurt out if they had let us play this demo at some point, but this was never even released. I wonder if it even exists on someone's computer or hard drive still, would die happy if it ever became public.
@@casedistorted You know, I remember first playing the retail game back in 2009, I was playing it on PC...when I first played it I remember thinking ''What the hell happened to the game they showed on E3? Why it's so downgraded? Maybe they downgraded the game on PC?'' (I didn't know how game development worked at the time)...then after a couple of years I've seen someone playing the PS3 version and it was exactly the same (or worse graphically in some areas)...really sad we never had this E3 version tbh
@@Scarecrow9714 Yes! Happened exactly to me too. I played it on PC and enjoyed the game the first time but looking back I realized there was no good horror elements, the first game gave me nightmares, the second did not. I then realized the entire game was downgraded for consoles at the time and it was trying to be CoD instead of FEAR. I was extremely sad because FEAR 2 could have been an amazing sequel to the first game. I hope maybe one day I could create the sequel FEAR 2 should have been.. but once they changed the game's name from Project Origin to FEAR 2 it all came crashing down. The lack of the music they showed in E3 trailer and the blue glow and the particle and smoke effects, etc was all so sad to me. Nowadays I don't even look at E3 trailers or trailers before games release because I will get hyped up and then things will change and I'll hate it. Same happened with Days Gone, that trailer that came out years before the final product was similar to the final game but it played nothing like the trailer they showed. Nick930 I believe has a great comparison video with the giant hordes of zombies in that game at the Lumber Mill.
@@casedistorted Yes man haha, the game was ''consolized'' a little too much, with the new cover system, the weapon wheel...the first F.E.A.R. and Extraction Point expansion where real masterpieces when it comes to the mix of action and horror atmospheres, the second one? not much. You know what made the difference? A lot of the design leaders of the first game didn't work on the sequel, I guess this has to do with the fact that Monolith was purchased by WB a little before the first game was released. I really hope someday we can have a new F.E.A.R. (or a similiar game) made by the original designers and directors, because to be honest? In my opinion we never had a game after F.E.A.R. that could be truly horror and action at the same time, maybe (and that's a huge maybe) Dead Space, but hey, Dead Space it's not an FPS.
esta version beta todo es mejor, la cancion, la camara lenta, el sonido de la escopeta, la iluminacion, las sombras en los objetos, los efectos, la animacion al saltar objetos y patear, cuando salio el fear 2 original fue una decepción enorme, y siempres tuve la esperanza que hicieran un mod al fear 2 para que se pareciera algo a la beta pero nunca salio. ojala que algun dia hagan un remake del fear 2 y se paresca a la beta
How much better would this have looked if they had shown it on PC with mouse and keyboard instead of this piss-poor aiming with controller? And how much better would fear 2 have been if they had just continued along this path with it? Not that fear 2 is bad exactly, but it's not great when compared to the first game, which is an absolute classic.
exactly. the beta might not have been finished but wouldv made a hell of a game if it stayed the same as the beta. you may not belive me but when i was 3 i remember being at shirlays house and when i went in a room i saw blood everywhere for a split second and found out a red hair girl died there because she was trouble with paranormal stuff so her parents shot her. O_O
Personally, I think this version is much better than the current commercial version released two years later.
the atmosphere is much better with those sharp shadows compared to the soft edge and muted shadows in the final version
Um... This is literally the current commercial version, just altered for demonstration purposes and before additions were made.
Seriously, you people are weird.
the ATC soldiers look alot better without all the silly ass blue lights.
yeah, in released game they look like they got JJ abrams treatment.
they sound better too, without that radio transmission effect to their voice.
I cannot believe FEAR 2 was changed so much by the time it released that it felt like a lame COD clone. Everything from FEAR1 was downgraded in the final release version of FEAR2. I did research and it turns out most of the bad changes came in after Craig Hubbard and the lead level designer left the team around 2008, and also as a result of consoles just not running the game very well. Originally you had a PC version and a console version but I suspect some WB executive came in and forced the games to be merged and since the game was going to release day 1 on consoles you had to scale back everything since consoles by FEB 2009 had very little RAM compared to the PC of the time. It was a dark time to be a PC player after 2007 when Crysis came out as that was truly the last AAA game made on PC without consoles having to factor in and making the game being cut back. I remember playing all of FEAR 1 again a few days before the second game came out and I bought FEAR2 in release. I have never been so disappointed in a game.
the funny thing is that it took 10 years to port crysis over to console XD
The blood looks closer in this version to that of the original FEAR, like red mist compared to the release version which just looks like strawberry jam flying all over the place. The enemies look better too, as opposed to all the fucking glowing lights on the ATC security and Replica soldiers. It seems to match the mood and ambience of the original as well. Such a shame we didn't get this version. What I'd give to get my hands on a playable version of the E3 demo.
