Confront terrors both known and unknown in a explosive battle for survival with F.E.A.R 2: Project Origin for PC. This action-packed follow-up to Monolith Productions's award-winning supernatural shooter F.E.A.R. begins where the previous game left off. This time, you'll come up against Alma's powers from the perspective of special forces operator Michael Becket. After an enormous explosion has devastated the city of Auburn, you'll quickly discover that what seemed like an ordinary mission to retrieve and interrogate Genevieve Aristide is anything but.
Ghoulish supernatural enemies give F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin a horrific, cinematic feel. View larger.
You'll explore and do battle in the dark corners of the ruined city of Auburn. View larger.
An enhanced graphics engine offers more dramatic effects. View larger.
Improved enemy AI means you'll need better tactics. View larger.
Project Origin Run Amok: Alma's Background Fans of the first game will be familiar with the suspenseful story surrounding the psychic Alma, a peculiar and disturbing odyssey that adds depth to her devastating quest for revenge and immediacy to gameplay. Origin began as a secret military project run by the Aramacham Technology Corporation (ATC) . In an experiment run by Alma's own father, her DNA was used to create two clones that possessed her impressive psychic powers in an attempt to engineer a telepathic military commander. In the end, the research team became worried about the dangers of Alma's powers, and they tried to kill her.
While her heart stopped beating and her physical body died, her psychic energy continued to exist, and she manifested herself in many forms, including both a child and a deformed adult figure that betrays the gruesomeness of her ordeal. Due to a string of events tied to both her clones, Alma has escaped the disastrous explosion of the last game and the facility where she was held, and the haunting manifestations of her power are at work all around you, adding an unpredictable, nightmarish quality to the world.
Strange Events in a Supernatural Setting In order to get anywhere in the rubble of the city of Auburn, you'll need to survive firefights, stay calm in the face of surprisingly graphic events, and uncover the terrifying and mysterious nature of your real enemies. Your character's phenomenal reflexes allow the much-talked-about slow motion effect from the original title to persist here, giving you an edge in combat and adding to the unique nature of your perspective.
Improved Details and Enemy AI An enhanced graphics engine means more detailed environments to explore and better effects. The vast destruction in the city opens up a huge variety of spaces and enhances the other-worldly feel of your mission, and you better be ready to stay on guard because all-new enemies powered by improved AI don't just act more realistically than their predecessors, they employ advanced combat tactics and know how to use the environment against you. But they aren't the only ones with more resources at their disposal--additional world interaction enhancements allow you to create cover and protect yourself or remove obstacles from your path.
While it may be the horrific action and the details that first catch your eye, the tactical demands and the way story elements are slowly unveiled promise to help keep you interested as gameplay wears on. And for those times when you're not in the mood for a prolonged single-player campaign, this title also offers the ability to battle with or against friends in multiplayer mode.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0
OK:
It's OK. Seems a little simplistic, almost cartoon-like, compared to the original. My biggest grip is the inability to save whenever I want to. This is one of those automatic checkpoint save type games. I hate that. Let me save when I want to! You DO NOT make a game more challenging by limiting the player's ability to save. You make it more annoying! Game designers that do this should be smacked. The original Far Cry would have been perfect if not for this idiotic design. The game requires steam to... more info
A Must Have:
I personally think this is an excellent game. The only 2 complaints that I have about the game is that the controls are a little weird IMO. But once you start getting into the game, you get use to them real quick and the characters using the "F" word when it's really not needed. I'm not offended in any way, but it gets annoying when it's overly used. The graphics and physic effects are excellent, especially when blood splatters out when shooting in reflex mode. Some pretty creepy parts in the game that... more info
Not what I expected...:
Let me start off by saying that I have used STEAM for quite sometime and up until I bought this game, I never realized that the game can only be activated ONCE!!! So, as the old saying goes, TRY before you BUY! Now then, I mtself played bits and pieces of FEAR and I loved it. It was scary, gorey, full of suprises. Basically everything that the average horror game fan wants plus action. I had to pick up FEAR 2 and try it. But since I dont have a PS3 or XBOX, the PC was my only option. So, I bought the... more info
Ugly, Buggy Mess of an Installer:
This is, without doubt, the single worst installer I have ever encountered - by far. Trying to get this game installed (a process which is effortless on almost every other modern game I've tried) was an absolute nightmare. First of all, the user is forced to install the messy joke of a product known as Steam, which requires a connection to the frequently non-functioning Steam server. After repeated attempts over a period of almost an hour, the server finally responded and condescended to permit me to... more info
