F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin

It just got frozen after have passed many level... I lost many hours to get frustrated 😤

I had such an awful experience with the first game that i'm not even interested in playing anything in the series. Even tho i got all of the game for dirt cheap it's not worth wasting time on bad games.

the assassins are still pushovers and the shotgun got nerfed, what a pile of white d0gsh1t

update: nvm its a good game wish i was as lucky as beckett and had a ghost woman trying to consume me 10/10 would slaughter clones again

As of news today, Monolith is shutting down. It's sad to say that this incredible franchise will never get a remaster.

Since I am literally unable to access F.E.A.R. on the Steam Store because of senseless regulations, I am forced to write my review for the whole genre on this Steam page (more detailed reasoning in the review of the first game).

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F.E.A.R.:
Pretty great game even 20 years later.

The Story is extremly intriguing but also kinda confusing, I like the concept of combining horror with shooter and I like how the game switches between these two genres - it feels well balanced and neither overstays it's welcome, even though I would have wished for a little more horror elements.

The combat feels amazing and superior to a bunch of games nowadays. The enemy AI is extremly smart, trying to flank you at any given moment, recognizing flashlights and listening to sounds - they react to damage, start walking with a limp if their legs get damaged and overall have a bunch of different reactions to taking damage. The enemy AI/KI just feels extremly responsive and I honestly never seen something as detailed. Enviornments are destructable and the physics for the most part are insane for it's time, certainly on the level of half life 2 if not even better. The game is very atmospheric and can get quite scary, sound design is great.

The difficulty spikes immensly from moderate to high difficulty. Moderate is too easy in my opinion and high too difficult. I wasn't a fan of the sentries/turrets and bullet sponge enemies in the later stages of the game. The enemy variety in general felt a little dull and shallow. There are humanoids which are basically all the same enemy type throughout the game, just their design varies, their accuracy increases, the amount of bullets they can sponge expands and they'll get stronger weapons. Except one humanoid enemey type, which can go invisible and only attacks from melee range. There are also some rocket shooting mech robots - but except these you ain't got no variety in enemy type - I expected more terrifying ones, these ones that are rarely utilized. It definitely almost managed to overstay it's welcome with the bullet sponge enemy types.

Unfortunately I had a bunch of issues even getting to run this game properly. First major problem was buying this game, since Germany has implemented new regulations. Which makes every game, without a registered and valid USK, unavaible for purchase. So any game, especially oldschool games whose development team no longer exists or got bought up, is now lost - atleast for people out of Germany. So I had to order a Steam Key from some thrid party charity site instead. Then I encountered huge issues with the performance of the game, which fortunately were fixed with the download of a DLL fix file. I still had graphic issues, especially when a lot of bullets hit a wall my screen started filling up completly with dust and smoke but it was manageable enough to play through the game. The game also liked to crash whenever you tab out, so quick saving was necessary. Key bindings are weird aswell and I don't like how you aren't able to sprint.

If you succeed in getting the game to run properly, it's definitely still a great game. I am kind of bummed out I couldn't experience it back in the days when it came out but 20 years later I still managed to find some fun even though it probably would have been more atmospheric and scary back in the day. Still a solid recommendation. (8/10)

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F.E.A.R. Extraction Point DLC:
Still the same great combat and atmosphere, even better visuals and more options to make combat more fun like turrets and weapons, moderate difficulty felt more balanced this time around but I cannot comment on hard difficulty. Unfortunately even more bullet sponges and general issues.

Still not able to sprint and key bindings are also still weird. I wasn't able to play on my native screen resolution, which was annoying but no reason to quit. The same DLL fix file worked for the FPS issue in this one aswell but in the later stages of the game it constantly started crashing. I managed to fix one of these crashing instances by going into the graphic settings and checking "Force Restart" but I couldn't get past the second instance of constant crashes, so I had to watch the end of the game on YouTube. Because of these issues I don't want to rate this DLC.

