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In hindsight, early 2000s games had charm that you can hardly find today and my brain back in the early 2000s was weak to those charms - I miss not paying bills.
Exactly,there is a liminal feeling in this 2000-2008 games that just fascinating me and I don't know why, maybe the lighting? Texture detail? I don't know but damn is it a uncanny feeling Fear 2 and 3 doesn't have the same feeling in me for some reason
I think a large contributing factor to the game's weapons being so underwhelming is their sound design. Whereas in the original F.E.A.R. even the pistol sounded meaty, in Project Origin everything sounds like a wet fart.
atl least they didn't went in opposite direction... doom 3 shotgun has metallic sound and a ok-ish gunshot but the horizontal spread makes it completely useless weapon 2 meters away from th target unless you go with doom's spirit and shove it into demon's mouth.
I found Fear 2 disappointing on 1st playthrough. But on repeat playthroughs i enjoyed it a little more. I do appreciate the visual upgrade to character models and environment variety, as well as mixing up the gameplay a little with varied set pieces like the mech sections.
The game had been a lot better around 2007, you can find gameplay for how the game was back then as shown in E3 2007. There's a lot more gameplay which you can find from that era and the game as a whole was a lot better. 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.
I remember that initial gameplay trailer too. Instantly made me say to myself: 'oh yeah, this is the sequel FEAR deserves'. It blew my socks off it was so slick. But then they cartoonised and consolehumped during production. It was still a good game but only half as good as it could have been.
@@BoulderPunch wow man, what a difference in atmosphere no colored lights on guns and other unnecessary glowy lights on things that shouldn't need them, sharper shadows compared to the soft shadows (which may be more realistic, but take away one of the defining styles), better ragdolls when killing enemies etc.
Loved this game tbh, I hadn’t played the first one, so went into it blind and it was a pleasant surprise. However after playing the first one, I have to say, gameplay on it is vastly superior
I am surprised no one talks about leaning being removed, with changes to medkits, and accuracy when discussing gameplay differences from FEAR 1 to FEAR 2. Which is hilarious since FEAR 2's linear arena design would benefit from leaning, especially on hard. FEAR 2 on hard a regular grunt can kill you at the drop of a hat from full health & no armor. Medkits in FEAR 2 restore max health instead of a portion, and have a limit of 3 instead of 10. Which incentivizes hanging back gameplay compared to the aggressive combat of FEAR 1. This leads to a conundrum on hard difficulty where you don't want to waste your precious 3 medkits, but enemies can kill you with a crack shot at 90% health. Aim Down Sights on the AR I found really obnoxious since the accuracy can spread quite quickly even if you burst fire, and the only feedback is your shots going wide which can be missed if you're not paying attention. Shots can go as wide as the near the edge of the scope, unless you single-fire. So ADS only has perfect accuracy if you put your AR in Semi, and I didn't test a lot with the SMG. It feels that weapon accuracy was a lot more manageable in FEAR 1 compared to FEAR 2. Accuracy is a personal gripe for me, but leaning's removal, and the changes done to medkits are a pretty huge deal.
i am surprised that nobody ever mentiones this fucking camera zooming in and out when scripted horror happens this kills the "BEST LEVEL IN ENTIRE FRANCHISE" and that fucking school is the only proper F.E.A.R. level in entire second game yet horror aspect is getting completely destroyed by the goddamn camera. those cursed zooms first happen when nuke goes off and never stop first fear had it more... huh... "realistic" second fear makes me feel like becket is moving his head back and forward like a complete retard whenever "da scary" happens
To easily beating the campaign and getting the hard completion achievement you could always reload the last checkpoint before finishing the chapter, exiting the game and changing the difficulty settings to hard and it did work at least on 360. A sometimes necessary cheese for the game at certain points in the campaign.
On the enemy A.I. in Fear, both the original and its sequel, I can say they are virtually identical. The source code for the original F.E.A.R. and its SDK were released a while ago, meaning a. we can look directly at the code and understand how complex or "intelligent" the A.I. in the game was and b. the map formats are so similar between the games, that F.E.A.R. 2 maps can be opened (but not function) in F.E.A.R. 1's map editor. The original F.E.A.R.'s A.I. are pretty "dumb" or simple, they on average have 12 or so goals (F.E.A.R. uses Goal Oriented Object Programming so goals determine behavior) assigned to them on average; these goals tend to be pretty simple, such as attack, suppress, flank, grenade, announce, etc.. However, that is where the intelligence, or the illusion of it lies. These goals are so simple, and thus less intensive on the CPU, so that each active object, or enemy, can reevaluate or calculate its actions 3-5 times for each goal before acting and then selecting the action that will produce the best result, usually player damage. For F.E.A.R. 2, seeing as how map files are so similar that they can be opened between games it is very unlikely the A.I. algorithm has meaningfully changed, however if you take a gander over to task manager while running F.E.A.R. and its sequel you'll notice that F.E.A.R. 2 has about 40% more GPU usage, while having almost half the CPU usage compared to the original F.E.A.R., meaning that: most likely due to the weaker CPUs of consoles that F.E.A.R. 2's A.I. are performing far less calculations on their behaviors, by my guess 1-2 calculations at best, thus producing the perceived difference. TLDR; it is unlikely F.E.A.R. 2's A.I. is "dumber", or less complicated, instead they are just performing simpler calculations causing less interesting, or "correct" behavior compared to F.E.A.R. nor is the difference in behavior likely to be a product of level design.
@@trabuco9 Oh trust me, at this point I just want a decent story, but gameplay is just as important and sometimes carries a shitty story. I'm just hoping it has good direction, and us waiting all this time will have paid off.
I can understand why fear 2 may feel underwhelming compared to 1, but the variety of environments was nice. The hospital, the school, the origin labs, the nuclear weapon-damaged streets, all felt unique while not dragging on for too long.
I liked all the "eastereggs" you can find in the game despite it being a worse game overall. I really liked the sniper, thought the assault rifle was ok. there's a better rifle that's locked to multiplayer that is a shame.
I remember when I tried this game for the first time many years ago and I got my hands on the shotgun and it felt like a nerf gun, as you well described, I almost immediately proceeded to uninstall the game because I just felt it in my bones that it was probably all gonna be downhill from there, especially when comparing it to the first game, which is almost inevitable. I'm glad to know that I didn't really miss much. Kind of a shame, though, to be honest.
pistol sucks shotguns suck basic smg sounds like goddamn drums.... and they went full console retard replacing 10 medkits each healing for +/- 20 hp to 3 medkits that each heals full health...
Project Origin was one of the first (and last) games I ever pre-ordered. I was really disappointed in how the combat felt so much less dynamic, I HATED the glowing enemies, and the story felt silly by the end. But I did think it was well paced, and yeah, Wade Elementary is genuinely one of the best horror sections in any FPS.
