F.E.A.R. Single Player Demo... [Archive]

ypn

08-05-2005, 11:30 PM

Dude, it is freaking awesome! The gun sounds are awesome, deserving an A-Facking-Plus! The A.I. seems smart, the environment is great...it was really fun! Now people said that Doom 3 was scary and I was like "WTF are you all talking about I didn't even flinch once"

Omg...the little girl and all the paranormal things that occur...holy crap dude...

I don't want to give away spoilers but I found myself shouting "Ahh Holy Sh*t!" And people in the house were like "Um...what's your problem?"

Great game I'll definately get it.

I have a feeling the multiplayer will suck though...prob just another run around deathmatch spamming guns with no exciting stuff happening.

jdogg88-Fed

08-05-2005, 11:31 PM

I'll post a little review of the demo after I play it. It should be on this thread tomorrow...

same here

aznsensation18

08-06-2005, 12:22 AM

nice battlechimp...i will d/l the demo tonight

gungho

08-06-2005, 12:43 AM

looks freakin' awesome

tf0t

08-06-2005, 02:14 AM

Well, I am currently at 81%, and I got about 10 min left. Hopefully, if I'm here tonight, I'll get a chance to play it and write a review tomorrow...

={SOC}= Sniper

08-06-2005, 03:11 AM

SOUNDS COOL lemme d/l later!!! ;)

straywolf

08-06-2005, 05:38 AM

Awesome demo.
Spooky describes it although not "scary"...at least not the demo. :D I'm sure the final game will scare the beejesus out of all of us. ;)
The entire environment is so damned dynamic! The gun battles were kick ***! Love the shotgun and the particle gun. Awesome.

I hope that the multiplayer is just as fun.

Dr.Supreme

08-06-2005, 06:38 AM

Damn that was freaky......even for being like 15-20 minutes of gameplay...i nearly shat myself when you are in that scary hallway. Boy-howdy this game may be the next doom..or not

panic951

08-06-2005, 09:17 AM

yeah that hallway was spooky as crap and im sitting here with all the lights off alone. Ima resume playing tommorow when the sun is out haha :D

D3TON8R

08-06-2005, 10:50 AM

so worth the purchase on release????

Why?!

08-06-2005, 02:19 PM

I tried the F.E.A.R. Demo.

It not only blew away my expectations, it shoved them into a wood chipper machine, stomped on them, and then blew them up.

Everything was so well put together. The combat is very fast, very exciting. I like how you take as many bullets as your enemies do. With that, the only advantage you have over them is your awesome slow mo ability.

I love how there is always so much dust getting kicked up in firefights. So much in fact, that after an intense battle you literally wait for the dust to clear before you can examine the aftermath. That also leads to one minor complaint. It seems that the AI can see through the dust, so that gets annoying in some places. Not to mention bummed out a strategy I thought of during watching the videos.

The paranormal stuff, wow, that had me talking like a sailor because of the stuff that happens. Like Chimp, I really do not want to spoil any of what happens. But I'll say that you will go WTF?!, and a minute after you are going to be swearing up and down trying to figure out what is going on.

Oh, the graphics. They are beautiful. Now I only have a 3.0ghz and 9800 Pro 256, so I can only run the game on medium, but it looks great. Just to see what if, I cranked all the settings up to max, and just when I thought it could not get any better, I was blown away by how sharp and detailed the textures, models, and shadows were. If you have the machine to run everything on high, you are really in for a treat.

This is definitely going to be a must buy. I hope the multiplay is good, because I like the feel of the weapons, like the rifle that shoots 10 mm shells is so awesome.

I will say that I have only two dissapointments in the demo. There was a cliffhanger, and not just any cliffhanger, this is one of the most annoying cliffhangers ever. It is so bad, it is comparable to Halo 2s "ending." My second complaint is the weapon sounds. While they do sound cool, they are way too quiet. I want gunfire to drown out all sounds. The way it is now, you can hear footsteps, speech, and other sound effects over the gunfire. I will try again, Chimp says they are awesome, maybe I have some sound settings lowered.

This game is so good, that this post is almost incoherent babbling compared to my usual posts.

straywolf

08-06-2005, 04:30 PM

Hallway didn't freak me out...
What freaked me out was when you have to go down the ladder and the little girl pops up as you turn. THAT freaked me out. And her laughter...eek.

straywolf

08-06-2005, 04:31 PM

I think so. Although I might wait for it to come down in price or go on sale.

straywolf

08-06-2005, 04:33 PM

I liked the particle weapon. One shot, one disintegration :D I love the way the skeletons are left behind...

