Xbox 360 gets the F.E.A.R.

By Tom Bramwell Published 19 April, 2006

Another cover girl.

Spooky first-person shooter F.E.A.R. is on its way to Xbox 360, according to numerous reports.

Apparently F.E.A.R. makes it onto the cover of the next issue of the UK's Official Xbox Magazine, which reveals that the Monolith-made game is hopping the digital gap. In slow motion, obviously - the PC original came out last October.

No details yet on what's changed, but interestingly F.E.A.R. 360 could end up in competition with, er, F.E.A.R. - as developer Monolith has since separated with Vivendi (though Vivendi made off with the F.E.A.R. name) and plans to develop loosely-associated sequels on its own time.

So far it hasn't pledged to do an Xbox 360 game, Monolith's daddies at Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment have hinted they might consider next-gen options, although "PC needs to be a focus" according to president Samantha Ryan.

Expect to hear more about F.E.A.R. on Xbox 360 soon - probably at E3 - and don't be surprised if we hear about some more Vivendi PC F.E.A.R. plans while they're at it.

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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 (56) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • Hunam85 #1 6 years ago

    Oh yeah, forgot about this. Isnt the FEAR sequal by monolith going to be under a different name, or so i recall.

  • Darkedge #2 6 years ago

    FEAR sequals will be called something different yes, but sam chars and idea moved on.

    not sure it'll work as well to play on 360, but monolith have tallent so we'll see

  • alpha-0ne #3 6 years ago

    yes ubisoft own the fear name so it will be a dofferent name but deont expect the as yet unnamed FEAR sequel this year, the 360 version will be out this year

  • SimonM7 #4 6 years ago

    Um, wasn't this investigated by Gamespot already, and OXM guys said it wasn't from their mag?

  • Blerk #5 6 years ago

    OXM US said it wasn't from their mag. Gamespot asked the wrong people!

  • Genji #6 6 years ago

    Change the acronym, please. Thanks.

  • kangarootoo #7 6 years ago

    Come on Tom, how about some clearer info on this. Who is publishing the 360 version? And who is developing it?

    I have the impression that Monolith are developing and Ubi are publishing, but to be honest I'm half guessing. Can someone please clear that up for me so I don't have to search the web for other articles?

    Upon hearing that Ubi are involved in a console FPS, my first thought was "they will cock the controls up, they always do". But I guess if Monolith are doing the port it has a chance.

    An FPS on sticks lives or dies by its control system. If they get this right I will probably buy it, if they don't I won't (just like Far Cry: Predator, which is dangerously close to being returned to the shop).

  • snick #8 6 years ago

    woohoo, another previous gen update, brilliant.

  • Genji #9 6 years ago

    "another previous gen update"

    I think you mean "retro" update. Retro is cool!

  • smelly #10 6 years ago

    FPS's dont really work on dual sticks though do they?

  • kangarootoo #11 6 years ago

    "FPS's dont really work on dual sticks though do they?"

    Oh of course they bloody do. You can't tell me Halo "didn't work". Even if it wasn't your bag, loads of people thought it lots of fun. And if a game is fun, it works, right?

  • Teeth #12 6 years ago

    rootoo you aren't gonna fall for one of smelly's more blatant trolls are ya?

  • Xerx3s #13 6 years ago

    Smelly has ascended to the lvl of cavetroll. You must now rest to choose your statistics. ;p

  • UncleLou #14 6 years ago

    woohoo, another previous gen update, brilliant.

    Yes, because FEAR on the PC is a "previous gen" game. :p

  • Genji #15 6 years ago

    Bring System Shock to the X360!

    Go on!

  • neilka #16 6 years ago

    "Bring System Shock to the X360!"

    Bioshock, by the makers of System Shock, is meant to be coming out for "next generation consoles".

  • alpha-0ne #17 6 years ago

    already announced ;-) htt p://uk.xbox360.ign.com/objects/793/793105.html

  • smelly #18 6 years ago

    Well I didnt like halo on the sticks, nope.

    Just like i dont think perfect dark 0 controls very well, or indeed any fps i've played on dual sticks.

    Hmmm.. apart from metroid prime, that controlled okay, but i didnt like it as a game, so that didnt count.

    To me, it's a big MEH anyhuws, as i thought FEAR sucked when i played it on pc. Got boringly repetitive too quickly.

  • smelly #19 6 years ago

    "you aren't gonna fall for one of smelly's more blatant trolls are ya? "


    What, am I a pc fanboy now?

    Last time I checked EVERY console currently available has dual sticks, and subseqeuntly would be crap for fps games?
    Edited by 1 at 19/04/06 @ 14:33

  • JonFE #20 6 years ago

    Nowdays, I read all of smelly's comments mentally adding a ";)" at the end...

    I mean, he can't be having a dig at everything and everyone, so, I guess, he just likes to stir things up :)

  • Thamuhacha #21 6 years ago

    >Last time I checked EVERY console currently available has dual sticks, and subseqeuntly would be crap for fps games?