I bought this game blind having never played the first one but being a huge fan of horror and FPS games. I enjoyed my time with it though I bought it when it was new and full price.
that is like one proper level and people give it way too much credit for a mediocre game after festival of consolization scripted scares of the school are nothing exceptional.
the music in the end turret section is a nod to SnakeFist. It's the song to the SnakeFist movie that Halford had the poster in his office, and the instrumental version of the tune he was listening to on the radio
FEAR 2 is such a shitty game. Clunky gameplay, weightless gunplay, ugly visuals, and some generic and boring horror elements. On its own it is a mediocre and forgettable game, in the context of it being a follow up to one of the best FPS though it is one of the most disappointing games I've ever played.
At 4:08 you’re not wrong about the game having a good shotgun mainly because it actually resembles the spas-12 shotgun one of my favorite video game shotguns!
This whole game and it's sequel is so fucking goofy with it's mix of ghostly horror and over the top sci fi nonsense. The orignal mixed the two very well in my opinion. Like wtf happened with the tone of these games?
as i always say. first fear was like japanese original second fear was like american remake third fear was like a sequel to american remake than literally nobody asked for 1. WB decided they can do it on their own 2. corporate greed 3. probably not but they basically googled "what made fear great" and made check boxes: -horror/jumpscares -little girl in red dress ALMA -slow motion -ghosts/demons or some shit -nuke went off in the first game 4. they didn't took any notes on weapons from the first game 5. they went call of duty way of appealing to retarded kids with bajillion explosions and loud noises - blike that hated by almost everyone section where you are stuck in a turret and shitty song plays while everything explodes and ai characters cheery on. 6. they lost the sight of where first game was going and just pumped out sequel that nobody asked for.
We talk about consolifcation but tbh Fear 1 played extremely well on the Xbox 360, the way the game controlled worked well on a controller, at worst it was awkward getting the lean quickly utilized with your thumb from the left joystick. I myself have played both versions and the 360 versions AI doesn't seem any different from PC. PS3 port was pretty bad from what I heard so i can see the AI struggling with that things CPU.
8:20 as someone who owns a physical copy of the first fear game as well as fear files which contains the two expansions I can say I found the enemy a.i to be pretty intelligent as the pc version of the game. Though to be fair I don't have a PC or played the game on a PC so best I could do to see the similarities is from what I've played of the games on my xbox one and from PC gameplay that I have seen on TH-cam but for the most part of the console ports of fear and the expansions its the a.i and gameplay feels much like that of the PC port for the most part
I was replaying FEAR 2 and the whole series when this video was uploaded, came away thinking FEAR 2 is easily the worst. Yes, I would gladly play Perseus Mandate (which I really like) and F3AR (much faster-paced, better guns, melee is usable again) over it. FEAR 2 is a decent enough shooter, but it has none of what I enjoyed about the first game. You can't replay the same fight over and over again and try something new, you're basically going to mow everyone down with the assault rifle every time. No trying to take everyone out with melee, throwing an explosion and watching all of the physics effects, blasting enemies in half with the shotgun. Just trudge through endless hordes of dudes with guns. The horror, terrible. Who thought the whole thing with Keegan wandering around making pitched-down humming noises was a good idea? That whole Still Island sequence is what took me from "FEAR 2 is alright" to "FEAR 2 is really stupid." The story, what's going on here? Armacham were a relatively ordinary technology company fulfilling a contract from the government, the game even had a Metal Gear Solid-style stinger. ATC Security were regular albeit extremely dedicated security guards; they even had worse weaponry than and were clearly outmatched by the Replicas. Now Armacham lords over an entire city, have literally an army of high-tech soldiers and military equipment, and the government contract plotline is never brought up again. Armacham apparently did those insane experiments for funsies/ Harlan Wade being nuts. Vanek (and Stokes) is the only person with a sane reaction to all of this nonsense and is the best thing about the game.
It is beyond time for a FEAR reboot, maybe have it take place before the Alma situation having them deal with some kind of Lovecraftian horror situation or something. If not just straight up restarting the whole story and actually have an endgame planned out.
Fun bit of memory from my personal databanks: First time I saw FEAR 2, was when I visited my local shop for pirated games, films, cartoons and other bits of media. I remember the very ending scene playing on the cashier's screen: the bit where you place your hand on a pregnant woman(?)'s belly. I went like...huat the fuck is that? Still haven't played it. But I will one day do it. Got the fears on gog for cheap so they will be mine soon. But damn, I kinda miss that place. Closed down a few years ago. I mean most of the pirated games i bought either 1. Never found their way on my PC, 2. An error prohibited them from being installed (and I did not know enough English back then to figure it out.) 3. My rust bucket barely could run it. But damn this brought some good old memories back.
I started the F.E.A.R. series with F.E.A.R. 2 and have very fond memories playing this game. It was a nice horror FPS game with a great soundtrack and several memorable encounters. Visuals were particularly good and gave more realistic vibe than the first game, some features were simplified - like the usage of flashlight - but I wasn´t disappointed at all. The Reborn add-on should be longer, but who cares? I was disappointed with F.E.A.R. 3 that brought up the obnoxious cover system that limited freedom of movement in that game.
some of the design can be quite inconsistent compared to the the first game and parts of the combat are quite limited and weak but some of the levels are well made and still hold up
No one seems to mention this, but the visual style of this game is very...brown. It doesn't matter if you're underground, on the surface, inside a building - everything seems to have this dirt filter applied to the screen. Whereas the original F.E.A.R. environments looked very crisp and more vibrant.
rare chance of happening but: if you throw a grenade in slow-mo and enemy shoots it right as it comes from your hand... if you survive that is.... visual glow of the enemies will stay with you until you reload last checkpoint BECAUSE THE FUCKING CONSOLE PIECE OF SHIT HAS NO QUICKSAVES
FEAR2 was such a massive disappointment when I played it on release for PC. I had just replayed all of FEAR1 a few days before. Everything felt scaled back from the blood, gameplay, level design, weapons....everything. The only thing that was better was the graphics but FEAR1 has such a great look it doesn't even matter. In E3 2007 you had a preview of FEAR2 and the game demo had no glowing enemies, weapons sounded like FEAR1 and the music was better. Something must have happened because this was all downgraded by FEB 2009 release. Looking back , watching PC games being downgraded and ruined so they can run on consoles like the Xbox 360 and PS3 was such a tragic thing. By the late 2000s the amount of memory on consoles was nothing compared to PCs and that is why so many games stagnated.
when i had to replay it to record material by the time i got to school i was so angry at the mediocrity of the game none of the scripted horror made me feel like playing real fear.
I feel like when there is multiple console releases along with the PC release for currently that Nintendo Switch is holding developers back, especially with the capabilities the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X have over the Switch. The only thing that it has over them over them is portability; however, Valve has thrown their hat into the ring with the Steam Deck. With the affordability of the Steam Deck, saying that the Nintendo Switch has a monopoly over portable game consoles is no longer valid.
