Hey, I'm pretty nostalgic for this game as well. Knowing how much meddling happened with it in the background, and considering that this released in the same year as Modern Warfare 2, I still believe that this release, even if it falls short of FEAR 1, still punches well above its weight. I like the imagery right at the start with the swing hanging above the hole you jump into. Knowing the end it's some nice foreshadowing of where the game is going. But why the hell did this crew of special operators have a record player in their van? 😆 The default M+KB controls being such a nightmare wears the fact that this game was made for Xbox first bare on its sleeve, doesn't it
Definitely. FEAR 2 is still exceptional even if it lost a bit of what made FEAR 1 so influential. You also bring up an excellent with MW2, that game had one of the biggest impacts on gaming as a whole that sorta steals the spotlight. No one will ever forget "No Russian". As for the music box in the van I'm assuming that is a hallucination since after Becket snaps out of it, one of your teammates is sitting in it's place. Also, I may already be misremembering, but wasn't it also in that lady's apartment as well? But yeah, the default keybinds are the real horror aspect of the game for sure. I did play with gamepad for a bit, but quickly switched to keyboard despite the DPI mouse issues with this game. I think remapped everything to work well enough for me. Thanks for your comment, always glad to talk.
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Hey, I'm pretty nostalgic for this game as well. Knowing how much meddling happened with it in the background, and considering that this released in the same year as Modern Warfare 2, I still believe that this release, even if it falls short of FEAR 1, still punches well above its weight.
I like the imagery right at the start with the swing hanging above the hole you jump into. Knowing the end it's some nice foreshadowing of where the game is going. But why the hell did this crew of special operators have a record player in their van? 😆
The default M+KB controls being such a nightmare wears the fact that this game was made for Xbox first bare on its sleeve, doesn't it
Definitely. FEAR 2 is still exceptional even if it lost a bit of what made FEAR 1 so influential. You also bring up an excellent with MW2, that game had one of the biggest impacts on gaming as a whole that sorta steals the spotlight. No one will ever forget "No Russian". As for the music box in the van I'm assuming that is a hallucination since after Becket snaps out of it, one of your teammates is sitting in it's place. Also, I may already be misremembering, but wasn't it also in that lady's apartment as well? But yeah, the default keybinds are the real horror aspect of the game for sure. I did play with gamepad for a bit, but quickly switched to keyboard despite the DPI mouse issues with this game. I think remapped everything to work well enough for me. Thanks for your comment, always glad to talk.