
Fear Effect, the pioneering cel-shaded cinematic action game, returns!
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Fear Effect, the pioneering cel-shaded cinematic action game, returns!
Days before her eighteenth birthday, the quiet, enigmatic Wee Ming Lam, disappears under mysterious circumstances. Hana, Glas, and Deke, three self-motivated and ruthless mercenaries conspire to track her down and ransom her off to her father, Mr. Lam, the most powerful Triad leader in Hong Kong, for a large sum of cold, hard cash.
What begins as a simple extortion mission to retrieve the young runaway becomes a lesson in survival against the most unimaginable of enemies.
Immerse yourself in this intense thriller featuring revolutionary Motion FX technology where you direct your cast of 3D characters within dynamic, full-motion-video worlds. Who lives? Who dies? Only you decide, if you can control your fear.
Fear Effect on PC features:
The full classic game available on PC for the first time ever.
Shoot your way through 7 - 9 hours of gameplay featuring numerous adversaries and boss fights.
Innovative cel-shaded graphics.
Full voice-acting.
Soundtrack by Matt Furniss and Jason Agolia.
Full-motion video environments.
Revolutionary Motion FX technology that puts you inside the action.
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Sums Steam only; PlayStation, Nintendo publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $9.99 | 98reviews | 79% | — | $25.9K |
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Reviews
My days of playing Fear Effect began on the PS1 in 2000. I learned about the game from PSM and was intrigued with how the graphics featured dynamic backgrounds that really moved, which at the time was ground breaking to me. I had never seen anything like it. I rented the game and was able to beat it in a few days. I don't remember how I was able to successfully complete it before. I must've had a guide book or looked up the puzzle solutions on Gamefaqs because there's no way I would've been able to solve them on my own. Some of them were mind boggingly hard. WhenI finally got a chance to replay this game 26 years later because I wanted to relive my teenage nostalgia, the puzzles still stump me, and I had to resort to watching Youtube videos which is a huge godsend, otherwise I would've given up. I didn't find enjoyment in finishing the puzzles, I merely saw them as obstacles and all I wanted to do was to shoot things. There were a few occasions when I ran out of ammo and I had to either knife them as I'm getting shot at and dying and reloading my save over until getting past it which was profoundly annoying. Dodging enemy attacks by simply rolling was quite comical. The storyline didn't interest me much and I wasn't emotionally invested in any of the characters, although I did get some mild amusement from certain parts like playing as Hana while she's wearing a bath towel and then stripping her naked in front of an enemy as a distraction measure, or dressing up as a prostitute as a disguise to avoid gunfights. Despite some of my gripes, this game still charms me, probably because of how it brings me back to my childhood days on gaming on the PS1.
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Hours played at review time, across 43 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Fear Effect is one of those cult classic PS1 titles that got released around the time Resident Evil came out as its fixed camera angle gameplay was something a lot of developers wanted to capitilize on and few managed to stand out like Fear Effect without being labeled as "Resident Evil Clone", while I would love sit here and admire this game for this entire review I have to take into account that this is an emulation YES not a part but an emulation [h3]What this version Brings to the table[/h3] Since its an emulation there is sadly no upscaled models or anything like that, it pretty much runs the game like an emulator and gives you the ability to use Widescreen, CRT filters, save states and rewind which are all pretty handy though I personally only used widescreen and played the game as it intended these options are great for players to have but feels low key lazy since I can do this by setting up a regular emulator myself [h3]The Game Itself[/h3] Fear Effect is a cult classic action horror title that focuses on puzzle solving and occasionally killing bunch of enemies, its uniquness comes from 3 things, an all anti hero cast, game only healing you at certain points and being one of the rare fixed camera titles where enemies are actually ranged Puzzles are fun and well thought out and combat...functinoal but very easy to exploit lets just say that all in all making a really fun experience with my two complaints being combat is bit too easy to exploit at times and the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ PS1 jank that requires you to play the game on a certain diffuculty to get its best ending honestly one of the best things that is left behind as games evolved Overall If this was a port or a remaster I would say get it at full price but its not so If you plan to play Fear Effect in its most accessible version in this day and age then I say wait for a sale as this is straight up an emulation
По суті це емулятор. Можливість відмотки і збереження де завгодно певною мірою спрощують гру, але в цьому випадку це більше на користь. Цікаві персонажі. Деякі пазли прям дуже складні. Меню вибору предметів трохи незручне. Інколи бувають ситуації, коли після катсцени майже одразу починається бій і треба встигати проклікувати до потрібної зброї, ухилятися від ворогів і потім ще й цілитись. Такі момменти відчуваються нечесними.
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