I bought FEAR 2 on sale for 5 bucks, running it on my series X. I never played a fear game before, so I thought "Why not?" I had FEAR 1 for PC long ago, but never really got to play it, because my PC wasn't powerful enough. I like the slo-mo effects (it's fun to use) and the combat is pretty good. But I'm realizing none of the weapons are really good in this game. Both shotguns are almost useless, the pistol is useless as well. I'm only on mission 5, so I'm waiting to get better weapons. It's a decent game, but I see why people are saying it's a huge downgrade from Fear 1. The environments and ambience however I really like, and using slow mo and pulling off shotgun kills or headshots with the SMG is very fun. I'm going to buy FEAR 1 on disk. Watching gameplay, it just looks like the better game. WIsh I would have gotten to play it as a kid.. I guess time will tell if FEAR 2 has any replay value. Certain aspects of the game are very fun and the rest are just.. Meh
Man, you should give Quake 4 a try. Imo, it's beyond overhated. It's one of the last few titles that Raven Software made before being shuffled off to the COD coalmines. The multiplayer was a but weak but the campaign is really enjoyable with that classic old school mid 2000s design. I forget if you've covered Singularity or not. But that was Raven's last game before COD and is also worth a look.
i loved the OG fear but i could not even finish FEAR 2 and gave up. it's sad to see games be dumbed down for consoles, but good the era is mostly over. (with the ripple long after the games affected being more of an effect than the effect itself)
I used to hate this game, but it grew on me, and now it's one of my favorite guilty pleasures. I replay it at least once a year. The ending is DARK. I never understood the hoopla over the AI in FEAR, I always killed them all before they had a chance to "shine". All of the combat "arenas" were just two routes with some opportunities for enemies to dramatically dive through windows or knock over shelves... right before I shot them to death. I mean yeah they could flank, but that's been around since Half-Life. Like the first FEAR game, FEAR 2 was slapped around when it came out, ironically, for not being a replica of the first game. The main complaint was the watered-down melee system, which didn't matter to me, because I play first-person-shooters to shoot stuff, not punch stuff. What really bothered me was the weak story. But I got over it. All you need to know is that this game is made by Monolith. MONOLITH. These are the same people who gave us BLOOD, the best first-person-shooter ever made. Monolith is one in the trifecta of FPS giants: Id, Raven, and Monolith. Nobody makes shooters better than these three. Sure, I could go on a lengthy tirade about how the graphics have aged beautifully, the slow-mo gunplay is amazing, the level design is fantastic, the weapon animations are breathtakingly gorgeous, the enemies are compelling, the art assets are top notch, the story is basically a rehash of the first game with a twist at the end, the mech sequences completely crash the flow, and the elementary school level is scary as shit... But all you really need to know is that it's a Monolith game. Fun fact: When it was first released people complained that the "hard" difficulty was too easy, so they immediately patched it into a nightmare mode. Also, I'm pretty sure the game was originally supposed to have regenerating health, but the backlash was so nasty they added a heath-kit system instead. The more you know!
Given the choice between janked out ports to and from consoles with excellent PC games that we had back then versus bland games that work well on both, I'd have to say the former system was better
So you know that clip, I think you used it in your manhunt video where Chase Hall is having a.. a one way conversation / staring contest with Jack Thompson? Do you think.. do you think that was like around '05 or something maybe? Do you think maybe he put a curse on Chase Hall...? And then end result was fear 2? Or maybe that they would never be able to finish an IP that was their own ever again..? Cuz they haven't.. not one of them since maybe condemned criminal origins but even that felt halfway, but more like three quarters of the way rather than just half or.. in this case maybe the curse was like at every turn that you try to innovate or implement something you will take the wrong direction.. you will take steps backwards, at the end it's just this convoluted mess you know who knows, he was... like Thompson was like staring straight at his chest and then off to the side.. with those you know lizard people eyeballs.. which are good eyeballs don't get me wrong, full color vision and everything... But it's almost like it's almost like he was doing math in his head possibly calculating the parameters of the ancient Gypsy curse.. and then suddenly you know he he snaps back too and is like "if you disagree you'll only burn worse..."r or something... Just you know out of the blue like like he was finishing a conversation from 5 minutes prior while trying to link it to the last sentence that he heard as he had caught some of it transitioning back into the material space. it would explain everything because it's something that I haven't been able to explain on my own hands.. yeah monolith got bought and yeah that's hadn't had an effect but, they're still kind of monolith like there's no rational equation that that makes this make any sense.. and there's always been a really logical reason why a game either came out good or bad prior for the studio.. and yet when they're working on WB games they're you know able to finish the whole game the way WB wants them to and all that nonsense and you know it's it's it's a good example of a monolith 'we did your game for you' production, which is one of their specialties going all the way back to the early days.. And usually there's been like a a staggering.. like they'll do a project for a studio and then they'll do their own project or something like that, it could just be the WB clamp down but.. of all the major studios doing game development they're probably the most open of them.. they do constant live streams they're constantly letting people do tours like they're the one company that actually doesn't mind people like getting a slight glimpse at something they're working on for fear that it will ruin everything and The jig will be up.. like 90% of the studios now, and does it turns out that might be because of the groping and drinking but you know.. like there are other reasons in terms of modern development and unlike movies where you get all those behind the scenes thing and there's always that Hollywood dirt story stuff.. you know everybody talks like especially in Hollywood cuz you're going from job to job.. ironically in game development you go from job to job but it's it's taking a dark turn, from what I can tell monolith doesn't do that.. The only way I can seem to explain condemned2 and fear 2 is they actually thought these were good ideas.. but but they were not.. they took wrong turns at every turn and had to snake their way back around and then then and then it would.. I think that Jack Thompson might have cursed Chase Hall! That rats bastard and we had thought that he had gone away after he lost his license.. turns out he left a parting gift I guess potentially.. like I'm not 100% but at this point I'm 98% what do y'all think? If you have more evidence let me know, let's let's map this out with string, preferably yarn.
oh you know what else? keira stokes and zoey from left 4 dead look VERY much alike source engine seems bit more expressive but yeah they have alomst the same face AND THE SAME VOICE left 4 dead came out in 2008 fear 2 came out in 2009 weird eh? zoey was popular after left 4 dead came out choosing a known voice actor is one thing but imitating looks of the character?