FEAR 2 as it stands is a good game, but it could've been so much better if they'd stuck to this style, rather than making all of the "improvements" that made it feel like a CoD knockoff.
Thanks for uploading these. I remember watching this on repeat as a teen, anxiously waiting for the next entry in one of my favorite IPs. It's a blast from the past.
Um... It looks just like the finished game. Why do you insist that this is better when it's almost identical? They just popped lights on the enemies and otherwise, it's nigh identical to what people played on release in 2009.
You people are _weird._
@@NebLleb This beta version everything is better, the song, the slow motion, the sound of the shotgun, the lighting, the shadows on the objects, the effects, the animation when jumping objects and kicking, when the original fear 2 came out it was a huge disappointment , and I always hoped that they would make a mod for fear 2 so that it would look something like the beta but it never came out. I hope that one day they make a remake of fear 2 and it looks like the beta
@@tekanoo1 I disagree with you completely. I am so glad they adjusted and polished the game because this style in the demo fits Condemned series more. The final product has sharper graphics, shooting and movement feel faster and better overall.
@@daviddjurovic1998 polished the game? Fear, as its name implies, should generate fear. However, this version is more like a Call of Duty, with graphics that do not stand out. When firing, the absence of shadows is evident, and the explosions lack a visible shock wave. In short, it is a game where they improved the textures, but sacrificed both the visual effects and the feeling of terror.
@@tekanoo1 its nothing like call of duty. Visual effects are pure quality for that time, they might have reduced their duration for performance. Whats scary and what isn’t is for debate. The aesthetic of the first one gets boring really quickly while this one remains fresh and interesting throughout.
Demo is scarier than the actual game haha
Owen Corey this is Part of the actual game
Not quite. The part of the retail game is different from what we see in the beginning of the video, altho we still have the leftovers, like vents where this crawler was supposed to go in beta -- except no blood now.
I have the real game
Biggest case of blue balls was waiting so long to get this game and then not getting it. The music was so good in this demo too and it never made it into the final game. Music guy must’ve quit.
@@appleleptiker It's not part of the actual game. Very sad we never got any of this, the only thing in the final game is the level build. Everything else was gutted hard.
Had they released the game in this form, it would have been outstanding. As it stands, it's a letdown for all FEAR fans. That doesn't make it a bad game, but you will be disappointed if you expected horror like from FEAR.
10 years ago you made this comment, dang! I hope you are still alive, lol. I agree if they had brought this to FEAR 2 it would have been outstanding. They gutted this demo and ruined everything that made it great after 2 years. It was so sad the final game was nothing like this.
This aged like milk. Fear 2 fucking rules. But it's neat how this demo is tonally closer to Fear 1
What are you talking about? FEAR 2 is gold.
Dude, this is literally what Monolith intended the game to be. Everything you see in this demo is what you see in the finished product, and yet you insist it's a letdown.
You people are REALLY weird.
This is in the final game.... and fear 2 was really good
thank you d00m3d2009 for this old piece of old great action
The game we should have got.
This version of fear 2 should be remastered like now.
Especially on PS4/5, Xbox’s and other gaming devices too.
And I don’t think Warner Brothers should be involved when it comes to technology graphics and designs.
Whoever made this e3 demo should remaster it for fear 2 because it looks Beautiful and a build up to the original fear.
They might have this build somewhere. One can hope
I doubt it because they didn’t remade this game in this version yet.
They took 2 years to make the final? What a waste of time. This build looks so much better with the lighting and shadows and they ruined it! I have to admit though that I liked the blood much more in the final. I think they should have just edited the blood and dust linger and left the rest alone -_-
the blood is 1:1 from FEAR 1, just saying. actually I just wish they kept the more harder weapon sounds and the impact feel, like the grenades feel also stronger...
and I’ll admit the HUD looks better in the final too
Should of kept the old gun sounds for the pistol and shotgun. The rest is fine.
Thanks for uploading. It is very interesting to see these old e3 gameplay demos. They dont make games like this anymore. Great stuff.
I just love the F.E.A.R 2 pistol, its the ACM46 which is based on the Heckler and Koch USP, however it has that large metal sight thing on with the illuminators. Does anybody know where a pistol replica like this could be made?
Holy shit, I've been looking for this exact trailer since forever! I remember this blowing my mind but never actually playing it, even tho I played the absolute shit out of the first one.
