F.E.A.R.
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, 03-27-11 at 09:04 AM (4816 Views)
So, as I woke up at 3AM today I decided to load up F.E.A.R. I consider it a classic game with some of the best AI I've encountered and some scary moments (not gory scary, but "oh shit something is happening out of my control" scary). It also has a pretty demented story line if you take the time to learn in game.
After it finished loading, I got to playing. 16 minutes later I stopped. The graphics were just sub-par especially the smoke. Mind you, I'm not comparing the game to say Metro 2033, but games that came out at the same time like HL2 and Doom 3. Those games still look pretty good and at the time had amazing graphcis. The water effects in HL2 (especially Lost Coast) were something else. It just felt like lazy and/or rushed programming on the part of the devs of F.E.A.R.
I was honestly going to write a retro game review, but I don't think I could play through the game again with the above in mind. I would be so focused on how bad the graphics are that I couldn't focus on the game or story.