Like many sequels that follow great games, if this wasn't attatched to the original franchise, it would be better kinda but since it is, I don't like fear 2 much at all even replaying it rn. My personal headcanon is that Extraction point is canon and the rest is the radiation infused fever dream
The moment I noticed the lack of quicksaving I immediately knew that I was in for a different experience. The AI is now your generic COD-esque coming at you to swarm you type, not very tactical anymore. It's an ok shooter, but not a F.E.A.R experience for me.
fun fact: that script responsible for enemies firing their weapons when they die can get fucked... i first fear death meant squeeze of the trigger - weapon fired once - and weapon would most likely fall from character's hand. considering that many weapons in first fear were firing in bursts it looked more realistic. BUT in second game in all console glory... the script has weapons fired until they hit the ground OR until character hits the ground and lets go of the weapon that's why enemies with penetrators/hammerheads can be pinned to walls and bodies will keep firing for even a minute... now the fun part if you use penetrator against normal enemies there's a slight chance of script shooting itself in the head if the enemy lands on a table or a debris or in a car wreck no collision for the weapon will occur - for some reason hitting the ground is important... MEANING every single enemy that will get pinned to a wall will keep holding their weapon and firing full auto forever until the gun hits the ground you can't pick them up and since gun is still held by a dead enemy it keeps firing another fun fact: those bullets can hurt and since they are supposed to fall on th ground... no recoil acts on them... that's right you can softlock yourself by killing enemies with smgs near a door or stairs you're supposed to go through and their bullets will act as lasers damaging you as soon as you touch them. one gun maybe two is not that bad of a deal but three of them will hurt
Ah, F.E.A.R 2... Honestly, always been split on the game. I am curious what Vivendi would have done if they had kept the IP (or... well the same creators behind it had kept the IP) and continued the vivendi timeline. What they had in mind. This... I dunno, this game just felt off to me. Surprisingly I actually really enjoy F.E.A.R 3... It is a terrible horror game but it is excellent at just being a fun action shooter (IMO)
I’m slightly different tbh I like 2 far more than 1. But in saying that I played 2 first so for me. 1 I found less scary maybe coz the graphics was older
I still love that ending. Horror should always not only push the boundaries but drive straight over them and FEAR 2 did that perfectly to the point it's STILL in people's heads. I've got no time for horror that plays it safe lol
Because the original F.E.A.R. was released as a combat action game with elements of super natural horror. F.E.A.R. is mainly about the action and that is superior in the original compared to its sequel.
Have you ever wanted to play one of the best games ever made but with more annoying characters, guns loaded with sand, and hideous neon goo dumped on every single enemy? Well, with FEAR 2, your dreams can become reality!
I just realised that FEAR 2 AI was downgraded because they did not have Paxton to control them XD Btw, FEAR 3 actually felt almost like FEAR 1 in terms of AI and combat and i think it was good mix of FEAR 2 and 1, very underrated however. Please make a video about it.
fear 2 is better then fear 3 . the only thing 3 had that i enjoy was coop play and that is it. fear 2 ending still is very weird and if the rolls was switched there would of been an up roar about it.
I prefer the expansions of the first fear than the campaign of fear 2. I liked the dlc reborn but sadly the Game was too much on your face, which is a total flip to fear extremly subtle story .
and third and final comment: horror in the game even the overhyped as fuck elementary school is being murdered by the game itself with excessive zooming in and out like becket keeps moving his head back and forth this starts when the nuke detonates and never leaves operation scene? camera jumps arong the place while lound noises happen. - pinnacle of console gaming for people with attention span of 3 seconds alma shows up? becket is headbanging again fox gets to meet alma's tentacles? oh god it sounded better in my head... - headbang mode on. alma realized her dream and rode becket's "becket" literally to hell and back? - somehow becket's eyes are still zooming in and out. it makes me think of a comedy horror where every time something scary would happen cameraman would just shake the camera violently and scream like a little girl...
Good for you to mention Alma's tentacles. In the original 2007 pc footage there were no tentacles but shadows that resembled tree branches that spread across the walls.
Game is good. As good as the original? Nah, but the action is still at a fever pitch, and I love how colorful it is during slowmo. Neat locations and enemy designs help a lot, too.
No leaning, shitty health and armor system downgrade, dumber AI, worse horror elements save a few moments, worse gun sounds… yeah FEAR 2 is a huge downgrade by almost every metric devs got caught up in FOMO with the CoD craze they forgot to make a good game,
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Best game inn the series its not as good as 1 first one
In hindsight, early 2000s games had charm that you can hardly find today and my brain back in the early 2000s was weak to those charms - I miss not paying bills.
Exactly,there is a liminal feeling in this 2000-2008 games that just fascinating me and I don't know why, maybe the lighting? Texture detail? I don't know but damn is it a uncanny feeling
Fear 2 and 3 doesn't have the same feeling in me for some reason
I think a large contributing factor to the game's weapons being so underwhelming is their sound design. Whereas in the original F.E.A.R. even the pistol sounded meaty, in Project Origin everything sounds like a wet fart.
atl least they didn't went in opposite direction...
doom 3 shotgun has metallic sound and a ok-ish gunshot but the horizontal spread makes it completely useless weapon 2 meters away from th target unless you go with doom's spirit and shove it into demon's mouth.
@@ryszakowydoom 3? Yeah but OP meant Fear
I found Fear 2 disappointing on 1st playthrough. But on repeat playthroughs i enjoyed it a little more. I do appreciate the visual upgrade to character models and environment variety, as well as mixing up the gameplay a little with varied set pieces like the mech sections.
It's good but not as good as the first one but good enough
The game had been a lot better around 2007, you can find gameplay for how the game was back then as shown in E3 2007. There's a lot more gameplay which you can find from that era and the game as a whole was a lot better. 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.
I did check that out. Too bad to see that change.
I remember that initial gameplay trailer too. Instantly made me say to myself: 'oh yeah, this is the sequel FEAR deserves'. It blew my socks off it was so slick. But then they cartoonised and consolehumped during production. It was still a good game but only half as good as it could have been.
@@BoulderPunch wow man, what a difference in atmosphere
no colored lights on guns and other unnecessary glowy lights on things that shouldn't need them, sharper shadows compared to the soft shadows (which may be more realistic, but take away one of the defining styles), better ragdolls when killing enemies etc.
I believe they also switched engines. The E3 demo was the same engine as the first game, but then rebuild everything in a new engine.
@@pastichiorocker Nope, that's not true. Final game uses the same engine as the E3 demo, which was all a modified version of FEAR 1's engine.
Loved this game tbh, I hadn’t played the first one, so went into it blind and it was a pleasant surprise. However after playing the first one, I have to say, gameplay on it is vastly superior
3 was worse then 2
@@thegamingprozone1941 FEAR 3 was so obviously influenced by Call of Duty that it lost almost everything that made FEAR unique in the first place.
@@LegioXXI that's true and the co op was ok not too bad
@@thegamingprozone1941 ok is the perfect word for the co-op, my gf at the time and I rented it for a night and blew through it
@@LegioXXI FEAR 3 was a good shooter but shitty FEAR game. Also FEAR 3 didn’t kill the franchise FEAR Online did.
