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Well I managed to have a busy week at work, plus a nasty cold to make it more fun. Human bodies suck.
Anyway, on the gaming side of things, I finally had a go at FEAR (yes the original) and have been playing it off an on all week.
Although it looks a little dated, it still plays very well i.e. the shooting is fun, the explosives in particular are cool, and the enemy dudes are challenging if you don’t cheat  The story is engaging despite being clichéd, but they manage to spoil the atmosphere sometimes by inserting obvious ‘game’ elements that jar you out of the world they’ve built.
For example, the boosters to health and ‘bullet time’, which could be explained away as some sort of high-end experimental military tech, are found lying around in dark corners of a water treatment facility… on crates, behind pipes etc. It’s stupid! The weapon caches are sometimes well done e.g. at security stations, but man, the office workers in the US must be well armed chaps! They all bring pistols and rifles to work!
Despite that, I’m enjoying it, because shooting in the game is so much fun. If you, like me, passed this over on release, I recommend grabbing it on the cheap and giving it a go. I may even move onto the sequel, although the reviews I’ve listened to (podcasts) indicate that the plot elements are still largely unresolved.
- Scoobs
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