F.E.A.R. 2 Takes on F.E.A.R. In Comparison Videos

What a useless trailer.

Not a troll disclaimer:

All this video did to me to be honest was convince me that FEAR 1 still looks pretty damned good - infact sometimes it was hard to tell side by side the difference.

Maybe the HD stream will make it clearer.

the blood in fear 2 looks lamer

the lack of jumping and kicking and sliding and kicking and running and kicking etc in fear 2 looks lamer :{

They are saying that as if more blood would make it more awesome.

But on a certain degree it just looks ridiculous to see people flying like puppets in their ragdoll anymation. It doesn't look remotely real when the ragdolls fly around with a swimming pool of blood filling the air.

Why does clicking on the "HD Stream" link default to the SD version of the video causing me to manually select HD again once I get into the player?

So I guess that the human body in the F.E.A.R. universe holds 100 pints of blood that gushes out in prefabricated amorphous splotches with light reflecting off of it as though it was coated in polished resin.

I kid, but those bloodsplat sprites look a little too cartoony. Perhaps the modeling of gushing blood is the next frontier of FPS graphics development. I guess it's all good as long as it looks close in full motion, and doesn't slow the game down (I remember the original F.E.A.R. stopping for a split second almost every time I shot an alarm bell, railing, or something metal, resulting in a shower of sparks; then again I haven't updated my F.E.A.R. install past the first patch, mostly out of the irrational fear that the FarCry 1.2 patch instilled after it nerfed the AG36 grenade launcher in singleplayer).

Here are the release times for the demo tomorrow

"Just received word about the timing around our demo release...The Xbox version of the demo will be available at 2 AM PST on Xbox LIVE and sometime between 2-4 PM PST on PSN. I have no information on the PC demo at this time, but will update this thread if / when I hear anything"

http://www.projectorigincommunity.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4084

Here are the PC system requirements in reply...

The demo was outstanding. Do not worry about the repetitive environments. Just in the demo I went through a helicopter crash in an alley, a school, a subway, various shops, underground tunnels, a movie theatre, and destroyed streets and buildings. Thats more in the demo then there was in the entire first game. The AI is just as good, if not better as they can move even more objects in the envirionment to make cover, even opening car doors, and they flank without notice. The weapons are uprgraded versions of old favourites with the controls remaining identical. You can sprint now, thats the only difference I noticed. The graphics are much improved as well, not nearly as banal as the offices. Cannot wait for the full game next month.