I am surprised no one talks about leaning being removed, with changes to medkits, and accuracy when discussing gameplay differences from FEAR 1 to FEAR 2. Which is hilarious since FEAR 2's linear arena design would benefit from leaning, especially on hard. FEAR 2 on hard a regular grunt can kill you at the drop of a hat from full health & no armor. Medkits in FEAR 2 restore max health instead of a portion, and have a limit of 3 instead of 10. Which incentivizes hanging back gameplay compared to the aggressive combat of FEAR 1. This leads to a conundrum on hard difficulty where you don't want to waste your precious 3 medkits, but enemies can kill you with a crack shot at 90% health. Aim Down Sights on the AR I found really obnoxious since the accuracy can spread quite quickly even if you burst fire, and the only feedback is your shots going wide which can be missed if you're not paying attention. Shots can go as wide as the near the edge of the scope, unless you single-fire. So ADS only has perfect accuracy if you put your AR in Semi, and I didn't test a lot with the SMG. It feels that weapon accuracy was a lot more manageable in FEAR 1 compared to FEAR 2. Accuracy is a personal gripe for me, but leaning's removal, and the changes done to medkits are a pretty huge deal.
i am surprised that nobody ever mentiones this fucking camera zooming in and out when scripted horror happens
this kills the "BEST LEVEL IN ENTIRE FRANCHISE" and that fucking school is the only proper F.E.A.R. level in entire second game yet horror aspect is getting completely destroyed by the goddamn camera.
those cursed zooms first happen when nuke goes off and never stop
first fear had it more... huh... "realistic"
second fear makes me feel like becket is moving his head back and forward like a complete retard whenever "da scary" happens
To easily beating the campaign and getting the hard completion achievement you could always reload the last checkpoint before finishing the chapter, exiting the game and changing the difficulty settings to hard and it did work at least on 360. A sometimes necessary cheese for the game at certain points in the campaign.
On the enemy A.I. in Fear, both the original and its sequel, I can say they are virtually identical. The source code for the original F.E.A.R. and its SDK were released a while ago, meaning a. we can look directly at the code and understand how complex or "intelligent" the A.I. in the game was and b. the map formats are so similar between the games, that F.E.A.R. 2 maps can be opened (but not function) in F.E.A.R. 1's map editor. The original F.E.A.R.'s A.I. are pretty "dumb" or simple, they on average have 12 or so goals (F.E.A.R. uses Goal Oriented Object Programming so goals determine behavior) assigned to them on average; these goals tend to be pretty simple, such as attack, suppress, flank, grenade, announce, etc.. However, that is where the intelligence, or the illusion of it lies. These goals are so simple, and thus less intensive on the CPU, so that each active object, or enemy, can reevaluate or calculate its actions 3-5 times for each goal before acting and then selecting the action that will produce the best result, usually player damage. For F.E.A.R. 2, seeing as how map files are so similar that they can be opened between games it is very unlikely the A.I. algorithm has meaningfully changed, however if you take a gander over to task manager while running F.E.A.R. and its sequel you'll notice that F.E.A.R. 2 has about 40% more GPU usage, while having almost half the CPU usage compared to the original F.E.A.R., meaning that: most likely due to the weaker CPUs of consoles that F.E.A.R. 2's A.I. are performing far less calculations on their behaviors, by my guess 1-2 calculations at best, thus producing the perceived difference. TLDR; it is unlikely F.E.A.R. 2's A.I. is "dumber", or less complicated, instead they are just performing simpler calculations causing less interesting, or "correct" behavior compared to F.E.A.R. nor is the difference in behavior likely to be a product of level design.
Very interesting
Do you still have a copy of the sdk tools for fear 2?
Tldr you just said theyre dumber in way too many words FEAR 2 sucks
Great video , always thrilled to see a new Boulder Punch video . Seriously one of my favourite TH-camrs
lol at the terry davis reference at 7:48 RIP
I might be too biased, this was my first game on 360, never played FEAR, loved this game. Blew my mind.
Hopefully Trepang2 brings out good devs to get back to their roots and bring better IP's down the road.
Trenpang2 is fucking amazing, it's actually better than F.E.A.R 1 and Max Payne in terms of gameplay.
@@trabuco9 I hope its story lives up to the hype.
@@乕 I doubt it, but even then, the gameplay, the sound design, the music and the aesthetics are there and they are amazing.
@@trabuco9 Oh trust me, at this point I just want a decent story, but gameplay is just as important and sometimes carries a shitty story. I'm just hoping it has good direction, and us waiting all this time will have paid off.
@@乕 I hope it’s at LEAST 6-7 hours long
I can understand why fear 2 may feel underwhelming compared to 1, but the variety of environments was nice. The hospital, the school, the origin labs, the nuclear weapon-damaged streets, all felt unique while not dragging on for too long.
wich is very funny considering that the game is so short none of the environments even have a chance to start dragging on...
I liked all the "eastereggs" you can find in the game despite it being a worse game overall. I really liked the sniper, thought the assault rifle was ok. there's a better rifle that's locked to multiplayer that is a shame.
Fear 2 is one of my all-time favorite video games. Plus the game gave me several nightmares over the years
I don't care what people say about this game, I still enjoy it. And I still think the graphics hold up along with the gameplay.
I remember when I tried this game for the first time many years ago and I got my hands on the shotgun and it felt like a nerf gun, as you well described, I almost immediately proceeded to uninstall the game because I just felt it in my bones that it was probably all gonna be downhill from there, especially when comparing it to the first game, which is almost inevitable. I'm glad to know that I didn't really miss much. Kind of a shame, though, to be honest.
pistol sucks
shotguns suck
basic smg sounds like goddamn drums....
and they went full console retard replacing 10 medkits each healing for +/- 20 hp to 3 medkits that each heals full health...
Project Origin was one of the first (and last) games I ever pre-ordered. I was really disappointed in how the combat felt so much less dynamic, I HATED the glowing enemies, and the story felt silly by the end. But I did think it was well paced, and yeah, Wade Elementary is genuinely one of the best horror sections in any FPS.
I bought this game blind having never played the first one but being a huge fan of horror and FPS games. I enjoyed my time with it though I bought it when it was new and full price.
Noone can say the school level wasnt a sick level tho, that was a great piece in the game
that is like one proper level and people give it way too much credit for a mediocre game
after festival of consolization scripted scares of the school are nothing exceptional.
@@ryszakowy i never said the game overall didnt suck, just the level
Seeing the sopranos references in your videos makes me so happy, so much meme potencial from the best tv series ever.
RIP Tony Sirico
Curious about your take on F.3.A.R.
the music in the end turret section is a nod to SnakeFist. It's the song to the SnakeFist movie that Halford had the poster in his office, and the instrumental version of the tune he was listening to on the radio
FEAR 2 is such a shitty game. Clunky gameplay, weightless gunplay, ugly visuals, and some generic and boring horror elements. On its own it is a mediocre and forgettable game, in the context of it being a follow up to one of the best FPS though it is one of the most disappointing games I've ever played.
At 4:08 you’re not wrong about the game having a good shotgun mainly because it actually resembles the spas-12 shotgun one of my favorite video game shotguns!
