NEED TO KNOW
WHAT IS IT? If Ju-On: The Grudge was a Robert Rodriguez movie
EXPECT TO PAY $55 (Complete Edition)
DEVELOPER Monolith Productions, Inc, Timegate
PUBLISHER Warner Bros Games
REVIEWED ON Intel Core i7-7700, 16 GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070
MULTIPLAYER No (it did have it, but the servers are gone)
LINK gog.com/game /fear_platinum
First Encounter Assault Recon is an example of one my favorite videogame tropes: the laughably functional acronym. Instead of sounding cool, FEAR makes you imagine a team of dull military minds sat around a secret table in the Pentagon, trying to think of the perfect name for soldiers who shoot ghosts. Special Operations Occult Kill Initiative was almost certainly an option. Forget everything and remember.
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