F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin Demo OUT N ABOUT

Margaret · 27 Jan 2009 at 10:43

This game makes me flip out, was walking in that room with all the bodies ******* myself.

-BA- · 27 Jan 2009 at 11:48

For some reason I get no sound in the demo after the WB splash page. Anyone else had this issue?

reflux · 27 Jan 2009 at 11:49

Loowi_ashley said:
Is this using a new graphics engine? or is it the same as all the other FEAR games?

Same as the others.

deuse · 27 Jan 2009 at 11:56

I have tried "Widescreen" "0" to make it full screen on a 4.3 monitor
with no luck. I hate the wide screen it uses and thats a deal breaker for me.

PinkFloyd · 27 Jan 2009 at 12:45

northun_munky said:
Same here. Glad to know its not just me

Same engine I think, but looks better. Its certainly not lacking in visuals up to any engine except perhaps cryengine2.

Artest · 27 Jan 2009 at 14:01

Most impressive thing was the sound, especially when hearing the crying sounds, felt like it was happening in my room.

Does the demo end during that mecha/robots thing btw?

Goldfingers · 27 Jan 2009 at 15:59

Goldfingers said:
How do you set up surround sound (5.1)? Nothing comes out the back speakers and there is no option in the menu..

Ali195 · 27 Jan 2009 at 16:18

Same engine but tweaked ....improved textures, motion blur, better particle effects. Same as HL2 then ep1 to ep2. Looks really good. Love the AI.

Anyone know if the AI is better (not more damage) on hard?

Artest · 28 Jan 2009 at 10:15

Love it when it automatically displays health/ammo on my G15 keyboard.

D13 · 28 Jan 2009 at 14:32

I thought it was 'ok'. Three things annoyed me though

1. Grainy effects that I should be able to switch off
2. The huge borders on screen
3. The combat felt a lot less 'meaty' than the original FEAR

matt_fsr · 28 Jan 2009 at 15:56

Not a bad demo, grainy effect spoils it...

Also - horrible res, I get width of 1440px but by the time you chop off the black bars and then that silly blue line HUD effect, you get about 600px height... makes it look rubbish and squished up.

Combat isnt too bad, but just looked too consolised - the bullets looked more realistic in original FEAR, especially in slo-mo.

Love the power armour - always wanted to drive one of those gun/walker things from Matrix 3

Ali195 · 28 Jan 2009 at 16:12

Fear & sequal still have the best A.I in any game ive played. They just move quickly with very little delay based on your movements. Use of surroundings for cover is impressive. Its also unpredictable. Yes it feels a little consoly but what game doesnt now.

You just know this is going to be a very polished game with lots of cool scary moments & action movie moments to boot ....though im not a big fan of the ghosts attacking you.

northun_munky · 28 Jan 2009 at 16:43

Yeah, the ghost bit in the corridor was a brown trousers moment...

LoadsaMoney · 29 Jan 2009 at 00:35

http://www.guru3d.com/news/fear-2-goes-gold/

<Dubz> · 9 Feb 2009 at 01:39

Just played this myself and enjoyed a lot, ran smooth as silk.

The only problem i had was i could not hear any of the enemy firing so half the time i didn't know i was being shot at.

It's also defaulting to my speakers when windows it set to my usb headphones.

I also notice a lot of ppl are playing qith the brightness to high, those earlier screen shots are way bright, i set it quite dark and it's like 5x creepier

Mucky_Pup · 9 Feb 2009 at 09:33

Only played this on the PS3 yet, might download it for the PC tonight and see how it goes.

DVD Cinema · 9 Feb 2009 at 11:46

-BA- said:
For some reason I get no sound in the demo after the WB splash page. Anyone else had this issue?

Same here.

I have on board C-Media sound.

SpudMaster · 9 Feb 2009 at 12:16

deuse said:
I have tried "Widescreen" "0" to make it full screen on a 4.3 monitor
with no luck. I hate the wide screen it uses and thats a deal breaker for me.

this is a Games For Windows game isnt it? If so it has to support 4:3, 16:10 and 16:9 aspect ratios to meet the requirements so hopefully its just the demo with the dirty big borders.

<Dubz> · 9 Feb 2009 at 12:39

i played the demo through at 1368x and had no borders on my 22 inch, maxed out everything and it was smooth and looked pretty good.

Whats with the ridiculously high default mouse sence, i have to pretty much 0 it to be useable.

Phil2008 · 9 Feb 2009 at 14:37

SpudMaster said:
this is a Games For Windows game isnt it? If so it has to support 4:3, 16:10 and 16:9 aspect ratios to meet the requirements so hopefully its just the demo with the dirty big borders.

Looks like games are starting to force us to go widescreen? Im still using a 5:4 19" purly cos my system will last longer inbetween upgrades, like my 1 year old 3870 still runs everything fine on my 19"