I liked Extraction Point more than Perseus Mandate, until it gotten pretty much unplayable for me.

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F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate DLC:
Still the same great combat but worse atmosphere, honestly it looks worse and reminds me a lot of Garry's Mod horror maps. Moderate difficulty felt a little more balanced this time around but I cannot comment on hard difficulty and the enemies seemed to be not as smart anymore.

The DLL fix file worked perfectly fine this time and I also was able to play on my native resolution. Still graphic glitches but atleast I was able to play through the game, without any major crashes.

Still not able to sprint and key bindings are also still weird. They utilized the "scary" enemy type way more but unfortunately also the bullet sponge enemies. Atleast they gave you way more options to deal with them, in the sense of grenades, turrets and strong and whacky weapons - the grenade launcher sucked ass though.

Can't comment on the bonus maps. The final "boss fight" was pretty lame, aswell as the general story. This addition to the F.E.A.R. franchise was alright but pretty skippable. (5.8/10)

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F.E.A.R. 2:
The game isn't good compared to the first F.E.A.R., especially the german low violence version is utter garbage.

I am finally able to sprint but the movement while sprinting is weird and clucky. The key bindings are also still weird. Extra mouse button keys can't be binded, which is odd since it worked in the first game and all of the DLC. No way to auto safe but the savepoints semmed to be fair enough but enemies also seem to despawn sometimes whenever you trigger one of these save states.

I encountered some bugs but nothing special or worth mentioning.

I liked that they utilized more of the "scary" enemy types.

Combat doesn't feel great anymore and is just in general a massive downgrade to the first one. Enemies are easier to kill and also not as smart, they also don't react to damage they way the usually did and sometimes just spawn out of thin air and as a result of the low violence version regularly just disappear into thin air. Unable to peak around corners. Weapons in general didn't feel good or fun to play, except maybe the pulse weapon. Not as atmospheric or creepy anymore, some animations and cutscenes were alright but most of them just looked awful to be honest. A bunch of very odd and unecessary action sections, robot mech action, button mashing quick time events and endboss - the ending was simply weird.

This felt like a massive downgrade, some of my issues with this game most likely stem from the censored low violence version but I believe even without it I wouldn't have recommended this one. It felt like the focus was on the action aspect of the game which they didn't improve on in my opinion and the scary aspect of the game came way too short. This game definitely suffers from a bunch of questionable design choices and I can see where and why this game's story set up the next one for failure - the first one was great though. (3.8/10)

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Summary of the franchise:
First game was great, first DLC was because of technical issues and bugs unplayble at a certain point but pretty good until then. Second DLC wasn't too great. Second game wasn't good and especially the low violence version was utter garbage. Mixed review of the franchise, started of great but was extremly unenjoyable in the latter stage.

game engine mechanics

Same great slo-mo run and gun action from when I was a kid. Awesome!

Idk why people say this game is worse than the first.. Honestly, besides that this game removed the leaning mechanic, and that it is shorter, everything else is better, a lot better actually. It is a better shooter because gun play is just better, graphics are better which also make the horror part a lot better, because in the first game the graphics were too goofy to be scared by anything, the map is better, especially the school part. This game is just as fun as the first, and honestly a better experience since it runs very smooth without needing any tweaks. 10/10

Hot Dead Lady Wants Ya

Its 2009 kids, Fear was a succesfull game that spawned 2 pretty good addons

But then developers decided to retcon all that and gave us a proper sequel

The story takes place right after original game. Big Explosion happened and all sort of paranormal stuff is unleashed on nearby territory
You take point as a dude who is resistant enough to be likable by a LittleGirl/Hot Lady/Ugly Grandma
In your attempt to guard your virginity you lose pretty much all of your squad members but at the very least - you get to kill a LOT of dudes.
Normal dudes, cloned dudes and weird dudes. 4/5

