F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin Message Board  

Thoughts on the demo of FEAR 2?

Personally, I think all the high tech-style HUD has kind of killed the game for me.

I liked the idea of finding those phones, with the dull pulsing red light in a dim lit room.

Now, with the new HUD, I feel like it's more like HALO than FEAR

IMO, the new HUD is a good thing. Considering how many things I missed in the original FEAR, having the HUD highlight them is a big help. Also, considering that the character your playing as is supposed to be a member of some elite Spec Ops squad and the presence of quite a few 'futuristic' weapons and items in-game, him having an advanced HUD like that makes sense. Hell, the US military has been working on something similar for years now so its not that big a stretch to think that there might be a working prototype being field tested.

As for the game itself, my only hope is that the full game lets me bind commands to more then just 3 mouse buttons, since I had both the Reload and Flashlight commands bound to the 4th and 5th mouse buttons in the original FEAR.