The Australian Vivendi office wasn't able to hook us up with the demo in advance, so it is a bit delayed, but like an old man eating Viagra pancakes, we've got it up now - the single player demo of the upcoming horror shooter, F.E.A.R. Download it now locally from AusGamers. If you dare!

Update: Probably should have read "if you can"; between the massive Dungeon Siege 2 demo and this we're choking up our phat Comindico pipe. If you're having problems try the GameArena link on our page, or join FileRush's torrent.

nice thx Trog

o Obes wants some to those pancakes please, Khels going round tonight and hes a Mighty Meatosaurus!

nice work trog :)

What HeardY says x2.

so is ausgamers getting hammered?

I only get errors and cant seem to start the download :/

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then the following errors from ausforums

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Just finished the demo. Graphics are awesome and the weapons are damn cool too! I love the feel of them as you shoot the crap outta the enemy. They sound real chunky and ass-kickin'. I found out pretty quick that you can't just run in and blow the s*** outta everything or else you end up getting hammered and the enemy AI seems pretty good as well. Soldiers duck outta the way and dive thru windows and stuff.

But in saying that, I don't think I'd go out and spend money on it, I reckon I'd get bored of it too quickly. Sorta reminded me of Doom 3. Also, I hate how torches have like a power meter thingy. Just leave it so you can have it on forever damn-it!!

Havnt finished the demo yet, im not really getting into it, but from what ive seen its like a scary doom3. Similar graphics (though more minimalistic) nice lighting and texture effects. The guns do seem chunky and the bullet hole effects have obviously had alot of time put into them :P Seems to be quite well made, the in game cut scene action was very well done...

I doubt id buy it but I guess I might play it for free, I dont get into these 'horror' games as much as good old action FPS' like HL2.

I just put up a torrent version on AusGamers as well which might offer better speeds.

bpa mirrors?
edit: Here we go

last edited by whoop at 12:38:39 06/Aug/05

Why the f*** do you have to re-install DX9.0c EVERY time you use a demo, regardless of whether your system already has it installed....

yeh that s***ted me too hermi :/

was cool game, cept waaaaay to short for 700 megs :(

whoop if you bothered to click the original link you'd see there was bpa mirrors provided!

^^ I did nub. but a link in the thread is good for the lazy people.

That game... pwns...

phwoar i got a few frights from that. especially when u turn to go down a ladder and bam the girl is there. then straight afer u get off the ladder and turn that guy is there. freaky game. i need a new graphics card though, the settings had to be so low to play this.

I just played it, looks awesome & plays ok even on my 4200, didn't look at what everything's set to though I just hit auto detect. I guess because i'm playing it during the day I didn't get that much of a fright from that girl/guy on the ladder like you ravn0s. I bet playing this thing in the middle of the night with all the lights turned off would freak me out though. Definately going to have to buy this, I was just like HOLY s*** I"M GONNA DIE, then the demo ended and I was like :(

One question though, why does a single player demo want to connect to the internet? I noticed it trying to get out when I started it up. Some kind of statistical analysis?

edit: demo is 1.08Gb? there's hardly anything to it wtf would it be so big? damn huge textures I imagine

last edited by whoop at 14:13:48 06/Aug/05

when u quit it opens ur web browser and goes to the fear website. the demo should have been longer imo, only lasted 20mins.

Why the f*** do you have to re-install DX9.0c EVERY time you use a demo, regardless of whether your system already has it installed....

i've had that too lately, but they just come up with the licence agreement screen, then it skips it, because it's already installed.

i liked this game. graphics looked nice, but to be honest, the game did feel a little unpolished, which is to be expected for a pre-release demo. and the inability to run it at 1280x1024 s***s me, 1152x864? wtf? don't they know people run 17 and 19" LCDs which are native to 1280?

all in all, looks very nice at highest detail. though it does slow down and chunk sometimes for no reason. as in, i'll be walking, and it'll drop the fps sooo low, then it goes away. but if i step back onto that area, it'll do it again, just in certain spots.

though, i did like this game. very cool atmosphere

awsome game, i really like the "slow mo" looks really sweet..

all in all, looks very nice at highest detail. though it does slow down and chunk sometimes for no reason. as in, i'll be walking, and it'll drop the fps sooo low, then it goes away. but if i step back onto that area, it'll do it again, just in certain spots.

yeah i have an Asus 256mb 6800GT and same thing happens and that s***s me to tears.

last edited by Irhabi at 15:37:55 06/Aug/05

f*** yeah, awesome game.

i agree with basically everything rev said. guns rock (esp that speargun type weapon) and was also impressed by the AI.
dumb how the flashlight only lasts about 20 f***ing seconds, ever heard of energizer ffs.

