You really should.
Does F.E.A.R. 2 deliver the horror, shock and trauma filled campaign it promises? Does the online rival the dominant XBL shooters? Does the storyline get more gruesome or does it neatly tie itself up?
Will I ever stop asking rhetorical questions? Will I? Will I?
Will I?
Where to start eh? The campaign is ostentatiously breath-taking at times, with its jaw-dropping slow-mo graphics and armored vehicle-ness, however, it is occasionally spoilt by poor, predictable level design.
As you progress through the game you will gradually pick up, and inevitably become passionately interested in, the games storyline. You are Beckett. Summary of Becket: masterchief of his world. You, and your team, have been tasked with the job of fetching some lady called Artiside, or something like that. Artiside is head of a company, Armacham Technology Corporation, or ATC for short, which attempted to speed up the evolution of humans, and, as with all fictitious human modifying experiments, it went wrong. Your main objective in the game is to destroy Alma, the ATC and the Replica are merely obstacles. As in most games now, there are small hidden collectables placed strategically to span the entire single player experience. I recommend that you don't just search for them, you achievement whores you, but actually take notice of the words written upon them as the 'intel' items heavily piece together the intricately woven storyline. The word apologue definately doesn't apply to this title, unless NOT trapping little girls in boxes underground and forcing them to reproduce is the moral that is conveyed through F.E.A.R., which I highly doubt. So, if you enjoy happy games where the worst that can happen is slipping on a banana, I suggest you stick to Mario Kart. But if you are one of those saudistic, gore-loving, blood-thirsty freaks, then this is your game.
The gameplay is rather enjoyable too. Don't get me wrong you will have seen and played it all before but F.E.A.R. somehow manages to tweak very tiny parts of your average FPS shooter and make it something...different.
Online multiplayer is what alot of 'hardcore' gamers would say is by far the most valuable cog in a games engine. Well, the core gamers won't be dissappointed here. F.E.A.R.'s online can handle 16 players at one time and consists of 6 different game modes over 9 playable maps, 3 of which can only be played in 1 game mode. The modes are: Deathmatch - All vs All, you know the score; Team Deathmatch - Again, obvious; Blitz - Capture the flag with a twist. There are two flags and you have a timelimit in which you must capture as many times as possible, or vice versa by stopping the enemy team scoring; Failsafe - Search and Destroy for all you CoD fans, or a bomb plant and defend mode for non-CoD lovers; Control -You know...this will be alot easier if you've played Call of Duty as this gamemode is an exact replica, no pun intended, of CoD's Domination. Basically, there are three control points on the map. The more you control the more points you get; And lastly, Armoured Front - By far the best original mode. Armoured Front has 3 of its own maps, as it needs perfectly suited designs to encorporate the modes style. In short, 5 control points across each map. You have to capture all points in sequence, either ascending or descending varying with the side you spawn on. Sounds pretty 'meh' right? Thats because the art of this mode is crafted magically into something called an Elite Powered Armour (EPA). Each team has one EPA which can be manuevered after capturing the 2nd control point in your sequence. Quite simply: EPA>Man...no matter what, literally. It takes at least several stun grenades and missiles to take down these machines. Bullets do such a ridiculously tiny amount of damage to EPA's, its like a human against a rock...and a stupid rock at that. Anyways, as the EPA cannot capture points it makes for a team-based, communication necessary, EPA pwnage, sneaky sneaky Russians, frag fest load of awesomeness.
To conclude, the campaign is stunning, only flawed once or twice. The online probably won't draw you away from Halo, Gears or CoD but will be a keeper.
Score:: 8.7
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