This whole game and it's sequel is so fucking goofy with it's mix of ghostly horror and over the top sci fi nonsense. The orignal mixed the two very well in my opinion. Like wtf happened with the tone of these games?
as i always say.
first fear was like japanese original
second fear was like american remake
third fear was like a sequel to american remake than literally nobody asked for
1. WB decided they can do it on their own
2. corporate greed
3. probably not but they basically googled "what made fear great" and made check boxes:
-horror/jumpscares
-little girl in red dress ALMA
-slow motion
-ghosts/demons or some shit
-nuke went off in the first game
4. they didn't took any notes on weapons from the first game
5. they went call of duty way of appealing to retarded kids with bajillion explosions and loud noises - blike that hated by almost everyone section where you are stuck in a turret and shitty song plays while everything explodes and ai characters cheery on.
6. they lost the sight of where first game was going and just pumped out sequel that nobody asked for.
We talk about consolifcation but tbh Fear 1 played extremely well on the Xbox 360, the way the game controlled worked well on a controller, at worst it was awkward getting the lean quickly utilized with your thumb from the left joystick. I myself have played both versions and the 360 versions AI doesn't seem any different from PC. PS3 port was pretty bad from what I heard so i can see the AI struggling with that things CPU.
Fear 2 Is a brilliant game .. such a great atmosphere in it !
8:20 as someone who owns a physical copy of the first fear game as well as fear files which contains the two expansions I can say I found the enemy a.i to be pretty intelligent as the pc version of the game. Though to be fair I don't have a PC or played the game on a PC so best I could do to see the similarities is from what I've played of the games on my xbox one and from PC gameplay that I have seen on TH-cam but for the most part of the console ports of fear and the expansions its the a.i and gameplay feels much like that of the PC port for the most part
I was replaying FEAR 2 and the whole series when this video was uploaded, came away thinking FEAR 2 is easily the worst. Yes, I would gladly play Perseus Mandate (which I really like) and F3AR (much faster-paced, better guns, melee is usable again) over it. FEAR 2 is a decent enough shooter, but it has none of what I enjoyed about the first game. You can't replay the same fight over and over again and try something new, you're basically going to mow everyone down with the assault rifle every time. No trying to take everyone out with melee, throwing an explosion and watching all of the physics effects, blasting enemies in half with the shotgun. Just trudge through endless hordes of dudes with guns.
The horror, terrible. Who thought the whole thing with Keegan wandering around making pitched-down humming noises was a good idea? That whole Still Island sequence is what took me from "FEAR 2 is alright" to "FEAR 2 is really stupid."
The story, what's going on here? Armacham were a relatively ordinary technology company fulfilling a contract from the government, the game even had a Metal Gear Solid-style stinger. ATC Security were regular albeit extremely dedicated security guards; they even had worse weaponry than and were clearly outmatched by the Replicas. Now Armacham lords over an entire city, have literally an army of high-tech soldiers and military equipment, and the government contract plotline is never brought up again. Armacham apparently did those insane experiments for funsies/ Harlan Wade being nuts. Vanek (and Stokes) is the only person with a sane reaction to all of this nonsense and is the best thing about the game.
Its good that in that rime nobody told that FEAR 2 is disappointing, so I just played it, enjoyed it, and loving it, instead of whining.
I litteraly buy this game 1h before that video with god of war 3 damn
FEAR 2 didn't have Paxton (except in Reborn) that alone is a plus
I really enjoyed these games. Idk I was a kid I wasnt aware of game testing, and studio interference. As a experience I had a good time.
It is beyond time for a FEAR reboot, maybe have it take place before the Alma situation having them deal with some kind of Lovecraftian horror situation or something. If not just straight up restarting the whole story and actually have an endgame planned out.
I’d love for you too take a look at singularity. It’s a unique game that I think would be perfect for you’re type on videos
12:37 if you just wanna hear Cortana yell "fuck!"
Fun bit of memory from my personal databanks:
First time I saw FEAR 2, was when I visited my local shop for pirated games, films, cartoons and other bits of media.
I remember the very ending scene playing on the cashier's screen: the bit where you place your hand on a pregnant woman(?)'s belly. I went like...huat the fuck is that?
Still haven't played it. But I will one day do it. Got the fears on gog for cheap so they will be mine soon. But damn, I kinda miss that place. Closed down a few years ago. I mean most of the pirated games i bought either 1. Never found their way on my PC, 2. An error prohibited them from being installed (and I did not know enough English back then to figure it out.) 3. My rust bucket barely could run it. But damn this brought some good old memories back.
I started the F.E.A.R. series with F.E.A.R. 2 and have very fond memories playing this game. It was a nice horror FPS game with a great soundtrack and several memorable encounters. Visuals were particularly good and gave more realistic vibe than the first game, some features were simplified - like the usage of flashlight - but I wasn´t disappointed at all. The Reborn add-on should be longer, but who cares? I was disappointed with F.E.A.R. 3 that brought up the obnoxious cover system that limited freedom of movement in that game.
I enjoyed this game quite alot for the most part. The elementary school level is one of the highlights in the whole franchise for me.
it's the only proper F.E.A.R. level in entire second game...
people give it way too much credit for being a properly made map
>Harold getting his head ripped off in slow mo
>he's probably killed off as the assassins are reintroduced to the fold
lmao😆
He didn't say probably
Disappointing, but much better than FEAR 3. Man, nothing compares to the actual FEAR I felt during the first game, especially the expansions.
some of the design can be quite inconsistent compared to the the first game and parts of the combat are quite limited and weak but some of the levels are well made and still hold up
No one seems to mention this, but the visual style of this game is very...brown. It doesn't matter if you're underground, on the surface, inside a building - everything seems to have this dirt filter applied to the screen. Whereas the original F.E.A.R. environments looked very crisp and more vibrant.
yeah somebody left a giant NUKE on the whiteboard and they went with brown dirty post nuclear style.
also everything is fucking glowing in this game
rare chance of happening but:
if you throw a grenade in slow-mo and enemy shoots it right as it comes from your hand...
if you survive that is....
visual glow of the enemies will stay with you until you reload last checkpoint BECAUSE THE FUCKING CONSOLE PIECE OF SHIT HAS NO QUICKSAVES
@@ryszakowy lmao hahaha
FEAR2 was such a massive disappointment when I played it on release for PC. I had just replayed all of FEAR1 a few days before. Everything felt scaled back from the blood, gameplay, level design, weapons....everything. The only thing that was better was the graphics but FEAR1 has such a great look it doesn't even matter. In E3 2007 you had a preview of FEAR2 and the game demo had no glowing enemies, weapons sounded like FEAR1 and the music was better. Something must have happened because this was all downgraded by FEB 2009 release. Looking back , watching PC games being downgraded and ruined so they can run on consoles like the Xbox 360 and PS3 was such a tragic thing. By the late 2000s the amount of memory on consoles was nothing compared to PCs and that is why so many games stagnated.
The texture work still holds up very well in this game, you have to admit.
That Good Morning Chickpea man only makes me think of fandub Eggman. Why do they sound so similar?! XD
The school unsettled me EVERY TIME I PLAY IT
when i had to replay it to record material by the time i got to school i was so angry at the mediocrity of the game none of the scripted horror made me feel like playing real fear.