Agreed on the weapons sounding rather "quiet". Some of these things are mongo weapons and one would expect mongo sound.

Graphics are friggin awesome and they do break new ground IMHO. I love the way that the world is not static like in Doom 3. Much more like Half-Life 2 and it rocks. The lighting needs to be worked on in SOME areas a bit more IMHO. Other than that...awesome game.

panic951

08-06-2005, 04:40 PM

the demo was kinda short but it was fun

CXZAR

08-06-2005, 05:05 PM

well my review, worst game ever... well, actually worst video card ever :P with my almighty FX5200 128mb i can run BF2 on medium and some things on low, and i get between 22 and 30FPS and IMO its quite fast, i dont get FPS lost or slowdowns at all, but in F.E.A.R :( damn!!! everything and i mean EVERYTHING on Minimun and the game its amazingly slooooooooooow!!!! Specially in a firefight or whenever i turn the flashlight:( damn, well, with gods will i'll be able to play FEAR this monday :P (i hope so).... but in the meantime, no FEAR for FX5200's

straywolf

08-06-2005, 05:18 PM

Played it through another time...
OK, the hallway scene reminded me of the tripping that Max Payne went through during his little rampage. Anybody else think that it might have been ripped off from that game...?
Slo-Mo...awesome feature but again, nothing really "new" since Max Payne brought that to the fps genre.

I STILL love the particle gun. That baby is the sh!t!

straywolf

08-06-2005, 05:19 PM

Yes, its a very demanding game. With my rig I was able to max out everything except the sound since it was locking up my rig. I'm using the onboard sound on my Shuttle XPC.
Rig stats:
Shuttle XPC system
Athlon64 3000
1GB Corsair XMS (2x512MB)
PNY 6800GT 256MB DDR3 (latest drivers)

CXZAR

08-06-2005, 05:52 PM

solodude23

08-06-2005, 06:13 PM

Yeah...ill resume later. Ive only gone down that underground tunnel/hallway thing so far....man my flashlight simultaniously turned off as wen the thing seemed to come down the hallway at you, and when the ting ran across it....I think I used a wee too much ammo for not hitting anything.

Yes, its a very demanding game. With my rig I was able to max out everything except the sound since it was locking up my rig. I'm using the onboard sound on my Shuttle XPC.
Rig stats:
Shuttle XPC system
Athlon64 3000
1GB Corsair XMS (2x512MB)
PNY 6800GT 256MB DDR3 (latest drivers)
Not sure why. Drivers? Maybe it just happens to not work well with one of those things.

I have:
2.66GHz P4
1.5 GB RAM
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB

runs perfect with great FPS on highest graphics.

straywolf

08-06-2005, 06:40 PM

Well, its not technically an "fps" but that's where the slo-mo was first used.

panic951

08-06-2005, 07:03 PM

Make sure you have sp2 thats whats holding my system performance back in bf2 and in this game.

SylentSnipe

08-06-2005, 07:18 PM

Heres some pics of the demo.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/Sniper76148/FEAR/30.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/Sniper76148/FEAR/20.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/Sniper76148/FEAR/16.jpg

Brian

08-06-2005, 07:23 PM

After the third or fourth server I finally got the demo to download. Amazing game. The lighting, weapons, sounds, graphics, gameplay.. it's all extremely well done. That brings me to the question, why is the demo so short?

SylentSnipe

08-06-2005, 07:40 PM

cuz that makes you wanna buy the game

DoubleD

08-06-2005, 07:43 PM

cuz that makes you wanna buy the game
Correction.. download* the game....

GameWizard

08-06-2005, 09:00 PM

Demo = Demonstration

Demonstrating all the key features of the game, so people get the full thing.

Yuf

08-06-2005, 11:12 PM

Only watched my brother play through, but the combat does look pretty friggin' awesome. The cliffhanger at the end made me bust up laughing, because at that point you're really in to the game.

As for the hallway scene - not really noticing any similiarities between the two other than the fact that it is a hallway. The only thing that freaked me out about the Max Payne sequence, which was creepy for the first five minutes before becoming soul-shatteringly annoying, was the screaming baby. Thankfully the sounds in F.E.A.R have a bit more substance behind them, and can still manage to freak you the hell out.

solodude23

08-07-2005, 02:07 AM

I watched my friend playand it wasn't really scary at all. I have to be the one playing it to find it scary most of the time.

panic951

08-07-2005, 02:24 AM

I watched my friend playand it wasn't really scary at all. I have to be the one playing it to find it scary most of the time.

watching your friend play wont help add the risk factor. Pretty much having anyone in the room with you while you play de-sensitizes you. Play with no one home with all the lights off and see how much the spook factor rises.

