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Warner Bros. has bought back the F.E.A.R. name from the newly formed Activision Blizzard, allowing WB-owned Monolith to rename its upcoming Project Origin.
What's more, F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, as it's now known, has been given a US release date of 10th February 2009 on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. Update: European gamers will be able to buy it on 13th February.
Monolith's FPS has always been a spiritual sequel to F.E.A.R. anyway, overlapping with its story and characters, so the shift to F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin isn't a great stretch.
The game follows Michael Becket, a Delta Force chappy, who is sent into the situation you spent the whole of the first game investigating about half an hour before the amazing thing that happens at the end happens.
Somehow you end up with the same slow-motion powers that you had in the first F.E.A.R., allowing you to take control of FPS firefights in unique and explosive fashion, despite the fearsome AI of your enemies.
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johnboy_johsnon
09/09/08 @ 09:11
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Wasn't there two games in development; Project Origin and Fear 2?
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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? |
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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)
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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. |
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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.
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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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