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F.E.A.R. demo.

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Island in the stream.
I like the way it actually works on my pc, full shadows, anti-aliased, screen a blizzard of activity, guns blazing. The bot AI is fucking amazing, the weapons aren't bad, the level design is lovely and the story intigues me enough to want to know more. That little girl who shows up now and again has had me jump out of my chair a couple of times, which is nice.

Out on Tuesday, although Quake 4 is out a week after.
 
Looks pretty in places, good shadows n stuff, but even on maximum settings the buildings and scenery looks a bit flat and lacking in detail, not nearly as much as HL2, and seemingly a bit less than Doom 3, who's engine it's based on.

Love the AI though, and the rag doll effects in slow motion are brilliant.

Being forced to use the flashlight more sparingly because they react to it was a good idea too.

BUT: And the same for many games - you're carrying an arsenal of state of the art weaponry that can take out an army, and three different types of devestating grenades, and STILL they haven't managed to come up with a torch that doesn't run out after 15 seconds.
 
dogmatique said:
BUT: And the same for many games - you're carrying an arsenal of state of the art weaponry that can take out an army, and three different types of devestating grenades, and STILL they haven't managed to come up with a torch that doesn't run out after 15 seconds.
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:D So true...
 
oh, is RAM a significant element in ensuring you can run games with maximum eye candy, etc, i have 1 gig on my set up, amd 2.8 xp barton and radeon 9800, and COD2 is struggling on medium settings.

and if so, can anyone recommend me a decent and cheap MO RAM supplier.
 
The Doom 3 engine is a real system hog, seems to drain everything! Memory ain't that expensive these days, try Crucial, they're pretty good.
 
treelover said:
oh, is RAM a significant element in ensuring you can run games with maximum eye candy, etc, i have 1 gig on my set up, amd 2.8 xp barton and radeon 9800, and COD2 is struggling on medium settings.

and if so, can anyone recommend me a decent and cheap MO RAM supplier.
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I have exactly the same pc as you by the looks. 1GB RAM, SATA HDD, 2.8 Barton Athlon, Radeon 9800 pro. All running at normal speed.

Is your bios set to 166mhz on the clock cycles? I ask because mine was set to 100 by default and consequently my processor was running slow.
 
treelover said:
oh, is RAM a significant element in ensuring you can run games with maximum eye candy, etc, i have 1 gig on my set up, amd 2.8 xp barton and radeon 9800, and COD2 is struggling on medium settings.

and if so, can anyone recommend me a decent and cheap MO RAM supplier.
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I always use Crucial.

NB I have almost the same specs as you. 2800+/9700pro/1Gb Ram but I've just played through Call of Duty on 1600x1200 with everything turned to maximum settings, so it's still ok for a lot of games, although the newest ones (HL2, FarCry - and I take it this includes CoD2) bring it to its knees. I expect that F.E.A.R. is going to make my system fall over unless I turn everything way down, but I still don't feel its time to upgrade quite yet... I want to wait a bit longer.
 
TeeJay said:
I still don't feel its time to upgrade quite yet... I want to wait a bit longer.
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Yeah, off the top of me head, I can't think of any new game that's coming out soon that'll be using any more powerful an engine than Doom 3 or HL2...
 
dogmatique said:
Yeah, off the top of me head, I can't think of any new game that's coming out soon that'll be using any more powerful an engine than Doom 3 or HL2...
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Try BF2, it makes my PC cry.

The engine is just shite imo, if my pc can run HL2, Doom 3 and FEAR with no problems then why can't it run BF2?
 
Well I started the full game last night and it's great, some really spooky moments interspersed with great gun fights, the AI is very good, I'm having to go for headshots or I'm dead (this is on 'Hard') and the effects are spectacular.

Throw a grenade or get in an intense fire fight and the air is full of smoke and dust and you can't see much then a bot will come striding through it, firing whilst others flank you, throwing grenades, hit CTRL and it all slows down bullet-time stylee.

I'm on the third level now, been smacked round the face with a plank of wood, blown backwards through a warehouse wall and waded through a room knee deep in blood, love it.
 
Agreed - all good to begin with, but it doesn't change, as don't the baddies (with a couple of minor exceptions) - and seeing as the baddies are an army of clones, you're just fighting the same person, over, and over, and over again.

The locations are same, same, same too. Nice combat, not enough variety!!
 
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Just bought it yesterday.

My ATI Radeon 9600 XT 128 MB graphics card seems to struggle a bit with this one.

:(
 
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ah, just taken the resolution down a notch and its running a lot more smoothly.

Quite hard this game.

I do like those special melee moves.

:D
 
Installed Quake 4 yesterday to "see what it was like", whilst playing F.E.A.R. - Haven't played FEAR again since! (Will go back to it though).

Quake 4 has definately used the Doom engine better than anyone else has so far, okay it looks very very similar to Doom 3, but it's much more varied than FEAR, and there's a nice twist halfway through.

Missing the slo-mo though.
 
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