Anyone comparing this to F.E.A.R. has never played F.E.A.R..
That being said it's a very serviceable 7/10 goofy fun time.
It's very jank and unbalanced, it doesn't quite know what it wants to be other than a mash slide and melee simulator while shooting. except done way worse than contemporaries like Severed Steel. The weapons feel good when the game runs at a stable frame rate and the slo-mo mode works, and the props + ragdolls and generally loud atmosphere is very entertaining (for all the good and bad reasons). What else brings the game down? The awful pacing.
If you are looking for a spiritual F.E.A.R. successor with a John Woo vibe, perhaps lower your expectations, if you want a run of the road ps3/60 game, you can do a whole lot worse than this. In good faith, I don't think I can personally recommend this even if I can stomach it for the most part. The music is quite good and can drown out the weirdly implemented Unreal Engine 4 tech and game direction while I'm struggling for dear life to understand what just killed me in nano seconds.
That being said it's a very serviceable 7/10 goofy fun time.
It's very jank and unbalanced, it doesn't quite know what it wants to be other than a mash slide and melee simulator while shooting. except done way worse than contemporaries like Severed Steel. The weapons feel good when the game runs at a stable frame rate and the slo-mo mode works, and the props + ragdolls and generally loud atmosphere is very entertaining (for all the good and bad reasons). What else brings the game down? The awful pacing.
If you are looking for a spiritual F.E.A.R. successor with a John Woo vibe, perhaps lower your expectations, if you want a run of the road ps3/60 game, you can do a whole lot worse than this. In good faith, I don't think I can personally recommend this even if I can stomach it for the most part. The music is quite good and can drown out the weirdly implemented Unreal Engine 4 tech and game direction while I'm struggling for dear life to understand what just killed me in nano seconds.
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@sick_boi Oh man, I also remember back in FEAR 1 when all I did was mashing slide, playing something that's purely unbalanced in terms of gameplay and level design, was constantly self parodising itself and 1/5 of the main campaign was a zombie shooter with a recent DOOM Eternal inspired linear escape sequence. Indeed! Never played FEAR!
sick_boi
11 months ago