I got it for Christmas...played it and it barely ran on my computer. I reformatted hoping there was something wrong with my PC, and it still ran like crap. I give up on it for a few days. I have an A64 3200+ with a 6600GT and 1g ram. I know thats not the greatest, but I can play Half Life 2 on high super smooth and FEAR runs like crap even on low. The fact that a game looks this bad and still runs bad is absolutely pathetic. Constantly jolting as it loads new sounds to try and scare me with. I consulted a technical forum for help with the game, and I could not get it running any better.
So I give it another chance and play for an hour. It looks like JK, and still jolts every 10 seconds or so to load a sound clip or something. The story is all over the place and poorly written, the attempts to scare me are almost laughable because it freezes for a second right before something "scary" happens so I know what is on the way.
The game overall just seems to be poorly made on almost all points. The story is stupid, the engine seems sloppy and completely un-optimized as compared to Half Life 2 and Doom3, which are older games that look better and run better, BOTH of which are more scary. I had to turn off something as simple as shadows, to make the game run above 30 FPS at all, something that even quake 3 does better. The physics is bad, I would shoot skeletons/corpses on the ground once and limbs would start bouncing all over the place without stopping as if I was unloading a whole clip into it.
Theres my rant. I'm going to try and take it back to the store, if they dont give a refund i'll sell it to one of you guys. Send me an offer.
So I give it another chance and play for an hour. It looks like JK, and still jolts every 10 seconds or so to load a sound clip or something. The story is all over the place and poorly written, the attempts to scare me are almost laughable because it freezes for a second right before something "scary" happens so I know what is on the way.
The game overall just seems to be poorly made on almost all points. The story is stupid, the engine seems sloppy and completely un-optimized as compared to Half Life 2 and Doom3, which are older games that look better and run better, BOTH of which are more scary. I had to turn off something as simple as shadows, to make the game run above 30 FPS at all, something that even quake 3 does better. The physics is bad, I would shoot skeletons/corpses on the ground once and limbs would start bouncing all over the place without stopping as if I was unloading a whole clip into it.
Theres my rant. I'm going to try and take it back to the store, if they dont give a refund i'll sell it to one of you guys. Send me an offer.