The visuals are still great, I dont know how people managed to make such impressive games back in the day and fail miserably now. Performs well too. 5/5

The gameplay - pure fun, walker robots included, with a lil' bit of horror and dark comedy. Hard difficulty can be annoying tho. 5/5

The level design is descent - there's variety at least and its still a corridor shooter. 4/5
Music is alright 3/5
Alma is hot, other girl kinda too
Cant remember anyone else 3/5
Not very replayable since all jumpscares are already seen and AI opponents are way more dumb than in original game (also with less hp) 3/5

Conclusion - 8/10

Cool Experience, still holds up, nothing too special.

This game holds a lot of nostalgic value for me. Despite being an older game, it still boasts high-quality graphics. The destructibility of objects is beautifully done, and one of the game's strengths, in my opinion, is the extensive use of blood in many scenes.

I liked it even though a lot of people hate it--with good reason. Gone is the horror, now its just a shooter. I still like the shooting part, and the graphics are much improved.

The ending-- its is disgusting. Thats all I can say. and the last boss fight is like a tutorial fight, you win in 2 minutes

Monolith develops most mid FPS game of all time, then proceeds to abandon the genre all together, permanently. What a waste.

honestly not that scary, the gun fights felt sluggish compared to the first game and in general it felt like a more boring copy of the first game. The lighting in the first game was stark and intense EVERYWHERE with long shadows being cast behind a corner. But here? it's just... meh... like they forgot :/

This is also the game where the story genuinely jumps the shark. The amount of infrastructure that Armacham has, rivals that of an entire government. They have schools which mean they control dep of education, entire cities etc. etc. how can there even be unemployment in the USA when Armacham is always hiring.

So the art direction, story and gameplay are all worse than the first fear.

It feels like generic low-grade military shooter with some "spooky stuff", gunplay is extremely boring (weak sound, weapon feel and environment physics, even special effects are worse than the first game, there is no spectacle anymore when you throw a grenade in the room), and atmosphere just doesn't work, it feels cheap and forced, devs are genuinely trying but can't do it, I just can't care about it (maybe because the game has too much color and silly "jumpscare" sounds, like when rooms with specimens open in the lab). AI is pretty good but doesn't saves the game, and their chatter feels like a cheap imitation of the first game. The whole game feels like a cheap imitation. I can get if you love it since you don't know better, but how can you after playing the first one?

Really nice gameplay and story told in a pretty dark setup. The bullet time and weapons are tons of fun.

Wow this game actually got my attention, the story and the combat mixed with horror made this game an actual masterpiece. I actually prefer FEAR 2 than FEAR 3 ngl. i played this on the hardest diff and without the slow mo, it made me feel like i was just a doll although with armor. The replica soldiers must be my fav bcs of their design compared to the first FEAR. Overall this game is just breathtaking.

The sequel to F.E.A.R in my opinion fixes many of my complaints of the first game and stands out as a great shooter experience even today.

Good:
* The enemy AI is a little less chatty than the first game, but otherwise feels just as compelling. They are very skilled with grenades especially.
* They mostly fixed the 'environment' problem of the first game; all of the places you move through feel reasonably laid out and designed. This falls off a little bit in some parts of the final area of the game, but it's not as egregious as the first game.
* Related to above, the devs cooked with the in-game assets; there's some hilarious fake brands and the grade school section stands out for all sorts of realistic objects, signage, artwork, etc.
* The game has a much better mixing of the gun fighting and horror sections. It's all scripted, but seeing Alma terrorize enemy soldiers and NPCs makes her seem much more threatening and unpredictable.
* The game stepped up the lore and story. You move through facilities directly related to the clone soldier and psychic power programs, and the 'lore collectibles' contain actual relevant details to the world and characters in it.
* The graphics are dated, but they are a step up from the last game and still look okay.
* The game introduces an awesome mech that lets you become an unstoppable killing machine. The segments aren't super long by they are a great time.
* There's music in the game now! It usually plays during gunfights to help amp up the tension.