    Is that the approaching rumble of Revolution fanboys I hear?

  • Furbs #22 6 years ago

    Surely Battlezone was the first "FPS"? Seem to recall that wasnt too bad on sticks :)

    But yeah, smelly just enjoys winding up anyone and everyone. Troll without a cause ;)

  • Teeth #23 6 years ago

    smelly, I didn't call you a pc fanboy, I called you a troll.

  • smelly #24 6 years ago

    "Is that the approaching rumble of Revolution fanboys I hear? "


    How can you be a fanboy of something which isnt out and no-ones seen games on?

    As for the controller, No-one outside the devs have used it yet, so no-one will know whether it's good for fps's or not?


    My point was I hate playing fps's on dual sticks. I didnt expect people to get all upset about it and start accusing me of some sort of saddo 360 hate/revo (or pc) love. FFS! Get over yerselves people! Cant someone post an innocent comment like that wihtout people thinking they're slagging off their machines (or whatever "trolling" means)?

  • UncleLou #25 6 years ago

    Well, you have a bit of a history for slagging off everything that isn't related to Nintendo, so I am afraid its your fault. Hardly a coincidence that dozens of different people have called you a troll and a fanboy in the past.

  • Teeth #26 6 years ago

    Haha, 'innocent comment' my sweet butt cheeks.

  • smelly #27 6 years ago

    @UncleLou

    *sigh*. People on this board seem to make up memories to fit their stories. I've never slagged off stuff which wasnt nintendo for the sake of it being not nintendo. I've stood up for nintendo a few times when the fankids were needlessly bashing them, but that's irrelevent.

    But believe what you want to believe.

    All I said was "fps's control badly on dual sticks" how that is pro or anti any console is beyond me. I've also stated in this same thread i hated metroid prime (but it's the only one i can think of where the controls felt right), how that is "slagging anything nintendo" is beyond me.

    FFS.. I'm just making a comment!!! Personally speaking I dont like fps games on console pads and prefer them on a pc. That's my coment, there's no "nintendo is ace" in that. There's no "console b is crap" in there. Just my comment. Okay?

    Now bloody get over it,.

  • kangarootoo #28 6 years ago

    @Teeth

    "rootoo you aren't gonna fall for one of smelly's more blatant trolls are ya?"

    You know, I wondered after I posted. But it was too late by then. Bollox.


    See Kangarootoo. See Kangarootoo jump. Kangarootoo likes to jump.

  • UncleLou #29 6 years ago

    Get over what? You must have misunderstood me, I am not concerned in the slightest by anything you said in this thread, I merely explained to you why people understand your comments the way they do. See it as pedagogical support.

  • smelly #30 6 years ago

    La la la la la la la (fingers in ears) la la la la la.

    Not listening!

    la la la la la, you're a fanboy troll.

    (that's my impression of you guys).

  • kangarootoo #31 6 years ago

    Oh dear. A lesson learned there methinks.

  • Teeth #32 6 years ago

    What you did smelly was state that the first person shooter doesn't work with dual analogue sticks, which is clearly false, seeing as many successful FPS games have used dual analogue sticks to great effect and have many fans in both the hardcore and casual audience.

    Perhaps you should have put an IMO afterwards. But what I really have a problem with is what were you trying to say when you posted it anyway? Were you trying to say "Actually I don't think there's any point in releasing FPS games on a console"? Because Halo 2 is standing right behind you and casting one gigantic shadow all over you mate. No. The reason you posted it was to piss off all the people who like console FPS games. Because you are a troll. IMO :)

  • kangarootoo #33 6 years ago

    Here's an idea.

    In between bouts of smelly getting royally spanked by all comers, can someone answer my question about who is developing and publishing the 360 outing of FEAR.

    Don't make me get of my ass and use google now, it won't be pretty.

    In seriousness, that sort of info should have been in the bloody article, which (given I am courteous enough to read this site above all others AND generally defend it against childish attacks in these threads) is why I am loath to commit any further effort to discovering the truth for myself.

  • Teeth #34 6 years ago

    You may have to buy the issue of OXM :) I think if you have a dig in the Gamespot forum there's a link to some full page scans.

  • tiddles #35 6 years ago

    What I would like to see is for someone to buy the rights and source code to Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines, and convert it to the 360 (including the latest fan patches and other fixes) - I think it would work really well on consoles...

  • smelly #36 6 years ago

    >Because Halo 2 is standing right behind you

    IMHO, Only played Halo on the pc. It sucked.

  • Teeth #37 6 years ago

    Yes smelly, because:

    a) it was designed for the dual analogue sticks under which control scheme it actually plays really well and
    b) the PC version was complete and total arse.

    edit: ah, kr2 just said what I was about to edit in here.
    Edited by 2 at 19/04/06 @ 17:33

  • kangarootoo #38 6 years ago

    @tiddles

    Man, I would sign that petition in a flash (except in reality, petitions on that sort of thing make no difference). I loved VM:B.