I didn't understand, are you saying the first one was crap ? Are you serious ? The first F.E.A.R. was *the best of all* with its atmosphere, level design and unbeatable AI for 20 years.
@@Batwarkov No, he ment that he played a lot.
I wish F.E.A.R. 2 was this. :(
I remember watching this a long time ago, I still wish the final game was more like this
Hate to say it but this is just far better then F.E.A.R 2 it holds the constant fear and tension of the original, I did not like the art take of F.E.A.R 2 far to advance and sci fi where F.E.A.R felt like a merge of modern and high tech, I would of loved if F.E.A.R 2 was this, sounds better looks better, has a more realistic look and feels far more scary.
That's because it was scripted for the demo at E3 to look more tightly packed with scares. A shorter presentation, with more scares in quick sequence. Works good for a demo.
But, in a full length game... would start to wear thin.
Lith even commented with the first FEAR that they had to pull it back, because if they put something scary in there over and over... the game starts to feel like a cheap haunted house ride. And it looses it's edge.
Couldn't agree more, with the artstyle opinion
Well said. Was such a disappointment what we got when I was expecting this after watching this demo back in 2007. Biggest letdown was we never got to play this demo either, I wonder if it still exists. Wish those Nintendo hackers would hack Monolith and find this build of be game lol
I think Damien is wrong tho if they had scares like this demo.. would have been amazing. They could’ve switched it up in other levels.
It’s shocking how the “improvements” they added after this version actually were to the games detriment. The worst you can say about the FEAR 1 engine is the movement is a little janky. This could have easily been fixed while still keeping the superior aesthetics and lighting of this version. Shameful.
Just watch how Game developers explain because if they are saying best video game yet,
They are liars.
Imagine if Warner Brother didn't force Day One to change their version of FEAR2 to F3AR, we could have more games that set inside the FEAR universe
@DrTmoney1 You know, I actually agree - the E3 Demo of FEAR 2 had this raw realism that I kind of like; despite being less finished as a polished product. Like take the shotgun, in the first fear [like you said] - it really has a kick, but here it's all a little underwhelming - quite a blow to a game that relies a lot on satisfying shootouts.
my first big dissapointment in gaming... i remember i saw this especting fear 2 to be like this... then the actual game came out and it was more action oriented
@Brupcat the action sadly wasn't, what? What?! FEAR 1's action and horror is still horrifying and very satisfying to play. There's nothing disappointing there at all.
@Brupcat It was confusing. You edit it for future readers but yes FEAR 1 does everything better and it's a fantastic game in of itself with great gunplay action and terrifying horror elements like scares and music.
@@Gadget-Walkmen I think he missed the good j-horror scares from the first game. The paranormal scares in FEAR2 were more hollywood like. You know, effects above suspense.
@@SadAndVengeful I MASSIVELY disagree that they were "more hollywood like" at all in FEAR 2 but if say they weren't as scary as the first game, that's fine to say as they were was a bit too much flashing lights in FEAR2 for the whole aesthetic of the game. They both used effects and suspense but the first game did it MUCH better overall.
Man I miss this game
The game we never got :( It sucks we never even got to pay this E3 demo, the music is what I am most disappointed about. It is so much better, the final game we just got crap.
they should have given us this version lmao
@dathip Agreed bro. The gore and blood was awesome, they changed it way to much.
Tweaked version of F.E.A.R 1? That would've been great, the lighting would be fantastic, although I do like some of the things they added in F.E.A.R 2.
Cant wait for this.. looks amazing
Um... A lot of people here insist that this looks "better than the release version", but... I'm sorry. This IS the release version. All they did alongside polishing the finished build was add lights to the ATCs and Replicas, and limit the Child Alma design's appearance to the first level. The early builds of Project Origin are indeed what the finished game was intended as barring visual changes.
You people are _weird._
I agree. This Video must be very old and back then it was pretty normal for game jounralists to film the material off of screens from e3 directly.
Those videos dont show the actual game graphics. I think you could compare it to reshade, where the distortion of the image heavily changes the overall appearance. I can see some subtile changes in level lighting tho for example at 8:17
In the Release version, thjs room is enclosed or the windows are shut. There is no light coming from the sun wich looks like thats the case in this video.
Overall - no the final game is not a letdown, I play it every few years and love it.
Those e3 trailers always have some magic to them - you can say that for doom 3 too and many other games from this era.
All they did? They completely knee capped the lighting. Pretty much every light casts a shadow in the demo which adds a lot of atmostphere and makes the game scary and stand out. The release version looks terrible in comparison. It looks like every other game from that time. This demo looks good even by 2024 standards. Its very very very rare to see a game where almost all the lights cast shadows and it just makes it feel interesting
@@J000shyno
That beeping TV is so damn fucking loud. My God...