@@ryszakowy The first game freaked me the fuck out and I recently played it for the first time like four years ago
Two and three really didn’t have that level of impact
The game is enjoyable, it has some pretty good setpieces. It's just the AI, lighting and combat mechanics were underwhelming.
Just finished your review on the first then saw this one release, very great timing
I've been playing through them again. Just finished fear 2 and now playing its DLC
I feel like when there is multiple console releases along with the PC release for currently that Nintendo Switch is holding developers back, especially with the capabilities the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X have over the Switch. The only thing that it has over them over them is portability; however, Valve has thrown their hat into the ring with the Steam Deck. With the affordability of the Steam Deck, saying that the Nintendo Switch has a monopoly over portable game consoles is no longer valid.
one of my all-time favorites.
That pizza alegory hunted my mind more than alma did XD thanks for the reminder and great review!
entire existence of snakefist was haunting the game
Noooo, you didn't know about the soft shadows trick as well in FEAR 1, disable FSAA! FSAA breaks Soft Shadows!
Awesome classic my friend! Nice work on this! Big like ✨💯
I bought FEAR 2 on sale for 5 bucks, running it on my series X. I never played a fear game before, so I thought "Why not?"
I had FEAR 1 for PC long ago, but never really got to play it, because my PC wasn't powerful enough.
I like the slo-mo effects (it's fun to use) and the combat is pretty good.
But I'm realizing none of the weapons are really good in this game. Both shotguns are almost useless, the pistol is useless as well. I'm only on mission 5, so I'm waiting to get better weapons.
It's a decent game, but I see why people are saying it's a huge downgrade from Fear 1. The environments and ambience however I really like, and using slow mo and pulling off shotgun kills or headshots with the SMG is very fun.
I'm going to buy FEAR 1 on disk. Watching gameplay, it just looks like the better game. WIsh I would have gotten to play it as a kid.. I guess time will tell if FEAR 2 has any replay value. Certain aspects of the game are very fun and the rest are just.. Meh
the lieutenant is zoey from left 4 dead
Man, you should give Quake 4 a try. Imo, it's beyond overhated. It's one of the last few titles that Raven Software made before being shuffled off to the COD coalmines. The multiplayer was a but weak but the campaign is really enjoyable with that classic old school mid 2000s design. I forget if you've covered Singularity or not. But that was Raven's last game before COD and is also worth a look.
i loved the OG fear but i could not even finish FEAR 2 and gave up.
it's sad to see games be dumbed down for consoles, but good the era is mostly over. (with the ripple long after the games affected being more of an effect than the effect itself)
I used to hate this game, but it grew on me, and now it's one of my favorite guilty pleasures. I replay it at least once a year. The ending is DARK.
I never understood the hoopla over the AI in FEAR, I always killed them all before they had a chance to "shine". All of the combat "arenas" were just two routes with some opportunities for enemies to dramatically dive through windows or knock over shelves... right before I shot them to death. I mean yeah they could flank, but that's been around since Half-Life.
Like the first FEAR game, FEAR 2 was slapped around when it came out, ironically, for not being a replica of the first game. The main complaint was the watered-down melee system, which didn't matter to me, because I play first-person-shooters to shoot stuff, not punch stuff. What really bothered me was the weak story.
But I got over it.
All you need to know is that this game is made by Monolith. MONOLITH. These are the same people who gave us BLOOD, the best first-person-shooter ever made. Monolith is one in the trifecta of FPS giants: Id, Raven, and Monolith. Nobody makes shooters better than these three.
Sure, I could go on a lengthy tirade about how the graphics have aged beautifully, the slow-mo gunplay is amazing, the level design is fantastic, the weapon animations are breathtakingly gorgeous, the enemies are compelling, the art assets are top notch, the story is basically a rehash of the first game with a twist at the end, the mech sequences completely crash the flow, and the elementary school level is scary as shit...
But all you really need to know is that it's a Monolith game.
Fun fact: When it was first released people complained that the "hard" difficulty was too easy, so they immediately patched it into a nightmare mode. Also, I'm pretty sure the game was originally supposed to have regenerating health, but the backlash was so nasty they added a heath-kit system instead. The more you know!
when will the review on FEAR 3 come ?
DSP sighting: 23:05
Given the choice between janked out ports to and from consoles with excellent PC games that we had back then versus bland games that work well on both, I'd have to say the former system was better
Little nightmares video please?
So you know that clip, I think you used it in your manhunt video where Chase Hall is having a.. a one way conversation / staring contest with Jack Thompson? Do you think.. do you think that was like around '05 or something maybe? Do you think maybe he put a curse on Chase Hall...? And then end result was fear 2? Or maybe that they would never be able to finish an IP that was their own ever again..? Cuz they haven't.. not one of them since maybe condemned criminal origins but even that felt halfway, but more like three quarters of the way rather than just half or.. in this case maybe the curse was like at every turn that you try to innovate or implement something you will take the wrong direction.. you will take steps backwards, at the end it's just this convoluted mess you know who knows, he was... like Thompson was like staring straight at his chest and then off to the side.. with those you know lizard people eyeballs.. which are good eyeballs don't get me wrong, full color vision and everything...
But it's almost like it's almost like he was doing math in his head possibly calculating the parameters of the ancient Gypsy curse.. and then suddenly you know he he snaps back too and is like "if you disagree you'll only burn worse..."r or something... Just you know out of the blue like like he was finishing a conversation from 5 minutes prior while trying to link it to the last sentence that he heard as he had caught some of it transitioning back into the material space. it would explain everything because it's something that I haven't been able to explain on my own hands.. yeah monolith got bought and yeah that's hadn't had an effect but, they're still kind of monolith like there's no rational equation that that makes this make any sense.. and there's always been a really logical reason why a game either came out good or bad prior for the studio.. and yet when they're working on WB games they're you know able to finish the whole game the way WB wants them to and all that nonsense and you know it's it's it's a good example of a monolith 'we did your game for you' production, which is one of their specialties going all the way back to the early days..
And usually there's been like a a staggering.. like they'll do a project for a studio and then they'll do their own project or something like that, it could just be the WB clamp down but.. of all the major studios doing game development they're probably the most open of them.. they do constant live streams they're constantly letting people do tours like they're the one company that actually doesn't mind people like getting a slight glimpse at something they're working on for fear that it will ruin everything and The jig will be up.. like 90% of the studios now, and does it turns out that might be because of the groping and drinking but you know.. like there are other reasons in terms of modern development and unlike movies where you get all those behind the scenes thing and there's always that Hollywood dirt story stuff.. you know everybody talks like especially in Hollywood cuz you're going from job to job.. ironically in game development you go from job to job but it's it's taking a dark turn, from what I can tell monolith doesn't do that..