GlobalFear

08-07-2005, 03:26 AM

Played last night at 1 am.
Scared the living **** out of me when I went to climb down the ladder.

solodude23

08-07-2005, 03:38 AM

watching your friend play wont help add the risk factor. Pretty much having anyone in the room with you while you play de-sensitizes you. Play with no one home with all the lights off and see how much the spook factor rises.
I know. I already played it before he did on my own. Im just saying that the guy in the above post didn't even get the half of it. Only when im playing/alone, its scary.

Played last night at 1 am.
Scared the living **** out of me when I went to climb down the ladder.
Yeah no kidding. Played that part at about 12 Midnight....I think I pretty much used up all of my ammo in that damn hallway shooting at the floor....

GlobalFear

08-07-2005, 03:57 AM

I'll probably pick this up when it ships.

The lack of 1280x1024 support (Who do they think they are, EA/DICE?) and a poorly optimized engine pissed me off though.

Possums

08-07-2005, 04:17 AM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v217/Flynd/knockout.jpg

Fun game. Best part is running into a room filled with enemies in bullet time and knocking them all out WITH YOUR FISTS ALONE!

BravoTwoZeroUK

08-07-2005, 01:44 PM

:laugh: It made me jump a few times.lol
Yea had a good atmosphere with the static on that radar type thing when that lil girl was about and that.Guns were abit off ever notice with games like this and KillZone the future weapons never accurate :confused: Surely if they're future weapons we would have come up with a basically recoiless gun anyways the paranormal stuff was good graphics were good but the enemy was too much like KillZone

L3adcannon

08-07-2005, 01:55 PM

This game is kick ***. I love the effects and blood and ****. And the gore is just awsome.
I planted a mine. And some dude ran into it. The mine bounced up and exploded in mid air, rippin the guy appart- legs, torso, hands and **** all flyin, blood all over the place. And all that in slowmo

1 gory *** game

The girl would be a lot scarier if she would do that "grgrgrhghrghrghrg" sound that ghost in "The Grudge" did. Well, in my oppinion

straywolf

08-07-2005, 02:54 PM

That's where I got spooked as well. And when you turn around....? ;)

BravoTwoZeroUK

08-07-2005, 03:26 PM

Picked up this weapon and used it,thought it was just a round based rifle but after I looked at a guy I just nailed lol I pinned his hand to the concrete n got another in his head!!! AWESOME!!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v440/Ave_ittt/untitled.jpg

solodude23

08-07-2005, 04:02 PM

Whoa I thought it was just a heavier assault rifle as well. Thats awsome. It sounds/looks awsome when your in slow mo and you are shooting at a guy. You can hear every seperate round hit followed by a splash of blood. Has great effects on where you shoot them as well. I shot the hell out of someone this one time and there were legs ansd arms and crap everywhere.

OAKsider

08-07-2005, 04:15 PM

Ever since the E3 demo, was expecting monster graphics, but:
I was either spoiled by HL2's engine, or BF2 and FEAR are friggin hogs.
My temporary 5900XT didn't run this good at all.
High = unplayable FPS, Medium = Graphics Very Poor. Both = :cry:

But from some of the posted screens, my 6800GT should work well [hopefully].
It's gonna take -so long- for October to come, waitin for FEAR and better BF2 patches.. .
Good reviews guys, except for the *spoilers* ><

straywolf

08-07-2005, 04:42 PM

Yup...the "Penetrator". Reminds me of the dart launcher used by the Predator class in AvsP 2. :D

straywolf

08-07-2005, 04:43 PM

You've got issues dude. You really do... :|:

straywolf

08-07-2005, 04:44 PM

I have a 6800GT 256MB vid card and it works very well with the demo.

BravoTwoZeroUK

08-07-2005, 04:46 PM

I have a 6800GT 256MB vid card and it works very well with the demo.
I have a 6800GT but it lags like a mofo!
Dunno if it's to do with only having 512mb!?I dont know but hell of alot of lag!

straywolf

08-07-2005, 04:50 PM

Most likely. These games, just like BF2, need plenty of available system RAM.
I have gotten the occaisional lock up in the demo buts I think its do to the onboard sound card that I am using. And...its a demo, so it will have some issues.

