F.E.A.R - Review / How to decide
My Computer Overview:
Gaming Devices:
Keyboard / Mouse: Wireless Bluetooth Intellimouse and keyboard from Microsoft
Game Pad: Axispad (similar button setup as the xbox 360 game pad)
Review:
This video is a FEAR parody - not to be taken as real game footage:
Game Physics: The physics are what makes or breaks a FPS game, and FEAR seems to take the cake in physics realism.
Graphics: I would imagine that the "System Requirements" minimums would give you fairly choppy frames per second and pixilated scenery. The cool thing about FEAR is that it gives you an auto detect settings (Performance - Auto Detect), which seems to give you the biggest frames per second for optimal game play. In addition, the auto detect will optimize according to your CPU (for physics settings) and your Video Card. So if you have a mediocre graphics card and a top of the line CPU, the auto detect will crank up the physics settings and give you and medium settings for the rest. Such as my case. So if you are a big Anti Aliasing fan then get the beefier video card. To me, AA seems to be over rated.
Overall: This game is a MUST HAVE if you enjoy FPS games.
How to decide for yourself (ie. Sources):
Watch live game play videos: www.youtube.com or video.google.com (search for "F.E.A.R")
Game reviews: www.gamerankings.com
Download Demo: videogames.yahoo.com (single player) (multi player)
About The Author:
I've been a PC gamer ever since playing my first - first person shooter (FPS) - "Wolfenstein 3D" on my old Gateway 2000 computer with 2MB of RAM and no video card running on DOS. This was back in 1993 when I got my first computer at age 16. The games that I have played since then are too numerous to list, but I tend to enjoy the FPS games the most. Most notable favorites are: Quake (all), HALO for PC, Doom 3 and yes F.E.A.R.
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Gaming Devices:
Keyboard / Mouse: Wireless Bluetooth Intellimouse and keyboard from Microsoft
Game Pad: Axispad (similar button setup as the xbox 360 game pad)
Review:
This video is a FEAR parody - not to be taken as real game footage:
Game Physics: The physics are what makes or breaks a FPS game, and FEAR seems to take the cake in physics realism.
Graphics: I would imagine that the "System Requirements" minimums would give you fairly choppy frames per second and pixilated scenery. The cool thing about FEAR is that it gives you an auto detect settings (Performance - Auto Detect), which seems to give you the biggest frames per second for optimal game play. In addition, the auto detect will optimize according to your CPU (for physics settings) and your Video Card. So if you have a mediocre graphics card and a top of the line CPU, the auto detect will crank up the physics settings and give you and medium settings for the rest. Such as my case. So if you are a big Anti Aliasing fan then get the beefier video card. To me, AA seems to be over rated.
Overall: This game is a MUST HAVE if you enjoy FPS games.
How to decide for yourself (ie. Sources):
Watch live game play videos: www.youtube.com or video.google.com (search for "F.E.A.R")
Game reviews: www.gamerankings.com
Download Demo: videogames.yahoo.com (single player) (multi player)
About The Author:
I've been a PC gamer ever since playing my first - first person shooter (FPS) - "Wolfenstein 3D" on my old Gateway 2000 computer with 2MB of RAM and no video card running on DOS. This was back in 1993 when I got my first computer at age 16. The games that I have played since then are too numerous to list, but I tend to enjoy the FPS games the most. Most notable favorites are: Quake (all), HALO for PC, Doom 3 and yes F.E.A.R.
posted by frap101 at
8:08 AM
1 Comments:
Make sure you don't start FEAR without your game pad plugged in. Otherwise, the game will remove any configurations for the game pad device.
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frap101, at 7:57 AM
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