The only way I can seem to explain condemned2 and fear 2 is they actually thought these were good ideas.. but but they were not.. they took wrong turns at every turn and had to snake their way back around and then then and then it would.. I think that Jack Thompson might have cursed Chase Hall! That rats bastard and we had thought that he had gone away after he lost his license.. turns out he left a parting gift I guess potentially.. like I'm not 100% but at this point I'm 98% what do y'all think?
If you have more evidence let me know, let's let's map this out with string, preferably yarn.
oh you know what else?
keira stokes and zoey from left 4 dead look VERY much alike
source engine seems bit more expressive but yeah they have alomst the same face
AND THE SAME VOICE
left 4 dead came out in 2008
fear 2 came out in 2009
weird eh?
zoey was popular after left 4 dead came out
choosing a known voice actor is one thing but imitating looks of the character?
Like many sequels that follow great games, if this wasn't attatched to the original franchise, it would be better kinda but since it is, I don't like fear 2 much at all even replaying it rn. My personal headcanon is that Extraction point is canon and the rest is the radiation infused fever dream
The moment I noticed the lack of quicksaving I immediately knew that I was in for a different experience. The AI is now your generic COD-esque coming at you to swarm you type, not very tactical anymore. It's an ok shooter, but not a F.E.A.R experience for me.
I actually really loved fear 2, I liked every single fear game even 3. Tho to really enjoy 3 you need co op.
I enjoyed Fear 2 as much as it had issues. It was for me just a dumb fun action game.
fun fact:
that script responsible for enemies firing their weapons when they die can get fucked...
i first fear death meant squeeze of the trigger - weapon fired once - and weapon would most likely fall from character's hand.
considering that many weapons in first fear were firing in bursts it looked more realistic.
BUT
in second game in all console glory... the script has weapons fired until they hit the ground OR until character hits the ground and lets go of the weapon
that's why enemies with penetrators/hammerheads can be pinned to walls and bodies will keep firing for even a minute...
now the fun part
if you use penetrator against normal enemies there's a slight chance of script shooting itself in the head
if the enemy lands on a table or a debris or in a car wreck no collision for the weapon will occur - for some reason hitting the ground is important...
MEANING
every single enemy that will get pinned to a wall will keep holding their weapon and firing full auto forever
until the gun hits the ground you can't pick them up
and since gun is still held by a dead enemy it keeps firing
another fun fact:
those bullets can hurt
and since they are supposed to fall on th ground... no recoil acts on them...
that's right
you can softlock yourself by killing enemies with smgs near a door or stairs you're supposed to go through
and their bullets will act as lasers damaging you as soon as you touch them.
one gun maybe two is not that bad of a deal
but three of them will hurt
Ah, F.E.A.R 2...
Honestly, always been split on the game.
I am curious what Vivendi would have done if they had kept the IP (or... well the same creators behind it had kept the IP) and continued the vivendi timeline.
What they had in mind.
This... I dunno, this game just felt off to me.
Surprisingly I actually really enjoy F.E.A.R 3...
It is a terrible horror game but it is excellent at just being a fun action shooter (IMO)
I’m slightly different tbh I like 2 far more than 1. But in saying that I played 2 first so for me.
1 I found less scary maybe coz the graphics was older
I'll be honest, I thought you dubbed over the actual lines and added those subtitles in for those first few seconds. My goodness.
I still love that ending. Horror should always not only push the boundaries but drive straight over them and FEAR 2 did that perfectly to the point it's STILL in people's heads. I've got no time for horror that plays it safe lol
yeah it is still in people's head how short and underwhelmingthe game was
I don't care what anyone says it still is a great game, much better than most games coming out today.
Fear Extraction Point for me is canon and the true ending of FEAR I don't care what WB or anyone else says.
Why does everyone hate on fear 2? I find it a lot scarier then the first
Because the original F.E.A.R. was released as a combat action game with elements of super natural horror. F.E.A.R. is mainly about the action and that is superior in the original compared to its sequel.
Tbh. I enjoyed F.E.A.R 2 as much as i enjoyed the first game...
Does it run on Temple OS?
FeAR 1 and 2 were great, I loved part 2 more
Have you ever wanted to play one of the best games ever made but with more annoying characters, guns loaded with sand, and hideous neon goo dumped on every single enemy? Well, with FEAR 2, your dreams can become reality!
Honestly I like 2 as much as 1, but I was disgusted merely an hour into 3
I just realised that FEAR 2 AI was downgraded because they did not have Paxton to control them XD Btw, FEAR 3 actually felt almost like FEAR 1 in terms of AI and combat and i think it was good mix of FEAR 2 and 1, very underrated however. Please make a video about it.
7:48 you run 'em over that's what you do.
Didn't realize the enemies in Fear 2 were CIA
so, now that you have the first two covered, is there going to be a video on fear 3? i wonder what you are going to say about it 😆
fear 2 is better then fear 3 . the only thing 3 had that i enjoy was coop play and that is it. fear 2 ending still is very weird and if the rolls was switched there would of been an up roar about it.
Hell naw, FEAR 3's horror fails miserably but the shooting is on par with the first game.
Huh so Alma, all grown up… 18 I assume? ☺️
9:09 I shat myself ty
Imagine if he said “Like a pizza at a furry convention” 🥶 if you know. You know.
I don't want to know.
Bought it cheap and couldn't stomach how... small it felt. Linear as shit, a bunch of invisible walls and even more slow walking.
short
underwhelming
snakefist...
that goddamn song with ai characters cheering on...
weapons made out of crap...
I honestly hope you do a video about lollipop chainsaw haha
still prefer it over the other fears.
I prefer the expansions of the first fear than the campaign of fear 2. I liked the dlc reborn but sadly the Game was too much on your face, which is a total flip to fear extremly subtle story .
and third and final comment:
horror in the game even the overhyped as fuck elementary school is being murdered by the game itself
with excessive zooming in and out like becket keeps moving his head back and forth
this starts when the nuke detonates and never leaves
operation scene? camera jumps arong the place while lound noises happen. - pinnacle of console gaming for people with attention span of 3 seconds
alma shows up? becket is headbanging again
fox gets to meet alma's tentacles? oh god it sounded better in my head... - headbang mode on.
alma realized her dream and rode becket's "becket" literally to hell and back? - somehow becket's eyes are still zooming in and out.
it makes me think of a comedy horror where every time something scary would happen cameraman would just shake the camera violently and scream like a little girl...
Good for you to mention Alma's tentacles. In the original 2007 pc footage there were no tentacles but shadows that resembled tree branches that spread across the walls.
Protect your virginity QTEs
I don't understand developers that try to copy other popular games. They always make a shitty version of that game.
Game is good. As good as the original? Nah, but the action is still at a fever pitch, and I love how colorful it is during slowmo. Neat locations and enemy designs help a lot, too.
No leaning, shitty health and armor system downgrade, dumber AI, worse horror elements save a few moments, worse gun sounds… yeah FEAR 2 is a huge downgrade by almost every metric devs got caught up in FOMO with the CoD craze they forgot to make a good game,