F.E.A.R. 2 Design Video: Office Space Edition

Wait, I'm confused. Wasn't this not made by the original developers? I thought the original FEAR guys couldnt get the license so they were going to make a game call S.C.A.R.Y. or something, and then the publisher stole the name to use with FEAR2.

About time this is coming out.
Dead Space is already over, and I haven't had a heart attack for DAYS!

...no really. I hope they do a better job to make the player really sympathize with the ingame character, and feel for him. The monsters in Dead Space just pushed themselves into the spotlight on every occasion, which didn't just get old really fast, I also couldn't have cared less if they tear my robo-john to shreds.

...the key thing to keeping the player on the edge of their seat is to surprise them, and not let them get too comfortable. You can sort of let them think that they're getting into a pattern but then you have to vary it.

Okay, so how does one vary a single-player story? I'm guessing the general flow is going to be one large path, but are they going to vary the position and interval of the "boo, scared ya" moments? I'm interested in seeing a SP FPS developer pulling this off beyond having one random spawning entity that is a key piece of the storyline (like Soldier of Fortune 2 had with the freighter level, where you had to find where the "chief of the watch" was sleeping; it was in 1 of 4 different cabins, and seemed to vary on each play through).

honestly that looked pretty cool...all the other videos seemed kind of lacking but that video made it look awesome...I like what they're doing with the effects

I wonder if they'll make the multiplayer free again...I thought the multiplayer was really solid in the first one

Jeez, I still don't get all the hype about the 1st FEAR game. I've tried the demo, but it seemed like such an amateur-ish FPS, it was ridiculous. It felt like it was made by 2 ppl lol. I'm just saying, it didn't seem solid at all.

And I'm talking about things like the player movement, the way your gun feels/shoots/its recoil, etc.

Even Prey, a game that came out in a similar time frame, felt much better in that regard.

I guess the only sorta 'unique' feature it offers is that it's supposed to be a "scary" FPS game. Is that what people dig about it? Cuz I just can't see what else it has going for it.

Oh, I remember hearing the "AI was really good" in this game... I dunno, I didn't notice anything special in this regard, but maybe it's cuz I was too disgusted by the rest of the game lol.

What the fuck? This looks good. Unexpected.

Is the game being built around a gamepad or mouse+kb control scheme?

I really like how everything looks in this game, it's looking even better than what some few months old teasers promised. This engine never pushed the most polys or the most convincing lighting, but even the first FEAR had excellent material shaders and texturing.

Sweet! Coming to the 360 too :D

This is looking pretty damn good

You know, the environments were fairly drab and repetitive, but I would've been more forgiving of that if they kept on the story a bit more. It's an intriguing premise, but it gets pretty much completely ignored through a good chunk of the game, which makes a lot of the office space moments feel even more like just running from room to room killing dudes. Sounds like both are being addressed this time out... or at least I hope so.