Appointment with FEAR (Standalone)

I cannot classify this as anything beyond "lazy and clumsy". I too grew up with Fighting Fantasy books and I still own some 20+ titles. I practically learned how to read with The Warlock of the Firetop Mountain, Cretan Chronicles shaped my passion for ancient greek history and even the "advanced" titles found a way into my heart (Dungeoneer, Titan, Out of The Pit, etc). This means that this title should have had a lot of nostalgic valor to me, right? Well, that's what I thought. It is difficult, however, to enjoy a game when the interface is so clumsy and amateurish. The game only opens in fullscreen (I have a 4K screen) and refuses resizing. Mouse scroll was unfeasibly insensitive. There are no volume controls and accessing the Main Menu sometimes rolls back some of the text you last read. You don't have access to your character sheet. Dice rolls are hidden (it just tells you if you passed or not). In the original book, the clues were "Remove X from current reference when Y happens", but in this implementation, it was replaced by a "Try to Solve" button which kinda ruins the magic of you having to remember when to use the clues. The art is inconsistent: your main hero is pretty well drawn, the images extracted from the book are nice (in high-res and colours, yahoo!) but the characters in the text bubbles are just *atrocious*. The whole thing feels like a weekend project. To be fair, as a 12yo I once ported part of the Warlock of Firetop Mountain in as an interactive slideshow and it was better than this - I'm not exaggerating. The game ran okay on Linux, but I had the above mentioned problems with resizing. Achievements are fine and natural, though it lacks achievements for the Super Strength hero (there are lots for the Gadget, Blast and Mind Reading though). This is not about the money. Fighting Fantasy is a CLASSIC, it is LOVED by many. Do not DARE to tarnish its reputation in such a terrible and lazy way.

Probably one of the bad representation of what a chose your own adventure book is. A good ending you can only have by searching how to achieve it on internet because it's far fetched and not logical at all with no real clues given even though you're supposed to investigate. The story goes nowhere. It is ultra short. The only positive point is the graphics that remains nice overall. Probably a loss of time and money. But hey, if you're a fan of the genre, nothing stops you from giving it a try. It still has some comic super hero taste. "Nice cover", bad content. You can almost smell it from afar. There are a lot of better CYOA-like out there on steam nowaday.

I still have my book. The digital Book is Titan c.r.a.p

[i]Appointment with F.E.A.R.[/i] is exactly what it sells itself as- a digital version of an older CYOA book. It's meant to be a parody of the super hero genre, however it's not very funny or engaging, and the hoops you have to jump through to get the true ending for each 'super power' don't feel very heroic and are often completely nonsensical. More importantly, there is no way(that I could see) to run the game in anything less than full-screen, and there are absolutely zero audio options, so the annoying music will play until you mute the game at a system level. This is particularly bizarre as I recently played [i]Forest of Doom[/i], a similar CYOA-adapted-into-agame the developers only released a few months later than this one on Steam, and it has significantly better options and a way better format.

Um game que lembra Kick Ass. Moldamos no inicio a cor e genero e algumas formas, é pouca varidade. E dai em diante vamos usando diálogos para decidir o que é prioridade e o que não é. Vamos dividindo a vida entre ir para escola, casa e manter a vida dupla de herói. Em partes é engraçado e em outras é monótomo. Costuma não ser tão caro, quem gosta de ficção interativa pode gostar muito mais do que eu.

It's OK. Not great. And just barely ok. The writing is cheesy. To get the 'Good' ending, you have to either look up a guide for hints, or grind out playing through the short story (can get through in under an hour), over and over - because the path to solving the 'Mystery' is incredibly random. For instance, you get a clue to a major super secret plot, by a league of super villains, by chasing down a random street criminal, with no obvious ties to said plot. You can build a character, from a handful of preset models, and choose the color of their outfit. The storyline is nor really compelling on any level - it is silly and very tongue on cheek, and does not take itself seriously, but it mostly just comes across as 'LOL Random'. Have not played/read a Fighting Fantasy game book in many many years, but from what I remember, doing one of those would be more fun than this. I ground out all the achievements, with the help of a guide, as soon as I twigged how RNG (for want of a better word) the whole thing was. Probably could have spent up to ten hours, if I didn't take any hints. But after you get past that, there is Zero replay value, unless you want to go through the same story again, with a different colored outfit. The game is not TERRIBLE. It does what it means to do passably well. There is just not much to it. suppose this could be a recommend for people who are seriously into Fighting Fantasy style text based adventures, or you absolutely positively want to play every text based adventure on steam. Anyone else probably has something better to do.

This game is a quirky choose your own adventure type deal. Be the superhero you always wanted to be! I'm usually not very into the superhero genre but even someone like me has fun playing through this game so there's that!

A bit dissapointing. Repetitive. And not always the right sort of cheesy. High difficulty also and low replayability. A shame.

An on-screen production of one of Steve Jackson's Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. A radical change of direction from the usual sword&sorcery style games set in the world of Allansia, this one is a comic inspired story set in Titan City. You are a super-heroine, with a choice of one of four special powers. You must find the time and place of the next meeting of F.E.A.R., an organisation intent on world domination, and destroy it's maniac cyborg leader Vladimir Utoshski. You have a choice of costume style and colour with the superhero cliche that your character looks almost identical in costume and in street clothes haha.... Sadly, you cannot custom name your character. You can only choose from a strange selection of predetermined names. There are background music and sound effects, as well as 73 game artwork cards to gather and a great series of 30 achievements ranging from easy to difficult to amusing. There are also Steam trading cards for this game. The combat system (complete with authentic "wham-blammo" type captions!) is completely different from the usual FF system, but seems rather too random. This game does need very specific path choices (which vary depending on which superhero power you choose) to find certain info and items required to succeed. TinManGames have produced five of the original FF games as standalone titles (more about them elsewhere) and i did not enjoy this one as much as the others. Not any fault of the developers, just the original concept was very different. I bought it on discount so it was still very good vfm. Ok for something a bit different.

The production values on this game are nothing short of amazing. What a fun and original port of this classic gamebook (which I finally have a chance to play). You're greeted with an engaging layout full of comic panels, bright colors and moody music. You get to pick your superhero's powers, name and even their look. The animations and quips bring you back to the old Batman show and keep you laughing. The collectible cards are a great add too. While I don't know exactly how this remake differs mechanically from the original, it looks like they've streamlined the play. I like that the game automatically handles Skill tests, etc, so you don't have to. I do wish I didn't have to click the mouse so many times, though. And to top it all off, it's just as hard as any other FF book! I haven't even come close to beating it, just like the others. Give it a try if you love being a superhero for an afternoon!