·[Ðes]·Father Weebles

08-07-2005, 09:04 PM

anybody know where the FEAR screenshot folder is?

alecs36

08-08-2005, 12:55 AM

How can some of you not run this game? i can run this game on intel family chipset (onboard) and 512 ram...

The graphics are great, i run on medium. The sounds are great, everything sound realistic. The slomo makes the game really good, i love seeing all the bullets flying by and gernaides blasting air around it and shrapnel and dirt. The enemies are VERY SMART. In one fight some guy through down some shelves for cover, and then started to shoot at me.

I am deffinanlty buying the full retail game.

here's what my game looked like--

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y2/Spears/AAAFEAR222.jpg

yes i know, not the best, but the gameplay is still great. And the sound.

imported_CTUnit1

08-08-2005, 01:05 AM

http://img309.imageshack.us/img309/2223/fear47zd.th.jpg (http://img309.imageshack.us/my.php?image=fear47zd.jpg)

I would post the full thing but it would make the forums go whack.

alecs36

08-08-2005, 01:27 AM

*sad because he doesn't have a good video card..*

those 2 pics rock.

alecs36

08-08-2005, 01:30 AM

edit edit edit edit

GlobalFear

08-08-2005, 01:50 AM

alecs, how are you running BF2?

Also, incase that is true that screenshot is 640x480.
Most people don't play at that res.

solodude23

08-08-2005, 01:58 AM

lol, before I even entered that "KEEP OUT" room I know it wouldn't be good....

alecs36

08-08-2005, 02:59 AM

alecs, how are you running BF2?

Also, incase that is true that screenshot is 640x480.
Most people don't play at that res.

I am not running bf2 on the same computer as i run F.e.a.r. on. ;)

oh and here's a pic of the awsome physics-

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y2/Spears/AAAFEARphysics.jpg

and this one-

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y2/Spears/AAAFEARphysics222.jpg

H2Yo

08-08-2005, 08:18 AM

Can anyone tell me if this will run on my machine? My Room-mate has downloaded this for me while I am at work and should be able to play tonite, anyway my rig is:

Pentium 4 - 2.4Ghz
1GB DDR RAM
256MB ATi Radeon X700
Sound Blaster Audigy

alecs36

08-08-2005, 08:20 AM

yes you should. requirments are 64 mb video card and 512 mb ram i think.

BigFinger

08-08-2005, 09:49 AM

I love the demo its certainly a resfreshing change to be as vunerable as your enemies. its not that scary but does have a silent hill feel to it which is nicely done. i just hope that thats only part of its gameplay and not the only thing it relies on.

only a couple of little gripes though... the torch doesnt light up areas sometimes i mean you can go to a dark corner and pop the torch on and it doesn't get any brighter.. and the look of your arms and gun is a little to far away, if you know what i mean they look too small and far away to be your own arms.

I can play it evenything maxxed out and it looks absolutely lovely.

P4 3.2
ATI X800XT PE
2 Gig corsair
2x200 SATA Raid 0
Audigy 2 ZS
5.1 sound

definatly going to get it when it comes out.

.

H2Yo

08-08-2005, 10:11 AM

I just crapped my pants while half watching Neighbours and playing... these bad guys just crash through the wall :o

CXZAR

08-08-2005, 01:58 PM

damn!!! i am missing so much of this game!!! :'(

Uziyahu

08-08-2005, 04:41 PM

Hallway didn't freak me out...
What freaked me out was when you have to go down the ladder and the little girl pops up as you turn. THAT freaked me out. And her laughter...eek.

I love people who post spoilers. There was this other genius on the Pure Pwnage forum that listed just about every scary moment in the demo. It's a short demo! Don't ruin it for others!

aznsensation18

08-08-2005, 07:37 PM

Great game. Scary as hell though....

hbandsc

08-08-2005, 08:00 PM

Umi.Ryuuzaki

08-08-2005, 08:48 PM

Never ever play this game when you accidently leave your sound volume and subwoof on high after playing BF2....damn this game kinda got me spooked for a bit XD

This feels like a horror FPS verison of Max Payne in a sense

solodude23

08-08-2005, 08:55 PM

Very cool game. I remember this part where there was this long, dark hallway. Immediately I had a bad feeling about it, so I try to run through it, and all I can say is that what happened was very creepy.
Yeah me too, but I took it extremly slow out of fear. I was creeping along then the shudders shut, and as I was heading down my flashligt turned off just as those things were rrunning down the hallway at me....not sure what they were but I used up most of my ammo on them.