the slow-mo bullet time f***ing rocks. max payne w00t

games are getting too realistic these days. i got scared :(

are the guns supposed to continue shooting for a second after taking ur finger off the button?

are the guns supposed to continue shooting for a second after taking ur finger off the button?

happens on mine too. seems normal

F.E.A.R demo installation says:
Error: Catastrophic failure

:(

yeah i have an Asus 256mb 6800GT and same thing happens and that s***s me to tears

same card here, even o/c to 425mhz/1150mhz, and it still does it

getting slow downs also here on a agp x800xt pe :(

Game owns tho will defintly buy this one, kinda reminds me of Blood 2 :)

wow... just... wow. that was crazy. this is deffinatly looking to be 1 good game. finaly a game with awesome ai that kicked my ass over and over. when you come into the room with the 2 grenades and the 4 or 5 men, i must of played that over 10 times to clear because i kept dying (on hard). i had 1 guy lean over the little wall i was hiding under and shoot me, another hid behind a bookshelf thing and when it was knocked down with a grenade another guy crawled under it to get me, another time they bounced a grenade off a pillar to kill me. its a shame the demo is short and the file size is so high but deffinatly worth it

At least all you guys can install the f***ing thing!$)_()$*(#@(^&*^#

I keep getting setup crashes or catastrophic failures during setup. I have downloaded the bastard about 5 times, from both AusGamers and GayArena!!

Catastrophic failure for me too :/

Man, I just played it again and it was chugging like a son of a bitch on my machine. I dunno if it was because I had two web pages open or not, but it was fine the first time I played it.

8-/

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/eldubya/fear_error.jpg

GRRRRRR! f***ing thing!

last edited by LoneWolf at 17:05:19 07/Aug/05

Hahahaha

Catastrophic failure!! I thought you guys were just making that up. That's awesome!

Anyway, it installed flawlessly on Win2K for me, the best OS.

Rev, did you already have DX9.0c (April) installed, or did you let the game do it? Or does the game install it no matter what?

game installs it no matter what

Played it and finished it at irhabi's last night with suhaib, and noted the following:

- Awesome graphics
- Awesome sound
- Awesome gameplay


- I shat my pants a few times with the ghost images

- Bullet time rocks so hard

- The plasma gun in slow mo rocks very very hard.

- Love the matrixy nade effects after they've exploded

- AI is friqqin smart and you cant simply run in gun blazing. They'll roll outta windows, run away, camp, lean against walls, call for backup etc etc and the way they're animated when they're shot in certain body parts is brilliant.

- The lighting is mad. Seeing the shadow of myself on walls ahead of you made me waste my clip into a wall thinking it was an enemy.

- Bullet holes look sweet as, although a lil too big for a glock. Felt a lil disappointed that the demo finished a lil early cause we really got into it. Also hopefully there'll be plot twists and different elements involved to enhance the gameplay.

So far it's brilliant. It seems like it's the way Doom 3 should've been made.

One awesome thing about the game is when you look at the ground you can see your feet, not just a blob of shadow. Just wish the demo went longer though.

did anyone try melee? i forgot to try it out

One awesome thing about the game is when you look at the ground you can see your feet, not just a blob of shadow.

Pfft, they did that in Tresspasser.

Redownloaded it, and it installed fine.

Pfft, they did that in Tresspasser

What the hell is that?? I bet it's got lame stuff like dinosaurs in it.

I dunno what the deal is but Ive read something about needing proper drivers for intro movies.

I have no idea if this has anything to do with your problems but its worth a shot. If you dont already have 'defiler' codec pack installed then remove all codecs you have now and install it.

Pfft, they did that in Tresspasser.

Tresspasser is one of the worst games I've ever played. The spastic hand that could twist itself into physically impossible shapes gave me nightmares.

LOL you all suck.. I downloaded it and it rocks.. I love this game.. I hated Doom3 and I get so bored with many of the other games.. The AI is great.. The slow motion thing is realy cool.. Reminds me of the pill in Max Payne.. They dont make you wait for all the nice juicy weapons either.. If you have little to no patience with games like Halflife 2 that make you walk half the level waiting for a new weapon and just like to shoot s*** up, this is the right game for you.. I got to the end of the demo and I want more.. Can't wait for this to come out.. Scares the s*** outta ya with the lights off and the sound up..


PS: I'm running it on a Leadtek 6600GT with P4 2.53GHZ 1GB ram.. Ran first time without any problems.


last edited by Nidz at 21:34:58 07/Aug/05

How could it still be stuffed after formatting? Anyway, that's pretty funny how you had to reformat. Maybe the ghost from in the game jumped into your machine.

i tried to do a melee only run and did'nt get very far lol. i made it past the 1st 2 guys then got hammered by the next 5.