Mid:
* The guns are mostly the same as the first game. There's a couple of new big weapons, but I found the rocket launcher continued to be the most reliable and useful. The real tragedy here is that they replaced the last game's shotgun with two variants in this game, and neither felt as powerful or as fun.
* The slow motion ability is back, and it's effectively identical to the first game in both making some moments more epic, and having questionable value outside of that use case. I wish there was something more to it like puzzle solving or allowing the setup of some crazy shots.
* The first game allowed you to save wherever you wanted, whereas this game has set points where it saves. It is nice not to have to remember to save, but at the same time there was a spot or two where I'd wish I could just replay one section and not go back so far if I decided to reload. That said for the most part the game saved frequently enough that it wasn't really a problem.

Bad:
* Like the first game, this was released on consoles. And like the first game, the PC version basically does not recognize controller as a viable input option.
* Weirdly, the first game recognized an extra mouse button and let me remap it, but this game didn't. Not a huge deal, but it would have been nice to have the same flexibility.

This is one of those great times where the developers created a good product the first time, and then the second time around improved in just about every way with almost no downsides. There's still a lot of potential that I would love to have seen realized, but for the time this game came out, what F.E.A.R. 2 did puts it above a lot of its contemporaries.

I remember playing this game back in 2010 and it still holds up. The story is interesting and contains some good jump scares. Think of this as a horror Call of Duty.

it's alright, i prefer a lot of the mechanics and visuals from the original, although you CAN drive the powered armor, so it lowkey peak and the mini DLC is also pretty fun

Absolutely hands down one of the classics. If you haven't played this game, play it ASAP, especially if you like anything horror related!

It's scarier than the first, but I don't think it's better. It's still a solid game and worth playing to continue the story.

Absolutely wonderful.
Lovingly written story with deep lore.
Rendered beautifully in the game engine.
Really appealing to look at.
Fantastic sound design.
Okay that's enough about Keira Stokes.

As for the game itself? I mean its alright i guess, previous game had a much better atmosphere and horror factor, only thing this game has up on the first is the graphics which have been improved by a LOT. I would say its worth a buy if on sale or in a bundle with the whole trilogy.

The one cool scene in this game is really cool. but that is it.

Plays great and still looks just fine! Might not be as "deep" as F.E.A.R. 1, but still very enjoyable!

Fear 2 and Fear 3 are my favorites in the series. So unlike the first game which was so dark and dusty that it was borderline unplayable and just more like a really bad haunted house, Monolith actually made a fun game with awesome setpieces, a great soundtrack, and improved audio, graphics, and some nice new additions to the world and story from the first. Immediately, you'll notice the lighting and shading is much better, as well as the characters and animations being an upgrade across the board. Dynamic shadows now work in conjunction with soft lighting, bloom, and a cool in world republic commando styled HUD. Throughout the game, NPCs interact with the world and other npcs as well as you more often than the first, and the locations are much more varied instead of being the same offices, sewers, and warehouses.

There's a lot of different locations, including high rise housing, secret labs, a hospital, bombed out city streets, subway tunnels, obviously there's the spooky school which is probably everyone's favorite, alongside a nuclear power plant and a few others like a train and big construction areas. The thing that stuck out to me most was the places in this game felt real, and not like reject Halo 2 maps in the first game. The soldiers had conversations with each other outside of combat as well as killing civilians from around corners, making them more believable, since you could see them doing things regardless of you, which it barely felt like prior. When I was in a fight in a construction area, one of the soldiers crawled under a pipe and tried to flank me while his buddies were shooting, which was well animated, even during an intense battle with tons of effects

Speaking of, the animations and characters were improved, now looking more expressive and emotional, Vaduk being one of my favorite new characters, as he was a pretty well acted villain who yelled and raged a lot when his troops kept getting killed by me. Probably having the most memorable line in the game: "Good morning, chickpea!" Although I was disappointed that he was mostly behind glass and wasn't a boss, instead dying in a qte. But then again, this was a game made in 2009 so whatever.