I need a fear 2 remaster so bad
I honestly like the weapons and stuff better in FEAR 2 than FEAR 1, but it would've been great if they kept some of the old stuff like the huge dust clouds that lingered after a firefight.
Honestly, because they look so much cooler and real than FEAR 1's guns. FEAR 1 weapons look like 1960's movie props.
+TokenChineseGuy's Rare Music!
the pistol in FEAR 2 is still a generic modern design choice which doesnt look good at all...
@@TokenChineseGuy lol what? The F.E.A.R. 2 guns look like Halo knockoffs. With the exception of the sci-fi weapons like the beam rifle and the penetrator, he first game's guns were literally real-life ones, just renamed to avoid trademark issues.
it was the same sound from the first game.
And those gun sounds were amazing. They made too many changes over two years since this demo first came out and second guessed themselves into blue ball heaven, ruining the final product in the process
more graphics than fear
@DrTmoney1 You mean the "Combat System"...? What do you mean, they changed it...it's just more polished in the final game. This was further away from the original FEAR than FEAR 2.
looks like the lighting / shadows got downgraded.... but the final release of FEAR 2 is still a very delightful looking game
It's because they decided to put this on consoles. Pretty sure that's one of the reasons we never got this version of the game but a watered down crappy version of FEAR 2 that doesn't stand up to the test of time with no horror and downgraded everything.
does this guy even know how to aim??
I think you can tell he was using a controller and that scared me because I had a feeling they were going to ruin this game to put it on consoles. Probably why the lighting and physics were so much worse in the final game.
@ac1th Yeah i know it just became a sort of action shooter
no I mean why did they take it out from this beta of fear 2 to the one we have now.
Over 2 years of second guessing themselves and changing things from no outside input, gave us a terribly disappointing product in comparison to what they showed 2 years prior at this E3.
@@casedistorted lol dang my comment is from 7 years ago. Yeah I was SOOO disappointed when they didnt do this build.
COD and consoles killed the F.e.a.r. series
The third one killed the F.E.A.R. series, in my opinion
kiIl-chan fear 1 and 2 were on consoles so I don’t see how it killed it
@twin10broter FEAR used to build dedicated for PC first (2005) then ported it to Console(Xbox version in 2006 and PS3 version in 2007). So these guy have a point, a multiplatform released-focus ruined every demanding project of the game rather than just focus for 1 platform first before thinking about to downgrade and porting the game to others.
it is a scope mount for a pistol you can find one at a gun store are you planning on a airsoft or real gun ?
Why did they change it?????
why the heck did they take out the sound effects of the pistol at 1:40 This is why fear 2 sucked my friend
I like F.E.A.R. 2 for what it is
but I do think this early version looks more like a better successor to the original F.E.A.R.
FEAR 1 on PC looks better than this LOL what is this 480p 25fps and NO AA.
My biggest gripe about 2 is that it reminded more of a superficial resident evil knockoff, along with how strangely cheesy & basic some overall themes and direction with sound, story & atmosphere design etc etc.. it felt so uninspiring, no more than that, the graphics, music, physics, so much about it is so underwhelming, cheap, rushed.. have you seen the marketing for this game? Talk about being guided by the wrong hand..
F.E.A.R 2 could’ve been revolutionary, but Warner bros apparently ruined it.
The first F.E.A.R set the tone of its unique atmosphere well just like how the Dead Space series did so, but F.E.A.R 2 (WB) killed any future this series deserved. It could’ve been the HALO of the horror FPS..
The greatest wasted opportunity of all-time.
Man the second game is so damn boring, I wish we have got this...
While FEAR 2 is overall much better than FEAR 1 it's gunfire sound effects were awful.
Funny how when you take a good game and then have the sequel "made for console" it gets much worse than the original product. This is what drove most games into the ground (F.E.A.R 2 and Crysis 2 being prime examples) First games were outstanding being made for computer, but when they decide to "invest in a larger audience" and then market the sequel for console in which they have to greatly cut back the content and dumb down the gameplay.