- left and right click is the simple 3 hit punch combo, nothing special
- holding right click and jumping is the jumping roundhouse (try in slowmo, very matrixy)
- running foward and pushing crouch and right click at the same time is the sliding kick which seems to really pack a punch. i tried this on 1 guy and shot him back into a coke machine.

i roundhouse'ed a guy over a baracade and it all happened so well. another thing i've seen, unless your using that nail gun thing, bodies dont ragdoll positions yoga masters would be proud of. you never see something like a foot going through someones head while they are laying face down on the ground. seems they limited the angles that a body could fall. brilliant.

yea fuk yea its awesum, i shot the first dude you see's head clean off. it was rolling around and everything. body lying and could see the spine and muscle around it. awesum

way too big file size for how much play time you get :(

I liked it, looks like Monolith have a another big title on their hands. I thought the engine was very much like the one used for 'Riddick' and that rocked. I also like the way Monolith build the scare level with subtle effects, lighting and such, especially the 'glimpes' of the i suppose ghost is only way to describe them..well done indeed and it runs very well at maximum everything on my machine. Liked the particle weapon too. :)

has anyone else incounted an error when launching the gmae of

"A required security module cannot be ativated. This program could not be executed"

im really stuck i meet the requirements i think


p4 2.8c
1.5Gb ram
9600 xt 128Mb card

I thought it f***ing ROCKED, the direction is excellent. Games don't usually get to me, but F.E.A.R. gave me the willies. They've got a LOT of optimizing to do though. A LOT. Weaps rock too, particle gun FTW!

Tresspasser is one of the worst games I've ever played. The spastic hand that could twist itself into physically impossible shapes gave me nightmares.

Didn't you look down to see your own boobs in tresspasser? More games need this feature.

Also, this demo rocked. Sure it ran like arse, but it looks damn good.

They musta been some extremely oversized man boobs.

^^ or u play a female character

It's really hard to tell who's what these days.

Yeah its the one alright.

Special mention must also be made of Trespasser's unique health meter. Instead of offering a numerical reading in the corner of the screen, or your standard green and red health bar, Anne's well being is measured using her heart tattoo. When a level begins, and our heroine is in full health, the heart is nothing but a black outline; as she progresses and gets wounded, by getting bitten by a dinosaur or falling from a high place, the heart fills in with red, until it eventually bursts and Anne is lying dead on the jungle floor.While this original method of measuring your life force is pretty cool, the placement of the tattoo is just plain silly. You see, the tattoo is located right above Anne's left breast, forcing the player to gaze down and ogle at her ample bosom just to see how close she is to the grave. For Tomb Raider junkies who get their jollies drooling over Lara Croft's boobs this may be acceptable, but frankly I think it's pretty moronic.

I thought the demo was great, but it drove home the fact that I need a new PC dammit!

I had massive texture problems making this game unplayable. Entire walls turned bright white or cyan unless I was looking at them from odd angles. Even on the lowest resolution.

Intel rig, Radeon 9800Pro 128, 1.5GB RAM. Never had this kind of problem with any game before.

Oh yeah, and the compulsory re-installation of DirectX (and reboot) is pretty bad show. Can't they detect the current version? Or simply ask?

I had a few graphical issues with this demo aswell, i did that "recommend best settings" option or what ever it was, it recommended medium. Watched the intro movie blah blah, then it started to load the game, took about 2min, then an error came up saying "kicked from server" :S so i tried again, same happend. Then i just fiddled with some of the graphics options and it worked fine :)

Well the engine must like Nvidia cards, I run a 3ghz machine with a gig of 1066 rdram and a Asus 6800 ultra and it detected the machnine as 'high end' and automatically set everything to 'maximum' I added some AA and it ran beautifully with only slight texture loading as you came round corners. One can only imagine how great it would run with one of the new 7800GTX cards.

well I ran it on my ATi 9700PRO and had zero graphics issues (apart from it being a bit chunky hehe). DrFrag, what Catalysts are you using? I've got the latest, that is 5.7.

I played it on Irhabi's kick ass system, besides the occasional random slow down it ran it like water coming out of a tap.

Turn the lights off, pump up the sound and Scream.

f*** yeah, this game is the tits!


I love running up behind an unsuspecting dude and fly kickin his ass in slow mo (aha it'll never get old with me)


Pretty damn challenging and eerie. Good s*** mon.

DrFrag, what Catalysts are you using? I've got the latest, that is 5.7.

< sheepish > uh, driver date 28/02/2003 < /sheepish >

I ought to see to that. Thanks! :-)

last edited by DrFrag at 23:51:30 11/Aug/05

I downloading now to see what it looks like on my new machine.

