F.E.A.R. 360 at E3

By Tom Bramwell Published 4 May, 2006

Due out in autumn.

Vivendi's planning to show off the Xbox 360 version of F.E.A.R. at E3 next week - and has released a few more details about it and the first screenshot.

The first thing to note is that it's being developed by Day 1 Studios (them of MechAssault fame) in conjunction with original developer Monolith, and the second is that it's due out this autumn.

Dispensing with the numbering... Vivendi says we can expect brand new single-player content designed to deepen the previously 8 to 10-hour campaign, with new multiplayer content created to suit Xbox Live. Whatever that means.

Aaand we should be in a position to find out what it means next week, since we'll be playing it and that.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (24) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • mr-retail #1 6 years ago

    yay!
    certainly one of my favourites

  • GuiltySpark #2 6 years ago

    "Vivendi says we can expect brand new single-player content designed to deepen the previously 8 to 10-hour campaign"

    So is that a brand new game? Or just the old game with extras?

  • statix101 #3 6 years ago

    now 360 owners can get look at one boring corridor after another.....

  • UncleLou #4 6 years ago

    now 360 owners can get look at one boring corridor after another.....

    ...and experience the best AI, combat and last level of any game ever, which makes the bland level design entirely irrelevant.

  • smelly #5 6 years ago

    TBH I never payed more than about 2 hours of it before getting VERY bored and uninstalling - wondering why i wasted my money on it.

    Found it a tiresome experience.

    Add that to the fact im of the opinion that fps games dont work none to well on console pads, and i cant get that excited by this.

    Im hoping theres some stuff at e3 which will REALLY get me excited about the 360 - my wallet has been urging me to get one, but my "sensible" side wants to hold off until i see something on it I *REALLY* want to play.

  • morriss #6 6 years ago

    Thing is I agree with Lou and statix101

  • BartonFink #7 6 years ago

    /awaits first FPS on Wii

    Hailed by smelly as the second coming
    It will happen
    Edited by 1 at 04/05/06 @ 22:49

  • coojam #8 6 years ago

    The last level was tosh...the interactive ENDING was brilliant! If it had a Far Cry-esque level or maybe one based on a derelict Eastern European town setting, bet this game would have been revered by the HL2 fanboys and hence gone down as a classic.

  • UncleLou #9 6 years ago

    The last level was tosh...the interactive ENDING was brilliant!

    Well yes, I meant the ending.

    Although I liked the whole last level of the game (well, I liked therest of the game as well) where it's not mission-based anymore, but rather Half-Lifey. If you know what I mean. :)

  • smelly #10 6 years ago

    Purposefully ignoring bartonthinks trolling into trying to make out i care about one machine i've not yet seen running yet.

    The last level was tosh...the interactive ENDING was brilliant! If it had a Far Cry-esque level

    Eh? The last far cry levels were absolutely smegging awful!

    BUT - you're all talking me around to forcing myself to play this again with yer talk of how good the ending is.. Might cheat though, as i said - i found it a complete bore fest TBH.

  • Talha #11 6 years ago


    @coojam: Forgive me, but that was one of the most stupid generalizations I have ever heard. Half Life 2 offered amazing variety in its landscapes, and the setting for Far Cry was so beautiful you never grew tired of it (even though it lasted for about 20 hours). In both these games, an amazing amount of effort was put in to make the player feel part of the environment.

    There is no such thing in FEAR. Admittedly it has a better story, better AI and better particle effects, but that is about it. The settings were all the same and the only way to distinguish between them was to pause the game and look in the 'Load' menu. The game is a system hog - More than once I questioned whether what I was seeing was worth it. Granted, Far Cry was a system hog too, but in return it gave you something never seen before or since - I guess the entire FEAR landscape can fit inside on level of Far Cry. On the other hand, Half Life 2 is one of the most sweetly scalable games I have ever seen.

    So FEAR is not a bad game and it has some stunning advances in terms of AI - but it can become a hell of a drag.

  • beep #12 6 years ago

    Another old game 'coming soon' to the glorious Xbox 360. Yay.

  • kaosridder #13 6 years ago

    ^ which is excellent for those of us who doesnt have a good enough PC. Difficulties grasping that concept perhaps?

  • space_ace #14 6 years ago

    boo!

  • smelly #15 6 years ago

    which is excellent for those of us who doesnt have a good enough PC.

    I upgraded my pc to something which ran fear without a problem for considerably less than the 360 costs.

    watch someone miss my point here and call me a fanboy

  • Talha #16 6 years ago

    @smelly : How did you manage it? By that I mean what card you bought. I also upgraded recently but it sure as hell set me back around 500 quid.

    P.S. Ha! Fanboy!! Woohoo!!! ;-)
    Edited by 1 at 05/05/06 @ 11:05

  • coojam #17 6 years ago

    @Talha:

    Oh don't get me wrong, I think Half Life 2 is a fantastic game, what I said was kinda a dig at its loyalists. FEAR really WOULD have benefitted from some variation in its level design (So would Far Cry in fact) but Half Life 2's was far from perfect. I hope one day people will stop imagining it as the defining pinacle of PC gaming.

  • Talha #18 6 years ago

    @coojam: I get you mate. In fact we are agreed on the matter of FEAR and its shortcoming.

    However, I think whether HL2 is the 'defining pinnacle' largely remains a matter of taste. Obviously no game is perfect and HL2 had its own share of flaws. In fact it is not about entire games but MOMENTS within the game. For example, there are moments in Far Cry where you think you have never had more fun on the PC - same is the case for everything ranging from HL2 to FEAR to CoD2.

    Again that varies from person to person - I think it is best to accept that HL2, FEAR, Far Cry and CoD2 represent the pinnacle of modern PC shooters, each excelling in a different area. The rest is just details.

  • smelly #19 6 years ago

    @Talha. Good point, i didnt take into account the gfx card (Which i obtained by "other" means. 360 is deffo cheaper then. Im talking crap. :-)

  • coojam #20 6 years ago

    @Talha

    You know what, I think you just made one of the most intelligent descriptions of modern games ever lol.

    I was quick to defend FEAR because moments within it are excellent examples of everything that is right with computer games (though there are magnificent examples of what is wrong too, a lot of which people seem to define the game by). And you're exactly right, the same can be said of HL2, FarCry et al. Half Life 2 probably features more great moments than others, I just get a bit frustrated with its popularity at times...I guess it deserves it, just not blindly.

  • Talha #21 6 years ago

    @smelly and coojam: Ooooh am I popular or what!! ;-)

  • coojam #22 6 years ago

    I love how of the last 8 posts, 7 have started with an @ :p

  • kangarootoo #23 6 years ago

    @smelly
    "watch someone miss my point here and call me a fanboy"

    lol, you never quite got over that did you. I bare some of the blame I think, though I didn't shout witch, I did sort of help build the fire ;)

  • Talha #24 6 years ago

    @Smelly: YOU DIDN"T FACTOR IN THE CARD???!!! Wow, talk about 'creative accounting'. By the way which card you got and HOW did you get it (I suspect stealing the way you put it).