    I bet it would sell too. Gritty, intelligent, source engine based Vampire action RPG. Who couldn't sell that?

    @smelly
    "Only played Halo on the pc"

    Holy cow! All this verbal scrapping and allegedly trollish activity and you haven't even actually played the mother of all "good stick controls on a console FPS" games! Shame on you :)

  • Carrybagma #39 6 years ago

    /large rubber mallet reappears

    /teeth collects large rubber mallet
    /teeth hums Donkey Kong 'large rubber mallet' theme
    /teeth bonks smelly over head repeatedly with large rubber mallet
    /teeth collects 1600 bonus

    /large rubber mallet reappears

    /kangarootoo collects large rubber mallet
    /kangarootoo hums Donkey Kong 'large rubber mallet' theme
    /kangarootoo bonks smelly over head repeatedly with large rubber mallet
    /kangarootoo collects 1600 bonus

    /large rubber mallet reappears

  • optimusprym8 #40 6 years ago

    yeah the 360 version will be called S.H.I.T

  • Stormflood #41 6 years ago

    I've been playing FEAR recently, and after the 50th warehouse room with pipes along one wall, a small office partition with a med-pack, and probably a grating so you can drop down into some water.... yup, it gets old very quickly.

    But it does scare the shit out of you, and has some decent AI. Should be good for first timers...

  • UncleLou #42 6 years ago

    The admittedley bland surroundings didn't bother me one bit. The AI and visceral quality of the shootouts in FEAR is so far beyond anything in any other FPS games to date that I was glad they concentrated on these aspects rather than fancy setpieces which, in the end, are almost cosmetic. The best elements of FEAR blended with the art direction atmosphere of Half-Life 2, now that would have been the mother of all FPS games.

  • kangarootoo #43 6 years ago

    "yeah the 360 version will be called S.H.I.T"

    Wahayyy!! LOL.

    Well done optimusprym8. After all our childish squabbling you have returned us to adult life with a swift dose of razor edged wit. Top work!

  • Xerx3s #44 6 years ago

    "Surely Battlezone was the first "FPS"? Seem to recall that wasnt too bad on sticks :) "

    On the 2600? Wasnt that an arcade tank sim thingy? And what do you mean: stick*s*?

  • Furbs #45 6 years ago

    You're kidding right? It was an arcade classic using vector graphics and two sticks to control the tank treads independently.

  • smelly #46 6 years ago

    "good stick controls on a console FPS" games

    Yes i have, it's called metroid. Didnt like that either.

  • Helios #47 6 years ago

    "woohoo, another previous gen update, brilliant."

    I'd hardly call FEAR previous gen. It came out less than a month before the 360. REALLY last gen.

  • Rambaldi #48 6 years ago

    Haven't posted for a while...nice to see things haven't changed round here:)

    /glances at smelly with gimp ball in mouth and long line of lovers with frap-paddles in hand

  • Drakron #49 6 years ago

    Xbox 360 forums are always amusing ... one side hates everything about it with the other would consider being anal raped by a Xbox 360 a good experience since it was a Xbox 360.

    Who needs religion for fanatism? I cannot wait until someone blows up a building because a company did not ported their game to their plataform of choice.

  • Triggerhappytel #50 6 years ago

    "Come on Tom, how about some clearer info on this. Who is publishing the 360 version? And who is developing it?

    I have the impression that Monolith are developing and Ubi are publishing, but to be honest I'm half guessing. Can someone please clear that up for me so I don't have to search the web for other articles?"

    FEAR was developed by Monolith and published by Vivendi. Warner Bros. own Monolith and Vivendi own the FEAR franchise.

    Monolith and Vivendi have now parted ways and will not be working together any more. Vivendi will be making official sequels to FEAR, but they will developed by someone else. Monolith are rumoured to making a 'spiritual' sequel to FEAR, only it will have a new name. Ubisoft have nothing to do with it.

    Clear as mud? ;)

  • kangarootoo #51 6 years ago

    "Yes i have, it's called metroid. Didnt like that either."

    I didn't like the Metroid control system either. Its no proper guide though when comparing FPS games that use twin sticks. It may have done the job in Metroid (though for me, it didn't) but it simply wouldn't work in something like BF2 or GRAW. Horses for courses I guess.

  • kangarootoo #52 6 years ago

    @Triggerhappytel

    Thats a bit better, cheers.

  • indotoonster #53 6 years ago

    What is the fear?

  • Dizzy #54 6 years ago

    ""Surely Battlezone was the first "FPS"? Seem to recall that wasnt too bad on sticks :) "

    On the 2600? Wasnt that an arcade tank sim thingy? And what do you mean: stick*s*? "

    Some of you youngsters should really google first before posting heresy like this ;)

  • kangarootoo #55 6 years ago

    I recall 3D Monster Maze on ZX81. The first FPRA (first person run awayer) IIRC.

  • glaeken #56 6 years ago

    Battlezone predates 3D monster maze though I think. I could be wrong though as my memory is not what it was in my advancing years.