One of the best and most brutal FPS games of the ‘00s is now $1.49
FEAR is one of the greatest FPS games of all time. Dark, fierce, brutally violent, and with a shotgun that will make your ears explode, its combination of psychological horror, bullet-time gun battles, and bone-crunching body physics is enough to rival Halo, Half-Life 2, and BioShock in the ranking of best ‘00s shooters. And now, FEAR, the game that left us with a crippling phobia of vent shafts and ladders, is available for the price of a pack of gum.
Released in 2005 (though you’d never know to look at it, thanks to Monolith’s masterful textures and lighting) FEAR – or ‘First Encounter Assault Recon,’ for the layperson – is a mind-bending, super-gory journey through the dark night of one American city.
Pursuing a mass murderer and his army of mind-controlled super soldiers (yep) you gradually unravel the mystery of Alma, the terrifying ghost of a little girl who has a penchant for melting people’s entire bodies and jump-scaring you at the worst possible moments.
The guns in FEAR sound fantastic – maybe that’s a base pleasure, but if I’m playing an FPS, I want it loud. Likewise, I love how Monolith eschews typical horror game locations in favor of apartments and office blocks.
As you stalk through the corridors and fluorescent-lit cubicles of the Armacham building, there’s a wonderful, modern-meets-gothic kind of aesthetic. It’s deep shadows, horrible apparitions, and foreboding dread, but against the backdrop of chunky, white-plastic PC monitors and dull, flickering vending machines. There’s nothing else like it.
And now, FEAR can be all yours for less than a couple of bucks. Over on GOG, FEAR Premium Edition is $1.49 / £1.19, down 85% from $8.99 / £8.09. As well as the brilliant base game, the Premium Edition gives
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