NOTE: this FAQ is currently work-in-progress.

General FAQ

What is F.E.A.R.?
Who is developing F.E.A.R.?
Who will publish F.E.A.R.?
What gaming platforms will F.E.A.R. be for?
What's the current release date for F.E.A.R.?
When will a F.E.A.R. demo or "test" be publicly released?
When will the F.E.A.R. SDK be released?
What engine does F.E.A.R. use?
What about F.E.A.R.'s system requirements?

Single Player FAQ

What is F.E.A.R.'s Singleplayer like?

Multiplayer FAQ

What is F.E.A.R.'s Multiplayer like?

Modifications

FAQ Information

Who wrote this FAQ?
What can we do with this FAQ (distribution wise)?
When was this FAQ last updated?

General FAQ

F.E.A.R. is Monolith's upcoming intense, horror driven FPS action combat game featuring a deep level of atmosphere and a rich storyline previously not presented in a FPS, with amazing graphics, incredibly intelligent A.I, real-time physics, hyper-realistic combat, and etc.

F.E.A.R. is being developed by Monolith, the same company responsible for titles such as NOLF among others.

F.E.A.R. will be published by VU Games.

F.E.A.R.is currently for Windows and is being ported onto Xbox 360 as we speak.

As the GOLD press announcement confirms -- October 18th, 2005, will be the date F.E.A.R. ships and hits the shelves! The Xbox 360 version build of it is to be released this August.

Well there's been various pre-beta and beta F.E.A.R. SP and MP demo tests released, but the SP demo and MP demo are already out, which you can find available for downloading here and here at Sierra, both weighing 662.2MB and 462.3MB, so yes, beware, 33.6k-56k dial-up modem users...

Well, it's actually quite funny that you ask, because it's out! Weighing 83MB, at its v1.02 version build, for both the Win32 and Linux OS platforms, head on over and download it at Worthplaying.

F.E.A.R. is based on a revamped build of Lithtech's latest engine that was used to power the NOLF series games, embracing the era of programmable Shader Model 1.x-3.x+ technology with soft shadows, movie-quality high polygon counts, specularity and parallax mapping all over the environment, lifelike A.I and real-time Ragdoll physics, and etc.

The system requirements (and recommendations, for that matter) have already been announced, which you can find on our system requirements page.

Single Player FAQ

F.E.A.R.'s singleplayer is quite a hyper-stylistic, highly-intensive, horror driven experience, using tactics other than "jumping" in order to scare you, and relies on the engine in order to simulate various physics and A.I based challenges, puzzles, and sequences, also delivering special abilities such as "slowing down time" a la The Matrix bullet-time.

Multiplayer FAQ

F.E.A.R.'s multiplayer component features both deathmatch, team-deathmatch, elimination, and capture the flag modes, and again, heavily takes advantage of the engine with use of Havoc's Ragdoll physics engine and tons of Direct3D X renderer powered particles and volumetric smoke/foilage effects as well as other graphical goodies that add atmosphere to the experience.

Modifications

FAQ Information

Westley Merlin AKA Wester, who's contact details can be found on the staff page.

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This FAQ was lasted updated on Wednesday, May 10th, 2006 at 21:25 UTC.