F.E.A.R.

One of the few games that made me actually close it for the day. Non-canon, but sure made me ♥♥♥♥ my pants.

Mon expérience sur F.E.A.R, qui m’a beaucoup marquée à l’époque, est renforcée sur F.E.A.R. Point d'Extraction du point de vue horrifique : la dimension surnaturelle envahit la réalité tangible. Alors même que le joueur est doté d’armes surpuissantes (et donc de nature à lui permettre la maîtrise du réel par la force et l’utilisation d’une technologie militaire), il est totalement démuni face à des hallucinations propres à faire surgir le mal traumatique à l’état pur qui provoque un effondrement du réel. Pour ceux qui connaissent la saga filmique « The Grudge », et bien l’analogie est permise du point de vue des sensations et des significations : la porosité entre ce qui est fantasmé et ce qui relève du réel s’organise en des termes terrifiants, au sens archaïque. Finalement, c’est très régressif mais jouissif car, soyez rassuré, l’action est omniprésente et vous ne serez pas exposé à une simple contemplation de cette dimension surnaturelle ! Vous combattrez l’horreur à coup de fusil à pompe, et cela fait du bien ! Par ailleurs, j’ai été sensible, sur le plan de l’analyse, à une forme de manipulation technico-militaire dictée par une dérive capitaliste qui privatise la mobilisation d’une armée constituée de « réplicants », soldats privés d’identité et donc de droits, agissant indépendamment de toute régulation étatique.

Better than the original ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☑ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10 ---{ Author }--- ☑ https://vojtastruhar.github.io/steam-review-template

Base game is good, a little dated, but I liked it. Was enjoying this expansion too, I think this DLC is actually a bit scarier than the base game, and the story is more interesting as well. However in the mid-point of the game, there is a part in the sewers shortly after the subway section, where you have to turn a valve to raise the water level, to cross a broken bridge. However, the jump to get out of the water and onto the broken bridge is literally 99% impossible. I spent 45 minutes trying this jump, losing my mind, thinking that I must just have game journalist skills. But I checked online, and other people had the same issue as me. I've seen people do it successfully, but apparently you have to be in a pixel perfect spot when you jump in order to make it. Caved and used a level skip code so I could finish the game. Expansion seems good other than that, but that was simply so annoying that it tainted the rest of the expansion for me.

PEAK!

F.E.A.R. Extraction Point is a funtastic expansion of the base game that brings hard boiled action, a fulfilling extension of the story with great twists and turns, not to mention offering gamers more time inside the awesome original F.E.A.R. playground. After playing the sequels and returning to the first game it is honestly night and day, while the later entries have some nice QOL improvements the lighting, environments, gunplay, squad based combat, its all insanely awesome, dense, and atmospheric. F.E.A.R. is among the best first person shooter franchises in my opinion and if you enjoy these games you owe it to yourself to play Extraction Point. Its a no fat on the bone, all gas no brakes, kickass time with a solid mix of moody horror reminiscent of those Japanese inspired horror flicks of the 2000s set in a John Woo action flick. Amazing game!

As someone who loves this game, this build is a buggy mess unless you drop the graphics to the lowest settings. Ignore it and buy the version from GoG. Much more stable.