F.E.A.R. 2 demo
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Saturday 24 January 2009 05:49

I don't know, but I always get the feeling with
these type of games that you're not supposed to
play them if you've already played Half-Life. Like
Half-Life is some secret source only the developers
of today's games know about and secretly base all
their games on to easily sell them to the unaware
masses. Whether it's Bioshock, Alone in the Dark,
F.E.A.R., etc., to me it's all the same, or at
least not that different from Half-Life to spend
yet more hours crouching through dark buildings
shooting anything that moves. Spoiler Alert! As
usual, you start out of nowhere in some supposedly
serious shit, get talked through some objectives,
pick up weapons and health along the way, kill
mutants, and probably work your way to some
endboss. The end. And then on to the multiplayer to
see if that makes the purchase worth it, and
probably not. Oh, yeah - F.A.E.R. 2 has some slow
motion mode. Isn't that just a sign they had to add
useless features to pretend it's more than just old
crap? The difference between concepts in these
games is just very superficial and the interface
style hasn't changed much since the '90s either.
But what can you expect from creators whose
animated 5.1 logo's are all the same? But during
the worldwide financial crisis the crisis will be
blamed for any disappointing sales for any product,
not the fact the product might just suck... So, is
development only aimed at gamers who haven't played
Half-Life and will in ten years blog about that all
the games are to them just like F.E.A.R. 2? I could
compare it with the original Wolfenstein, but going
from VGA to 720p makes a difference, and I don't
see a difference in the step to 1080p for games. I
think watching a well mastered Blu-Ray movie in
1080p is stunning, but while 1080p games definitely
look nicer than 720p there's just not enough detail
available in the game to bring it out in a way that
would make it stunning. And once you get fragging
you don't have time to notice the details, and
adding a slow motion mode is a HD-TV selling
solution looking for a problem.

by Roland van Ipenburg
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ipenburg/blog/posts/play/2009/01/24/f-e-a-r-2-demo/