The characters and squad you're with in the game had very good animations, lip sync was on point, and alongside the character animations being improved, so were the guns, which previously barely had reload animations, or the few that did had very stiff looking ones that made them look extremely robotic or at times not working at all like the dual pistols. Speaking of guns, they were also pretty good. Very responsive, shot fast, and reloaded fast as well. The hit impacts were very well made, instead of blinding me with smoke, they opted for Mortal Kombat or Doom levels of blood and having tons of sparks flying off of armor. I found this method to work much better and not stop the gameplay in its tracks like it did before.

The AI would do smart stuff like crawling as mentioned before, but another thing I liked was the enemy variety and improved scares. Beforehand, the enemies in the first game were either soldiers with guns who sounded the same throughout due to being replica clones controlled by Fettel, ghosts who exist, and maybe some heavy and melee monsters that looked really cheap. Now there's Armacham, the Replicas, failed commanders, flashy ghosts, heavies, snipers, big mechs, and armored cars, and a few others.

So a much better variety of enemies with much better animations and variety in personality. Alongside this, the scares now have much better production value, with spooky flashing and pulsating lights, fire, death, whispering, ghosts, and destruction, as well as Alma being kind of scary now, I say kind of because she's really not scary in any of these games, but this one clearly tried the hardest to make her scary. Meanwhile in Fear 1, most of the scares were pretty janky and more akin to a really bad haunted house at 3am. Needless to say, I'm not scared by shriveled up Empress Palpatine lol.

Overall, Fear 2 is a fun, if not very dumb game that improved on the original in almost every way. The only downside was that even though I think they improved the AI and their behaviors, the environments not being as open like an industrial jungle gym really hurt their presentation. The reject Halo 2 maps of the first were very flat and boring, but I can't say they were predictable by comparison. Both are good approaches, but both were dragged down in some regard, so pick your poison. I pick Fear 2 or 3, because both of them have awesome music and mech sections. As well as just being more fun and looking much better.

Horror is overrated sometimes. I think have to agree with 3's design of just having not a lot of scares, teaming up with Ghost Fettel, and killing everything you see in the tri-state area with big guns in coop. I'd love something like that in a Fear 4, like a drop in drop out spooky coop game with swappable squads and characters with different abilities and customizable guns and maybe more drivable vehicles too. Wouldn't hurt, plus I imagine if everyone's a silent dork like Pointman and Becket, it'd be fairly cheap to put together.

Anyway, Fear 2's awesome. Thanks for reading my review. Goodbye!

The PC port unmodded is very buggy, so beware of that. The gameplay didn't feel as good as the first FEAR, but it was still pretty fun. The story is about as mediocre as the first, but feels like a lot more significance is placed on it in this game. This one is also notably shorter than the first.

this game is basically just the first game but everything about it is better, and also ghost sex

Has a problem with not loading in some parts of the map sometimes, however this gets fixed by going to the last checkpoint. Other than that it's a decent game.

F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin didn't withstand the passage of time, it exceeded it. For every copy and paste modern shooter out there this game gains 10 points ahead of each one released. Why? The most recent shooters suck! That's why. Their graphics, their premise, their gun-play, their atmosphere, their artistic direction, their inability to pay attention to detail. F.E.A.R. 2, yes F.E.A.R. 2 exceeds what presently released first person shooters don't even attempt, that's artistic license and soul. What's even more amazing is that this is a console game adapted to PC.

If anyone involved with the game happens to read this, please lower your sensitivity in the game option, set on zero the sensitivity is still way to high & unplayable, i have to lower my Dpi to 400 to make it playable on zero sensitivity ingame.

Beyond that detail this is an awesome game!