I agree in some parts tho, but the real reason why those sequels were disapointing (Specially F.E.A.R. 2) Was not about "Console Makert" and Yes "Industry Standards", Call Of Duty Modern Warfare came out the same year as this presentation, and then everyone wanted to be "Cool Military Shooter" and failed misarable, not just disapointing the OG Fans but taking a dump on the core gameplay. Not to mention, most of those sequels had development hell and most of the Original creators leaved. (Sorry about the broken english btw :D)
5:30 listen to that music we never got in the actual game.. it sounded so much like Fear. The Music and atmosphere and blue tint from this demo never made it into the final version. They changed gun sounds and in the 2 years it took them to finish the game after showing this demo, the graphics didn’t change at all. The game looked amazing for the time this demo came out, but by the time the game was actually released the graphics were already starting to become dated.
This demo and what we finally got was the biggest case of video game blue balls I’ve ever had in my life. There was no atmosphere in the final game except for the school level. All the talking over the radio instead of silent creepiness like in this demo really killed the mood.
I was so hyped when I saw this demo.. waiting OVER TWO YEARS later to play the finished game and not even playing something similar to this demo? Killed my love for the game. Fear 1 still fantastic, FEAR 2 the biggest disappointment in gaming history to me.
I couldn’t wait to see what they’d do for scares and horror after I saw this and the finished game didnt scare me at all except for that school level.
replacing the blue tint for an ugly glow on every enemy for console players and removing the lean function from the first game was such a terrible idea too.
Couldn't agree more with your words man.
@@Scarecrow9714 Yea, maybe they could have taken some of the hurt out if they had let us play this demo at some point, but this was never even released. I wonder if it even exists on someone's computer or hard drive still, would die happy if it ever became public.
@@casedistorted You know, I remember first playing the retail game back in 2009, I was playing it on PC...when I first played it I remember thinking ''What the hell happened to the game they showed on E3? Why it's so downgraded? Maybe they downgraded the game on PC?'' (I didn't know how game development worked at the time)...then after a couple of years I've seen someone playing the PS3 version and it was exactly the same (or worse graphically in some areas)...really sad we never had this E3 version tbh
@@Scarecrow9714 Yes! Happened exactly to me too. I played it on PC and enjoyed the game the first time but looking back I realized there was no good horror elements, the first game gave me nightmares, the second did not.
I then realized the entire game was downgraded for consoles at the time and it was trying to be CoD instead of FEAR. I was extremely sad because FEAR 2 could have been an amazing sequel to the first game. I hope maybe one day I could create the sequel FEAR 2 should have been.. but once they changed the game's name from Project Origin to FEAR 2 it all came crashing down.
The lack of the music they showed in E3 trailer and the blue glow and the particle and smoke effects, etc was all so sad to me.
Nowadays I don't even look at E3 trailers or trailers before games release because I will get hyped up and then things will change and I'll hate it.
Same happened with Days Gone, that trailer that came out years before the final product was similar to the final game but it played nothing like the trailer they showed. Nick930 I believe has a great comparison video with the giant hordes of zombies in that game at the Lumber Mill.
@@casedistorted Yes man haha, the game was ''consolized'' a little too much, with the new cover system, the weapon wheel...the first F.E.A.R. and Extraction Point expansion where real masterpieces when it comes to the mix of action and horror atmospheres, the second one? not much. You know what made the difference? A lot of the design leaders of the first game didn't work on the sequel, I guess this has to do with the fact that Monolith was purchased by WB a little before the first game was released. I really hope someday we can have a new F.E.A.R. (or a similiar game) made by the original designers and directors, because to be honest? In my opinion we never had a game after F.E.A.R. that could be truly horror and action at the same time, maybe (and that's a huge maybe) Dead Space, but hey, Dead Space it's not an FPS.
esta version beta todo es mejor, la cancion, la camara lenta, el sonido de la escopeta, la iluminacion, las sombras en los objetos, los efectos, la animacion al saltar objetos y patear, cuando salio el fear 2 original fue una decepción enorme, y siempres tuve la esperanza que hicieran un mod al fear 2 para que se pareciera algo a la beta pero nunca salio. ojala que algun dia hagan un remake del fear 2 y se paresca a la beta
How much better would this have looked if they had shown it on PC with mouse and keyboard instead of this piss-poor aiming with controller?
And how much better would fear 2 have been if they had just continued along this path with it?
Not that fear 2 is bad exactly, but it's not great when compared to the first game, which is an absolute classic.
This was the FEAR 2 I was hype for!!!! Not that trash version we got 😭😭
this game was dead in the water from the beggining
exactly. the beta might not have been finished but wouldv made a hell of a game if it stayed the same as the beta. you may not belive me but when i was 3 i remember being at shirlays house and when i went in a room i saw blood everywhere for a split second and found out a red hair girl died there because she was trouble with paranormal stuff so her parents shot her. O_O
lol what comment is this from 9 years ago, you must have been a kid still when you wrote this haha