Ooh. Dark.

Oh, the past saturday I went out with Sm and Brendan to go play LAN. While they played battle for middle earth, I wanted to try a different game and I foolishly started up F.E.A.R ( I think it's an acronym for First Encounter Assault Recon ) and I have to say it's really creepy. I think I'll review on it.

Okay anyway, F.E.A.R is basically a first-person shooter game where you take the role of a soldier in a paranormal team or something, I don't know. Playing F.E.A.R is the equivalent of being in a horror movie. Seriously. I'll write a short summary of what happens in the first stage.

Well, you walk out of a car and you enter a building where a rat is hiding in some garbage. ( For the fun of it, I shot the rat and blood splattered everywhere. Sorry, animal lovers. ) Then you would jump over a table and as you round a corner a mist which resembles a face moves along the corridor and you're presented with some bloody head, and literally bloody head on the screen. As you continue down, theres a doorway blocked off on it's top part by planks across the room. A guy walks past the corridor and you can only see his legs. While he does that, the creepy high pitched sound you get in movies plays ( This was when I got spooked out and stopped playing and sm took over. ). Then, as you continue on, you meet a fellow soldier and then you start to hallucinate, hearing voices and seeing everything in slow-motion. When you enter a room with a dead guy on a chair, you stop hallucinating and the soldier reappears. Then, you'll have to make your way up a rooftop where a small walkway joins another rooftop. As you walk along it, a bloody guy ( and I literally mean BLOODY ) surprises you by swinging a piece of plank in your face. He then talks to you with some soldiers in the background. After that, you just get up and make your way down to the room with the dead guy in a chair, and the level ends with you in a helicopter.

The game is quite realistic, and I would rate it's realism, not counting it's existance of ghosts, close to Half-Life 2. It's physics engine isn't really that realistic as half life 2, since when I shot an oil drum it didn't budge, and it would only move when I banged into it. It did roll however, when i jumped on top of it and walked around on it like I was on a rolling log Lol. Also, unlike Half-life 2, the legs of the player actually exist! Half life and half life 2 puts you in the body of a legless scientist Lol. When getting up after a fall ( like after getting whacked in the face wth a plank ) or sliding down a rope from a helicopter, the hand and legs are visible as the camera shows the point of view of the person as they do the action.

Overall, If I had to rate it, I would give it a 6 out of 10. 2 points lower than what I would give it if i wasn't actually scared. But together with the scary parts, I would give it a total of 8 out of 10.