I know this game is dated now but it still gives me chills when playing it an night with headphones!

Better than 95% of modern FPS and doesn't even look that bad after all those years.
Unparalleled/10.

Mouse fix & Reshade preset:
https://www.nexusmods.com/fear2projectorigin/mods/3
https://www.nexusmods.com/fear2projectorigin/mods/7

Can we get a trilogy remake?

There is a HIGH chance you will not like this game as much as FEAR 1, but that should not deter you from enjoying this game.

The thing that made FEAR 1 good is basically watered down or WORSE just flat out neglected. And its all because it came out in 2009, a Time when Consoles came first and Activision discovered an infinite money glitch with Call of Duty. The $14.99 price tag is too high for the potential value it can bring compared to FEAR 1 (it costs $9.99).

Just wait for the price drop, then its worth the money.

I played enough already to know its not the first game.

Well, its worse than the first Fear and I dodnt like first game much. There are less enemies and weapons than there are in first game and (yeah I am reapting myself) those two were lacking in first game aswell. It feels much shorter, but it is much easier than 1st game. Turret sections are also somehow out of place in Fear game. Only thing that is better than in the first game is that levels are looking better (in first Fear, every level looks basically same)

its still a great game i wish they freaking make another one since we got w graphics

The game offers you a chair to sit on at the end so you can relax after all that bloodshed. Couldn't recommend it enough, all my buddies enjoyed it.

The game is developed for consoles and ported to pc. You can feel it in the overall gameplay, yet the game is very enjoyable and has a great story.

Game glitched twice and froze in the first 30 minutes.

I'm definitely the odd one out here, but this game was a waste of time.

This is just watered down FEAR 1. When you first get into it, its pretty engaging and interesting. But if you buy and play FEAR 1 and its DLCs, you're just getting shortened released version of that content.

WB games literally said, "We're making FEAR Call of Duty," and while it's nice to aim down your sights and

That being said, this game is fun and its cut-scenes are FOR SURE a step up from the story telling parts of the first FEAR games. If you're interested in playing through the FEAR series, this game is worth a play through or two, but honestly, if you played the original FEAR and its DLCs you're going to be severely disappointed to play through the same story without *at least* any meaningful enhancements to the game play and weapons.

There's a lot of jumpscares in this game but they are not as scary as the aim sensitivity.

6.5/10 God save my wrist

the combat is bad really really bad. its some how graphically worse than FEAR 1. and the hard mode sucks due to the fact you can go 100hp to 0 in one burst of an enemy gun.

i ignored this game but now when i completed this game it is a masterpiece climax was confusing but great game grab these franchise in sale the three games along with all dlcs come in just 107rs worth it

The gameplay is pretty good. This is a fun action shooter if you're looking for a quick, good time.
Relating this to the original FEAR though... that's a different story. Speaking of, story-wise, this game didn't captivate me. I wasn't coming back to see the story through, I was coming back for the fun gunplay.

If you're thinking this game or other FEAR games look good; STOP. Check out FEAR 1, and it's 2 DLC's.
If you can only get the bundle, get it on sale, if you can get just FEAR, Extraction Point, and Perseus Mandate, get those. THAT's FEAR.

If you don't care about any of that; yeah, this is a fun shoot-a-man game. Get it on sale.

The game is unplayable, some parts of the levels don't load in fully so I have can't navigate through the level because the level doesn't fully load. It's a great game just sucks that they did a shit job at porting it over to PC

this game hoorrifyling amazing

Yeah it's alright. Everybody freaks out about the ending but honestly if you get over the shock you'll see that was really all it had going for it.

don't remember playing but it was good

Good story just meh ending.

It is a sequal after all , it has its moments especially the EPA parts and story is still enjoyable. Main issue is the first game and its sequals felt more realistic , this game felt more cartoonish . Also ran into some problems regarding level rendering so had to quit and restart the levels to proceed.