Fear Effect (U)

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Product Information

Product Description

Fear Factor is pure action and adventure within a cinematic and alive world. Take control of three mercenaries as they attempt to find the missing daughter of a very powerful leader of the Hong Kong Triad. With a combination of large shooting sequences, huge crowd scenes, and incredible views, Fear Factor will amaze you while moving at a very fast pace. Take control of your shooters from the streets and roofs of Hong Kong to the depths of Hell. Players make split decisions to stay alive: with the reward being an adrenaline rush to last you till your next encounter. Fear Factor puts the gun in your hands and the ability to live and control your own action movie.

Feel the Fear within features seamless pre-rendered animated backgrounds with animated loops and animated streams creating the most dynamic and alive worlds yet to be seen in a video game. Original animated style character design. Pre-determined camera positions share geometry with real time 3-D models allowing camera movement while player remains in control. Become different characters through logical plot editing allowing you to take on the role of the three main characters which have their anionic style and attitude. Multi-channel character animation allows the player to perform actions such as drawing and firing weapons while walking, running, crouching and sneaking. Also features on-screen inventory for non-interrupted game play, and over 100 environments across eight distinct destinations. Comes in a 4 Disk Pack.

Review

Despite its unforgiving difficulty, Fear Effect (U) is an innovative cinematic adventure that serious gamers won't want to miss. Set in a dark, futuristic world, Fear Effect (U) has players switching back and forth between its three anime-style protagonists. With a story that's filled with plot twists and heaps of what the Entertainment Software Rating Board finds offensive, this is far from kid's fare.

Easily one of the most visually striking titles, Fear Effect (U) shines with Japanese-animation-inspired 3-D character graphics and full-motion-video environments that allow for nearly seamless transitions between story sequences and gameplay. With the exception of restoring saves and changing CDs, there's virtually no game interruption.

Unfortunately, it's very easy to die in Fear Effect (U), which not only wrecks the game's pacing, but can be really quite maddening. Many portions of the game are more frustrating than challenging, requiring players to die and reload their last saved game over and over until they get things just right.

And while Fear Effect (U)'s less-than-perfect controls admittedly do take some getting used to, its real-time inventory system is just plain awkward during combat sequences. It's doubtful that professional mercenaries like the ones you're playing would be fumbling about while changing or reloading weapons in the heat of battle.

Despite its flaws, Fear Effect (U) does manage to keep you hooked, and is one of those games you just have to see through to its end. --Joe Hon,.com

Pros:

• Striking cinematic visuals
• Virtually no game interruptions
• Intriguing storyline and refreshingly mature content
• Fear Meter aspect adds new challenge

• Can be more frustrating than challenging at times
• Awkward real-time inventory system
• Relatively short game length with little to no replay value
• May be unsuitable for younger players