F.E.A.R. Trailer

I am absolutely so psyched for this game. One of my top picks in 2005.

However, the only pitfall I forsee the developers falling into would be taking it too seriously. I know it's not a comedy ala NOLF, but there comes a point when you push the drama, suspense, horror, whatever else, to the point of pretentious.

I played the single player demo, with headphones, at E3. Fun, violent, and effectively scary. Great stuff, probably the coolest game I played at the show.

I love the part where the grenade liquifies the soldier. The first video clips they had online showed guys getting hit directly with grenades, then it still took 3 blasts with a shotgun to take him down. I hate that. IRL grenades are lethal to 5 meters or more depending on shrapnel, etc.

In games they should be one hit kills (if they go off within 5 feet of you) so that you can use them strategically. If someone throws one at you, you have no choice but to break cover. Halo did grenades right, multiple kills off a single grenade and throwing baddies through the air like ragdolls, limbs akimbo.

Of course, for all I know, the guy in the video had already been pumped full of ammo and only had on hit point left, so the grenade qualified as 'overkill' so he gibbed. Maybe it still takes 5 direct hits with a grenade ro kill someone in the game, but I hope they get it right.

So a typical shooter with Combine style soldiers, Max Payne bullet time, and the girl from the Ring?

Eh.

is there a rough date for when this is meant to be released yet?

I played in the multiplayer beta several months back (when people still played it), and I have to say, it was the most damn fun I'd ever had in a deathmatch. A lot of people slammed it for having horrible system performance (which it really did at the time), but the gameplay was pure gold.

There were times where I could use the unarmed attacks and take down teams of four people--all firing guns at me. You just run in like a ninja and rape them all if you know what you're doing. Trust me dudes, if Monolith has polished the engine since Decemeber, this game is going to be hot.

i think this demo was more oriented towards the action part, the first video released a while back was really scary

Plz release this game so I can give you my money.

This is the same "pre-"e3 trailer.