OMG: they added CRATES to the game. Brilliant! Innovative!

Wow I just played the Demo and used the same settings I config'd in FEAR, but my framerates suck ass. Especially in the Blood soaked room with Ghosts near the demo's end.

I don't get it... FEAR ran great. O_o

anyone else who just didn't get f.e.a.r? somehow reaching chapter 7 of the original f.e.a.r i just got bored of the tedious repetition. it's like: see enemies, engage the slow-motion mode and shoot. rinse and repeat.

probably cause the enemies are all the same and is that predictable but i really don't get the hype. the only spark of creativity was the invisible warp-in warp-out enemy but that was for a short moment.

the other thing i didn't like was that there wasn't any progression of story (it's like a c-grade movie script) and forcing the player to listen through the phone messages to get more of the story was as lame as quick forcing the player to read pda messages.

anyone? or am i the only one who didn't got the hype of f.e.a.r ?? :P

Shack: What is the new crate system all about?

Tim Hall: We have added some crates that tie in with the story line so the player is able to destroy Armacham crates and find things like boosters, medkits, weapons.

Finally, a gameplay feature we haven't seen before. No seriously, not trying to knock on the game before I try it, but come on :)

I've already played this once. The office and barracks environments weren't that exciting the first time around.

I can't wait for this. F.E.A.R. pretty much redefined what it means to shoot a gun in an FPS which has not been matched yet. Its one of my favourite games of all time, I play it pretty much everyday since the combat never gets old.

They've added crates to the expansion. Nice.

Does this post break the front page for anyone else?

a laser rifle which does a nice good job of severing limbs

SOLD

For me there's two FEAR games, you either play it on normal difficulty and it sucks. Or you play it on brutal and it's the best FPS ever. When I changed the difficultly I couldn't believe how different the whole game felt.

Releasing the free multiplayer build was the best thing they ever did. I've been playing the capture-and-hold gametypes since it was released and have enjoyed it immensely.

Great, i loved f.e.a.r.
I hope the coop mod will support some of the new maps.

Just a typo in the blurb... Tim Hall is the producer. Not Tom Hall.