Once I got to the end and saw another thing run across I was freaked out again, and when I looked up to see what was dripping on the dead body...

alecs36

08-08-2005, 09:22 PM

I love people who post spoilers. There was this other genius on the Pure Pwnage forum that listed just about every scary moment in the demo. It's a short demo! Don't ruin it for others!

cry about it, any fan of the game would have just played the demo first.

H2Yo

08-09-2005, 12:26 AM

I don't actually see the Max Payne similarity; I have played and finished both... Meh that's just me. Something which I was reminded of however is at the beginning when you get out of the car, it reminds me of Robocop. Don't ask me why... just does. :D

straywolf

08-09-2005, 03:28 AM

Those things were rats....running away from the other "thing". :D

Pvt_Schnur

08-09-2005, 04:40 AM

I can't believe no-one can see the Silent Hill influence!
And, as a side note, it plays almost exactly like AvP2, another great FPS. I'm glad Monolith and Sierra decided to have another crack at horror together. :D

solodude23

08-09-2005, 05:40 AM

Those things were rats....running away from the other "thing". :D
Yeah well I didn't give them much mercey. I heard a lil squeak, saw something comming at me, and I pretty much lit everything up....

panic951

08-09-2005, 05:45 AM

heres a vid i took of the demo, its just some random clips of game play

WARNING SPOILER !
http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=Untitled6267

Ion

08-09-2005, 06:07 AM

Great demo...very scary

solodude23

08-09-2005, 07:01 AM

Hehe, nice vid. I never saw that girl at the top cause I just jumped down....

alecs36

08-09-2005, 09:02 AM

heres a vid i took of the demo, its just some random clips of game play

WARNING SPOILER !
http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=Untitled6267

Nice vid, how do you make the video though? whenever i use windows media maker (whatever the name is ) and go to upload at putfile, it says i have the wrong format.

panic951

08-09-2005, 10:57 AM

you saved the format as a wmv right?

Uziyahu

08-09-2005, 07:22 PM

cry about it, any fan of the game would have just played the demo first.

It hasn't been that long. Some people haven't even downloaded it, yet, dumb-***! And *I* did already play it. Unlike some inconsiderate people, here, I'm thinking of those who haven't had a chance to play it, yet.

And if you can't download the demo, because of its size, here is a SPOILER Video (8 Megs) (http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=fearspdemospoiler)

Ogrt48

08-09-2005, 08:18 PM

Well wtf are you in this thread for? Any morons should be able to figure out that there would be spoilers for a 20 minute DEMO in this thread.

alecs36

08-09-2005, 09:30 PM

It hasn't been that long. Some people haven't even downloaded it, yet, dumb-***! And *I* did already play it. Unlike some inconsiderate people, here, I'm thinking of those who haven't had a chance to play it, yet.

And if you can't download the demo, because of its size, here is a SPOILER Video (8 Megs) (http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=fearspdemospoiler)

rofl, then i guess you shouldn't go into a thread called F.E.A.R. single player demo.... What do you expect? people to sit around saying... yea it's good. No! they are going to talk about certain parts in the game... jesus.

and no i didn't save to wmv, it doesn't let me.

straywolf

08-09-2005, 09:44 PM

The idea is to keep your "cool". The only time that I jumped in this game was when I had to go down the ladders in that boiler room. When you turn around and start heading down, you see the little girl's feet inches from your face and then her little laugh. Freak out city!
The spooky hallway reminded me alot of the Max Payne "tripped" sequences. Nothing scary there.

H2Yo

08-10-2005, 01:51 AM

Has anyone tried fly kicking the bad guys yet? I did it last night on the first enemy, threw him straight through the window and the other guy in that room ran out the door yelling "F*CK!" hehe, really cool.

alecs36

08-10-2005, 03:16 AM

How do you kick them???

H2Yo

08-10-2005, 03:43 AM

Jump and Right Click (Melee Attack), you'll see your legs doing a spin kick in mid air.

imported_NuclearDruid

08-10-2005, 07:58 PM

Or a sliding tackle, while running crouch and melee!

H2Yo

08-11-2005, 12:20 AM

It's a good idea to have several melee attacks -in my opinion- as the variety of choices increases the fun factor.

Oh and yeah, has anyway had the shidt scared out of them from running over bodies? When I first started the game I went into sound options and made the sound effects full instread of the 3/4 it was originally set to. Anyway because I have the surround sound headphones, when I first ran over a body it scared the crap outta me! All good now as I know what and when the noise will happen.