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Project Origin dated, becomes F.E.A.R. 2 Comments by Tom Bramwell

9 September, 2008

Warner buys back the name.

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Dark_Era
09/09/08 @ 09:07
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Amazing What a diff names can make
Zanuah
09/09/08 @ 09:10
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Whats in a name anyway. :P

In any case looking forward to this game, I really enjoyed the first one. (not the expansions though... I didn't want to touch them...)
JonFE
09/09/08 @ 09:10
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To be honest, I still would prefer the Assault Recon Second Encounter moniker :)

Joking aside, it's a good thing they got the name back, it would be silly having a F.E.A.R. 2 without Monolith being in charge.
johnboy_johsnon
09/09/08 @ 09:11
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Wasn't there two games in development; Project Origin and Fear 2?
space ace
09/09/08 @ 09:13
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why not S.C.A.R.E? :P
Triggerhappytel
09/09/08 @ 09:16
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No surprise there really - ActiBlizz seem to be axeing every Vivendi franchise which isn't a multi-million seller (I don't think the two expansions sold too well which probably quashed their interest).

Anyway, this will make no difference - Project Origin was a licenced product of the FEAR universe anyway, wasn't it?
Tomo
09/09/08 @ 09:28
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What johnboy said...
septimus
09/09/08 @ 09:49
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The first few levels of FEAR were great... but I found the games entertainment value to drop off sharply after that, the anxiety and foreboding just disappeared.

Just hope they can keep the tension going this time.
AtomicBanana
09/09/08 @ 09:50
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F.E.A.R: First few levels were great, then complete and utter tedium till the very last level, which I personally thought was pretty cool. I'm not really interested in playing another one though frankly . . can we have another SHOGO please Monolith? (yes I know it's never going to happen :P)
ThePissartist
09/09/08 @ 09:55
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I thought F.E.A.R was pretty poor anyway - I won't be buying this.
dominalien
09/09/08 @ 09:57
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It's a good thing they sorted this out. It's such a waste when good franchises get put in the back of the storage room because they didn't sell a quintillion. Like EA did with everything that came out of Origin (no connection to F.E.A.R.).

Now, here's to hoping the PS3 version is not vastly inferior this time around.
Gearskin
09/09/08 @ 11:08
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One of my fav shooters. Own both the PC and 360 versions. Love it loads. This shall ROCK, the gameplay footage seen so far is amazing.
BillyBrush
09/09/08 @ 11:26
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tis gonna be a good un by the looks
Execta
09/09/08 @ 11:26
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It's time best visuals, modern day best enemy AI, slow-motion, gore and it even was a little scary too. I really loved F.E.A.R. and this is a must buy. Really looking forward to this but I wished this could be out already in 2008. But no, same time with Killzone 2. :)
BobsUncle
09/09/08 @ 12:07
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F.E.A.R. was shit on Xbox, the aiming was totally fucked up.
SpyroViper
09/09/08 @ 12:32
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Something tells me this won't do well on the PS3. We have Killzone 2 coming in February 2009, I wonder how many will choose that over this crap.
Nithron
09/09/08 @ 12:56
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I actually liked the first expansion pack. Does that make me a freak?
Feanor
09/09/08 @ 14:09
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No, Extraction Point was very good as expansion packs go. I liked it as much if not more than the main game.
Nithron
09/09/08 @ 23:00
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Yeah, i thought so too. Seems to be a lot of hate around for both the expansions though. Not sure why.
YourMessageHere
10/09/08 @ 06:56
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So yes, where did the thing that was going to be FEAR2 go?

I just don't get this "FEAR was boring" talk. Do you lot just not like FPS's or something? To my eye, it had just about the best gunfights and AI in ages, now included; the minute-to-minute play is probably some of the best made in FPS to date. I had to force myself not to finish it in a single sitting. I wasn't so keen on the plot, and there were plenty of times I wanted it to shut up trying to be scary and give me more goons to puncture, but it was pretty good compared to how FPS plots usually end up. The expansions were good too - love that beam laser.

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