AMD 3200+ 64 (939)
Asus a8n sli
Asus 7800GTX
Corsair 1 gb 400mhz ram (2 x 512 sticks)

nuff said ;)

It should look lush, but i'd still say you'll experience some slow downs here and there...

lol if i got slowdowns with that kinda system id cry

nupe, ran perfectly smooth, lighting and shadows was awesome,a nd i love the blood spray as you walk through it, also the swearing jsut adds to the effect ;)

i didnt bother changing the controls to suit myself, but i did end up using the health packs instead of the torch, as Z is sprint in BF2, and crouch is shift(aim in this game). Damn bf2 changed my life, might ahve to go back too WoW.

Frankly I thought it was very avarage! It borrows very heavily from lots of other games, ie bullet time, the dream sequence from max pain, all the things everyone else said and more. As for the guns, PA! The pistol was nice but the sub machine guns/asault rifels sucked, they just didn't real right, I don't think they were finnished. The scenes felt unfinnished, like what doom3 would be like if it didn't have stupidly over the top detail in environment, but not like Halflife/halflife2 where clever texturing is used to give the illusion of detail.
The little girl reminded me of something but I can't put my finger on it. Basicly I think it will end up like chaser, great begining but no subsance.

of course I have been wrong before

Bullet time was in c64 games and before. You would get a powerup and it would slow down the enemies and so forth. Dream sequences were in games long before max pain and so on.
Takes something truly special to be seen as original now-a-days. It is how all the various 'features' are mixed together that makes or breaks a game. So if your looking for a game with something NEW it will be long, long waits between games. I felt this game mixes everything in nicly.
The little girl is featured in many 'scary' movies, games and books, Alice I think is a bit like that. There is a recentish movie with a picture of an evil looking child lit really darkly, cant remember what it is. That may be what you are thinking. :/

Bullet time was in c64 games and before

Bullet time has been around since the 1930s when Albert Hofmann synthesised LSD, which is known to cause time dilation.

^^ ahah.

/me nods. ;)

Well if you want to talk about that, it was around long before Dr Hofmann found LSD, crazy fungi in crazy places.

Toll has obviously had some bad experiences with consuming unknown plant matter.

Yer you know, wondering around a desert as you do, a little hungry and you know what. That funny looking thing sticking out of an old dead crusty carcass looks mighty appetising. So you eat that and wake up three days later in Perth with a crazy looking Indian weather stick in one hand and the scalps of a few random people in the other. :/

p.s. fungi isnt plant matter ;)

Touche'

Microscopic organisms.

last edited by A_W at 18:40:49 25/Aug/05

Yeah but its like almost identical with hallways and the red swirling sky, and unlike Max pain I didn't think it was that well done. Still it is a prerelise demo so the game may be better.

Dream sequences were in games long before max pain and so on.

As for it being hard to create something new because everything has been done, sure there is nothing new under the sun but the least people can do is try and impove on things that get rehashed over and again.

They have tried to improve. They are trying to improve the scare factor from Doom 3, they are trying to improve the NPC AI, they are trying to allow the NPC guys to do things like push over objects to make cover and so on. They are using nice special effects for bullet time, distortions from explosions and so on. They are trying to give music a bit of improvment over most games I've played. As for the guns, I've never fired any mp5's or anything so I couldn't tell you what feels real or not. They are trying to improve on the options players have to attack in FPS games by adding in melee combat such as the fly kick combos. So really, I think they are trying to improve on the stuff that gets rehased over and over again. :/

3gbytes wasted, What the f*** is a CRC file ? \FEARA.arch00 ?

CRC = pwned

CRC is a unique number generated by a mathematical calculation based on the data of a non-corrupt file. A corrupt file is when a single bit or has changed and the file no longer work as intended. If a file somehow gets broken during transfer of medians the same mathematical calculation is passed through the file, the CRC number generated will be differnt to that of the oringal file, letting a program know if the file is corrupt, which in turn should let the user know.
Generally if you download it again, preferably from a differnt URL it should work.

CRC's also allow single bit errors to be corrected most of the time

Yer I spose they could, never even thought about that. :/

Fair call on the things that they are "trying" to improve Tollaz0r!

Toll is dodgey, don't believe anything he says.

It looks good and realistic. But really he works for Telstra, the Australian Government, US Government and McDonalds... You know he's evil!

Good work Toll your explanations as of late have been well thought out ^_^

Also, if you want games that are "new" you have to really go looking. You'll mostly find them in open source and freeware. Or at very least as a really cheap $10-$20 download game.

I find a good source is MegaGames free games section. It always has something you wouldn't believe could be made into a game ^_^

I'm busting them open from the inside, honest!

heh toll a spy? sif lies! :)

I downloaded once from ausgmrs then again from the homesite but received the same crc message.Is it possible that some file was loaded into the registry first time & then remained when I dwnlded & tried to install the second time?