I was freaked out by the ads in Maximum PC, but I didn't have huge hopes going into this one. The ads started out with some shadowy figure in the background, finally culminating with a ring-like girl staring me down at the end of the mag. With the kick ass engine, then running down the first corridor with the little girl, and the shadow of the little girl raising an audible heartbeat, I was hooked. Even though it will be called formulaic, and is totally a Resident Evil/Doom/Half-Life(2) rip off, I thought it was great.

> Those last few moments with the fricking ghost showing up as you go down the
> stairs on the boiler room made me scream like a girl, and that corridor of doom
> you walk moments from the end just creeped the ever loving fuck outta me.
> Something about child ghosts just scares me beyond anything.


Yeah, I totally wasn't expecting that, and I peed myself. That was a great scare.

> Even so, i can't fucking wait for the full game to come out. Seems awesome. And
> i haven't even had time to play HL2 or Chronicles of Riddick yet. I still wanna
> play Vampire bloodlines before them. Just finished Doom 3 (just cheated through,
> to play it with purdy graphics) and RoE plus the FEAR demo one after the other,
> i need a break from FPSs. Although an RPG might be a little too time consuming.
> Took me damn near 40 hours to finish KOTOR 2.
> Damn, i wish i didn't have so much work to get done...


Riddick was okay, it got bogged down in the puzzle type seek and complete your mission bullshit, though it was pretty good. It didn't hold my interest enough to finish it. HL2 single player was great, the story was good, it seemed to blow its wad with the dog scripts (the part where he caused havok and jumped onto the ship was great) and then turned into a run of the mill 1984-esque thriller with a ton of blow-em-away filth at the end. Still, very very good.

At any rate, I'm much more excited for FEAR, I hope it can hold the same tension as the demo, which was great. Combine that with a spooky storyline and great graphics, albeit somewhat standard and cliched, it should be pretty good. I'm excited.

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